Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-07
SIX DAY RACE
Seventeen Teams Started Early
 This Morning


 News of Interest. .. D.. 1 At Just 12:O4 o'clock this morning a pistol shot was fired in Madison Square l Garden and seventeen, more or less l gaudily clad bicycle riders, each a member of a team of two, started at racing speed about steep saucer like | track of. boards, and the eleventh an- nual six-day 'cycle race was inaugu- l rated.
 James J. Corbett fired the shot that started the long mill that grinds not slowly but with exceeding pains. A crowd of fully 12O0O spectators stood up using seats for pedestals when pos sible and ye, He'd frantfcany as the race l began. It was the wild, tumultuous crowd that only the six-dlay race brings 1 to town.
 l The men lined up for the start four 1 abreast on the track at the scratch on l the Twenty-seve street side of the Garden, each with a man to push him 1 off,
 | Owing to the necessity of a strag- gling start. due to the big field and the width of the track, the management announced tthe ruling that the entire l bunch would be allowed one mile in | which to settle into their places and that no laps gained in the first mile would count to the credit of any rider and that no. fails during the first mile would count.
 A second pistol shot was fired after a mile had been ridden and then the race was on in earnest The score of the race began with the first pistol shot, YN7 will Tsi d0:04 o'clock next Saturday night to make 1t continuous race for 142 miles.
 The representatives of the four Eu- ropean teams got away in front. The start was without mishap and at the end of the first lap the riders were we'll strung out. At the end of the second lap they were all in single file.
 TNhe first accident of the race hap, pened to the wearer of No 13, Jed New kirk, who ferl in the eighth lap and was replaced by Jacobson. Kramer got to the front early and was leading at the end Of the first. mile. The time for the first mile was ? minutes g 4-5 sec onds.
 A hot pace began as soon as this mile was ended. It seemed as if the crack sprinters, who are likely to quit early, Were out to wear the men down. T'he partners of the men who started the race were all kept at the traclxs1de during the first hour to replace their mates in case of emergency
 Kramer led at the second mile, also. The time was minutes 43 1-5 seconds Ftloy KTebs led at the third mile. His time was minutes 8 1-5 seconds. Root led at the fourth mile in 9 minutes 32 3-5 seconds.
 Newkirk, who returned to the track right after his fall, led at the fifth mile. His time was 12 minutes 2 sec onds. At ten miles Sfnaar led. The time was 24 minutes 24 seconds.
 The names of the riders who started the race are: Simar, Retlich Breton, Tanderstuyft, Butler, Floyd Krebs. Ja- cobson. John Bedell, Franz Krebs, Root, Bardgett, Keegan, Fisher, He'd speth, Kramer, Mclean, Walthour. The seventeen men who started each represented a team mate, the official list of teams with the numbers allotted to and worn by the individual riders being as follows:
 (1) Jean Gougoltz and (2) Caesar Simar.
 (3) Reetich and (4) Beaugendre.
 (5) Contenet and (6) Breton.
 @ Sampson and (S) Vanderstuyft.
 (9) George Leander and (1O) Nat But 1 Ter.
 11) Floyd Krebs and (12) Petersen.
 (13) Jed Newkirk and (14 John Ja- cobson.
 115) John Bedell and (16) Menus Be- dell.
 1O Franz Krebs and qs) 0. D. Bar clay.
 19) B. F. Root and (2O) Oliver Dor lon. ..-...
 (21) Frank Calvin and (22) Walter Baradgett.
 (23) Patsey Keegan and (2N Charles Turville l
 (25) James Bowler and (26) John T. Fisher. as
 (2D Melvin T. Dove and (2S) Woody Hedspetll
 (29) Bobby Walthour and (3OO Bennie Munroe. i
 (aD Frank Kramer and (32) Willie Fenn.
 (35) Jimmy Moran and (36). Hugh Mclean. ..
 Of these teams the first four are Flu ropeans. The others are all Americans either by birth or adoption. Dove and Hedspeth are negroes. Adam Beyer- man and A. w. Mcdonald were the only ones entered who did not start. it was said. concluded to withdraw because he did not think the r team could finish in the money.
 What the inducement Is for these men to race continuously until next night is told in the following list of prize moneys:
 First prize, $1,5O0; second prize. $1- GOO; third prize, S75O; fourth prize, $500; fifth prize. $35O; sixth prize, $25O; seventh prize. $100.
 A notable fact in relation to the track this year is that it Is a little too big. It is supposed to be just ten laps to the mile, or 176 yards, but when it was on Saturday it was found to be 178 yards 4 inches around on the pole. This makes it forty inches large