The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-20
M'FARLAND WINS.
Garden Crowd Kisses Kramer for Pocket
Ing Clarke. the Australian.

Ing Clarke. the Austransn.
Floyd A. Mcfarland Of San Jose, CAL,
finished first In the final one mile sprint oil
the six day two hours q night cycle team
race that ended In Madison Square Garden
last night. II had been expected that the
finish would be fought out between A. j.
Clarke and Frank l.. Kramer. after the lat
ters team had gained the lap earlier In the
evening that put them on even terms with
the five teams that had been tied o rsthe
lead but the crafty Californian had other
plans.
Only the six leading teams were al
lowed to have representatives on the track
for the finishing one mile sprint that was to
determine the final positions. Kramer
was very slow In coming out and the other
Ave rode around slowly for some time
waiting for him to appear. When John
j. McGraw fired the shot that denote the
start Of the final mile Root was leading.
followed by Mcfarland, Mayer. Kramer.
Clarke and Logan In the order named.
Root loafed along for three laps and
quickened his pace as he began the sixth
lap. He rode as hard as he could until
Mcfarland went up into the lead on the
backstretch In the eighth lap. The tall
Californian sprinted from the time he took
the lead and was still ahead without opposi-
ton when he started the bell lap. Az they
began to round the flrst u Mayer and
Kramer swung up the track In an apparent
eff to pass Mcfarland. thus effectively
preventing Clarke from sprinting up to the
front as the lrio were spread out across
the narrow ten laps to the mile board track.
When Clarke saw he had no chance to
ride around his opponents on the outside he
cut down onto the pole. but Kramer and
Mayer swung down and held him In q pocket
behind Mcfarland. Clarke pushed along
as best he could. however. and led Kramer
over the to pc by about three feat. with
Mayer a bad fourth. Logan easily defeating
Root for NTH place.
There were a great many more cheers
for Clarke from the crowd than there were
for Mcfarland, who 70 de around with his
fingers on his nose at fver Lawson. Clarke's
team mate. who was standing in the track
enclosure. When Announcer Pruntv told
the crowd that Mcfarland had won the
spectators applauded with mild enthusiasm.
but when he said the judges had given
second place to Kramer Q storm OF protest
broke out that has rarely been eaualled In
1t had been plainly evident ali week that
MeFariand DoRnins' Moran Root and
Krebs- vanoni teams were In q combina-
ton against Clarke and lawson and the
Kramer the place that Clarke had so plainly
rrunty made several attempts to con-
Judges Ia had placed The men, but the crowd
Kissed and booted and booed down his
every, attempt to continue. Kramer had
Sftsr afSse fni IL AZ and i0 When al0 h dis sns ad
leers. II was Learned later that the judges
The time for the mile was 2 minutes 0 As
seconds.
Krebs easily defeated Ruppreoht in. the
mile match Of the second division riders,
ahead Of HoIff{ster:
Melvin shepDs5d; who won q lot q 0lym:
team representatives ON the last two hours
Of riding last e. sSt Iyer LswsSn; Clarke
Downing; james +. Moran. Moran and
Root; Elmer. Collins. Collins and Logan
A. sherwood. Sherwood and HappreeSt
Theodore. ~Devonovitch. .Devonovitch and
Walker Il J; HaSl Ifisn A snS %,i snd III ha r ! ?;
Hollister, De Mara and HOLSTER,
sprint md gained third Of a lap before Krebs
relieved him. Krebs increased the lead
to more than half q lap when Clarke de-
oided he would 90 after the "FlvinR Dutch,
Ra1s The lit baI ANS nnstr o1 a. r oyerhsqled
Kramer had been sleigh riding while Clarke
was chasing krebs.an when the field closed
again he Jumped away from the Others,
gan his sprint and made not the slightest
attempt to prevent the American. cham
gion from ma king up TIE LAP he and Menus
every evidence that he was doing his best
70 prevent any one from chasing after
Anderson would look across the track
occasionally s t. e. see zee, how lar "a ahead head Kramer m,ns
hook. Clarke finally sprinted around
Anderson and started TO pursue Kramer.
w was rather Ssh r" tired and could not gain on
called for Lawson 70 relieve him him LAWSON on
BB sEan. to 5G ire e S SsaRas S Be- taPs relieved R%s H kfam ere
and opened up q sttll larger gap: ,.w Inn.
The Australian began to gain on Bedell. and
Kramer relieved his partner. Logan and
CCNllins ws5s the only xS oshs ssep ps,I eao fsel
fact that the Rramer-Bedeii pair were fast
saininS wi E ln fSs nv Ave T fssdinPP put ses shs% f Rrs sHsn
began to tire and lose ground. and Floyd
Krebs very obliginsly dropped back 20 pace
fop a few whs iaps. k Ssnenl h rslieTne sdffSdi him. k ssd se
too paced Kramer for three or four laps.
when Krebs went on again and paced kra-
mer up to the bunch.
Moran and Root lost q lap In the mixup.
but the scorers did not see IL and Moran
and Root were scored even with the leaders
when the eleven hour score was posted at
1880 O'Clock.
The result Of the sprinting, according
to the figures, posted on the score board.
was that the Clarke-Lawson .Mayer-Ander-
son, Kramer-Bedell, Mcfarland Downing,
Moran-Root and Collins -LoRan teams were
tied for the lead, one lap ahead OF the sec
ond division. The second group was made
UP Of Krebs- Vanoni, Sherwood-Ruppreoht.
Mitten, Williams and De. Mara HOLSTER.
H9lgi9 pairs were, tied for third. one lap
behind the second group. Thus the net
result was that Kramer Bedell had gained
thai were tied for third place.
Walter Schlee, New Jersey Naval Re-
serve. won. the one mile amateur handi-
cap from the 90 yard MARI, In. minutes
Boston, g yards; was second 9 fSct and
Lamphear, Brewer Wheelmen, $50 yards.
was third. Harley Giles and Al. Hafstead.
the Salt Lake City team In the inter-city
team pursuit race, were put out of the con-
test BY George G.. Cameron and Charles
ii. Stein Of New York after they had ridden
four laps. Cameron had done all Of the
chssiIf sfter the eu western tern GsisTbi r. ana am When lsD
Stein was Ieft TO fight alone against Fred
Hill and Peter Drobach, the Boston team.
Stein did his best but was o~verhauled after
) miles. Q laps in Q minutes. 10 rs. seconds.