The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-12-10
START Of SIX Days RACE.
TWENTY-EIGHT ENTRIES IN An
NUAL BICYCLE CONTEST.
Six Thousand People Attend on
Opening Night at Madison square
Garden-Nen to Race In Sets of
Fourteen Pairs-List of Riders.

NEW YORK, Dec. 9-The sixth annual
International six-day bicycle race at Madi-
son Square garden was started at mid
night tonight before over 5000 people. the
race is held under the auspices OF the
American Bicycle Racing Association, and
fourteen riders of International reputa-
ton began the 1i2-hours' grind. They rep
resented as many pairs. who will race FOR
the six days as teams No man will be al
lowed to ride on the track more thah
twelve hours in any day, but the two men
in each team may relieve one another at
any time that suits them. AT the end or
the six-days' racing 1890 in prizes will be
distributed among the riders. Long pc
fore o'clock the crowds began arriving
at the garden. and by the time the pistol
sent the men of on their journey the
seats around the track and the great space
inside the rail were filled. The track this
year is banked very steep. and is several
feet higher at the outside than that OF
last year.
The management saw fit to do this in
order to prevent 'loafing," which was
much in evidence at the previous races
This will make the race much faster con-
tinually. but probably win cause many
spills.
Following are the pairs who were count
ed in to start in the race, the man nrst
mentioned in each case being the one who
started first for the team: . v,,.
thour Atlanta.
Hugh Mclean. Scotland: and Arthur
Mclean, Scotland.
Oscar Aronson, Sweden. and oscar BAD
cock, New York.
w. c. Stinson, Boston, and Frank Wal
Ter Germany.
John Dubois, Brockton, and Lloyd
Krebs, Newark.
Harry Fixes, Glens Falls, and Floyd
Mcfarland. San Jose, Cal
Harry Blocker. Brooklyn. and Frank
Albert
Jean Gougiotz. France. and Cesar 81
mar. France.
Kari Kiser, Germany. and Fritz Ryser.
Rudolph Muller, italy and H. Accou-
tror. Italy.
Charles Turville. Philadelphia. and Louis
I. G. colgan. Trenton, and = Dickerscn
Burns Pierce. Boston. and Archie Nc
The Lawson brothers, John and Gus,
sent their entry In too late. and did not
start Fritschka and Lingenfelter. the
German team: Maresca and Sassard. the
Italian team. and Nikoden and Hoffman,
the Berlin team. failed to qualify and were
not allowed to start.
Noted Riders In the List.
Speed win be the chief factor In the
race, for among the men are Harry
pion; Stinson. who recently rode more
than forty miles in an hour: Floyd Nc
Farland, the handicap King, ana Jean
Gougoltz. the swift Frenchman. To offset
these mems brilliant rushes to the front,
the slower ones will have to use all the
generalship at their command, and dur
ing the week there will he many an In
teresting moment. man who falls IL
lost. for the pace probably will never drop
below fourteen or fifteen miles an hour.
Shortly after the start the men showed
speed. The first lap was made with Elkes
In the lead followed by Stinson. Miller.
Aronson. Gougoltz, Dubois and Turvtlle.
in the order named, with the rest well
punched. With the enthusiasm at Its
height Gougoltz. on the seventh lap, broke
into a wild squirt and gained thirty feet
on Fixes. The latter and Stinson. by
squirt, caught up with him, but Gougoltz
held the lead to the end of the first mile,
which he made In 2:29 3-5.
The score at n. m. was:
Fixes and Mcfarland. Az
Simar and Gougoltz, 49,
Pierce and McEAchern, 49,.
Babcock and Aronson 491.
Waller and Stinson, 491.
Miller and Walthour, 491.
Turville and Gmm, 49.1
Frederick and Fisher. 4q1.
Colgan and Dickerson, 491.
Dubois and Krebs, ~.
Kiser and Riser. 40
Muller and Accoutror. ~.
Mclean and Mclean, 40.
Albert and Blocker. 4s.9.