The evening times., 1896-12-12
HAVE LOTS Of G0E[EFT YET
Great Sprinting Race in Madison
Square Garden Contest.
FOR AN HOUR THEY FLEW
Wonderful Exhibitions Of Nerve
shown in the Six-Day Bicycle Tour
nament-Ha1e Is Still Leading and
Is Able TO Prove 1t Any Time.
The Latest Scores.

New York, Dec 12.-Betwcen and
O'Clock this morning there was sprintiDg
race In Madison Square Garden, in which
miles were reeled off that would not have
disgraced many an amateur crack on the
fast track at Manhattan Beach.
But the fourmcn W hose espeeddelightedthe
crowd of 500 enthusiasts and amply re-
paid for the loss of their natural rest We're
not amateurs, and had just come out for
five or teii-niile race Instead, they were
the vanguard of the fifteen who had been
in the saddle for "a hours In the greatest
six-day bicycle race that has ever been held
on any track In the world.
No wonder that hats were thrown in the
air and throats wererapidly growing hoarse
as the excited spectators lost themselves
in a very abandon Of enthusiasm. Round
and round sped tn y four bra YES whoweretry-
in. In vain each to shake off the other.
Locked together almost ike "a quad We're
the black and orange of Harry Maddox, the
Asbury Park fisher laddie, Who, fresh from
his fcur hours sleep, acted as pace maker;
the Yale blue .'eveniBg dress OF Teddy
Hale, the invincible Irishman came next,
,1apped on Teddy's back wheel came the all
black of the erratic Dutchman, Forster,
and close On the latte ter' tracks the whiteand
strained face and bulsing eyes of Rice, the
Wilkesbarre boy, bent over the handle
bars nothing but sheer grit keeping him ON
terms.
THE GREAT SPURT.
Faster and faster Maddox pedallcd, his
particular object being To cut down Asnin-
gers lead over him Of twenty Iuiles. But
even though he put ON all the extra strength
that his refreshed frame was capable OF,
the Asbury hoy was unable to shake the
blue, while Rice and Forster hung on with
deadly determination. Ii could not last
long. Forster is 4 splendid rider, but he
lacks sand. Grit, and only grit, could
help the wearied and aching limbs and
the almost palsied brain 10 keep up the
pace Forster has not got enough OF grit
and could not stand the gaff Back went
the Dutchman's head his body strt light
ened and his strokes grew weaker and
slower. His bolt was shot, and he quit
Rice's face grew ashcn in its grayness
II Iftheiittlc wiike>barre rider had strength
and experience in proportion to the size OF
his heart, nothing could phase him But na
ture has her limits The swollen hands re-
fused 10 grip the handle bars, the over
strained muscles relaxed, and the pride
of wilkesbarre' W as forced o seethe orange
and black and the blue shoot ahead. Still
Maddox kept up the gait and sull the
greatest siS-day rider the world ever saw
stuck to his back tire and they whirled eff
lap after lap, until at 20 seconds after 3
O'Clock the hero of the Emerald Isle had
completed / 700 miles. having been ID the
saddle for l3 out OF 125 hours.
Then, with a placid smile. TEDDY, 'hav
ing shown that he was still, the master,
allowed his peculiar triangular linked chain
TO revolve a little easier, and the greatest
hour of the week was over But the spurts
were continued in the hours that followed,
and the five or six hundred fascinated spec
tators who remained until the myriad or
electric lights went out and the gray dawn
came slowly in, saw the dasiIing Maddox
still cutting out pace, and ever finding
the Irishman game for q struggle, with
Rice ready TO stay with them until his
strength gave out and his wheel went froin
under his control. u..s
SIXTEEN HOURS LEFT.
At a. IN the fifteen riders had but
sixteen hours in which to decide the plac-
ings for which they have struggled with
heroic fortitude throughout the week. The
record closes at 10 O'Clock tonight, and
then the rewards for the almost superhn man
exertions OF the brave bands Will be dis
tributeG. And it is wen that the agony
will not have to be prolonged any further.
Already the limit of human endurance has
been oyertaxed, and the mental tension
has been so great that all the men are
more or less in a semi-uncOnscious state.
Even Hale, giant in the endurance that
his slight frame possesses, has found the
task a I'm Ost too much eve n for his calm and
cool nature. The pleasant expression and
fresh color which he kept up to yesterda Y
morning has disappeared, and his face is
strained and gray. Rice looks ghastly, and
is irritable and liable to imagine that
things in general are in league against him.
Forster is inthat stage known TO the train
ers as .'dopey'' He said this morning:
''0h. | feel goot. l go nit big race in
Irela nd next week once"
Major Taylor's particular bette noir is
that his trainers will not give him enough
to eat. OF course, the plucky darky can
have ANYTHING he wants, and has been fed
carefully.
Moore rides around blindly. At l O'Clock
he fell asleep and banged into the ratings,
when the referee ordered his handlers to
take him off and give him rest.
Reading, the soldier boy, had an hours
rest, from 8 to 6, and showed the benefit
by reeling off twenty miles in the next hour.
Old Schock increases his score in a me
chanical way, about eight miles an hour
II is only by the greatest encouragement
that the trainers induce some of the weary
ones to STAY on the track. Hale. Rice, Read
ing. Maddox and Ashinger need less blan-
dishment than the rest, but the plaudits of
the crowd encourage the favorite ones.
Reading is ridingin great FORM and the ex-
perts expect to see him beat out Forster
for third place.
HALE STILL LEADS
About 8 a. M, as Hale was sprnting
past Maddox, Forster wabbled across the
track and Maddox shot lnto him. Both fell
but escaped unhurt. At {, a. m, Hale had
covered 1,712 miles, 8 laps, and was then
thlrty-three miles ahead of Rice. Forster
was in third place, twent one miles behind
the Wiikesbarre man, ndtwent y -eighthiles
in front OF Reading. Schock was the SOL
f1iarfs ,na acfr
nine miles behind the latter Smith led the
next batch with l, ,5S9 miles to his credit
Taylor, next, twenty mine miles behind
Smith and seven miles in front of Pierce.
Moore brought up the rear seventeen miles
back OF Pierce. Ashinger and Maddox kept