The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-28
HoBBY wALTHoUR AND BENNY
MONROE WILL PAIR AGAIN.
MANY NEW FOREIGNERS
WILL ENTER CONTEST.
BETHESDA BOY is CERTAIN OF
VICTORY AGAIN THIS YEAR

contestants VIII BE Sent Away from
the Post at One Minute Past
10 O'Clock Sunday Night-PreviOus
in the Commencement of the Big
Raoe WaIthour Will Race All
Gamers for Fifteen Miles to De-
send His Title of Middle and Long
instance Champion of the World.
p T. Powers, manager of the big
avent. announces that the international
s,x-day bicycle race, which is regarded
as New York's biggest winter sporting
event. and which has been held annu-
allv at Madison Square Garden, New
York. for many years past, will take
Mace this season during the week be-
Ginning Dec 4, and ending Saturday,
Dec TO-
On the Saturday night preceding the
start of the big race, Dec. 3, a cocktail
will be dished UP to whet the appetites
of the devotees of the sport, in the
shape of a fifteen-mile paced race in
which Bobby Walthour, the middle and
long distance champion, will race the
Another big feature Of the six-day
race will be a series of races for the
worlds short distance championship,
in which Frank Kramer, the Ameri-
can holder of the title, will defend the
courtry's honor. This struggle for
supremacy will be in the shape Of
series of three races, the winner of
two of them to carry off the glory and
cash.
ship struggles, the long grind of the
six-day fight will be enlivened by
numerous open and handicap events
between professionals and amateurs
for which special purses and prizes
will be hung up by the management,
and also by paced exhibitions and
trials against indoor time records of
the world.
Never before in the history of the
race has a more formidable collection
of speed merchants been gathered to-
gether. Every country in the world
where cycle racing has obtained hold
has been raked fore and aft" and the
star knights of the silent steed obtain
ed to take part in the long battle for
the six-iay championship for 1904.
While the American riders will. of
course. be the most numerous, there
is a polyglot complexion of this years
race that makes it indeed international.
France, Germany, Spain, England,
Ireland, Belgium, Italy, South America,
far away Australia. and even Africa
will have their champions fighting for
their colors. While there will also be
a Hebrew team in the race, they have
not made the pilgrimage from Jerusa-
lem. but represent one of the big east
side Gotham clubs. The race will have
new life infused into it by the appear
ance Of many new warriors ready to
take part in this long battle of speed
and endurance. At the same time
many faces that are familiar to the
Metropolitan crowds who flock yearly
to the Garden for the six-day race, will
be seen again flashing around the
saucer-like track.
OF the American and Americanized
foreigners who have ridden in the past
and who are again to try for honors
this winter. are such stars as Bobby
WafthOur, Nat Butler and numerous
others The ranks of the home teams
have also been filled in to advantage
by several crack riders who have re-
Gently come to the front, or who In
the past were prevented by other en-
gagements from participating in this
race. Ten teams of the Pope company
will compete.
The start of the race this year will
be made at the same time as in past
events. While the racers will not be
sent away on their long journey until
one minute after midnight of Sunday
Dec. 4, the crowds that will pack into
the huge Garden Sunday evening will
be entertained by a first-class concert
by Bayne's Sixty-ninth Regiment
Band, which will start at p. m. In
the meantime preparations will be I'M
der way for the start of the big race.
Trainers and managers will be in
furry of excitement to get their pro-
teges in ship-shape order for the word
go"