Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-12-21
The BIG BICYCLE RACE.
Cycle Kings Begin a Great
Speed Contest.
TWO CONTINENTS REPRESENTED

Twenty-eight Champions Started In
Six Day Race In Madison Square
Gnrden-More Money In Prise List
This Year-Track Banked More and
Fitted For speedier Work.
Fourteen men, each representing a
team, started on the annual bicycle
Journey of one weeks duration around
the ten lap beard track at Madison
Square Garden a few minutes after
midnight the other morning. The big
place was filled with a crowd or noisy
enthusiasts and the scene was n
profuse in color and confusion. The
gaudily colored suits of the riders, the
Dlarc Of the band which had been fur
pishing q concert for two hours before,
the yelling Of the trainers and the
calls of the officials, mingled with the
cheering, made a pandemonium OF 1t.
All the old timers are in the race
again this year, and there are many
new ones from aboard who are known
here only by their records at home,
saws the New York Sun. In all, the
field is a more promising n than that
of last winter. The race is under the
same conditions, the men to ride in
pairs, so that there will be no violation
of the law through II man being on
the track more than - hours out OF
the "A. The riders a distribute their
riding time to accommodate them
selves. however. and can work In n
hour turns or in tricks Of IL If they so
choose. There is n change of in
terest in the terms under which the
men started. which is that there will
be no prize for the best individual
score, as last year. All the prizes,
seven CT them. are for team records
solely and when one man of a team
gives out there will be no incentive for
his partner to remain in the contest.
There is Il total of $4,000 more money
in the prize list this time, however, to
induce the men to do their best.
There is every reason why the rec
ord for this race should go ahead of
last years figures. The style Of the
race was new then, and the men did
not know how to do their team work
to the best advantage. Now that the
strain of the race is understood by
the trainers. the contestants have been
prepared with a special eye to the re-
quirements. In every case the idea
Of the trainers has been to develop
sprinting powers instead of plugging
ability. 1t is understood by riders and
trainers that the team race is more
largely a contest of speed and less Of
endurance than was the old fashioned
form Of a six day ride. The track
has been banked more at the turns
and in the straights and fitted for
speodicr work. 1t Is of such shape as
to compel fast riding, and he will be a
lucky rider who succeeds in making
up a lap after it has been lost.
In the make up Of the teams the
race has all the character of an inter-
national contest. The men are from
widely separated parts of the world.
The list of. teams engaged, with the in
tIN itildl uIIICS anu IeSlttICcS. Is as
follows:
c. W. Miller, Chicago, and Bob Wal
thour. Atlanta: Alexander Mclean.
Scotland. and Hugh Mclean, Scot
land; Oscar Babcock. New York. and
Oscar Aaronson. Sweden; Frank Wal
Ter. New York. and w. S. Stinson,
Boston; John II. Dubois, Brockton. and
Floyd Krebs. Newark; Harry D. Elkcs.
Glens Falls, and #. A. Mcfarland,
San Jose. Cal; J. r. Colgan. Trenton,
and w. Z. Dickerson, Beaver Meadows.
Pa; Frank Albert, New York. and II.
L. Blocker. Brooklyn; CAESAR Simar,
France, and Jean Gougoltz, France;
Karl kaser, Germany, and Fritz Ry-
sor, Germany; Michael Frederick,
Switzerland, and Jean Fisher, SwitAer-
land; Rudolph Muller. Italy, and Hip
polyte Ancoutrier, Italy; Charles Tur-
vile. Philadelphia, and Louis Gimm,
Pittsburg; Burns Pierce, Canada, and
Archie McEachern. Canada.
1t was evident when the men lined
up for the start that the foreign teams
We're in better condition than other
European riders have been in earlier
races here. They all looked fit and
took the hot pace set with willingness.
The foreigners were trained this time
by John West, formerly the trainer of
Miller, the champion. They have been
trained under American methods and
have consumed no wine at mealtime,
as is tleir custom when training at
home.
The record for a race Of this kind is
2.133 miles 4 laps. which was made by
Miller and Waller last year. Maya and
McEachern were second then, with
2.733 miles 2 laps.
Senator Tim Sullivan started the men
promptly at 1905 o'clock. Harry Elkes,
the Glens Falls rider, made the first
Zap. Gougoltz, the crack French wheel
man. had to 60 fast to beat out several
others who wanted to complete the
FIRST mile. His time for the mile was
I'm. 90 Sos
At I O'Clock in the morning, one hour
litter the start, the men were punched,
zach having covered "a miles. There
many exciting s~rtrints on the part
Of a number Of the riders to steal a lap,
but all these efforts failed.
Preserve the S0urce.