Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-12-16
HKES and M'FARLAND.
AMERICAN TEAM WON THE GREAT
SIX DAYS INTERNATIONAL BICY-
Gle RACE IN NEW YORK.
WON IT BY A WHEELS LENGTH
From Pierce and observation-disclosures
ty Thousand Saw the Exciting
Finish-The Prize Money and It's
Distribution-The Number of
Miles Covered i'm the Six Days.

into every dVdlaDle corner VI lHe great
Madison Square Garden, Harry Elkes,
of Glens Falls, N. Y. and Floyd Nc
Farland, of San Jose, Cal, the Amer
lean team, won the six days interna-
tional bicycle race by a wheels length
from Burns Pierce of Boston, and
Archie McEachern. OF Toronto, the
Canadian team. Caesar Sinner, of Paris,
and Jean Gougoliz, of Monte Carlo, the
French team, were third, lap away.
The distance covered by the winners
was 2628 miles and laps, this being
104 miles and Z 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 1856 miles and
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
AZ miles and 3 laps that lay between
them and the leading team. Michael
Frederick, OF Paris, and Jean Fischer,
miles. They drew out at O'Clock to-
night. Frank Waller, OF Boston, and
w. C. Stinson, vi Boston, gave up just
before o'clock this morning, content
with sixth place, and their z,038 miles
and / lap. o. V. Babcock, of New
ork, and Louis Gimm, of Pittsburg,
who after the accidents to their pdrl-
ners, 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 l lap,
six miles ahead OF Gimm.
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 pack
ed. The two leading teams and the
trenchmen were wary of the stocky
Kaiser, 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 for
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
Stinson. early in the morning and
ischer and Frederick early tonight
there were but four teams left on the
track when the 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
ri,r17f ~ f6A IN,
the gallery under the roof, a sea Of
faces was turned down on the track.
There were nearly 10000 people
packed inside the great building. In
tina vast crowd the riders had hosts
oflfiends. Even the foreigners receiv-
ed lots of encouragement. They were
howled in at LIMOGES that neither one
understood and they were cheered on
by shouts of hundreds of their coun-
trymen. 1t was American, French, Ca
madam and German, the one against
the other. Every jump OF rider
brought the crowd Of people to their
feet, shouting, yelling and cheering
themselves hoarse in their excitement.
The band in the center of the Garden
which reused the riders to their fin
est efforts, tired and strained though
they were, was drowned time and time
again by the uproarious enthusiasm Of
the spectators. Kaiser and Ryser, who
were hopelessly behind the leaders re-
tired just at o'clock, leaving the
track for great final effort for the
three teams, American French and
Canadian. Fixes and Mcfarland were
on equal terms with Pierce and Nc
Eachern for first place, with the
Frenchmen, Simar and Gougolitz, one
lap behind and riding hard. For the
final squirt. Mcfarland relieved Fixes
and Pierce relieved McEachern and
GougolitZ took up the track for Simar
The men were chasing one another
around the board, seemingly fresh as
on the day they started the race, none
daring TO try to squirt for fear of tir-
Ing 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
terrific pace Mcfarland was but
wheels length behind the Frenchman
and almost scraping his rear wheel was
Pierce. In this position the three kept
hurricane pace for the whole of the
last mile When the gong sounded the
end of the eighth lap Pierce made
desperate effort to squirt ahead of Nc
Earlan9. He was unsuccessful, al
though he closed up the gap slightly
Gougoltz was gradually being over
hauled inch by inch. On the last lap,
Mcfarland crept ahead with Pierce af-
ter him, and the two of them passed
over the tape in that order, the French
man but fraction of a second behind
III the sprint, but lap behind in the
race.
There was no holding the great
crowd and the peorle howled them
selves hoarse during the final spirited
sprint, jumping to their feet, waving
hats, coats-anything the men could get
their hands on, while the women fran
tically whirled their handkerchiefs. The
three men continued riding around the
ring amidst the greatest excitement.
Fixes and Mcfarland get $500 in
cash and the worlds championship.
Pierce and McEachern get $1,000.
Simar and Gougoltz, $500.
Kaser and Ryser, $500.
Fischer and Frederick, $500.
Waller and Stinson, $3.50.
Babcocki and Aronson, $3.50, in all.
$4,000.
In addition to this a considerable
sum will be distributed as bonus