The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-12-11
THE CYCLE
CONTEST !
Only Fifteen Men Left TO Contest For
the Championship.
CYCLIST RlYIRRRE GOES INSANE.
Tle Frenchmans Condition Becomes 81
Deplorable That He is Forced to
Retire From the Contest Miller
Away Ahead Of All Records.


Away Ahead of All Records
New York, Dec. 1.-THE great six
day bicycle race at Madison Square
Garden has narrowed itself down to 15
riders. Miller stil retains a 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 "a hours
to spare he had covered a distance up
to within a few miles Of the great rec
ord established by Hale last year of
1900 miles.
The great surprise Of the night was
the retirement of Rivierre, the French
man. He is believed to be actually
out Of his mind, is in a pitiable physi-
cal condition, and is now under the care
of physicians. Like most Of the others
in the race, Rivierre has given evil
| dence during the contest Of having
partly lost his mind. The awful strain
after the first day of riding had in a
measure mentally unbalanced him, and
yesterday afternoon he leaped from his
| wheel and made an assault on an
| imaginary foe in one of the boxes,
swearing and jabbering in his native
tongue. His trainers rushed to him
and put him on his wheel, but after
making a few more laps he repeated
the performance with even more insane
rage than he had at first demonstrated
| The result was that Rivierre had again
! to be taken from the track to return
| no more.
Another man who has quit the lists
is Moore. Moore had a terrible fall
| during the afternoon while going at a
high rate of speed, and crashing into
the rail he cut himself badly and was
carried off the track unconscious. The
shock was too great for his debilitated
| condition, and Moore will be seen no
more in the present race.
But Miller, that wonderful specimen
Of physical development, still plods
along. He has ground out more miles
in given time on a wheel than any
man has before. He has subsisted,
under the most telling strain, with less
sleep than was thought possible for
any man, and with all an examina-
ton of him last night by the police sur
geons disclosed the fact that his con-
| dition was normal, and that with the
exception of muscular soreness and a
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 a hundred miles
behind the leader, is standing by his
colors with dogged determination. It
was said during the day that he had
asked to be taken off, but the manner
in which he rode through the night
shows that though he might have re-
quested this it is not the spirit of his
wishes. He Is in to stay to the end
and his trainers think that he will
be much nearer the Chicago man at
the end of the next 70 hours than he
Is at present. At all events he got rid
of a dangerous rival when Rivierre left
the track For hours it had been nip
and tuck with these two, at one time
the one leading and at another time the
other. Rice's physical condition is also
announced to be good.
Close up to Rice and third man, now
that the Frenchman is gone, is Schin-
neer, a fellow townsman of Miller
Though he has had several nasty
tumbles during the race, Schinneer has
never for a moment lost any Of his
pluck or determination. He has a lead
of 80 miles on Hale, the former cham
pion, and barring accidents will un-
doubtedly finish third,
Hale, with plenty of sleep, compara-
lively speaking, has the best appear
ance Of any man on the circle, He has
really taken things leisurely, but
nevertheless, at the present writing, is
nearly 40 miles ahead Of his old record
of iG2t year. This is about what his
schedule called for, but when the
schedule was made up no account was
taken Of such marvellous speed as has
been maintained throughout the race,
after Waller had set the pace. Those
who expected Hale to move up in the
last day or twJ are apt to be disap-
pointed, for Le is two fun centuries
behind the plucky leader.
OF the others Waller has proved
himself the strongest hearted He did
a l9t Of sprinting last night, and he has
strong following among the specta-
tors. Enterman, the youthful Brooklyn
rider, has returned. and is making his
miles with clock like regularity.
The police authorities last night in
sisted upQn examination being made
IF the men by the police surgeons The
result was a report by the surgeons
which, so far as statistics go, showed
very satisfactory condition of af-
Officially this report goes" as it We're
but it gives net the faintest idea of
what the real condition and appearance
Of the majority of the riders are. They
are all strong enough to go on with
their pedaling until midnight tonight.
and 1t is not likely that there win be
any further Withdrawals, unless for
cause OF accident or unless another Of
I the ambitious riders becomes insane.
The score at 2:15 a. m, was; Miller.
1911; Rice, 1927 schinneer, SOC; Ri-
vierre l46ia; Hale 1,u7h; Waller i,
G9312; Pierce, 16i91a; Elkes, l55O1s
| Golden, 1876; Cannon, 1928; Moore.
| l,496i Kins, i4g5. Julius, 1920; Beacon.
| 1,lS6; Johnson, Lis; Gray, 1000. Mil
| Ter was PSI miles 2 laps ahead of rec
| ord Tor l22 hours, and at 1.37 a. m. he
equalled the 142 hour record Of 1910
miles laps
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