The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-12-18
RACE WON BY THE
AMERICAN TEAM
Great Contest at Madison
Square Garden End:.
IT MAC A n 0lthhr
IT WAS A CLOSE SHAVE
The Canadian Team But a Wheels
Length Behind.
The TRENCH RIDERS IN THE THIRD PLACE
Twenty Thousand People Witnessed the Des-
perate Struggle at the Finish. Elkts and
Mcfarland Get $500 in Cash
and Worlds Championship.
(By the Associated Prcss.)

New York, Dec. 15.-Nearly twenty
thousand people damned into every
available corner of the great Madison
Square Garden saw Harry Fixes, of Clans
Falls, n. Y. and Floyd Mcfarland, of
SAN Jose, Cal, the American team, win
the six days international bicycle race
by a wheels length from Burns Pierce,
Of Boston, and Archie McEachern. of To-
19uto. the Canadian team. Caesar Simar,
Of Paris, and Jean Gougoltz, of Monte
carlo the French team, were a third of
q lap away. The distance covered by
The winners was 1898 miles and I laps,
this being 1O4 miles and : laps behind
the record of Miller and Waller made last
YEAR. Karl kaser and Fritz Ryser, of Ber-
liz, the German team, were given fourth
place with 1855 miles and 4 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 three laps
that lay between them and the leading
team. Michael Frederick, of Paris, and
Jean Fischer, OF Paris, took fifth place
with 1852 miles. They drew out at /
o'clock tonight. Frank Waller, Boston,
ard w. c. Stinson, of Boston, gave up
Just before three o'clock this morning.
content with sixth position and their p
.US miles and one lap. O. V. Babcock. of
New York. and Louis Gimm of Pittsburg.
Who after the accidents to their part
rers, rode On for an individual score,
we're requested by the management TO
withdraw from the track this afternoon.
BabCOck was then at 1860 miles and one
lap. six miles ahead of Gimm.
From fourteen starters the race had
narrowed down to three contestants for
The final squirt at the close
There were but four teams on the track
when the crowds began to pack the ga,
den tonight. BY 8 O'Clock the main floor
seats and first balcony were black with
PEOPLE. massed there and along the rail-
.ag OF the ring in the centre. Nearly
twenty thousand people were packed in
side the great building. In the vast crowd
The riders had hosts Of friends.
The foreigners received lots Of en-
enlargement. It was American, French,
Canadian and German, one against the
other. Every jump of a rider brought the
great crowd Of people 10 their feet. shout
lnS and cheering themselves hoarse III
he excitement.
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
clCso Of the race the pistol announced
iIne for the final effort. The three couples
Mere riding closely punched. Gougoltz
was first to shoot out ahead. He set a
terrific pace. Mcfarland was but q
wheel behind the Frenchman. and almost
SoTaping his rear wheel was Pierce. In
this position the three kept q hurricane
face for the last mile. When the gopG
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 overhauied
inch by inch. On the last lap Mcfarland
oTept ahead with Pierce after him, and
the two of them passed over the tape in
that order, the Frenchman but a fraction
Of a second behind in the spring. but a
lap behind in the race. There was no
/ holding the great crowd and the people
] howled themselves hoarse during the
! hnal spirited sprint, jumping to their feet.
waving hats, coats-anything the men
/ could get their hands on. while the women
traaticallv waved their handkerchiefs
The three men continued riding around the
ring amidst the greatest excitement.
Elkes and Mcfarland get 81 1900 in cash
and the worlds championship; Pierce
aud McEachern get 81, 900; Simar and
G~ougultz $500; Kaser and Ryser. $500:
Fisher and Frederick, $500; Waller and
NIns0n, $3.50; Babcock and AarOnson,
$50. in all Sa.J0O. 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 20
retire on account of accident or other
good cause.