The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-09
WEEK OF CYCLING BEGINS.
SHORT DISTANCE RACES DRAW
CROWD TO GARDEN.

WHIT SHOW HuUhT SDCeu Au WI NNhO
International Event Sixteen Teams
scheduled for tho Six Day Contest
With the building jammed to the doors,
New Y0rk's RnnuA week OF cycle racing
began last night in Madison Square Garden.
The events decided were short distance
events, put on as a sort Of housewarming
for the ten lap saucerliks board track upon
which the annual six day team race will DO
started at one minute after midnight tonight
with sixteen pairs Of riders from all over the
world as competitors. With the abandon
ment OF the Manhattan Beach third mile
cement track and the conversion OF Its site
into a park wherein Wild West shows and
other big spectacles are shown. New Workers
who are fond Of Cycle racing have had no
opportunity TO watch struggles between
bicycle riders unless they journeyed over to
Newark for the Sunday meets which have
been held all summer on the Vailsburg course.
Many faces that were new to the spec
tators were seen last night. ~ most OF the
foreigners who have entered for the six day
race rode in the ten mile international event
for professionals, while many Of the amateurs
competing in the National Cycling Associa-
ton amateur championship for 1906 have
attained fsme and speed since there was any
racing in this city. The motor paced events
proved most interesting and have always
been very popular with the crowds that go 10
the Garden. and the motorcycle contest OF one
mile heats aroused great enthusiasm.
As 1t seems to be the traditional custom
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80 ri. go ,rdrood TorDsr
paI,os Cnmnoi.siorsr .nd n,ssent Tax Conn
missioner Thomas L.. Hamilton to fire a pistol
at one minute after midnight Tonight which
will start the sixteen teams on their week
long struggle for fame and prize money.
Ths doors ~ cha huildipg will be onened at
SSSr "a nowns.s sir,v-rin,h
Regiment band will give a concert Of a more
or less sacred character until the time arrives
for tha parade OF the teams before the start
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" # 90 ha ooD,;rvou. oortes, Of
lt2 hours, ending at one minute after 10
O'Clock NEXT Saturday evening, conducted
unu4i Ing IaOanS IU'os S"e -1n Hno
ASSOCIATION. Inc prizes aggregate SOW
ous enc promO.erS n "a 1870 I paM sO,.
90 $3.50. =, .ha rtdsr. d,,rinu the
Ior tne oSmlor. % tne sn nro,,J,ns ,ood
and trainer for the contestants. which repre-
sents an entirely voluntary contribution on
shn,r ~, vsrv sIahoTste tr.snins CAMPS
are established in the building and the force
of trainers engaged to look after the riders
sensrsliy e1ce :" W
nonnrdirS 70 tba ruIss aps Ssinsd do not
AccoIu'ns w u .uIes' Iape ~ ~
COUNT some r'oer Ialis curing inc prosIess
tSat has gained a isp ON the neld does not profit
after perhaps half an hour of frenzied sprint
ing in which the riders have been strung out
an sround the tra Oh provision /. made in
the mics for the making Of new combinations
rTiSdsers whose mates have fallen out through
accident or fatigue are allowed TO form a
nsa tsa M, which however. must take the
~" t -. - ll,tgO, =, ko,n-
score Of the o%est e. team am ~ ia Sdd fbs na LS S coms
bfnation ,..r IL. and
any ties for nnal positions are decided by a
fastest representative Of the tied pairs. In
h u ~ ncaS ~ q ccident fist as in an ordinary
short distance contest.
Foxier team which won the race last year.
it Being the second victory for Root. as he
Oliver Borion of Coney Island was his team
mate. The winner Of the final sprint in 1903,
Bobby Walthour Of Atlanta, - also one Of
list OF entries and their team designations
is as follows:
Intle oId Nev York Team-E. r. Root, Sleeps.
head bay, 99nd Joseph FoSier, Brooklyn.
Dixie. Yankee Team-Bobby Walthour. Atlanta,
Ga, and Hggh MasLssn; c hTs,,., Mas sSS, Germany
and Floyd Mcfarland, san Jose Cal. -
Australian TeAEHTEi a; Pye' SeNSn hhn''Aus'raha'
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Ihe FeImer amu u nS ma Gso,g. W,I.v
GAVIN: NC" "h'"'u' NO"' -" "''
SyIIs.v r,,rr veycin. Team Charles Schlee
NswsrE and i-rban Mcdonald New YORK.
VIVA west Team-HArdy Downing, San Jose
Cal, and Norman c. Hopper, Minneapolis.
Irish TeaD Matt Downey Boston. and James
r. Moran. CHELSEA, Mass.
Scotch Irish KIDS W. Mcdonald SomerVile
Mass. and John r. corey Boston. v.m.
Belgium .hoiisho lssm ndii.rd 'a"uefs'"Sl'
be9sium; ana ia; sSn T.am o.I louis r Netting. Canada
"a psssiHs 4 nsan Ireland
Inn9 sand Tcam-John and Menus Bedell
LvnhIooE' Ii. -.
French Italian Team-Petit Breton. France. anc
Carlo VAnoni, Italy.
French Cham pion Toam-Emil and Leon Georyet,
France.
Mormon Team.W +. Ssmuelson ana - l.
HOLSTER; both SAT- LaEe Eny, Flovd Krcb, and
1ernsr AmeI,cah M A anu
award Hupp,eSh', o'n 1890 S
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asst night Mhen tne mSsot oSTTh,a s,d Am u oIs
toI thsIr nTst ohs nlI rtneans, mn IA ,tne
cycllst, VINO nan ipLOSeN snnr, and
motor pace IN tne hsyuss ppsn ~ ~ {nS.
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nelo, VINO Was PaCeulaAeLIo 'Thn 49,.
sou ana otner famous IueLI, my 49,
mounted on maCnine7 na'tns onInd 80 Iot
engines. ana When sn Ioui So
worklng wen tney naut a "a r.
racket even los tnls pulIulns oushyus
the. cAplOAbOnH lIOul hObOi pa'ine