The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-16
TEAMS in on RACE.
Clarke WINS sprint Mt Close OF Night's
Hiding In the Garden.

Hiding In the GuFden.
Little A. j. Clarke, the Australian cham
pion. won the final sprint In last nights
section OF the six day two hours o night
cycle team race In Madison Square Garden.
Clarke Just sprinted away from the field
when he rot ready, finishing ten lengths
ahead OF Henri Mayer and Menus Bedell.
while Worthington l.. Mitten -of Iowa"
was several lengths behind the German
and the Long Islander. h time OF the
last mile was 2 minutes 4 seconds. Floyd
Mcfarland and Z. f. Root, who were sent
to try their ~sprinting abilities against Clarke,
had to stop owing TO punctured tires.
The combination Of Kramer and Menus
Bedell of the Kramer-Fogler and Bedell
brothers teams before the start left thirteen
pairs Of riders to ia Ike up the second night 9
riding. The hoodoo number Of teams wal
reduced to q dozen before the three and q
half hour score was posted at II O'CLOCK
however, as the Ben Hill-Teddy Ellington
team Withdrew from the contest at 1880
o'clock. They were half q dozen laps be-
hind the others. The score for four hours
was es miles for all the teams but Kramer
and Menus Bedell. whose team score was
OF miles o laps.
Mike Doniin was the hero Of the GALLERY
ridins Of the six day. two hours q day, team
race, and Mrs, Mabel-Hite-Mike-D onlin sat
in q box and looked nervous until her pus;
band passed the starting gun oack 70 ~
Just before the, riders were, started II
was announced that. Frank, Il. Kramer
and would con~se luently b., penalized one
lap on the score board. The new team
formation was due TO the very severe snak-
tumble Just. before the finishing time on
Monday night.
fogler and Root were not much the worse
for their experience and Root rode as usual.
Fogler retired so his teammate-Kramer-.
could join forces with Menus Bedell,. but
h. was on hand to watch the race last night.
teams the first named n Of each pair
was che rider who started the two hours
Anderson and Henri Mayer; Menus. Bedell
and Frank L Kramer; Floyd 4 MSrarls ana
+ + I +, KS ss;,d EIR Ws5o Collins nsd ar E1o pstr kIsb +;
Edward Rupprecht and Charles, A sher-
WWS sls:;r; T J. T. H RssGno snd AIRED hsd a GRr 8
HHolister snd. Waiter De Mara; Ben Hill
ana At l tSs start arti'o Of &c the nights riding the
score stood at 40 miles . laps for every
team but Hin AND Billingston, who weTe
who had to give up one lap for forming a new
team, The field rode y miles. 2 laps In
the fret half hour. and Y miles lap were
CONtTtu III Tile SbtOuu ~ uOuIs ~ "a
hour score being 73 miles g laps.
The score at 81 hours was 80 miles
lap. Kramer kept the other riders rather
nervous when he was on the track by max
Lap he and Menus Bedell had been pcnslized.
Stein led for, the first two iap in the
opening heat OF his one mile match race with
Cameron. Then he did a very peat stand
still act and made Cimeron take the lead.
Stein trailed. his. opponent. until half 2 lap
from home: then he iUmpedin to the lead and
won by nearly g length ia 3 minutes 40 3-5
heat and won in the final sprint by g length
in 3 minutes 81 As seconds. Louis Francis.
Calumet Cyclers. easily won the, one mile
Afro-Amerjcan amateur championship in
A big field OF riders started in the nvelmile
open amateur. event. Fred W. Jones Of
Paterson got busy right after the start In
III Him. tn Snvi f9 MS ni z a laP E. On 3. " %ei asid. and arf F.
W. Eiaer chased him and o~yerhauied him
alter a few laps of spr~inting.... -,
When they caught Jones. Hill kept right
Sha sed'a aitsF hin In ni%di' o%Vs;rRaule %r him. The
gain a lap Oh the field. changing pace every
couple OF laps, They gained, the lap after
sfter%aTd hiii's chain broke. He mounted
distance he had lost while changing ma
chMin s but &c could vad only gIih gain ,bn hall hss.s = li Rou.
Archie La Montague Of Boston fouled him.
last lap and both tumbied to the track
onts spT ssnt IKE riders s'rs he w s,as' with shss' and
won by more than a lap In. II minutes
tional Athletic Club of Brooklyn was
was third, Mackay also won the special
prizes for leading at the end Of the greatest
number OF laps and miles during the race.