Evening journal., 1904-12-05
Madison Square Garden
Filled With Spectators
When Riders We're
Sent Away
New Faces Seen in This
Years Long Grind.
Many Foreigners Com
pete

New York. Dec. 5.-The six-day cycle
race started at five minutes past II
O'Clock this morning. Big Tim" Sui
livan fired the shot that sent eighteen
of the thirty-six riders entered in the
six-day bicycle race off on their long
Journey. 1t was estimated that there
were fully $1,000 people in Madison
Square Garden at the time.
Many new faces will be seen in this
years long grind. Sammy" Sukins
and Joseph Rockowitz are a team that
have Just left the amateur ranks. Har-
nv Caldwell and Norman c. Hopper are
another new pair. Bobby" Walthour,
the winner Of last years race, is again
teamed with "Bennie" Monroe. Prob
ably the most dangerous team Of the
foreign riders are Jean Gougoltz and
Petit Breton. Johann Stol, the Holland
rider, is said to be fast. He will have
Arthur Vanderstuyft as a helper. Hugh
AlacLean, who defeated Walthour in
the fifteen-mile motor race in the Gar
den on Saturday night, is also entered
in the big race, teamed with James G..
Bowler, of Chicago. A complete list Of
the team entered is the following:
Swiss-French team, Jean Gougoltz,
Switzerland, and Petit Breton, France;
Belgium Holland team, Arthur Wander
stuyft, Belgium, and Johann Stol, Hol-
land; French-Argentine team, Antoine
Dussot, Argentine Republic, and Andre
Mazan, France; the Dixie Filters, Bob
by" Walthour, Atlanta, and "Bennie'
AIunroe, Tennessee; the "Beaneaters,
'sNat Butler, and James F. Moran. Bos-
ton; Australian Mexican team, w
'Pedaller" Palmer, Australia, and EN-
n Agraz, Mexico; the MOrmons, W. =
Eamuelson and Saxon Williams, Salt
Lake City; Quaker-Chicago team, Otto
Mayo, Pennsylvania, and Jed Newkirk
Chicago; Long Island Century Road
Club team, John Bedell and Menus Be
dell, Lynbrook, Long Island; New Yorl
team, e. F. Root and Oliver Dorlon
Sheepshead Bay, Long Island; Boston
Chicago team, Hugh MacLean, Boston
and James b. Bowler, Chicago; Yankee
western team, Harry Caldwell, New
Hampshire. and Norman G. Hopper
MINNEAPOLIS; "The Two Turks" Pat
rick Keegan. Lowell, and Patrick +
Logan, Boston; Newark brooklyn team
Floyd Krebs, Newark, n. j., and Josepl
Fogler, Brooklyn; American team
Charles Turville, Philadelphia, ant
Louis Netting, Boston;the East Sid
Hebrew team, Sammy" Sukins, Bos
ton, and Joseph Rockowitz, New York
California team. Hardy Downing an
Carl Limberg, san Jose, Cal; Hobo
Italian team, William +. King, Mis-
souri,. and Mario Rossini, Italy.
one Of the conditions Of the race
that if a la pis stolen, through any con
testant enabling a competitor to gai
st. and If he himself does not gain tn
lap. it will not count. The board o
referees will give all decisions in regar
to any mshap that may befall the rid
ers while on the track. There is ne'
rule, added this year, that if any Of tn
riders should meet with fall he wi
not lose a lap, provided 1t is prove
that the fall was an accident.
The teams remaining on the track u
10 five minutes of the finish Of the cor
test and are one or more laps behint
will be called from the track aud tn
leaders left to fight it out.
There are six prizes, apportioned a
follows: First prize, $500; second, $75(
third, $500; fourth, $3.50; fifth, S25(
sixth, 100 All who ride until the finis
will receive something.