Waterbury Democrat., 1902-12-15

The scores made in the race, except for the first eight hours, are well be- hind the records of the three previous years. The contest started too furious ly and the sprints all through were too frequent and too long sustained for the total mileage to show up we'll The men this year tried harder to steal laps than ever before When they made jump and started a sprint they did not give it up so soon as they did in earlier races and the tactics of the pursuing bunch were different, for in stead of slackening the speed when a runaway was caught they would keep it up in hope of dropping some tired man in the string. All this told on the riders so that the pace after the sprints was not fair gait, but a real slow one. There were hours when only fourteen and fifteen miles were made and one hour the mileage was twelve
 The best record for six day team race was made in the first one ever run That was in 1899, when Miller and Waller covered 2,733 miles and 4 laps in the week. The top score in 1900, made by Mcfarland and Bikes, was 2,628 miles and laps. The top score last year, made by Walthour and McEachern, was 2,555 miles and 4 aps. From this it will be seen that the re- cord has been lower every year.
 During the last few days of the race some wondered why the tail-enders re- mained in the race. Others have gone so far as to say it was cruel and un- necessary to force men to ride when they had no chance to finish one two. three. The secret is that all of the eight teams in the race since Friday were lin the money.' Originally there were ten pieces of money, but this was changed, and the purse will be $4,65O. split as follows:
 First prize, $1,5OO; second prize, Sl,OCO; third prize. $75O; fourth prize, $500; fifth prize $500; sixth prize, $25O; seventh prize, $2O0; eighth prize, $50. It is said that the expenses of the teams were all guaranteed and cer- tain sum besides that varied from S2OO up, the star riders getting q bigger pre- mium than the untried ones, because they were attractions
 The expenses of the riders in such a race is much greater than might be supposed. Besides the item of food. the riders have a corps of handlers and rubbers varying from three to six, who get from $15 to $3O for the week s work. It is understood that the man. agement allowed each camp $25 a day for expenses. What they spend over this for assistants and food is at their own expense.
 The following list shows what the expense of each camp was during the week, as stated by the head trainers of them.
 Mcfarland and Maya, $425; Leander and Krebs, $375; Root and Calvin, $350; Stinson and Moran. $500; New kirk and Jacobson, $500; Bedell broth CTS, $250; Keegan and Peterson, S2OO: Barclay and Krebs, S175.
 1 Food was big item of expense in all the camps. Sleeping little and working hard, the riders ate five or 1 six times as much as they would nor mally. Here is a list of what was pur- chased for Leander and Krebs camp during the week:
 Twelve pounds of steak. twelve pounds of chops, six boxes of prepar-
 ed breakfast food, four boxes of grapes, twenty-four punches of celery
 two dozen bottles of Koumyss. five
 dozen bottles of Apollinaris, one and a
 half dozen bottles of ale, four dozen
 oranges, one-half peck of apples, four chickens, six packages of biscuit, six Ipackages of graham wafers, eighteen i quarts of milk, three pounds of cof
 fee, one and half pounds of tea, two l dozen cups of custard. one dozen, bot ties of ginger ale, five dozen eggs two quarts of sherry wine, foul l quarts of burgundy, six dozen cans
 beef tea, two gallons of vinegar, thirty
 pounds sea salt, fifteen loaves oi bread, one dozen cans of bouillon eight jars of calve's foot jelly.
 Leander gained seven pounds
 Nearly all the riders gained from one
 to six pounds.