Waterbury Democrat., 1900-12-10
SIX DAY RACE.
The, Riders Are Hard ..a at Work il

F1Ye minutes -aTtef midnight taSt night John l.. Sullivan fired the pistol that started fourteen teams of cyclists on their six days journey around as1 dangerous d board track as ever was built in Madison Square Garden. Banked to q tremendous height at either end, the track, which will be circled thousands of times by the worlds speedieSt riders, viewed from the side seats and galleries, looks to be almost perpendicular, and so sheer it's it's descent that one on foot hardly would be able to climb to the top of the upper rail The contest is held under the auspices of the American Cycle Racing association by leave of a permit issued by the N. c. A. At 10 o'clock on Saturday night next, the great race will end, and from the preparations that have been made, both in the way of perfect track and perfect training there should be q new record hung up when the bell sounds for the last mile. Originally eighteen teams were scheduled to go, but four of these were scratched because they were not deemed fast enough to com pete against such men as represent this country, Germany and France, and the fourth the Lawson brothers of Sweden. getting in such a late entry that objections were raised. F'ritschkai and Lingenbelter. q German team; MareSca and SaSsano of Italy and Nikadeln and Hoffman of Berlin failed to qualify and were not allowed to start. The teams which are cOmpet- ing are as follows: Team No 1-Harry Elks of Glensj Falls and Floyd Mcfarland of San Jose. Cal.
 Team No 2-Oscar Babcock of New i nf SU-a1n1 Team No 3-Frank Waller of New York and W. C. Stinson of Boston. Team No 4-Charles w. Miller of Chicago and Robert Wauthour of At lanta, Ga.
 Team No J-Charies Turville of Philadelphia and Louis Gimm of Pitts burg.
 Team No 6-John Dubois of Brock ton. Mass. and Floyd Krebs of New ark. \. J.
 Team No 7-Caesar Simar and Jean i Gougoltz of France. Team No S-I<arl Kaser and Fritz ! RySer of Germany.
 i Team No 9-AIichael Frederick and 1 Jean Fisher of Switzerland. 1 Team No 10-Rudolph Muller and 1 Hippolyte Aucoutrier of Italy
 Team No 11-T. J. Colgan of Tren- 1 ton. \. J.. and J. Dickerson of Beaver | Meadow. Pa.
 Team No 12-Frank Albert of New York and H. E. Bleecker of Brooklyn | Team No 13-A. Mclean and H. Me l Lean of Scotland. Team No 14-.Burns Pierce of Boston anl Archie McEachren of Toronto, | Conala.
 There are many stringent rules this; year which it is thought by the man. 1 agement will provide for faster riding l and help team work while doing away with good many tricks and annoy ances of last years races.
 Those who first faced the starter were Bikes, -Aronsen.- Stinson, Miller, | Turville, Dubois. Gougoltz, Kaser, Fisher. Muller. Colgan. Bleecker, H. ] Mclean and Pierce. Almost up to midnight there was some doubt as to 1 how many of the teams would come l to time. Most of them were certain. several were barred. and it was stated that Pierce and McEaclIern had de manded a guarantee of $500 to start. | Not receiving this they threatened to withdraw. but finally they were per suaded to reconsider their demand.
 All evening the crowds came flock ing into the Garden until the pit in side the track was packed like q bet ting ring on the Suburban day and
 
 The galleries were overfiowing. Baynes l SiXty-ninth regiment bang kept the spectators in good humor until. clad in gorgeous tights and variegated cOlors. the contestants, with their retinue of trainers and feeders. came out for the parade past the stand l Miller necessarily came in for the greatest amount of applause, but al the others, particularly the French
 men, were warmly received. 1he1 made the rounds several times anC then were sent off on the race thai
 mains and at the pace that kills, the crowd cheering nladly
 The first lap was made with Bikes in the lead, followed by Stinson, Mil
 Ter, ArOnsOn, Gougoltz, Dubois anC Turville in the order named, with the
 others punched.
 1 With the enthusiasm at it's neigh
 Gougoltz on the seventh lap broke int,
 a wild spurt and gained thirty feet o1
 Bikes. The latter rider and Stinson
 by big spurt caught up with him
 but GougoltZ held the lead to the enc
 of the first mile, which he made il
 minutes 20 3-5 seconds.
 This race is not the continuous grin,
 that caused the legisla ture to pass :
 bill that did away with the pitia bl,
 sight of riders being forced around b,
 trainers when in a condition of col lapse. This race, like last years con
 test. is team race, and the men rid in relays no one rider being allowed il the saddle for more than twelve hour in every twenty-four.
 SCORE AT 1:O5 A. NJ.