The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-08
.WALTHOUR QUITS RACE
ANGRY WITH JUDGES FOR POSTED
 SCORE.
Has No Kick Against Root and Dorian, But Claims He Tapped Other
 Team-Twelve Teams , Contestfng.

New York, Dec. 7--Angry because they believed the race was being una fairly conducted and because methods which they allege to be wrong allowed other riders to gain a lap upon them, five teams in the six-day bicycle race at Madison Square Garden, including some of the best riders competing in the event, qnit the race early today. The five teams which quit were Wal thour and Munroe, BedelI Brothers, Maya and Newkirk, Mclean and Bow Ter, and Butler and Moran. All of them were the best in the contest and among those heavily backed to win the prize.
 { The trouble was precipitated by the, most exciting period of riding which the race had thus far given. when Root and Dorion followed later by Stol and Vanderstuyft succeeded in gaining a lap on their opponents. Walthour. who acted as spokesmen for the five dis satisfied teams. declared that the mem- bers of those teams relieved each other at intervals, not allowed by the rules. especially in the case of Stol and Vanderstuyft.
 Trouble Begins.
 The trouble began shortly after 2 o'clock. There was to be general re- lief of partners about that time, but
 
 about to leave the track. did not. He had been riding slowly back behind the bunch for hours. merely keeping on even terms with the rest and did not appear at all wearied. Just as the change of riders was being made, Dor Ion started a sprint at pace which eclipsed anything the race heretofore produced. The crowd who had not had much excitement after midnight. im- mediately rose to the occasion and the garden rang with the shouts of the spectators as they realized what was happening. ,.
 For two niles Dorion kept up his heart-breaking sprint and by that time had gained half a lap on the bunch. Then hardly losing Q second. Root jumped in, and being fresh, began a sprint which was even more heart breaking than Dorlon's had been. He kept 1t up for forty minutes, with the other riders trying desperately to over he had gained the lap he and his part ner coveted.
 Riders Quit.
 walthour was on the track through out the sprint and riding little ahead of the rest. When Root was making his meteoric dash half lap ahead of the rest, little Stol the Belgian rider, who had just relieved Vanderstuyft, stole up rast Walthour and began sprint to catch Root. In twelve laps he had done what he tried for, and walthour had been too much taken by surprise to catch him.
 Then the partners in the five teams named who were not then on the track made their complaint and declared their intention of withdrawing. Their part ners, then riding. left the track and all ten riders immediately surrounded the officials and demanded that the lost distance be restored to them.
 WaIthour, as spokesman for the dis satisfied riders. argued that Stol had not properly relieved vanderstuyft and that the lap was gained unfairly.
 After trying in vain to placate the angry riders, the officials gave up the tangle and sent~ for P. T. Powers, promoter of the race. When he joined in the discussion and had heard both sides of the dispute. he told Walthour and the others that they had no right to leave the track as they had done, either by the National Cycling Asso- citation rules or the special contracts which they made with the manage back upon the track or not. Take your choice"
 Early in the forenoon the five dis satisfied teams had not returned to the track.
 The Standing.
 Root and Dorlon passed the thousand miie marks just before o'clock this forenoon.
 At 8 a. m. the standing of the twelve teams remaining in the race was as follows.