The age-herald., 1901-12-13
Best SpriRIing of the Six Day Race Takes Place
 Last Night CROWD OF 15,OOO CHEERING Several Riders So Weak They Can Hardly Sit Their Wheels.
 Faces Ashy Gray and
 Eyes Bursting.


 New York December 12.-The best sprnting of the six days bicycle race at Madison Square Garden took place be- tween Il and 12 o'clock tonight. Hall made a dash and gained half lap in three rounds of the track with King on his rear wheel McEachern relieved Walthour but he fell back and Walthour who stood watching the sprint immedi- ately remounted. joined the bunch and let McEachern go
 Hall gained lap with King and was then relieved by McLaren The latter tried to follow in the still squirting bunch, but was lost and the sprint which was kept up till midnight. carried the riders four laps beyond McLaren. Jaak lost four laps; King who had gained lap was relieved by Samuelson who could not follow the pace and lost lap. Lawson lost four laps in the sprint. Walthour rode like the wind and led the bunch every lap.
 Crowd of 15,ooo Cheers.
 The crowd of 15,OOO was kept till mid night cheering.
  Eachern and Walthour agreed to with draw their protest against the referees decision which refused them the lap they declared they had gained during the afternoon. It was because of this deci- sion that McEachern threatened to quit the race.
 In the afternoon a collision between Mclean and Chevallier occurred. They fell from their wheels and the latter was severely hurt. An instant later Frede- ricks, who seemed to be very weak and was wobbling along es best he could, trying to keep up with the leaders struck the rear wheel of Fischer's bicycle, who had been hurried into the saddle Bot men were thrown and Hall ran into the and was also thrown. He escaped in- jury. For several minutes Fischer lay like one dead. His trainers were able to carry him to his quarters when he be- came as one wild and fought them. kick ing one of them in the stomach. It was Lard to get him to his room, next to which Chevaller was carried. Later in the afternoon 1t was announced that Fischer and Chevallier would be unable to continue in the race Fischer sus- tained a fracture of the shoulder. His partner sprained his wrist.
 Four miles were added to the totals during the sprint in which the accidents occurred, but the effects of the efforts of the men upon them was clearly shown by their faces.
 Riders Very Weak.
 Several of them were so weak that they seemed hardly able to remain upon their wheels. Their faces were ashy gray and their eyes looked as if they were about to burst
 Manager Winisette of McEachren and Walthour was very angry because the judges refuse sd to allow his team a lap which he insisted they had made, and he threatened to withdraw the team from the track. When McEachren retired to his quarters he was badly used up. The judges decided to return the losses sus- tained by Hall and the others in their accidents to them. This placed the men back in their relative positions occupied by them during the carly day
 About o'clock McEachern. dressed in ordinary clothes, appeared on the track are announced that he would not ride any more unless the lap he claimed was rest ored and allowed. He walked off the track while his partner, Walthour who was on lis wheel was shouting to come back and not desert him. Maya also said that he would quit the race unless jus tice was done his team. While the or ficials were trying to induce McEachern to return to the track, Maya relieved his tesm mate, Wilson. After much argu- mcnt between Nc oEat hern and the of ficials ne agreed to return to the race and ride but he asserted he would do so only long enough to give the judges of the race time to decide upor the lap under 5contention. He declared that unless the matter was decided in his favor he would qu.t the lace
 The 2 o'clock score was
 Butler and Mclean. Newlirk and Mum roe, McEachern and Walthour, Maya and Wilson and Babcock and Turvile, l. BPS miles four laps; King and samuelson 1928 miles two laps; Hall and McLaten 1S27 miles eight laps; Lawson and Juhus, 1927 miles five laps Frqdericks and Jaak, 1927 miles six laps.
 The record for this hour is 1901 miles.