The evening world., 1908-12-09
FOGLER LOSES A LAP
AND QUITS 6-DAY RACE
AFTER GREAT SPRINT
Constant Sprinting Keeps Contestants
Ahead Of Record-Walthour and
Root on Alert for Chance
to Regain Lap.

IN one of the most desperate spr!nts
of the present siX-day race r'oPler and
Lawson lost lap late this afternoon
Anderson and Nononi were Tapped twice
Devonovitch and Drobach once. Sto
almost lost lap. hut Rutt reSaincd 1t
for him in the nick of time,
Just after the lap gaining Fogler, who
complained OF being sick at the time,
announced tina, he was out of the race
All this happened Just before the .
o'clock score wa7 posted.
walthour and Root were in the thick
est of the sprinting all of the way, and
it was the opinion of hundreds present
that they had gained their lost lap. The
scorers didn't allow it. The pace is be-
ginning to have the killing effect on the
riders.
Three teams were still tied for the lead
.-ai.rS o clock. and al this time 1t dldn |
seem possible that any switching of po-
Auons could be expected. Ever since
Root and Walthour gained one OF their
two lost laps early to-day there is feel
Ing that they will Jump AT any time in
desperate attempt to get up with the
leaders.
One Foreign Team in Lead.
lust now the race is between one for
eiEn team, Rutt and Stol. and three
Americans Mcfarland and Moran. Fog
Ter and Lawson and the pony pair, liil
and Demara. They take turns at carry
ing each other along at frightul clip
but all stick pluckily.
The enthusiasm Of the crowd holds
out remarkably and the shortest sprint
causes deafening yells. once when
Rutt Jumped" the bunch when the
afternoon was well on its way. roar
swept the big amphitheatre and drown
ed even the efforts Of the band.
As e race progresses, the popularity
OF Fs er and Lafourcade grows. TINS
team miles behind, but on occasions
they low bursts of speed that threaten
to D some of the leaders in the ruck'
II Is IN these occasions that the crowd
becc les wildly excited, as 1t did Just
afttr the sixty-first hour to-day. Faber
shot out of the gunch suddenly, and In
a twinkling had the rest of the field
pedalling as If their lives depended on
il 10 keep up. Just what is the object
of this team in carrying the rest on al
a frightful pace is not apparent. Some
think they are working in combination
with Rutt and Stol, the Germans, In
order to tire out and sap the stamina
of the three American teams who are
tied for the lead with last years win
ners. .
MacFaranc Sets Pace.
mcfarland was out in front during
the midday hours. The lengthy West
erner is riding better than ever and
that is saying lot when II !s remem-
bered that back in 1900 he and Harry
JcIkes hung up records, George Cameron,
speaking OF his pony team, Hin and
Demara, says they are the best pair
OF ex-amateurs Il Garden race has ever
developed. lie expects to see them
right with the leaders TO the finish,
and II they are beaten 1t will only be
because of their ineXperience.
"Demara has the best jump of any
body In the race" said Cameron. III
he can time it correctly he is liable to
steal lead of thirty yards in the last
three laps of the race If lac does. no
one, not even Rutt, will catch him"
Now that Waltuour ana Root have re-
gained one OF their two lost laps every
camp is on the lookout for fresh at
tempt on their part 10 get into the front
division. Both Bobbie and Eddie say
they will get another surely, and once
they get into the front bunch with Butt
and Stol. Foger and Lawson, Moran
and Mcfarland and Hin and Demara
they promise To make things lively.
Seven thousand men and women, who
had spent the nigh, In Madison square
Garden. were ordered our INTO the
street at 6,lj O'Clock this morning By a
squad OF pinkerton agents and private
policemen,
The detectives and policemen gath
cred on either side of the GARDEN. Many
of the men and women were asleep. and
they had to he awakened, but they
obeyed orders. and at the door return
checks were given 10 those who had
arrived after 80 q. M.
The Garden was cleared of every one,
.sys z few reporters. the time keepers,
tfsissss ana TIE fiasrs, wsa thsn aired
81 elSAnAd. IL Certainly nssdsd halh