The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-18
ROOTERS HOOT ROOT.
Fo ! Tactics In Cycle Race Resented b,
spectator; In the Garden.

During the progress of last night 8 riding
of the six day two hours a night cycle team
race in Madison Square Garden Eddie Root
was guilty OF the most fla grant foul riding
seen In the building for a Ions time. There
was every indication that three or four
teams had formed a combination against
A. J. Clarke and liver Lawson. with the
purpose or allowing first one and then
another Of the teams interested to gain
laps on the field while the other teams pre-
vented Clarke or Lawson or the field from
chasing the would-be lap s~tealers, Roots
foul tactics in preventing Clarke from
chasing Anderson aroused the resentment
of the spectators. who cheered Clarke and
hooted Root with equal fervor.
The Mayer-Anderson team gained one
lap on six teams during the early part OF
the second hour and W laps on the other
Ave pairs.
John Chapman Of Salt Lake City, who is
Clarke's manager. ordered him to quit the
race. but when the referee and judges de-
cided moi to allow any of the laps gained or
lost because Of the foul riding IL was au-
nounced that Clarke and Lawson would con-
tinue In the race.
Henri Mayer won the finishing one mile
sprint from Floyd krebs by two lengths in
. minutes 1 second.
Leon Ames did the starting honcrs last
night. the following team representatives
being sent away on the two hours Of riding
time: liver lawson, Clarke and lawson;
y. Nj. Anderson. Mayer and Anderson;
Menus Bedelli Kramer and Bedell; Hardy
RoS nip Mor MsF ard Ro saa PRGi mer Co Edd,e
Collins and Logan: Carlo vanoni, Krebs and
Nanoni; Edward Ruppreeht. Sherwood and
Rupprecht: Gordon Walker, D%evonovitch
gin. W /. Mittep. Mitten and Williams.
Walter DE Mara. De Mara and HOLSTER,
Floyd Krebs started the first sprint q
a II iap When fshGrst chased oatt alone and
overhauled hinI. Nanoni relieved Krebs
and, Halgin took Ashurst's place, aud the
irssh R Elders we're s,e i2c rs md , their 's md
jus, after the score for The seventh hour
was taken. at 1920 o'clock. Anderson
mendous rate. Root VAS leading at the
time and instead Of chast9g. after the Dane
he simply sat and watched Anderson sprint
realized that Root would ALLOW Anderson
TO gain a lap without trying to prevent II
he made an attempt to sprint out after
for him, however, and swerved up the bank
as Clarke drew alongside, preventing the
little Australian from getting out In front.
pass ssa1 Root nf but a eae eS' tine meth the ai iatter rode 10
In front OF him and refused to let him chase
after Anderson. Clarke finally got past
Root by outing through on the pole when
Mayer. who relieved Anderson lust then.
was ~three-quarters Of a Lap ahead by that
time. Clarke did his best to overtake
Mayer, racing away from the field which
was trailing the STOW moving Root, but the
German champion was fresh from a long
rest and Clarke could not gain on him
Mayors lead, but Anderson took Mayors
place and gained again. After a few laps
Mayer took up the work again and over
The excitement lasted about. fifteen
minutes. and after the seven and q half
our score was taken II was announced
that Mayer and Anderson we're one lap
pairs: Kramer. Bedell.. Sherwood Rup-
precht, Ashurst -Halain, Devonoviich-W Wal.
ker and De Mara-Holhster, all OF whom
were two laps behind the leaders. At
1875! O'Clock Menus Bedell sprlnted away,
while Root, the leader, made no attempt
to chase after him.
Fred Hill Of the Armory Athletic As
ISOLATION, Boston, finished first In the one
mile amateur handicap from scratch,
but was DISQUALIFIED for riding inside The
Reserve. 90 Yards. was second j. VENT.
New, York Athletic Club. 50 yards. was
third, and j. N. EiieT, c. r. G. A., so yards,
was fourth. Hills disqualification moved
the others up one position. The time
Stein and George G, Cameron represented
tine Irish American Athletic Club In an
Australian team pursuit race against Will
lam Landen Dries and, L.. j, Waintz of the
New York Athletic Club. The Irish Ameri-
curry Foot representatives and o~verhauled
them after riding forty yards more thar
one mile and three laps. The time was
2 minutes IS seconds.