New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-12-07

| aps male by GouEouItz and KAser In 1902
With the band playing a lively air ana the cheers
Of nearly fourteen thousand persons ringing in
their ears fourteen riders started the annual
Iy bicycle race at 1905 o'clock this morning al
Madison Square Garden DOrando. the Marathon
runner and thu conqueror Of Hayes, fred the gun
which started the riders on a which will test
n the utmost their powers Of endurance grit ana
speed Hardly hac the echoes OF the shot died
away before the riders were spr1ntfns Wildly IN
the hope that they might be able 70 gain a lap al
the outset. and the great crowd cheered ther
favorites greater efforts
Time after time In the first half hour, one r1oer
and then another would shoot out in the lead
only 10 be overhauled by his competitors before
he had set the pace lap Each team mad lts
following and little short OF oedIam resneo curing
the desperate sprintins
TIL. weather was bad For hours before the
start rain had been falling more or less steadily
but this proved deterrent TO the bicycle enul0-
siasts The crowd began gathering early and any
little incident proved enough to arouse us elI
siasr7 while II was waiting the riders 10 come
on the track Dorando was cheered and cheeFeo
and then cheered some more when ne walked ou'
10 the starting point His coJnrrynen WHO were
AT the Garden in large numbers were more III
evidence than any other nationality. and after the
race began devoted themselves continually 10 en-
courag1ng the Italian riders YazonL Of the Dan
ish-ItaIan team was in particular favor1te' ana
cries Of Go It Vanont!' 'Oh. you Eanoal' Gun
stantly filed the air
Other riders too, had their ardent supporters
Root stol. Moran Bedeu. FogIer and Bobby wal
thour were special tavorites- All the men seemed
TO be in the best of shape for the srus4nns
struggle and appeared At 70 hold a pace WHICH
might prove DANGEROUS TO all past records
A detail OF forty policemen. under the COMMAND
Of Lieutenant Hayes, were on hand early 70 pre-
serve order But there was little or no disorder
apparent The crowd, though enthusiastic. gave no
trouble This was, perhaps somewhat remarkable
since there no noticeable lack OF Dutch couI-
age among some Of the spectators Al Ie@s1-
Women were more conspicuous by their absence
than by their presence though here and there
Merry Widow hat could os seen IN the boxes OF
the gallery. just before the race started tnere
were few vacant seats anywhere and the crowd
was still pouring in
stft over the track when the riders came on. &C
corpznied by their trainers and attendants Eacn
man got q cheer a he rode around the track prs
Iirninary to the race. Sixteen teams started the
race and the sixteen riders who faced the starter
were Rutt. OF the German-Holland team GeorgeL
Of the French team; Lafourcade. Of the second
French team; Moran the Pacific Atlantic team;
Root. Of the Dtxie-Yankee team Lawson Of tbs
Intercity team; Logan, OF the Emerald Isls team
Rupert, Of thu Long Island team; Downing, Of the
Mormon team; Palmer, Of the Australian team;
vauoni the Danish-ItaIian team: Mttten- Of the
East and West team; Calvin. OF the Farmer and
Messenger bog team; DeTnara. OF tbs Trans
continental team. and Riga, Of the Russtan-An1er-
lean team.
The pace set at the start was q killing Lo-
gan and Root altsrnated in the lead IN the open
ing laps, and a cheer went up Logan swept
over the first mile IN lead in the FAST time OF
2 minutes and p seconds Moran. OF the Pacific
Atlantic team. and vanoni OF the Danish-Italian
team were about half wheels length behind
At the end OF the fifth mile Eddie Root Of the
Dtxie-Tankee team wa. leading. having covered
the distance IN II minutes IS rs seconds A couple
OF wheel lengths behind vanoni, Moran aid Lafour-
cade raced wheel and wheel
e-TT
occurred While climbing the enbanknent on. the
Madison avenue end Of the track "Pedler
PaIu1er's wheel twisted. and rider and wheel slid
down the ernbanknent- Palmer not even bad
IL shaken up. however. though his wheel Jared
worse the handle bars being badly twisted
Palmer resumed riding and the crowd cheered him
A new record established for the first hour
At the end Of that time % miles and laps had
been covered The previous record was . miles
laps This was established 0y GougoLr7 and
Kaiser 1908
Maurice Br6cco led the field at the end OF tie
first hour and rode with ease and apparently with
out much effort Hill broke the ffteen-uile record
making the distance in % minutes 80 seconds
Brocco also broke the twenty-rne record. covering
that distance in A minutes Il seconds AT the end
OF the first hour the field still we'll punched
and none of the riders was showing signs OF the
fast work
Many OF the riders who in former years have
raced in these gruelIing contests again faced the
starter this morning notably Rutr and StO the
CSerua Holland team who captured the big end
Of the prize winter; Matt DowueY and Patsey
Logan. Bobbie WaIthour and Eddie Root Floyd
MacFarIand and Jimmie Moran. and Leon Georget
and Victor Dupre, the Frenchnnen. who made such
A game finish last year; but there aIso we're sew
eraI competitors. and by reason Of their Prov
ess abroad they considered TO Be who viii
force the old-tirners 10 exert themselves 20 the
limit hold their Among the newcomers are
Brocco and Labrousse, who make up the Italian
French team. and Faber and Lafourcade. French
men.
The this year. by reason Of changes in the
rules probably will be the hardest fought contest
its kind since Miller and Waller. IN 1885, set the
record for six days at 9.7S3 miles laps In fact
the rules revert to the conditions OF that recors
breaking era. for II will be a constant grind, with
no let-ups FOR sprint and motor paced races, and
every rider at all times must protect himself from
being Tapped In recent past years rider who fell
could not be Tapped; this wear everything viii
count. and the rider who goes down viii lose the
distance the other contestants then gain him
The teams that started this morning follow: