The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-08
OFF ON LONG CYCLE WHIRL,
CONTEST IN GARDEN STARTS
WITH SIXTEEN TEAMS.
Crowd Begins 20 File In Early. With Grrat
Attendance When Riders Get the
Word-Fenn Leads AZ End Of First
Mne-C0ney Island Embellishments.


Madison Square Garden on a ten-lsp tra ok.
Congressman-elect Timothy d. sullivan rod
the blank cartridge that inaugurated the long
grind sixteen mon. each representa- i've
OF team. began the race. They were Elkes
Moran. Maya. John Bedell. Newkirk. 1ur-
vile. Floyd Krebs, Barclay. Fem. Peterson.
Root. Buisson. Baraquin. Darrsgon. Docr-
Finger and Kaser. The race was started in
the presence of something like 10000 spec
tators. who stood up and yelled wildly. so
that the sound Of the band was drowned and
the thick bank of tobacco smoke moulded
BY the walls and roof OF the building was
set moving in swift, swrlinR eddes.
hot pace was at once set. and the sixteen
men. clothed in every variety of color. re-
sembled fragments of rainbow scurryine
about the track The men are out 20 ride
until next Saturday night for $500. divided
into eight purses. as follows: First. .? 800:
se'o1d. 81. 800 third. i.?sO fourth. $500: sixth.
$500. sixth. t4o0 seventh. 500. eighth, Si?5:
ninth. SIS; tenth. $50.
Newkirk WAS the rider who led at the end
OF the first lap, Fem was the leader at the
end OF the first mile. The time for the mile
was minutes 20 A. seconds. Fem also led
at five miles. his time being II minutes SO is
seconds
At i?45 Breton. Leander. Mcfarland
Butler. Menus Brdell, Gougoltz. Moran and
Fem had gained "A lsp on the others. Calvin
fell. but his loss was restored 10 him Heller
and Peterson each lost a lap soon afterward
Maya of the California team was the leader
at the end of fifteen miles, in ~ minutes 81 2-5
re 'onds. He also was in front at the end Of
twenty miles. in Al minutes 10 As seconds
Al the end OF the first hour with Maya
leading the score WAS rs miles ?1 laps. Tho
record made last year for one hour was -
miles S laps.
The sixteen teams In the race comprise
thirty-two men with splendid riding records
on both track and road. They are the pick
OF the United States and Europe. for a Cruel
ling endurance race OF this sort. Five OF the
teams are composed OF foreigners and the
other eleven are made up OF native riders
The full list OF teams. with the designations
given them by the managers are as follows:
Stinson and Moran, Boston team. Keegan
and Fem, lrish team; Bedeli Brothers. Long
Island team; Franz Krebs and Barclay. Jersey
team: Butler and Turville. Quaker team.
Leander and Floyd Krcbs. Western team:
Mcfarland and Maya. California team Peter
son and Hedsprth. Chicago team: Newkirh
and jacobson. NV England team, Bald and
Elkee. All American team: Gougoltz and
Kaser French ierman team; Buisson and
Bruni. French team; Heller and poerflinger.
German tea H.: Breton and paragon. Alsitian
team: Lootens and Baras Quin. Belgian team:
Calvin and Root. Massachusetts team.
Although Willet Fem and Patsey" Kee-
gan were both born in this country and are
essentially native riders, they glory in their
designation rs the Irish team. and both of
them are riding with Irish hags NJ their cir
dies greatly 10 the delight OF Fenn'S father.
who was cheering his son from the track
side this morning
The track on which the men will ride day
and night until Saturday l. a girdle OF yellow
pine that looks like nm oval saucer badly
bent at the sides. Although newly built II
i substantiIally The ,am Nc, as ne tr nxr o.
avenue and Madi,o avenue ends OF the Gar,
den show an incline OF about fifty degree and
look so -te"p that the IN .ophi'ticnted wonder
AT the ends j. To-, feet high NJ the outer edge,
and in the -traieht,, whrre th"re !. me Least east
ie feet wide and at the sides there is fat
the men may take in order 70 avoid accident
There is, in fact. margin OF the floor all the
way around III" track Eyen a. A., ne h, ,u1ns
the pole and the railing that incloses the
inNeId
those of the six-dav races of former years.
but with additions that some OF the visitors
plainly would consider to b. emb"ll hments
contriyances such a. flourish most at Coney
Island There were NOR" iakir- than last
year and several new games int reduced
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