The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-08
NO LONGER THE FAVORITE IN THE
BIG SIX-DAY CYCLE
RACE.
MILLER is IN THE LEAD.
HIS WONDERFUL WORK THE SEN.
sATION OF THE SECOND DAY
OF TOLL.
MEN STILL STRUGGLING
Weary Riders Keeling About the
Rim of the Great Saucer With
Grim Determination.

| NEW YORK, Dec. miller was far
advanced into his 900th mile at mid
night tonight, in the six-day bicycle
race. Walters star had faded before
| the dawn, and his record-breaking per-
/ Torrance Of yesterday in Madison
! Square garden was forgotten in the
astonishing achievements Of Miller,
Stephane and Rice. Waller is now far
| down in the list of the eighteen stayers
cut of the thirty-six that started.
Seven thousand persons sat tonight
for hours watching the riders reeling
around the rim of the great saucer. The
weary figures, however, were indiffer-
ent to the cheers that greeted them at
every occasional burst of speed, but
continued to grind around, looking
neither to the right nor left. But for
the fact that the riders are adorned
with almost every color of the rainbow,
| there is but little to see in the great
race. Forty-eight hours of ineessant
riding around the oval, with loss of
sleep, has transformed the strong,
healthy, robust-looking athletes of Sun
day night into men of careworn appear
ance. They still continued to work
the pedals with as much vigor and
seemingly more determination than an
hour after the start
The score at lis a. m. was as follows:
Miller, SIP; Stephane, S22-0; Rice, S12-2;
Schinneer, SOP; Riverre S15-7; Moore. 77S-
Z; Waller, 763-1; Pierce 779-3; Golden, 734-
4; Hale, a2S-7; EIkes, Pts; Enterman, 663-
Johnson, 53i-7; Beacon, 510-6; Gray, 1911.
Miller was ninety miles and two laps ahead
of the record for forty-nine hours.
When the first spectators began to
gather around the track today they
found only twenty riders instead of
the thirty-six who started in the race
The pace set by the leaders had told
quickly, and many men known as
stayers were glad to quit. Those who
still plodded along seemed in fairly
good condition No serious accident
has marred the race so far, except
in the case of Foster, who was COM
PEELED to quit early yesterday on ac-
count of bad spill. Smith, the Sara
toga rider. retired shortly after mid
night, suffering from dysentery.
Among the others who quit during the
night and early this morning were
Barnaby, Blakeslee, Mcleod and
Reading. The last-named is the plucky
soldier who holds the record for sit
ting 260 miles in the saddle without
dismounting. Enterman had a spill
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He was soon mounted on another
wheel and circled the track at good
clip. The score at 1915 p. M Ghirty-
six hours was as follows:
Stephane, go; Waller 668; Miller, 6i5; G.
Rivierre COB; Rice, 631; Moore COZ; Schineer.
COZ; Pierce. 500; Golden, $40; Elkes, 556; Hale,
53S; Enterman, $50; Hicks. 5S8; Ashinger. 4s2;
King, 1856; Julius, 49,; Cannon, 451; Gray,
1888; Johnson, 370;, Beacon, 800 The best
previous. record for thirty-six hours in
1,INr- H. %SoJao =
Washington. Stephane took the lead at 11:4
a. m.
Chase, the English middle-distance
champion, who is here to race Michael
and Teddy Goodman, furnished excite
ment for the crowd between and
o'clock by hitting it up for several
laps. Goodman soon withdrew, but
Champion Eddie Bald and "Skeeter"
Arthur Zimmerman, the former cham
pion of the world joined Chase in a
brush. The trio raced around the track
IN close order and the big crowd howled
their delight when Bald passed the
English middle-distance champion.
Chase moves like the great man he is,
and if looks count for anything, Jimmy
Michael will have his hands full when
the pair meet.
Waller fell back to sixth place during
the fortv-second hour of the race,
Schineer leading him. Plucky Joe Rice
has become the big favorite with the
crowd. At the end of the forty-second
hour he was riding as free and easy
as anybody in the contest. Waller came
on the track again at $50 and went
webbing around in faint-hearted sort
of a way.
With the first burst of music in the
evening lively squirt began with Rice
setting the pace. The big crowd was
with Rice and egged him on to even
greater deeds than he has already per-
formed. He had rested nineteen min
utes between the hours of and
O'Clock. and came back looking fresh.
He responded to the cries of eco on,
Rice" Get in, get in" and went pump
ing around the track in a manner that
made ones head reel. Elkes, Rfverre
and Miller got in behind him ard away
they went, Keeling up laps almost as
fast as the scorers could keep tab on
them. This pace was kept up by Rice
and his pursuers until the hour closed.
Golden is surprising those who sneered
when the possibility of his being in at
the finish was suggested. Hale kept
pushing away looking unrufffed. Fixes,
riding in his pretty style, showed no
signs of fatigue, and in fact looked a
bit fresher than he did Monday night
Waller, who had begun the nights
ride with faint heart, was cheered by
the presence of his devoted wife in his
quarters alongside the track, ard in the
course of an hour was riding better
than he had been for several hours.
About 8 o'clock Johnson, one of the
"tail-enders," astonished the 1000 peo-
pie in the house by letting himself out,
and he Topped off three laps in faster
time than he has heretofore made.
Ell1es shot in behind him and'reaped 50
much benefit that in a little while he
was leading 'the fast DIVISION with
Riverre taking him up. Riverre got
going like fury with Schineer close
behind him. Miller was not a wheels