Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-12-11
BOB WALTHOUR
FOlLS vANONI.
Southern CycIist Prevents
Leaders in Six Day Race
from Being Lapped.
NINE O'CLOCK SCORE.

Vanderstuyft-Stol ..... 651 5
Macdonald-Coffey ...... 651 )
Breton-Vanoni ........ 651 5
Samuelson-Hollister 49,. 651 5
Mettling-Logan ....... 651 5
Hopper-Downing s..... 651 5
Rutt-MacFarland +. 49,. 651 5
Calvin Wiley ......... 651 S
Pye-Clark ..t-....... 651 5
Georget-Georget ....... 651 5
Walthour-John Bedell.. 80. 651 4
The record for the thirty-third
hour is 679 miles l lap, made by
Elkes and MacFarland in 1900.
NEW YORK, Dec. 11:-"Bobby"
Walthour, who is now teamed with
tommy" Bedell, and who is a lap
pehlnd the. leaders, saved the riders
In the six-day race at Madison Square
Garden from being Tapped shortly af-
ter three O'Clock early today, when
Carlo Vanoni and his pa. ner, Breton.
or the French italian team, working
in relays, attempted 10 steal away
from the bunch. 1t was one of the
most desperate sprints ever seen in
the Garden, and the yells and chies of
the ycrowd could be heard blocks
away.
Breton was riding at the head of
the unch, with Walthour in the rear.
AS he rounded the Twenty-seventh
street side of the Garden he ran high
upon the bank and then at full speed
shot ahead.
vanoni, who had mounted his
wheel then rode on to the track, and
as MS partner, who had gained one-
fourth OF a lap on the rest of the rid
ers, shot past him, he took up the
sprint. Instantly the crowd was on
its feet yelling like mad.
Round and round the track sped
the riders, with Vanoni some distance
ahead. Seeing that they could not
overtake him the other riders looked
back at Walthour and called on him
to take up the chase. Come. on.
Bobby" yelled the crowd, get after
him." Walthour hesitated a second.
then shot his wheel out of the bunch
and started after the pluck Italian.
At each turne of his wheel Walt
hour began to gain and in a short
time, acting as pacemaker, had
brought the rest of the riders with
him to the rear wheel of the Vanoni,
who seeing he was caught, slowed
down. Walthour grinned while the
crowd shouted itself hoarse.
All during the early morning the
crowd was kept in excitement by the
desperate sprints of nearly all the
riders to gain a lap. First Downey,
OF the Irish team, went out, but he
was quickly caught. Then Stol, of
the Belgium-Holland team, tried TO
sneak away, but johnny Bedell
was at his rear wheel before he had
gone very far.
The first spill since yesterday noon
occurred at a quarter to three, on
the west end of the Twenty-seventh
street turn. Moran and Folger were
riding high on the bank when the
formers wheel slipped and he crashed
into Folger, carrying them both TO
the bottom of the track. They we're
picked up and it was necessary TO
call their partners from bed to con-
tinue the race. Moran was called by
the referees twice and questioned re-
garding the spill. 1t was fifteen min
utes before Root and Downey were on
the track and the fast speed again be-
gan.
The crowd was again brought to its
feet when George Wiley, the "Mes-
senger Boy" and the youngest rider
in the race, started on a sprint. He
got one-quarter of a lap away and
then died, the bunch o~vertaking him
in no time.
AT thre o'clock the riders were
twenty-three miles and four laps be-
mind the record. At foul O'Clock
they were twenty-five miles and nine
laps behind, and at five o'clock they
had fallen behind twenty-five miles
and thre laps, the total being $50
miles and three laps, Walthour and
Bedell's score being $50 miles and
two laps.
who will VIM" is the question
that every one is already asking in
thC 0oioCh. II lOlCl6n ICdAo nave
been setting a nerve racking ace and
1t is feared that many of the riders
will collapse before the finish. No
matter how short the time they have
been off the track, either Breton or
Vanoni, when they return, will take
the head Of the bunch and shoot
around the track at terrific speed.
They maintain the same grind all the
time, the strain of which is already
beginning to show itself on some of
the riders.
There is little doubt that the for
eign riders are at odds with the res.
of the crowd. They greatly fear
Walthour and Bedell, both of whom
are apparently reserving their
strength for later in the week, when
the continual grind has left it's effects
on the riders.
Rumors in the Garden are to the
effect that Breton, Vanoni and the
two Georget brothers. are working in