The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-13
RECORDS BROKEN
 IN BICYCLE RACE Six-Day Riders Beat Old Record
 By Four Miles MACfARLANO IS WINNER Rutt and stoI Are Beaten Out In the Last Mile, While walthour and
 Root Manage to Hold to
 Fourth Place.
MACFARLANO IS WINNER


 That famous old humpback jump that made Floyd Mcfarland one of the great est sprinrers that ever whirled down a stretch won for himself and Jimmy Moran at Madison Square Garden tonight the lest and Easiest six-day bicycle race ever run.
 By the margin of half a wheels breadth he beat Walter Rutt, the big German champion of last year across the broad black line that marked the end of 142 hours ceaseless work.
 Tapped on Rutt's rear wheel was Wal ter Demara the San Francisco boy, whose wonderful debut into the six-day game was the marvel of the race They fn- ished so close that the proverbial blanket could have covered all of them. It was only big Macs jump won for him. That jump that makes an added sprint when the rider Is sprinting at a speed that seems impossible to improve upon. They started off slowly when the riders of the five vanquished teams had been called and the three leaders went on the last part of the journey. The big German took the. lead with his wheel, while no more than six inches back rode lanky Floyd and back of the Californian less than a foot was Demara.
 For six laps they kept in just those po- sitions with the crowd silent.
 Crowd Silent and Tense.
 These positions with the crowd so silent and tense that the yells Of the trainers aa1l;no oef il,o lowe auoIa aohoas in the Garden Or the seventh lap Rutt bent until his head seemed almost to touch his handle bars and shot out with auto roobile speed. But not an inch did he gain. The same half foot separated his rear wheel from MacFarland's and Macs from the little San Francisco lad. At daz- zling speed they whirled off the eighth lap the ninth and three-quarters of the tenth, and then on the bank of the fam ous death curve' the big broad back of MacFailand, arched like that of an angry eat, swayed from side to side. his head went down, his legs took on the speed of a., auto piston.
 Forty yards from the finish he was shoulder to shoulder with Rutt, 30 yards away he was still on even terms, 20 yards from the tape and it looked as though & dead heat would be the best he could do.
 The Final Jump.
 But then the final jump, the thing that seemed impossible it was only little more speed; cnly supreme effort for second, but iti was there, and the big fel- low whirled over the line winner. A few yards more and Rutt would have been forced into third place, for Demara was sticking close to Mcfarland and was al most abreast of him.
 A patriotic roar that lasted five min utes greeted the lanky victor and the hand struck up Yankee Doodle.
 As Mcfarland went to dismount he was seized by his partner, Moran, and an ecstatic swarm of trainers and literally lifted off his wheel and Demara finishing third in his big race was hailed with scarcely less enthusiasm. Some one, his fiance, the romantic spectators insisted, flung him a big bunch of roses which he carried around for a lap on his bars While the band played national anthems each of the three riders now joined by his partner, rode an exhibition lap and the big show was over
 Prizes to Winners.
 MacFarland and Moran, the winners will receive a prize of $500 in addition to bonuses and Rutt-stol get s1ooe and De- mara and Hill $700.
 The other teams will be rewarded as follows:
 Walthour- Root, fourth, $500.
 Collins Mitten, fifth, $300
 Calvin Wiley, sixth, $25o
 Anderson Vanon, seventh, $2OO.
 A prize of 5000 or 5000 was offered by a foreign bicycle concern to any foreign team that would win and break the record. Since no foreign team won, how ever, this will not be given.
 The last few hours before the three