New-York tribune., 1902-12-11
NINE TEAMS REMAIN.
Breton Wants to Fight-He Is Angry Be
cause Partner Falls Behind
Some Tumbles.

Only nine teams were left early this morning IN
the six day bicycle The French team con-
sistng Darra gon and Breton. lost lap carry III
the morning and Breton was In bad cond1uoh
and had been losing strength for two days IL was
considered necessary for the last OF the Iofeish
teams to be withdrawn. 1t appeared that most Oh
the riders in a combination against 'he
Frenchmen. and when they showed tnat they were
weakening there a succession OF nuSr
sprints Breton began to fall behind ana MS
trainers at once substituted his partner, but Dar-
rsson was unable to stand the strain any Dettef'
and he was finally Tapped When Breton sa" llial
his partner was being left behind the rest ne Hoso
to his feet and poured out volley of expetives IN
his native tongue. and his trainers salu 'ha' NJ
wanted to have a duel with Darrason- IN pam
English he wanted to fight The team stopped
riding soon after that. but resumed again &C
thew were nearly two miles behind the leaders, anu
finally the referee declared them out OF the race
The only other really interesting feature oA liie
DAYS riding was the sensational sprint started oS
Johnny Bedell, of the Bedell brothers' at aooe
4:3O O'Clock in the afternoon Ine ht'ls iiu0A
among the most popular OF the lot anu WI.
began to sprint and the crowd really saw that ne
oaer+ brs,rass he was cheered to the echo. Bedell
caught his rivals taking a nap in their saddies anu
before they realized what was up ne nau s'oie ,
half lap them The shouts OF the Ci"
the adurations of their trainers awoke the rest Va
tho riders TO a realization of the facts IN the case
80 the, sa+ ont TO cut down Bedells lead IL TOOK
= chase of two miles before this feat was accom-
plfshed but finally 1T was accomplished eHu' 80. 80
the time at least the Bedells lost thelr opPoi
to secure an invaluable lead-a leao tnal Hiis
have given them the race coulo 'l0'
tanned il. -. ,-
Mcfarland headed the procession 'hat W W.
strfving TO overtake BedeN. and the rest ioiio"1u
the hot pace he set with grim deternination 'o,
RedelTs brother Menus should have oeeh iTouS
to relieve his brother the latter had secured
a lead of half a lap. but something "ehI wins
and he was hand John was uIaoIe
maintain his terrific pace any longer anu c'i
quentiy Mcfarland and the rest wore oo"h iii7
80 srd orce more six teams were tied for the
first position
The wearisome grind aside from those two oc-
casions was maintained at slow pace all oaS
no snri1tfug was done and at midnight the riders
not far from one hundred miles oeiiiii1 IN
There = has not been much betting the race so
f oereG S"f to bet si6oo even on tF Bede brothers
against any other team. and c A HelneInaanii HI ti
took 500 of it, backing Leander and Floyd hreos
Humber Of tumbes occurred during the early
morning hours yesterday. when Twenty-Five nlles
aIt aictar 4 nd was the first man down and then
Moran and jacobson got tanged up Iog9t' ateT
None of the were injured at all seriously anu
Doerf1inger and Heller were officially declared out
of the O'Clock in the moTnng; Wneh Infy my
has applied the management for PERMISSION 10
be married in the Garden TO aggns6 him With @
presence at the tracksiIe The management posted
a notice saying that they doubted the expedle%nSy %
of the plan They added that the clergyman no
married couple in den of lions at St NichoIas
Rink not long ago had applied for the assignment
OF marrying Krebs and his sweetheart in case the
plan carried out
The race has : many side shows as a circus ana
there are sausages, weight guessing machines.
fortune teIlers and various kinds OF games or
chance all overhung by a dense cloud OF tobacco
smoke. Bronchitis may easily be had, and now the
riders manage any speed at all IN such an atnlos-
phere is amazing
Frank kramer, the national champion, established
q new record yesterday afternoon for an unpaced
fying start half mile. covering the distance in 541s
seconds. The old record OF 54+s seconds was made
by Kramer at Nailsburg- Kramer after breaking
the record for the half mile later In the day went
after the quarter mile record for unpaced riders.
He was successful making the distance In 2o4s
seconds the worlds record made by Major"
Taylor. being 25+5 seconds.
The score at / o'clock was:
Mies-Iaps- Miles Laps
Mcfarland -Nfava . 1 232 Ieander- T-...13S3
Stinsor-M Moran 1873 o. BarcIy-Franz Krebs 1882
333 o Keegan-PetersOn .S32
Newkfrk-JaCobson 1893 o Calvin-Root ----i3S- y
-Turvile .--.f.33S o.