The morning times., 1896-12-22
SIX -DAY RACERS ARRIVE
Several of the Cracks Reach
Town With Their Trainers.
ENTRIES STRAIN THE LIMIT
Schock, the Go-ls-Tou-Please Chani-
pion, c. T. In Fred Albe: { II e $
Up by n Spin Oh the Ice Manager
Towers Overwhelmed With En-
trance Applications.

The contestants in the big siN-day bi-
cycle race, with their managers and tram
ers, are arriving, and most OF them at
once engage lodgings near as possible
10 Convention Hall.
The reason for this is obvious, most of
the racers believing that the sooner
man gets to bed after the strain 0f an
eight-hour sprint the better IT. VIII pe iui
him.
Albert Schock, who held the world
record for eight years in the siN-day So''s
yCu-please race, was the most Important
arrival last evening Schock says he - IN
perrcct condition, and feels no bad "i-
rn,ts whatever from his long race mst
finished in New York. He is one If the
few riders who prefer the So-as you-picase
race TO the limited time contests, and thinks
an e,gilt-hour sprint no test of d riders
endurance.
FRED ALBERT HERE.
Fred Albert, another prominent contest
ant, arrived yesterday and spent the even
inG in acquainuHg himself With the geoGra-
ply OF Convention Hall by half an hours
skating. Albert was cuteredfortheM Madison
Square Garden races. but he had the mis-
fortune 10 break his collar bone while
trianing at Saratoga, y. Y, which ore-
vented his competing. Hcis all right now,
however. ana expresses himself as conil-
dent OF doing good work i'm the coming race.
Chapplc, one OF Ed PIummer's English
team. is another rider who enjoys skim
min" over the CLASSY surface OF the Ice
palacefloOr. Hcisa SmoOtI-faCcd, yoHn-i>l
hooking fellow, and no one would suspect
from his appearance that lie is one or
England'S SpeedieSt riders.
Manager Towers Is simply overwhelmed
10y applications and even demands for en-
trance BLANKS. His reply that entries are
limited to ten contestants and that the
li~ti>already completcdis usually sufficient,
bat IL the case of Scranton, Pa, rider an
in~i>tant demand 10 hc entered followed
the usual explanation
TOWNS ARE RIVALS
The following fact, will explain the rea-
son for this There is jh" strongest kind OF
rivalry between the cities Of Scranton and
Wilke>barre. not cnly IN bicycling. but IN
every other line IF sport Rice, who fin
i>hed second IN tie great Madison Square
race, halls from Wilkesbarrc. and ever
since his triumphant return nome, SCran-
touians have felt sore.
Riiterheudcr X Bros. a bicycle firm Of
| Scranton, insist on entering man. whom
I they believe can defect Rice Under the
| circumstances Manager Towers Will very
| likely receive the entry "a il will no doubt
add TO tie interest of the race.
Ed Plummer. the English manager, vii
not arrive until this afternoon or evening
| Hale is the only member of hIs team moi
| already here. ami he will come over witl
/ Plummer. Tony Lamsden, who was L
! represent Scotland in the coming race
was so knocked up by the terrific strain
! Of the Madison square race thai hIs
physician forbade his racing again 70
| some months, so he returned to his hom
! Immediately at the conclusion OF the con
/ test Ned Reading, the soldier rider
! has mOl Yet arrived. u he is sliIl in paC
| shape resulting from injuries received il
the siX-day race. However, it is aNpeCtc,
/ llai He yiA tee here by the end Of tn
week.