Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-01
THE SIX DAY BICYCLE
RACE BEGINS SATURDAY
A Fifteen Mile Sprint on Saturday
Night a Starter Many Will
See the Sport.

0htuAuny hASut3 pEoCouluB buc 6tAh
of the big six-day bicycle race, a
cocktail will be dashed up to whet the
appetites of the deyotses of the sport,
in til, shape of a fifteen-mile paced
race in which Bobby Walthour, the
middle and long distance champion.
viii; race the best pace follower OBJ
tainable.
Another big feature of the six daY
race will be n series Of races for the
worlds short distance championship,
in which Frank Kramer, the Ameri-
can holder of the title, will defend
the country's honor. This strr z gle
for supremacy will BIO in tho shape sof
a series of three races, the winner of
two of them to carry off the glory
and cash.
In addition to these two champion
ship struggles, the long grind of the
six-day fight will be enllveued by
numerous open and handicap events
between professionals and amateurs
for which special prizes and purses
will be hung up by the management,
and also by paced exhibitions and
trials against in door time records oil
the world.
Never before in the history of the
race has n more formidable collection
of speed merchants been gathered to
gether. Every country in the worlt
whore cycle racing has obtained
hold, has been raked "fore and aft
ami the star knights of the silent stee(
obtained to take part in the long battle
for the six-day championship for 1904
While the American riders will. o
course, be the most numerous, n poly
glot complexion to this years race
that makes it indeed International
France, Germany, Spain, England
Ireland, BELGIUM, Italy, South Amexi
Ca. far away Australia, and eveI
Africn, will have their champions
fighting for their colors. While there
will also be o Hebrew Team in Tn,
race, they have not made the pilgrim
age from Jerusalem, but represent ON
of the best East Side Gotham clubs
The RAGS Will have now life infused
into it by the appearance of many
new warriors ready to take part il
this long battle of speed and eadur
ance At the same time, many face
that are familiar 70 the metropolitan
crowds who Cock yearly to the Gar
den for the six-day race, will be seeI
again flashing around the sauoer-lik,
track.
Of the American md A~mericanizet
foreigners who have ridden in the
past, and who are again 10 try TO,
honors this winter, are such stars n
Bobby Walthur, Nat Butler ant
numerous others. The ranks of thu
home team have also been filed into
advantage ny several crack riderl
who have recently come to the front,
or WHO in the past were prevented by
other engagements from participating
In this race Ten teams of the Pope
company will compete.
Ths start of the race this year will
be made ut the same time as in pasI
events. While the racers will not be
sent away on their long journey unit
one minute after midnight of Sunday,
December 4, the crowds that will pacE
into the huge Garden Sunday even
ing, will be entertained by q first class
concert by Baynes' S%ixty-nintn Regi'
ment and, which will start ut 8 p. m.
In the meantime preparations will
be under way for the start of the big
race. Trainers and managers will be
in o furry of excitement to get their
proteges in ship-shnpe order for the
word ego"