The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-10
HARD TO LOCATE WRECK.
sIx-DAY RACE IS ON.
Team Cycle Event at New York
Started at Midnight.

Started at Midnight.
NEW YORK, Dec. 9-The sixth annual
international six-day bicycle race at Mad
ison Square Garden was started at mid
night tonight before 5000 people. The
race is held under the auspices of the
American Bicycle Racing association,
and fourteen riders of international rep.
utation began the 142 hours grind. They
represented as many pairs who will race
for the six days as teams. No man will
be allowed to ride on the track more
than twelve hours in any one day, but
the two men in each team may relieve
one another at any time that suits them
selves. At the end of the six days rae
ing $4,000 in prizes will be distributed
among the riders.
The following are the pairs who were
counted on to start in the race, the man
first mentioned in each pair being the
one who started first for the team:
C. W. Miller, Chicago, and Robert Wal
thour, Atlanta; Hugh Mclean, Scotland,
and Alex Mclean, Scotland; Oscar Aron-
son, Sweden, and Oscar Babcock New
York; w. c. Stinson, Boston, and Frank
Waller, Germany; John Dubois, Broekton,
and Floyd Krebs Newark; H. D. Elkes,
Glen Falls, and Floyd Mcfarland, San
Jose, Cal. H. E. Blocker, Brooklyn, and
Frank Albert, New York; Joan Gougoltz,
France, and Caesar Simar, France; Earl
Kiser, Germany, and Fritz Ryser, Ger
many; Jean Fisher, Switzerland, and
Michael Frederick, Switzerland; Rudolph
Muller, Italy, and II. Aucoutrior, Italy;
Charles Turville, Philadelphia, and Louis
Gimm, Pittsburg; I. j. Colgon, Trenton,
and - Dickerson, --; Burns
Pierce, Boston, and Archie McEachern,
Toronto.
The Lawson brothers, John and Gus,
sent their entry in too late and did not
start. Fritschka and Lingenbelter, the
German team; Maresca and Sassard, the
italian team, and Nikodon and Holman,
the Berlin team, failed to qualify and
were not allowed to start.
Speed will be the chief factor in the
race, for among the men are Harry Elkes,
the worlds middle distance champion;
Stinson, who recently rode more than.
forty miles in an hour; Floyd Mcfarland,
the handicap king, and Jean Goagoltz,
the swift Frenchman
Last years race was won by Miller
and Waller with a score of 2,7SS3 miles and
laps. WaIthour won the individual prize,
continuing alone after his partner had
dropped out.
Shortly after the start the men showed
speed. The first was made with Elkas
III the iead, followed by StiASon, Miller,
Aronson, Gougoltz, Dubois and Turville
in the order named, with the rest
punched. With the enthusiasm st its
height, Gougoltz on the seventh lap,
broke into a wild squirt and gained thirty
feet on Elkes. The latter and Stinson
by as big squirt caught up with him,
but Gouglotz held the lead to the end
of the first mile, which he made in two
minutes twenty-nine and two-ffths sec
onds.
At o'clock each of the fourteen start
ers had made twenty-four miles.
NEW YORK, Dec. 10.-The score at
a. m. was: Elkes and Mcfarland, 1872:
Simar and Gougoltz. 492; Pierce and Nc
Eaehern, 492; Babcock and Aronson,
491; Waller and Stinson. 49.1; Miller and
Walthour, 491; Turville and Gimm, 491;
Frederick and Fischer, 49.1; Colgan and
Dickerson, 49.1; Dubois and Krebs, 49;
Kiser and Ryser 49; Muller and Ac-
coutrier. 4e: Mclean and Mclean, 49;
Albert and Bleecker, 1873.