New-York tribune., 1906-12-10
LONG GRIND BEGINS.
CROWD FILLS GARDEN.
Spills in Sir-Day Bicycle Race
WaIthOm and Root FaUOrites.
THE SCORE AT A. M. FOLLOWS.

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The six-day bicycle race is now on-six days or
plugging" by thirty-twO men, Thousands of men
and women filled Madison Square Garden last night
to watch the start. The men were clad in every
thing from sweaters to silk hats.
Away up in the topmost galleries were the real
enthusiasts. the boys who come prepared to camp
through hours of uninteresting riding for the mo-
mentary thrill which comes when some rider thinks
to catch the others mapping and shoots out ahead
OF the field
Then as he takes the steep banks at the corners,
head thrust out over the padded handle bars and
the others trailing out behind. risking lie and
limb gain yard of space. the gallery goes wild:
Yet they do not display any real frenzy of enthu-
siasm until a tire slips perhaps or a front fork
buckles Then. the riders pile up in mass OF
struggling limbs, the gallery lets itself loose par
ticularly when rider Is borne out on
stretcEer. They just as unsatisfed at
bloodIess day as the most enthusiastic patron of
the prize ring.
At Just two minutes after midnight this morning
Tax Commissioner Thomas l. Hamilton fired the
pistol shot which set the sixteen men on on the
tiring and tiresome grind. AS the echoes from the
shot filled the garden and the wheelmen swept for
ward like a stone from sling. yell after yen went
up from the galleries Around and around the big
saucer like track they few, with Walthour the
speedy Atlanta lad. in the lead most of the time.
Close behind his front wheel. holding near to the
others saddle, Eddie Root twice a winner at
the Garden.
Before the race began each team paraded slowly
around the track carrying the flag Of the country
they supposed to represent Each team had its
own especial following, some OF the foreigners be-
ing almost as loudly cheered the bearers Of the
American colors.
opened long lines Of men and boys formed @ In fr9Ps ont
OF the building % %Fignts were G n6d ana do te ne
band of music kept the crowd in humor until
gallery. where there was much disorder. Inside
at s9 pTeTious qsi6 SetI bicycle yioI SHOWS
star TeSS Re6t Moran Man.
dsvia Get{IiPg .acFan At the
end Of II the rst m5e and nd the @ riders cheeTe BY the
shouts Of the crowd, continued TO ride at the same
nile, Floyd si had the honor to lead He
in the IN o Of him. 3d at the end of
third mile Bobby, WalthOur was ahead. and the
the he fourth %IIs tnIs
team team. fell. owing to punctured tire He rolled
down the incline track. but was unhurt an and lost lost
met With SmfF ATS ms6a 4e &as and FDnsa b @ Of
and the trainers obtained for him another wheel,
and he soon caught up With m the bunch l1 r, z,,.
riders were thrown in heap, and luckily none 9 q
pace ON the 18th Street turn, fell and Georget
Coney, Rupprecht and Mcdonald. who followed
entangled in the wheels seyera. lima machines
| quarters on the track. where they mounted other
| machines and continued on In the race
E. GeOrget came together. and the two went head
over heels down the incline NeheF ba WAS n16red
and went on with the others
punched, each having gone &c miles and | lap.
Vanoni Of the French-Italian team was leading 10
sours ending at one minute after 10 O'CLOCK Ss ngHs
Of the Natoasl & Gyeli9s Association. The prizes
& $500 d % fnTcS camps 6 yaefs 9Te e1eged tn m
look after the riders generally exceeds in number
the active contestants In the race
According TO the rules. laps gained do not count
oen sT fas m that nH Ra gan s on the
ed does not PTot after perhaps ma & 9e an & noqT h 0I
f5s out a M ho a6R
in the rules for the m ikng OF new combinations atoms
whose mates have fallen out through accident or
however. " must take the score of the lowest tea m
IN addition to being penalized lap for making the
Saturday night the race nsars its is end a2ay any
of mile sprint races between the fastest repre-
sentatives of the tied pairs In these mile sprintS
each must take his chances OF accident just as
Among the starters this year is the Root-FogleI
team. which the race last year. 1t being che
the preceding s year when oliver Dorlon of Coney
Island was s his o team Nf %ff a3a Gt ts no
one Of the starers in this years contest The full
fouows:
Little Old New York Team-E. F. Root. Sleeps
head Bay, and Joseph FOgier, Brooklyn.
Dixie Yankee Team-Bobby Walthour, Atlanta.
Ga. and Hugh MacLean, Chelsea, Mass.
German California Team-Water Rutt, Germany
and Floyd McFlrland, San Jose, Cal.
Australian Tea.n-E. a. Pye. Sevan Hill, Austria
la and Jack A Clark. Melbourne, Australia.
The Farmer and the Messenger BOy-Franl1 A
Calvin New Milford. Conn, and George Wiley
Syracuse.
National Turn Vereln Team-Charles Schlee
Newark and Urban Mcdonald, New York.
Wild West Team-Hardy Downing San jose
Cal. and Norman c. Hooper, Minneapolis.
Irish Team-Matt Downey, Boston, and James F.
Moran Chelsea, Mass.
scotch-Irish Kids-A. W. Mcdonald somerville
Mass, and John b. COffey Boston.
Eelgium Holland T%eamIArthur Team Vander6tuyft
Canadian Irish Team-Lodis r. Netting Canada
and Patrick Logan. Ireland.
Long Island Team-1John and Menus Bedell, Lyn-
brook, Long Island
French Italian Team-Petit Breton. France and
Carlo VanOni, Italy.
French Champion Team-EmiI and Leon Georget
France.
Mormon Tealn-W. z. Samuelson and C. L. Hol-
lister both Salt Lake City.
German American Team-Floyd Krebs and Ed
ward Rupprecht, both Newark, n. J.