Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-12-14
PROTEST
Unless the Management Record Laps They Claim to Have
 Won-May Be Trouble
ALL HAVE COMBINED.

New York. Dec 1.-The contestants in the six day bicycle race were grinding out laps in mechanical manner at : a. III. to-day after all eyentful night. The positions, how CT, were unchanged, according to the scorers. although many of the spec tators believed Stol and Georget had been lapped after a sensational sprint at a. m. This squirt, as have been so many during the race was started by the Walthour and Bedell team. It was the longest of any that has yet occurred, lasting sixteen minutes.
 Walthour and Bedell, smarting un- der a decision rendered an hour carl fer, when q spill robbed them of lap that they had nearly won, stated out at mad pace that kept all the riders bent over their handle bars to do their best and Kept the spectators in a continual roar of cheers and ex- citement. Relieving each other at every few laps, Walthour and Bedell kept going at their best pace and forced the other riders to call on their partners for help and relief. Leon GeOrget and Stol, whose partners had been hurt in the spil! at a. m. were the only riders who could not get re- lief and they had to bear the brunt of the fight for their teams. It was killing work and they finally Jagged to such an extent that it was thought they had lost a lap when the sprint after continuing for sixteen minutes, was suspended. The score. however when 1t was hung out at o'clock showed no change.
 Bedell and Walthour are In good shape and they have promised to make the race interesting for the oth- CTS before the day is over. They prot tested earnestly early to-day when, just as they seemed to be about 10 gain q lap, Fogler fell, causing spill and causing the red flag to be hung out which indicated that the Wal thour and Bedell team gain would not count. The riders claimed that the fall occurred purposely in order to block their gain and for a time they refused to ride again until something was done. They were eventually appeased and the race, which had been delayed an hour, was resumed.
 An organized movement in which nearly all of the riders joined as a protest against the rulings of the judges in refusing to mark up tho laps which some of the riders declare were fairly won, was begun to-day. The men declare that they have been unfairly treated and that they will do no more real work until the man. agement makes some arrangement by whid, their efforts will be properly recognized and their gains recorded. Soon after this agreement was reach cd among the men, the pace decreased | to the minimum and the race devel- | oped into Il slow and uminteresting procession. Arm in arm. members of rival teams pedalled slowly along the level floor at the base of the "bowr'
 reading the morning papers and Jok. ing with one another
 | At one o'clock the leaders In the race had gone 1.I9O miles and | laps
 with the other teams the same num-
 Der behind that they were in the
 morning.
 At two o'clock the score stood for
 the leading teams 1895 miles and $
 laps. with Waltbour and Bedell and
 Samuelson and Breton one lap be.
 hand and Calvin and Wiley three
 laps in the rear.