The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16
ROOT WINS
 RACE AGAIN He Was Coupled With
 Folger. CHARGE OF UNFAIRNESS Crowd Seemed to Think Walthour
 Was Bouncoed. Judges Were Kissed when SOutherner Was Not Allowed To Eater Into The Final sprint For
 Money.

New York. Dec, 15-Root and Fogler first; Downing ans Hopper second; Rutt and Mac Farland third.
 This is the order of finish of the first three teams in the six day bicycle race, concluded at Madison Square Garden tonight. The last mile was ridden by Fogler Downing and Rutt respectively, for three 1rst teams. Time. 2:17.
 The distance covered by the eight tams remaining was 2,292 miles and two laps. At the hnish the riders
 were 44I miles and two laps behind the record set by Miller and Walter for the same nunber of hours in 1899. The same team won last years race,
 Root then making the final dash.
 The order of finish of the other five
 teams tonight follows:
 The partner Riding the last mile be- ing placed first: Fourth, Macdonald, Somerville and Coffey, Boston; Fifth,
 Netting. Canada and Logan; sixth.
 Australia and Pye. Australia; Seventh.
 ton; eighth; GeorRet and Georget. France.
 At l0O6 o'clock, when the 14l hours of riding had been completed, all ex- cept teh leaders were, according to tho rules. retired from the track. Those
 retired were walthour and Bedell. and Brenton and Samueison, both teams having failed to make up the one lap lost earlier in the race. This left eight teams, just one-half of the orig inal starters, to fight out the finish of one mile.
 The eight riders were sent away In
 good start and the final dash of ten times around the track proved to be Q
 whirlwind contest. Fegler took the
 lead at the start and never lost, al-
 though hard pressed by Downing, who
 kept on almost even terms with Fog Ter
 At times only those at points of un- usual vantage were able to tell posit-
 lively who was in the lead. Fogier, how 1 ever, held the slight advantage to the end. winning by a narrow margin from
 Downing, who in turn, was closelR | pressed by Rutt.
 sThe others finished almost in e bunch. ' WaIthOur Gets Lemon. | The wind-up of the race furnished l sport that Hnder ordinary circumsrap-
 ces would have brought the crowd thta
 packed Madison Square Garden to suf- | location to it's feet in wild demon-
 stratioH. The retirement of WalthouF
 and Bedell and the fact that they were not allowed several laps which the spectators believed should have been l given them, resulted in such dissatiss | faction that the least enthu5iasm of the
 week was manifested at the conclusion of the contest
 When the retiring teams weh order ed from the track there were shouts l of unfair rulings. Excitement was in-
 tense when the final spurt began, but the cheers with which the start was
 attended grew fainter as the men rode on until the victory of Root and Fog
 Ter was received with comparative cool ness. Fogler, during the week, had been mixed up in several spills that
 prevented laps being made.
 The prizes will be awarded Monday. The bicycle race ending tonight has | been in some respects the most nota- ble heard. There has been more ac- cldents than. in previous contests. | greater crowds and more protests on | the judges ruling than ever before. In-
 cidentally, she cry of fake" has been ! heard more than in any previous con- ] test Interest has been added to the race hy the plucky fight made by
 Bobby" Walthour. His team partner. l Hugh Macklane, met with serious in- | jury six hours after the start of the
 race and dropped, out.
 l Tn no way daunted, Walthour suf- 1 fered tte penalty of a lap. and paired | with Johnny Bedell, whose partner. | Menus Bedell, was also incapacitated by the accident. These tow, working
 against a handicap which had always proved too formidable for six day rid CTS in contests of years before, gained their lap several times, but as there
 was a spill each time, they were oblig-
 ed to forfeit it under the ruling of the referees. Nevertheless, they remained in the
 contest up to the final sprint, in which
 only the leading teams were allowed
 to participate.
 The contestants in the final lap made
 up "a larger field than ha dbefore com
 peted in a final of a six days bicycle
 race. Tn fact. as had been frequently
 charged. the leaders had made no ef- fort to run away rom each other. they
 could not have deliberately reached the last spurt on more even terms. Those who dropped out were either injured or exhausted rather than left behind. There was much talk of police inter- terence during the latter half of the
 week and indications that the race
 might be stopped because objection
 able features attendant upon the ex- hibition. brt beyond some criticisms
 by the Board of Health a few changes
 In the exists ordered by the building
 department and extra police detailed 1 to preserve a semblance of order,
 nothing was done.
 Scramble For Places. ! Early tonight there was a scramble ] for points of vantage by thousands who 1 did not intend to miss the finish. Thou sands moro were destined to see noth- ! ing but the tops of bobbing heads as | tho racers circled the track on the 1 last ten laps.
 The final race were won by Rutt
 and Folger During the last few hours ! of the race there was presented a pie l ture the like of which has seldom been 1 seen in Madison Square Garden. Seven ! teen thousand joined in a continuous
 uproar from six until ten o'clock di- , viding their cheers between their fa- vorite No inch Of room was unOccu-
 pied in the boxes and galleries or arena, and at least thousand persons ! stood under the track at the east and
 west ends. unable to get even a glimpse
 of the riders.
 Even after orders were given to close | the doors, Madison avenue was block
 ed with a surging crowd. Police re- servcs to the number of 250 had all. they could do to preserve order in the
 street,
 CoffeC made an attempt shortly after