Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-07
RECORD LEFT BEHIND
IN BICYCLE CONTEST
Ten Teams Tied for Lead in
Six-Day Pace.
PEOPLELOOK ON ALL NIGHT
Brocco and Sabrousse, Italian French
Pedalers, Quit and Resume.
ALL STARTERS YET ON TRACK
Walthour, in Attempt to Regnin
Lost Lap, Sets Up Hot Pace but
Gains Nothing.
THE SCORE AT 2 Pm.

sand men and women saw the start of the
six-day bicycle race in Madison Square
Garden at midnight. When the clock
| tolled s O'Clock this morning 1900 spec
tators were still breathing the foul air
and peering through the smoke-filled
arena at sixteen riders who pedaled on in
| their monotonous, never-ceasing fashion.
Now and again some rider would put
| muscle to his pedals and squirt ahead.
only to be caught before he could make
| lap. Then the winding, slow-moving
pace would be taken up again.
When such spurts were made. men. their
heads in their hands. or women, nodding
| and some of them asleep. would be
aroused by some cheer. They, too, would
cheer. When the squirt ended they would
sink back into slumber.
At o'clock the riders had ridden 10
! miles and We're ahead of the record by
nearly one mile. Then everybody seemed
to go to sleep. The riders tarried on their
| way. They reeled in the ring like SOM
nambuliSts. When & o'clock came the
| racers were behind the record almost a
| mile
Record Breaking Kept Up.
But the next hour was a live one At
o'clock the record had again been
broken.
The first excitement. however, came
at 8 o'clock. Then for twenty-seven min
utes the contestants pedaled around the
track al top speed without mishap.
The sprint started when Moran went
to the front, with burst of speed that
took the spectators breath away Others
followed. Soon the entire squad was
pedaling as though the race was for a
mile instead of for six long. weary days.
When the sprint ended Faber and La
fourcade had lost twelve laps. Brocco
and Labrousse were seven laps behind.
Downing and Hollister, WalthOur and
Root. DevonOvich and Drobach, CALVIN
and Wiley were one lap behind.
Lafourcade was the man who lost
twelve laps for his team, while Brocco
Hollister, Walthour, Drobach and Calvin
were the others who could not hold the
pace.
Another record was beaten at S:57
O'Clock, when, with Mcfarland in the
lead the first men dashed by the post
having covered the distance which for
merly stood for full nine-hOur record.
The hour score was 206 miles laps
The record for the ninth hour was pre-
viously held by Elkes and Mcfarland.
and was 204 miles laps, made in 1900.
8 O'Clock Score.
The o O'Clock score was as follows: Fa-
ber-Lafourcade, 2O5 miles , laps: Rutt-
Stol, 2O6 miles ) laps; Anderson-Vanoni,
2O6 ) laps; Georget-Dupre, 206 miles 5
laps; Brocco- -I.abrousse, 2O5 miles laps:
Downing -Hollster 306 miles 4 laps; Nc
| Farland- Moran, 2O6 miles ) laps: Fogler-
! Lawson, 2O6 miles ) laps: Walthour-Root.
aO6 miles / laps; Downey-Logan. 2O6 miles
5 laps: Palmer-Walker, 2O6 miles ) laps;
Collins Mitten, 206 miles j laps; Devono-
Witch Drobach. 2O6 miles laps: Ifill-De-
mara, 2t.5 miles : laps; Bedell- -Rupprecht,
20tj miles = laps; Calvin Wiley, 2G6 miles
| laps.
| Ten of the sixteen teams had made 227
miles Z laps at 10 o'clock. The former
ten-hour record. 226 miles and no laps,
was made by Elkes and Mcfarland in
| 1900.
| Bobby Walthour brought the crowd to
| its feet shortly after 1890 o'clock. The
men had been riding easily all morning
Ioafing when Walthour suddenly sho
out ahead in an attempt to get his lost
lap back. He had gained a quarter of
| lap before the others knew what was
| UP.
| Lawson and Anderson set out after
him, pedaling like fury, and the rest
struggled along behind. After six or
seven laps the riders were again grouped
| without any change i'm their relative po-
SitiOns.
Quit Race and Resume It.
| 1t was announced at 1 O'Clock that the
Italian French team. composed of Brocco
and Labrousse, had given up the race
and retired. Their total mileage was 29U
miles and laps.
| At I 30 pm. Labrousse declared him
self and partner in the race again. At
| that time the team was D miles and laps
| to ths. bad.
! The score at 1 O'Clock was:
| Rutt-Stol. I92: Fogler-Lawson, 2a2
| Moran cFariand, 292: Loga-Downey.
t.,nD. | Dolly lEpr Dunra {.aOrpat
cg2: Vanoni-Anderson, 292; Bedell-Ru
precht 292; Hill-Demara, 292: Mitten-Col-
| lins ac; Walthour-Root, 291.9; Downing
Hollister 29l o: Wiley Calvin. 291 o; Devo-
novitch-Drobach. 291.9; Faber-Lafour-
cade .9OS; Brocco-Labrousse, 2SS q.
Ra.orJ miles 1aDS