The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-11

RiVierre Left Bicycle Track a Ma.
MAC.
OTHER RIDERS SEEM TO HAVE
PARTLY LOST MINDS.
Continuation of the Brutal Exhibition in
madison Square Garden-Poldce Sur
gaons Examine the Men-Miner Found
to Be in Good Physical Condition.

Madison Square Garden-Polfce Sur
gaons Examine the Men-MiMer Found
TO BE in Good Physical Condition.
New York, December 10.-The great six
Gay bicycle race at Madison Square Gar
den has narrowed itself down to Is riders.
Miller still retains his lead of nearly a
hundred miles over Rice, the Wilkes
barre miner. At midnight he was some
thing like 235 miles ahead of the world g
| record. and with "a hours to spare he had
covered a distance upito within a few miles
of the great record established by Hale
last year of 1900 miles.
The great surprise of the night was
the retirement of Rivierre, theiFrenoh-
| man. He is believed to be actually out
OF his mind. Hs is ia pitiable physical
condition and is now under the care of
| physicians. Like most of the Others in
the race, Rixaarre has given evidence un-
lsder the frtghtful contestaof having part
ly lost his 5naind.
Yhey awful strain after the first. day of
riding had, in a measure, mentally I'M
balanced him, and this forenoon he leaped
| from bis wheel and made an assault on
an imaginary q foe in one of the boxes,
swearing and jabbering in his native
tongue. HIS trainers rushedpto him. and
put him on his wheel, but after making
| q few more laps he repeated the perform
ance with even more insane rage than he
had at first displayed. The result was
thatssRivierre had again to be taken from
the track TO return no snore.
Anothergmsn who has quit the list is
Moore. He'had a terrible fail during the
afternoon and crashing into the rail he
cut himself badly and was carried off
almost unconscious. The shock was too
great for his debilitated condition and
Moore will be seen no mere in the pres
=! ent race.
Miller still pods Z along. He has
ground out mora miles in given time
on wheel than any man has before. He
| has sulbsiSted under the most telling
| strain with less sleep than was thought
possible for any man, and with it all
an examination of him tonight by the
police surgeons disclosed the fact that his
condition was Normal and that with the
exception of muscular soreness and a
slight deafness of the limbs he was in ex-
| eellent condition and would be able, to
continue to the end without danger of
collapse.
| Rice, who is seeopd man in the contest,
| though nearly hundred miles behind
| the leader, is standing by his colors with
.dogged determination. 1t was said dur
| ing the day that be had asazed to be taken
on, but the manner in which he has been
riding through the night shows that he is
| in to stay TO- she end.
| Close up to Rice, and third man now
that the EFenehman is'gene, is Sohinner,
fellow townsmen of Miller Though
he has had several nasty tumbles dur
| ing the race, SchinDer has never for a
| moment lost any of his pluck or deter
mination.
Hale, with plenty of sleep. oompars-
| lively speaking, has the best appearance
of any man on the circle. He has really
taken things leisurely, but nevertheless
at the present writing he is nearly 40
miles ahead Of his record of last year.
Tonight the police authorities insisted
upon examinations being made of the
men by the police surgeons.
| The result was a report by the surgeons
which SO far as statistics go, showed a
very satisfactory condition OF affairs, ex-
cept in the case of Rtvierre. Officially
this report E'goes'' as it We're, but it gives
not the faintest idea of what thu real
condition and appearance of the majori-
| ty of the riders are. They are all strong
enough to go on with their pedalllng un-
til midnight tomorrowsand itssis..not likely
that there will be any further withdraw
ais, unless for cause of accident or unless
another of the ambitious riders go in
sane.
There were a number of exhibition
races throughout the evening.
The score at 2.15 a. NJ. Miller, 1912;
Rice, 1825-4; Schinner, 1906; Riyierre,
| l746. Hale, 1717-6; Waller, 1896,
Pierce, 1649-7; Elkins. 1866; Golden,
1546-4; Cannon, 1b2s-4, Moore, 1866;
KIM, 1926; julius, 1329-1; Beacon, 1875
| Miller was 25l miles and laps ahead
| of recOra for % hn11rs