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cepilonally good programme of r.ij haa been lined tip by Fred .T Wyatt, chairman of the racing commttter of the Rose City Motorcycle Club, und«*r whose auspices the Decoration day meet Is being staged. As a n- w feature this year and an added attraction there \\ 111 be several bicycle races for different distances preceding the motorcycle racesAnother feature which *Vyatt Is figuring on Is a balloon ascension with atriple parachute drop and probably anairplane exhibition.A number of the best rid era :n the West have sent in their entry blanks and the speed fans will witness a formidable array of racing talent In action on May 50.Knrrm I'raellrt on Course.The local speed demons are burning up the Rose City Speedway several nights a week and every Sunday afternoon. The circular mile track ha* been scraped, rolled and oiled several Unus | within the last few weeks *nd Is In line condition. Otto Walker holds the mile record on the speedway, traveling iliac distance In a race again hi time Hi 64 2-5 seconds two years ago. Ray Cfftvsiton made a mil*? in 4a seconds In one lap of a five-mils race. Monty Graves went, the distance in 4S second4 last year All of the above three fa-mou** speedsters are now serving UncleI dam.| “Dusty** Faraura, present Far Western champion, in a letter to Wyatt, »a ?* that ho will «lo the mile against tim-jin “45 seconds or bust,*' Famtim in one of the greatest riders In the coun-try and cleaned up everything in Dm Northwest and West last year. “Du-ty'* veLtl bo here Decoration day with b- Ur. He was the star of last year's oon 1 “ * t and is cor.fulent that lie will rep* ai again this year.There will be three bicycle races Ise-tweea t and - o'clock—ha if mile, milsand five miles.Novice* to Compete.The motorcycle races will bo 5, Id and 16-in lie professional events, and between 12 and 16 professional racers will bo watting for the gun. There willbe a one-mlle novice race for fullyequipped machines with hich handlebars, the machines to be . lt;dipped with three-inch fires and three speed*.The big event of the day will h? a2')-mile btoek race, open to all. The machines must be 61 cubic inches or less.The racing committee Is nI«j'o trying to arrange a race for ovr raise motors, Mich ns thr big vlvt: Indian, Bxcr Islor, Reading-Standard and Thor, which have high nr, 72 cubic inches db'Plftouuept.The shipyards will have their lutilngand will go In for the speed races ihe cams as baseball and every other lino of sport. There will « two eputalracen for the shipyards only .in Australian pursuit race anti a relayrace. Grant Smith-Porter v. ill be rep*resented by Charles FcmoDc and H. I*' Newman on Big V .tlvi Indians. The other yards have not yet made known their entries, but four or fc« of the biggest plants In the city will lie-readyto compete.2 the iron*; ruction It has Tii*-r«- t* p-p -rjouirli la ihU Ulan U* ialhfy *.;! of you. h« beauty af ~ Cower; why of a ihei» problem, eapo-?fure you: do to it! Thera • do roar ihlnkitiK for you: s»*t down to downright hard thin pr!*e.K» KV v T*T *:rK*-KLEVKN Pt£C£3.and mate In three move*, u 'iKi'i. queen on KK;‘, and KH5. biatiop on QBh, and dKlf, pawn* on Q3.iwIH. qur-n 1.B2, ■ Sffiop^FRO, knighta on K3 and Ko, Q', yB:. QKiS, QR4. Btev .NO. 374-at-:r lt;Public L-odfier). ihut thl* 1* n Tern of the » » prise problem which is i e’.ter than he author. Itdifficult position.rt KP- queen on KKtft. ^Uj, bishopi on QKtT andKI, rooK on KIS. bishop on }KtS arid ^R4 pa was or.nurTIONS.klond, Cal.—Yoa *ay r'nb-K2. K-KU, Q-QB3 male latd, and we leave the soiu-P* IV sfr |{307— K*y. IT-QBT. QxR„ xP. mu r 1. . . .Its Ki : 2, Quit. 1 ....ElxKt. fl-B4cb» Very fin*-, Dr, Dalton. uH, or - Mr. Putney, ths rha New 345“—You wilt beIvor, when you run throughtwinj variations, and pos-that the- are as j£lt;hHI as ;t-BN K m 2. R-KB3 li, K R!1 or 5; ♦ R-BS or ,.,K in. 2, B-m, K B4:, H*KS. mate. 1 K-Qfl;35; 5. K-K14; i.. ‘'Famous Round Up byi. Joseph Dai son.xnifl years annual moiorcryvia ra- aat the Rose City Speedway on I* c-oratlon day. May 30, promise to be ,-tmiaof the great eat i-peed events of the kind ever staged In Portland, An vx-
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Portland Sunday Oregonian
Portland, Oregon, US
Sun, May 12, 1918
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