The Savannah morning news., 1904-12-07
PREVIOUS WINNERS
OF 6-DAY RACES.

New York, Dec. 6.-The big six-day
den, in which the best long distance
men in the world are fighting for gold
and glory, by to-day had developed
into a steady, ceaseless grind. Worn
by the exertion of many hours, none
of the riders seemed anxious to set a
killing pace" and every hour placed
the riders farther behind the record
established in previous contests.
Munroe, the partner of Walthour,
nearly lost a lap early to-day. A long
sprint was started by Root and Tur-
Vile, and they had nearly caught Mum
roe when his partner, Walthour, came
on the track, and after riding several
laps caught the men again. Munroe
retired for rest.
Saxon Williams was so badly injured
in fall that he was unconscious for
some time. Williams collided with
Hooper and Krebs and Munroe fell
upon him. Krebs' left hand was badly
torn and Munroe's left arm was hurt
by riders passing over them. The ac-
cident caused great excitement and the
crowd, which numbered thousands,
tried to rush to the point where it took
place. The police kept the crowd back
with difficulty. Williams was fixed up
by the physicians, and after an hours
rest returned to the track.
During the afternoon willie" Fem
broke his own record for one-fifth of
a mile, going the distance in 20 1-5 sec
onds. The previous record was q AS
seconds
Frank Kramer was unsuccessful in
an attempt to break the worlds record
for one-quarter of mile, held by him
self, but rode the distance in the record
time of "a AS seconds.
At 10 o'clock tonight SIT miles and
nine laps had been covered by the thir-
teen leading teams in the six-day ratA.
and the four other teams were one lap
behind.
The record for this time is 926 miles,
laps, made by Elks and Mcfarland,
in 1900.
WaIthOur the FavOrite.
AS the natural outcome of his inn
pressively easy winning of last years
race, Walthour. who in Munroe has
the same mate as last year, has been
made a warm favorite The experts
pronounce him the greatest all-around
rider in the world. and declare that if
the race is decided as it was last year
by a final sprint OF mile and Munroe
has managed to keep the teams place
with the bunch. it will be all over but
lll6 SO lar DIS the winner
goes. Munroe is in good condition.
and has been doing well in practice
but he has not had the advantage of
the hardening of a seasons riding as
most of the others have.
Those that calculate the outcome
from purely sprinting standpoint
vary in their second choice among the
Bedell- Root, Herbs and Downing
teams. The acknowledged and proven
top notch stayers are Gongoltz, Butler
Moran, Mclean. Breton, Bowler
sprinters, too. especially at the close
of a gruelling rest, when every pound
of strength and vitality left in man
counts double against mere speed. The
prevailing opinion is that as a rule
the Americans outclass the foreigners
The wise prophets of the game pre-
dict that this year there will be ne
waiting for that last mile to decide this
prize distribution. and hint that al
summer long the candidates have beer
framing up schemes for lap stealing
and have this week formed combina
tions to put them into effect.
This year no Intentional tumbling t.
| avoid lap losing will be winlSed at b.
the referees. In fact. a special rule ha
been framed against this particula
form of strategy, which it is not de
MED prevailed last year. An almos
complete aIl-around shifting of tn
makeup of the teams adds to the un
certainty of this years contest.