The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-16
Rode 2,62S Miles aad Laps, 104 Miles
and Laps Less Than the Rec
ord of Miller and Waller.
WILL RECEIVE $1,000 IN CASH
PIERCE AND M'EACHERN SECOND,
AND WILL GET $1,000.
Final Squirt Witnessed by Nearly
10000 People-Both of the Win
ners American Riders.

NEW YORK, Dec. 15.--Before nearly
twenty thousand people, damned into every
available corner of the great Madison
square Garden, Harry Fixes. of Glens
Falls, n. Y, and Floyd Mcfarland of San
Jose. Cal, the American team, won the six
days international bicycle race by
wheels length from Burns Pierce, of
Boston, and Archie McEaci,ern. of Toronto,
the Canadian team Caesar Simar, of Paris,
and Jean Gougoltz, of Monte Carlo. the
French team, were third, lap away. The
distance covered by the winners was 262S
miles and seven laps. this being 104 miles
and seven laps behind the record of Miller
and Waller. made last year. Karl Kaser,
of Berlin, and Fritz Ryser, of Berlin, the
German team, were given fourth place,
with 1855 miles and four laps to their
credit. they having retired from the track
about two hours before the close of the
race, being satisfied that they could not
possibly cover the forty-two miles and
three laps that lay between them and the
leading team Michael Frederick, of Paris,
and Jean Fischer. of Paris took fifth place,
with 1882 miles. They drew out at
o'clock tonight. Frank Waller, of Boston,
and w. c. Stimson of Boston, gave up
just before O'Clock this morning. content
with sixth position and their 2,3OS miles
and one lap. o. V. Babcock, of New York,
and Louis Gimm, of Pittsburg, who, after
the accidents of their partners, rode on for
an individual score, were requested by the
management to withdraw from the track
this afternoon. Babcock was then at 1,506
miles and one lap, six miles ahead of
Gimm.
Elkes and Mcfarland got $3.50 in cash
and the worlds championship; Pierce and
McEachern get $1,000; Simar and Gougotz,
$500; Kaser and Ryser, $500; Fischer and
Frederick, $500; Waller and Stinson, $3.50;
Babcock and Aaronson, $3.50, in all, $3.50.
In addition TO this a considerable sum will
be distributed as bonus money to those
who made a serious contest in the race.
but were obliged to withdraw on account
of accident or other good cause.
THE GARDEN PACKED.
From fourteen starters the race had
narrowed down to three contestants for the
final squirt at the close. All through the
day the garden was packed. At o'clock
in the morning there were but five teams
in the contest These were Elkes and Nc
Farland, Pierce and McEachern, Simar and
Gougoltz, Kaiser and Ryser and Fischer
and Frederick. The two leading teams and
the Frenchmen were wary of the stocky
Kaser, who had done such brilliant work
on Friday and who had gained three laps
on the leaders. Fixes and Simar had TO
resort to trickery TO keep him back many
times on Friday and this morning. kaser
gathered himself at the top of the bank
tor a squirt, but the moment he started
out, either Elkes or Simar would cut off
his track, forcing him to slacken down.
With the retirement of Waller and Stin-
son early in the morning and Fischer ard
Frederick early tonight there were but
fnrlr fann lot IN han fhn
crowds began to pack the garden.
By o'clock the main floor seats and
first balcony were black with people
massed there and along the railing OF the
ring in the center. Way up in the gallery,
under the roof, sea of faces turned
down on the track. There were nearly
twenty thousand people packed inside the
great building. In the vast crowd the rid
ers had hosts of friends. Even the for
eigners received lots of encouragement.
They were howled at in LIMOGES that nei-'
Their one understood and they were cheered
by shouts of hundreds of their
trymen. 1t was American, French, Cana
dian and German, the one against the
other. Every jump of rider brought the
great crowd of people to their feet, shout
ing, yelling and cheering themselves
hoarse in their excitement. The band In
the center of the garden, which reused the
riders to their finest efforts, tired and
strained though they were, was drowned
time and again by the uproarious en-
thusiasm of the spectators.
Kaser and RgSer, who We're hopelesSly
behind the leaders, retired just at clock,
leaving the track free for a great final eff
fort of three teams-the American, French
and Canadian. ElkeS and Mcfarland were
on equal terms with Pierce and McEach-
ern for first place, with the Frenchmen.
Simar and Gougoltz, one lap behind and
riding hard. For the final squirt Mcfarland
relieved ElkeS, Pierce relieved McEachern
and Gougoltz took up the track from
Simar The men were chasing one another
around the boards, seemingly as fresh
as on the day they started the race, none
daring to try to squirt for fear of firing
himself for the final lap.
Three minutes before the hour of the
close of the race the pistol announced the
time for the final effort. The three were
riding closely punched GougoltZ was first
to shoot out ahead. He set a terrific pace
Mcfarland was but a wheels length be-
hind the Frenchman, and almost scraping
his rea- wheel Pierce. In this posi-
ton the three kept a hurricane pace for
the whole of the last mile. When the gong
sounded the end of the eighth lap Pierce
made. a desperate effort to squirt ahead of
Mcfarland. He was unsuccessful, al
though he closed UP the gap slightly.
GougOltz was gradually being overhauled
inch by inch On the last lap Mcfarland
crept ahead with Pierce after him, and
the two of them passed over the tape in
that order the Frenchman but fraction
of a second behind in the sprint, but a lap
behind in the race
There was no heading the great crowd
and the people howled themselves hoarse
during the iinal spirited sprint. jumping
to their feet, waving hats, coats--anything
the men could get their hands on, while
the women frantically vhirleG their hand .
kercnfcfs Tie three men continued riding
around The ring amidst the greatest ex-
element.