The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-12-13
BAD SPILLS IN BICYCLE RACE.
FISHER BREAKS HIS COLLAR.
BONE IN A FALL.
His Team Mate. Chaveiiier. Also Injured
I'm the Mix.Up McEachern and Wa.
thour Gain q Lap, but II Is Not Al
Iowed-Many lap Galned by sprints.

In the Mix.Up McEachern and Wal.
thour Gain q Lap. but II Is Not Al
Iowed-Many Laps Galne by sprints.
and numerous sprints at the Madison Square
Garden six-day race yesterday. One team
Of the ten that were trailing toward the
money prizes on Wednesday was put out
of the race during the afternoon by "
successive spills that broke bones. The
favorite team was indignant about a fancied
injustice and threatened to quit.
At II o'clock last night there were only
nine OF the sixteen teams that started In
the race still riding and they were all far
behind the record. There were then five
teams tied for first place, one team in second
place, a lap behind. a team in third place,
two laps behind the leaders. and two teams
In fourth place four laps behind the men
with the highest score. Fredericks and
Jaak were then the only foreigners remain
ing in the race
The sensational features Of the day began
between I4O and 2:i0 o'clock In the after
noon, when there were the most disastrous
upsets In the chronicle of the race. There
were two Of them. and they followed one
another In swift succession. II all began
WIFI n epIlnt W "oiNhobA' "bO "oo e"'
IL considered to be overworked by close
observers. AZ i42 o'clock Chavellier, tho
Alsatian, and Mclean. the ~Scotchman,
collided and fell. Chavellier was picked
UP with what was supposed to be a seriously
injured spine, He was taken TO the Black
Cat restaurant, where a physician said
that his back was wrenched, but not so
severely as to prevent him from coming
out to-day.
Fisher, OF course, at once took Chavel-
Hers place on the track, and he had not been
there half an hour before there was another
smash-up and a worse one, in which Fisher
was a principal. Fisher and Fredericks
collided and fell and Hall went over them.
The latter W we're only shakeR up but
Fisher broke his collar bone and sprained
his wrist. He was taken to the home Of
Mrs. Matory, pa West Thirty-second street.
The team was at the time one Of the five
tied for first place, by virtue Of the lap won
BY them early in the morning, and for his
reason the double accident, as it might be
called, was pitiable. 1t was the only upset
since the race began in which any man has
been much injured or a bone broken.
There was little doing that was not SEN
sational on the track yesterday. The excit-
Ing tDlNOutN lHhl pRtu NJ mllllPuN "'d-
nesdsy continued during the early morning
hours and all throughout the daylight
hours. The shifts that began TO be made
In the relative positions OF the men just
before 8 o'clock on Wednesday night were
only preliminary to a series OF equally
startling happenings. Recited in order. this
II what happened: Not long after 10 O'Clock
the same night julius and King tucked on
Gougoltz whom he was racing with
Schneider and both OF the men gained a lap.
TThn ,a vraro MT IicntaliGaI Int rho Ian |
they gained was disallowed.
Following this came the biggest disturb |
ance that the race had seen up TO the time.
came out TO relieve Mclean, and
he pace was so fast that the relieving man
81 the team, Butler. could not pick up his
and he circled the track n couple
Of times before he caught his mate. After
bring relieved Mclean rode around the
track AZ least more than once and main
tanned his speed. He and Butler, by re-
for several miles, succeeded in gain
Ing a lap. The rule applying 10 the case
reads:
In relieving his mate a rider must start
ahead of all other. and the relieved one
mate before being considered out NJ the race.
In relieving. the member of IA team must
interfere with the other oontestant>.
and the relieved rider must hold the pole
md not pass tho score -tand more than once
after having boon relieved
This. according to the referees. is inter
to mean that a rider, starting 10
relieve another. must do il from a standing
Accordingly, the Butlrr-McLean
team remained even with the leaderS.
The steady polishing Of the pine board~
by the pneumatic tires then continued
until shortly before & O'Clock in the morn
ing, when there came the first Uiacs, ~
genuine lap gaining that had been seen
the grind began. First. Tommy
Hall, the little Eng ishman. went out anu
after a piece Of p%roiigious ~prrting, gained
a Jap unaided John West. his trainer,
" hispered 20 Hall from tie side line that
was n chance fpr a rush. II was
then the sleepy hour II the morning Hall
showed himself 20 he as good a Splinter
~ any one IN the race He Rained hi
lap Ia less than half a mic II j. tnl' that
tho bunch did not pursue very desperately.
because u Hall belonging 90 the TAI end
team. Immediately after THE great sprint
Hall went 20 ms quarters ana was stripped
and handed a plate Of out up -i"ak. which
he ate while sitting up listening TO the
Jolly" - he luDilHft trainer, who said
III YOU can do that again w. will fRi-e YOU
wage o. a Wcck
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,sUier 90 ne Alss'iau team. shot out AM
in three circuits nhdc a ram = three
quarters 81 lap Then llsh'r hus partner
relieved him and iuCr.a-s4 he had I,
making short rhift-. Fisher AMI thsyaIut
managed 90 vRaiu th. lap thar they laD
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