The Savannah morning news., 1903-11-30
WALTHOUR AND MUNRO LEAVE
TODAY TO ENTER SIX-DAY RACE
poTH CONFIDENT THAT THEY
WILL WIN THE BIG EVENT.
NEITHER HAS EVER
TRAINED so HARD.
uENNIE WILL DO THE PLUGGING
AND BOBBY THE SPRINTING.


Both WaIthOur and Munro Have
Many Enemies Who Will Enter
the Rnce-Seventeen Teams VIII
Face the Starter, but n Number of
These Are Expected to Drop Ont
the First Twenty-fOur Hours.
Race starts Next Sunday Morning.
Bobbv Walthour and Bennie Munro.
who have been spending the past month
in Savannah getting themselves in
shape for the six-day grind that will
commence in Madison Square Garden
next Monday, will leave to-day on the
Kansas City for New York
Mrs. Walthour and two children will
accompany the team to New York. 1t
IS the custom of the faithful wife of
the champion to make her headquar-
ters at the track during the race. and
she looks after the preparation of all
food and nourshment in person.
The big race will start next Sun
day night at 1910, and the finish will
come at 12 o'clock on Saturday night
following.
Never in Better Shape.
Never did a team enter the famous
six-day race in as good physical con-
dition as will the Southern pair, Wal
thour and Munro have been working
as neither has ever worked before,
and with Gussie Lawson to look after
them they have covered mile after
mile of road around Savannah, and
each man has ridden not less than
seventy-five miles every day since ne
has been here. Both men have taken
off all fat and added some hard flesh
and muscle. Walthour tipped the beam
at 161 last night, and said he had
never been in such form as he is now.
Munro, who will do most of the plug
ging in the race, just commenced to
get his gait the early part of last
week. and since Wednesday has been
riding from fifty to sixty miles at gaits
from PIP to 2:25 on country roads
without the least fatigue.
WaIthOur Will Do the Sprinting.
Walthour will be depended on to do
the sprinting for the team. Time and
again he has sprinted an eighth in
1901. This is as fast as Frank Kramer
has ever gone the distance, and he
holds the worlds record for short dis
tancc sprinting.
Both Walthour and Munro have
trained in a different manner from
any other cyclist, doing most Of their
work behind the famous Candy, Jr.,
with Gussie Lawson in charge. They
with their sprint wheels, would ride
miles at 1:30 to 1886. and then go IN
paced for fifty and sixty miles, aver
aging from PIP to 2:26
Seventeen Teams Entered.
Seventeen teams will line up before
the starter in the big race. The fast
est teams in the world have entered,
and this race will go down as one
of the most famous ever run in Amer
lea. Every team has a grUdge 70 wipe
out and the officials will be kept busy
watching the riders, for the team work
and tricks that will be attempted viii
be unusually hard to keep up with.
The Southern team will be combined
against, for both Munro and WalthOur
have had many grudges stored up
against them. George L4eander has
several old scores to settle with Wal
thour, and he is also after Moran and
Turville. The BedeIl brothers, in turn,
have it in for Leander, as it will be
remembered they had some trouble in
Atlanta last year.
All After the Black Team.
All the riders will try and do up the
black team Of Dove and Hedspeth, but
beyond this the Cracker team viii
receive the most attention when it
comes to dirty work.
The crack French riders will be in
the race, for they have as manager one
OF the best in the business, Tom Eek.
who knows the weakness of every
American rider and who has handled
nearly every one of them. He has the
knack of putting his men in the best
shape and the quickest, and knows
how to save them from hard race,
such as this one will be.
6l mill - -.He fyra
TO Southerners on account Of the
southern entry, Walthour and Nun
70. Also watch them in the fight
against the black team, Dove and
Hedspeth. both Of whom are negroes
OF the blackest kind and both splendid
riders, and will be in the race from
start to finish If not crippled as Heds-
peth was last year in the same race.
The entry Of Kramer, the champion
professional sprinter, with that Of VIII
lie Fem, who finished well up IN the
last and was Kramer's mate in all the
races this year, will make it very fast
Tor the first twenty-four hours Of the
race They may not last the full twen-
ty-four hours. but will stay in long
enough to make it so warm for the
other riders that they viii be glad TO
see them quiet
Many VIII Quit First Day.
Al LAAlS I4EEL t4dg VI LAlC AcA-- AZ
be the finish Of quite a few Of the
riders and Tuesday morning will see
only ten or twelve teams left who will
light it out to the finish. but with the
keen and bitter rivalry between at
least eight teams the fight viii De
warm up to the last minute Of the
race
There - Moran and Mayo. Butler
Leandsr. BedeII brothers. Walthour-
Munro, Turvill-Keegan. ROOt-Dolan- Z
who will combine among themselves
against each other in such manner I
that IL would take a Philadelphia !
lawyer 10 untangle them. and would !
drive Sherlock Holmes to the bug (
house trying 70 solve the problem, /
but some unknown team on the out /
side Of the big six bunch above might 7
sneak in and get the money, or Tom !
rex, the foxy Old-timer, might take /
advantage Of IL all and win with one I
Of the "rogea ters. But the winners, 4
whoever the team might be, viii win z
By being the best IN tricks and gen I
eralship. for the hest men in cycle /
racing are teanned up IN such a man Z
ner that IL is bound n make the race I
fast and full Of excitement and a. .