The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-12-11
THE SIX DAY CYCLISTS.
Only Fifteen Men Left to Contest
For the Championship.
OY0LIsT RIVIERRE GOES INSANE.

The Frenchman's Condition Becomes
| So Depiorable That He Is Forced to
Retire From the Contest - Miller
Away Ahead of All Records.
New York. Dec. 1.-THE great six
day bicycle race at Madison Square
! Garden has narrowed itself down to Is
riders. Miller still retains a lead of
nearly hundred miles over Rice, the
Wilkesbarre miner At midnight he
was something like 235 miles ahead of
the worlds record, and with "a hours
! to spare he had covered 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 nut 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.
I,p, tH1t Dt1,in bod ~,
to be taken from the track to return
no more.
Another man who has quit the lists
is Moore. Moore had q terrible fall
during the afternoon while going at
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 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-
diton WAS normal, and that with the
exception of muscular soreness and a
slight deafness 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-
-,
behind the leader, Is standing by his
cOlOrs with logged determination. 1t
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-
auested 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 IL 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. Rices physical condition is also ,
announced 10 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 moment lost any of his
pluck or determination. He has lead
of 30 miles on Hale the former cham
pion, and barring accidents will I'M
doubtedy finish third.
Hale, with plenty of sleep, COMPARE
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 last 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 two are apt to be disap-
pointed, for he is two full centuries
behind the plucky leader.
Of the others Waller has proved
himself the strongest hearted. He did
q lot Of sprinting last night, and he has
q 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 upon examination being made
of the men by the police surgeons. The
result was a report by the surgeons
which, SO far as statistics go, showed
q very satisfactory condition of az
fairs, except in the case of Riverre.
this report goes" as it were,
but 1t gives not 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 will be
any further Withdrawals. unless for
,ause of accident or unless another of
he ambitious riders becomes insane.
The score at 2:15 a. m. was: Miller,
,911; Rice. 1925; Schinneer, 1906: Ri
'ierre, 1,746la; Hale, 1.7171a; Waller. L.
's3ia; Pierce, 1894 Elkes. 155Ols;
Golden, 1916; Cannon. 1928; Moore.
1856; KIM, 1,425: julius, 1929; Beacon,
,1S6; Johnson, lib; Gray, 1.060. Mil
er was PSI miles 2 laps ahead of rec
,rd for 1872 hours, and at 1.37 a. IN. he
,qualled the 142 hour record of 1910
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