The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-12-09
Two Rendered Unconscious
In Sixt-day Bike Race
wALTHOUR WASALSOHURI
Sixteen Teams Started al Madison
Square Garden To-day and at
O'Clock Ten Of Them Were Tied
en- Distance.

New York, Dee, o.--The frat bad acci
dent Of the six day bicycle race at Madi
soa Square Garden occurred az 6if0 thl'
morning, when the Englishman, james
Henyou, lost a tire while halfway M
the bank on the Madison avenue side ol
the ring In sliding 20 the bottom h'
carried BODY Waihour with him. Wal
thonr's partner. Matt Downcy. quickly
relieved him, while John Reynolds went
on for Benyou. Ten minutes later. Ben
ikon tried 10 relieve Reynolds. lie mis-.
calculated his distance with a result
that they came together with a terrific
crash and were carried from the track
unconscious. The track doctor decided
that both were too badly injured 20 con
tinue. and the team was withdrawn
Waithour, after biz shoulder had been
bandaged, reappeared and resumed rid
ing.
Walthour was put out Of the race
later. II was found that the early morn.
ing fall had disabled his shoulder, which
has not been sound since the fall on the
German asphalt track last summer Matt
Dowuey of Boston, his team-mate, Il
continuing che contest. while his man
ayers are trying 10 get one of the others
70 drop out and permit his partner 70
team with Downey.
The first mishap occurred in the sew.
cnth lap on the second mile, when Har.
yey Reynolds and Nat Butler fell in a
heap In the northwest turn. known as
dead mans curve" but five bells gave
the signal that the accident was unavoid.
able and neither team suffered . penalty.
Benyou also went down in the third
mile, but resumed few seconds later
without penalty.
The score at eight o'clock showed ten
teams tied at l5i miles and six laps.
Jacquelin and Vanoni, Wilcox and vii.
liams, Calvin and Wiley, and Lawson and
Mcdonald were one lap behind. and Sher-
wod and Timber were two laps behind.
The start was made on the stroke Of
one o'clock this morning and the repre-
sentatives of 10 teams were of on the
long grind. The starters were Moran,
Butler, Rutt, Downey, Mcdonald, Menus
Bedell, Darragon, Bcnyou. Georget, Bard
eett, Sherwood, Samuelson, Yanoni, vii.
cox, Calvin and Nanderstuyft.
The teams entered were:
French team--Leon Georget, France;
Victor Dupre, France.
Irish English team--,John Reynolds,
Ireland James Benyou, England.
Intereity team--Joseph Folger, Brook
lyn: James Moran, Boston.
Atlantic Pacific team--Charles A. Sher-
wod, New York; Carl A. Lmberg, San
Jose, California.
French team--Louis Darragon and
Petit Breton, France.
Utah Iowa team--W. Il. Samuelson,
Salt Lake City; w. f. Mitten, Dayen-
port.
German-H Holland team--Walter Rutt,
Germany; Johann Stol, Holland.
Chicago-New York team--Iver Lawson,
Chicago. Urban Mcdonald. New York.
French-Italian team Edmond Jacque-
lin, France; Carl Yanoni, Italy.
Yankee. Dixie team--Bobby Walthour,
Atlanta, Ga; Matt Z. Downey, Bos-
ton.
Long Island team--John Bedell and
Menus Bedell, Lynbrook, L. /.
Irish-American team---John Logan,
ireland; Walter A. Bardgett, Buffalo.
The Mormons-S. H. Wilcox and Sax
on Williams, Salt Lake City.
German American Belgium team
Floyd Krebs, Newark, N. j.; Arthur
vanderstuft, Belgium.
Western team--iardy Downing, San
Jose. Call; Nat Bntler, Cambridge, Mass.
The farmer and messenger boy Frank
Calvin, New Milford, Conn; Geo. Weley,
Syracuse N. y.