The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-12-11

NEW YORK, Dec, lO-The great six
dag bicycle race at Madison Square
Garden has narrowed itself down to
fifteen riders, Miller stnl retains lead
Of nearly a hundred miles over Rice,
the Wllkesbarre miner,
At midnight he was something like
235 miles ahead of the worlds record,
and with twenty-four hours to spnre,he
had covered distance up to within a
few miles OF the great record establish
ed by Hale last year, of 1900 miles,
The great surprise OF the night was
the retirement OF RIyierre, the Freneh-
man. lie is believed to be actually out
OF his mind, Is in a pltiable physical
condition. and is now under the care OF
physicians. Like most OF the others IN
the race Rlvlerre has given evidence
during the contest OF having partly lost
his mind. The awful strain after the
first day of riding had In measure
mentally unbalanced him, and this af-
ternoon he leaped from his wheel and
made an assault on an imaginary foe
IN one of the boxes, swearing and jab-
berlng In his native tongue. Eis train
ers rushed to him and put him on his
wheel, but after making few more
laps he repeated the performance with
even more Insane rage than he had at
first demonstrated, The result was that
Revlerre had to be taken from the track
to return no more.
Another man who has quit the lists Is
Moore. Moore had terrible fall dur
ing the afternoon. While going at 4
high rate OF speed he crashed into the
rail- and cut himself badly. He was car
ried of the track almost unconscions,
The shock was too great for his dehll-
itated condition and Moore will be seen
no more IN the present race,
But Miller, that wonderful specimen
Of physical development, stlll plods
along. He has ground out more miles
In n given time on wheel than any
man has before, He has subslsted un-
der the most telling strnin with less
strain than was thought possible for
any man, and with 1t all an eXamlna-
tion OF him tonight by the police sur
geons disclosed the fact that his condl-
tion was normal and that with the eE-
ception of muscular soreness and Il
slight deadness of the limbs, he was In
excellent condition and would be able
TO continue to the end without much
danger of collapse.
Rice, who Is second man IN the con-
test, though nearly n hundred miles
behind the leader, is standing BY hia
colors with dogGed determination. It
was said during the day that he had
asked to be taken off but the manner
in which he has been riding through
the night shows that though he might
have requested this, II Is not the spirit
OF his wishes. He Is to stay TO the end
and his trainers think that he VIII be
much nearer the Chicago man at the
end OF the next twelve hours than ne Is
at present
Hale, with plenty Of sleep, compara-
lively speaking, has the best appear
ancc of any man on the circle
Those who expected Hale to move up
In the last day or two are apt TO be DIS
appointed, for he is two full centuries
behind the plucky leader
or the Others Waller has proved riTl-
self the strongest hearted. lie did
lot of sprlntIng tonight md he has a
strong following among the spectators
Enterman, the youthful Brooklyn rider,
who left the track this afternoon, has
returned and ls making his miles with
clock-like regularity.
NEW YORK, Dee. 1.-THE score at
1.lb o'clock this morning was;