New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-05


u.re tied at forty-nine miles The record for the
,,copd hour is 50 miles and laps.
AT y O'Clock midnight Big Tim Sullivan
fred a 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
we're fully fifteen thousand people in Madison
Square Garden at the time They're off, as
u with one voice was the cry that came from
the spectators the first rider shot over the line
Generally some new star in sporting circles
receives the honor of cracking the shot that
sends the men of. Probably Battling Nelson,
who whipped Young Corbett" in San Francisco
last week, would have been asked TO do the
trick. only he was too many miles away to get
here in time AS no other prominent sport
-res available the honor went to Congressman
Sullivan.
The best riders that the management could
obtsin in this country and abroad are entered
IN the race this year. W. Q. Atwater, chief
chemist of the Wesleyan University. of Middle
town. Conn., is TO make scientific tests with
sor,s Of the riders He has asked 2. I. Powers,
the promoter Of the show, for permission. and
has obtained it He is 70 ascertain by tests the
effects which certain foods have in producing
muscular energy.
Il is always a distinction TO cross the tape
first in the first lap and leading the bunch at a
Great rate Of speed. Gougoltz carried of this
honor. He was followed by Nanderstryft and
samuelson, second and third respectively.
walthour went 10 the front at the half-miie
and held # to the mile when Moran took COM
rnard The latter kept the lead TO the thlr-
teenth lap, when Vogier made a desperate effort
10 get into the lead and possibly steal lap,
believing the leaders had been tired by the
fast pace II looked if he would make It.
and he vas high up on the bank. riding II
seemed At almost right angles to the track when
mis- wheel slipped. He went smashing down
into the trailing rear enders. Five riders were
plunged into an almost inextricable mass Of
wheels and riders. Samuelson. Dussot, Dorlon,
Melting and Keegan were hurled from their
wheels with Vogler. Samuelson. Dorlon ana
Mertling remounted with little delay, but the
team mates of the others had TO take the track.
Walthour LED al the second mile and was
stm setting the pace at the fifth. with Moran
and Netting pressing him close. The oval was
packed with people. To get from one part OF
the garden 70 another place practically
impossible.
samuelson led at the tenth mile in 24903.
Keogan and Newkirk came into collision at
12:25 Neither Of them were thrown from their
wheels. and neither man was hurt. Ten minutes
later Vogler, who caused the first spill. fell
again and caused another spill. John Stol was
thrown and slid down the incline for a distance
OF fifteen feet He grabbed his wheel and re-
mounted at once. At fifteen miles Caldwell was
leading in 360+. and al twenty miles Bowler
leading in 45;43 p. The reason for the
starting of the race promptly at midnight was
that Congressman Sullivan wanted to get the
Congressional Limited
Al 2,02 o'clock King was Tapped in a fierce
sprint led by WalthoUr
Many faces viii be seen in this years
long grind. Sammy Sukins and Joseph Rock
oWitz are team that have just left the ANA
teur ranks. Harry Caldwell and Norman c.
Hopper are another new pair Bobby" Wal
thour, tbs winner Of last years race, is again
teamed with "Bennie' Munroe Probably the
:rost dangerous team Of the foreign riders are
Jean Goueoltz and Petit Breton. Johann Stol
The Holland rider is said to be fast. He will
have Arthur Vanderstuyft as a helper Hugh
MscL-ean. who defeated Walthour in the fifteen
mile motor race in the Garden Saturday
night, IS also entered in the big race. teamed
with James B Bowler, OF Chicago. A complete
list Of the teams entered is the following:
s"iss-French team. Jean Gougoltz Switzerland,
enc Petit Breton. France; Belgium, Holland team.
trioiiend; French Argentine team, Antoine Dussot
argentine Republic, and Andre MaZan, France: the
Ike f!iers. Bobby Wathour. Atlanta and Ben
ne Munroe. Tennessee; the "Beaneaters.' Nat
Ss1t4er and James +. Moran. Boston: Australian
-4eA an team. ". 'Pedallcr' Palmer, Australia,
SO ae Emu Agraz. Mexico: the M0rmons, W: F.
o0S@IIilueloon and Saxon Williams Salt Lake City;
80 SasSEsT-'- hlcago team. Otto Mayo Pennsylvania
SIG Jea Newkirk, Chicago Long Island Century
lac Cub team John Bedell and Menus Bedell
e559DGook, Long Island; AewYork team. Z. +. Root
~ ~. OHger DofiOn, Sheepshead Bay. Long Island;
Ts'.suy4-l,a icaSo team Hugh MacIean, Boston. and
TS-les z. Bowler, Chicago: YaEkee-W Western team.
Foo!.try |alGweN New-Bampshire, and Norman ..
zesahn, Lowell, and Patrick T. Logan. Boston;
k-BrooKlyn team, Floyd Krebs, Newark,
Ciss aha Joseph Fogler, Brooklyn; American team,
3e,s,1aes LgrVIe, Philadelphia. and Louis MELTING,
Stu the East Side Hebrew team, Sammy"
Co.,. Boston. and Joseph RockowitZ New York:
be-r seslan team. Hardy Downing and Carl Linn
+ z san Jose Cal: Hobo Italian team William
s' missouri and Mario Rossini, ItaiY.
the conditions of the race Is that Il a
= s'oisE, through any contestant enabling
not llpP'lof 10 gain it. and If he himself does
OF ,es ne lap. il will not count. The board
a,y ses viii give ell decisions in regard to
On -, sAap that may befan the riders while
,,As. rack. There is a new rule added this
VITA mat )f any of the riders should meet
IS -. he viii not lose lap. provided it
WIS., fiat the fall was an accident. other
lsr,.,- Tili lose lap just the same II he
J, on his wheel and was passed.
e1der has to give up riding on account