New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-06

ing until close to o'clock this morning there
was such scene of confusion and sprinting and
fighting between trainers and scorers in the six
day bicycle race at Madison Square Garden as
has not been seen at this race before, and has
probably occurred in any similar contest.
The midnight score was inextricably mixed
up and it was not until IL: 40 a. m. that the
felt confident enough of the figures to
give out any score at ali, When they did, they
put the Bedell- Bedel team one lap in the lead
and. when the riders and trainers of the other
teams heard this, there was a cyclone of pro-
tests, and for few minutes 1t looked as if the
contest must break up in row.
To add to the confusion, there was the howl
ing, protesting audience. Hundreds of men with
money bet the team placed in the lead
swore by all manner of prophets that the
scorers We're right while ten times as many Of
the adherents of the others declared it was an
outrageous steal, that the lap was not fairly
won, etc
The o'clock score put the Bedell- Beden team
out in front by a lap, with S37 miles and laps
to its credit. The second group made of seven
teams. with S37 miles and laps, contained
Vanderstuyft- Stol Hall Downey, Root-Fogle
Keegan-Logan. MacLean- Moran, Downing
Bowler and Hopper HOLSTER The third group
with S37 miles and laps was made up of two
teams, Dorehnger-D ussot and Calvin McDon-
aid. Achorn and Wilcox were in a group by
themselves, with S37 miles and laps while it
took half an hour to find to what depth the
French team of Trousseler- Decoup had fallen.
Trousselier started the sprint which caused
all the trouble AMI made such a magnificent
attempt that he was worthy of a better fate
Flying like the wind. with the pack at his heels
they soon ran away from Hall. who quickly
fell two laps to the rear. Halls trainers got
his partner, Downey. out. threw ice water all
over him and got him on a wheel BY this time
the flying bunch of leaders was so exhausted
from the ten minutes of supreme effort that
they were unable to prevent Downey from gain
ing back one of the laps he lost
As the men raced the excitement was With
out parallel. Trainers for the BedelI broth
ers got into a fist fight with trainers for the
Root and other teams and it took several police
men to separate them. Everybody seemed to
go crazy. Trainers rushed frantically to the
other members of the teams got them out and
on wheels. and at time the twenty-four
men of the twelve teams were whirIing about
the track.
How anybody could keep the score under
such circumstances seemed a miracle to the
audience, which had forgotten all about a little
thing like the score-the scorers were paid for
that they figured-and contented itself with one
wild delirium of shrieking and cheering. Nc
Lean came out Of his quarters with nothing on
but his trunks and undershirt. and without his
jersey, and made flying leap for his wheel and
off like flash.
After the scorers declared the BedelI brothers
were one lap ahead, the other trainers all pro-
tested. as described, but the scorers paid little
or no attention to them. In the midst of the
protests Decoup of the French team now fallen
still further back, started out TO make up
md az i
lowed by Root, when bad spill occurred In
it. and all in pile Decoup Mcdonald
Hall and HolIister.
McDonald's wheel was smashed into a tangle
of tubes and wire. Decoup was carried TO his
headquarters unconscious, while Hall was taken
to his cot nearly as bad Mcdonald and Hol-
lister got off with severe shaking up and were
placed beside the track cots after the train
ers had managed to bring them around.
At 1870 o'clock the great crowd was still on
hand, tense with excitement, not knowing when
one of the riders would shoot out and trv ia
make a gain. What will come of the protests
maze against placing the Bede brothers & lap
ahead remains to be seen this mOrnine
In spite of the fact that the record ia in M
danger and that the We're thinking less of
sprints and more of plugging in this middle
stage of the race, the crowd came Just the same
1t was an enthusiastic crowd too ready to
break loose with cheers the slightest provoca-
ton. At 9 o'clock about ten thousand persons
filed every nook and corner of the big ampbi
theatre.
Just before O'Clock Mclean got a fall be-
cause of loosened seat. He was not injured
Between and o'clock Moran started hot
sprint. Trousselier, of the French team. could
not stand the pace. and the others gained half
a lap. The crowd yelled and shrieked to en-
courage the field to steal lap from the French
man and thus eliminate one more contestant
but it failed
An occasional sprint and three or four ex-
hibition rides varied the monotony OF the grind !
during the day In one of the spirits, Just after
the thirty-second hour, Dussot and Decaup had |
a narrow escape from being Tapped The other /
riders gained full half lap in an effort to |
catch Joe Fogler who had jumped out in the |
lead, but IT ended in nothing except a little ex |
element for the crowd.
In the thirty-seventh hour Dussot had a bad |
spill on the Madison-ave. end of the big saucer |
He lmped off while his team mate took his |
place While not injured seriously it looked as
II II might eventually cause his retirement.
Calvin also had fall, which necessitated his
staying off the track three hours Macdonald.
his team mate is riding strongly and has made
many friends. 1t is his first appearance as a
AN1te III the afternoon NanoerStUyft and Hoi-
lister went down in a heap, caused by the BURST
ing of tire the formers wheel Neither
was hurt and both continued
During the afternoon Teddy BiIlinger. who
was taken to Bellevue Hospital early in the
morning suffering from strychnine poisoning.
appeared on the track. apparently none the
worse for the experience. He rode an exhibition |
quarter mile in % LIS seconds
Later Coffey and Ashwist met in n two in