Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-07
BREAK FEW RECORDS
Riders in Twenty Four Hour Bicycle
Race Straining Every Nerve.
EIGHT LEADERS CLOSELY PUNCHED
Pierce Led the Procession Most
Of the Day.
USUAL LIST OF ACCIDENTS

NEW YORK, January when daylight
family glimmered through the glass roof
of Madison Square Garden this morning il
found fifteen riders still straining every
muscle to win first place in the interna-
tional Neutrality-suspicious. bicycle contest.
Eight of them were closely punched in the
front rank. OF these, seven had not dis
mounted since they jumped on their wheels
last night. These were Pierce, Gimm,
Stevens, Julius, Fredericks, Turville and
Barnaby. Chapman, the eighth man, is a
young rider from Atlanta, Ga, and up to
few minutes after o'clock this morning
he was always prominent among the lead
ers. About that hour he fell in an attempt
to grasp some food which his trainer was
handing to him and fell among a lot of
cooking utensils with a crash that resound-
ed throughout the big building. Chapman
was soon on his wheel again, but had lost
nearly a lap. BY strong and continuous
work he regained all the ground lost, and
in less than an hour was up among the
leaders again.
PiIkinStOn First to Quit.
PiIkington, the Irish lad was the first to
quit the race. He had a had fall and was
compelled to retire before midnight. Two
hours later Albert ran into the rear wheel
Hicks was unhurt and remounted at once
but Albert got a bad smash against a
wooden upright. His face was painfully
injured and he bled freely from the mouth
He insisted on continuing the race, but
within an hour he had to succumb.
Aaronson was the next to quit. He left
his wheel at 3:41 am. This reduced the field
of contestants to fifteen.
When 100 miles had been covered it was
found that the time, four hours forty min
record. A few minutes later the distance
ridden by the leaders in five hours was ex-
actly 1,S03 yards ahead of the existing
figures. In the next hour the riders fell
behind the record by GEO yards, and in the
following hour they were 1873 yards behind
Miler's record, made in 1897.
Early in the morning Miller, suffering
from nausea was obliged to leave the track
for five minutes, and when he resumed was
twenty-three laps behind the leaders. At
the END Of the eighth hour the record had
been eclipsed once more, this time by two
miles and fifty-eight yards, with Frederick,
the Swiss rider, leading.
Pierce Ahead at Seven O'Clock.
Pierce again led the string at o'clock,
but this time the distance for nine hours
was eighty-two yards behind the record
held by Waller since 1897. An hour later
eight men were close together with 200
miles 2 laps each to their credit, but this
was 1 mile and 967 yards behind the record
for ten hours. Between and 9 o'clock
Barnaby, who had been riding splendidly
up to that time, left the track and lost four
laps. Young Hicks retired at 8 o'clock at
the request of his father, who had been
watching the young fellows efforts from
the moment the race began.
The score for the eleventh hour was near
ly three miles behind the record Hale and
Lawson, who had fallen during the early
morning, owing to the greaSiness of the
track near the cooking quarters, We're al
lowed two laps and one lap, respectively,
by the referee, and these distances We're
added to their 10 o'clock records.
Pierce was in the lead at this time, and
with the race just half finished six men were
tied with scores of 23S miles each The
record for twelve hours is 239 miles $50
yards.
Ashinger retired from the contest at 10
o'clock, leaving thirteen men in the race
and of these Nawn had been off the track
from 9:37 o'clock
At 10:4S o'clock Miller again left the
track and took rest of eleven minutes
Meanwhile the leaders kept pedaling along
at a good clip, and when Miller returned to
the track he found himself six miles behind
the top-notchers. The distance for the
thirteenth hour was 257 miles laps which
is 324 yards behind the record.
NEW YORK, January 7.-Score o'clock:
Stevens, Bills; Turville, Bills; Gimm Bills
Frederick, Bills; Lawson, Bills; Pierce
Bis; Waller. BILL; Barnaby, BOB; Julius
BOB; Hale, BOSS; Miller, 305.5; Chapman,