The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-09
WALTHOUR AND
ROOT REGAIN
LAP IN RACE
In One of Most Sensational
Spirits of Grind Team Draws
Up on Leaders.
TERRIFIC PACE Is
TELLING ON RIDERS.

Eddie Root, three times a winner In
the six-day bicycle race, early today
made one of the most sensational
sprints ever seen at the Garden and re-
gained one of the laps. His partner,
Bobbie Waltnour, assisted In the great
sprint, by which they are now only one
lap behind The leaders.
Walthour started the sprint by run
ming high up on the Fourth avenue
bank of the shiny oval. Suddenly he
shot down and before De Mara, who
had been leading the bunch at q lively
clip, realized it, the dash for the lap
was on.
Walthour was fifty yards ahead be-
fore the other riders came to a reanza-
ton of what vas going on, and then
they began riding furiously. Walthour
made two laps and was then relieved
by Root, who had had a long rest and
was in good shape for the battle.
Root rode like a demon. He pasted
the boxes at the side of the track so
fast that their occupants saw little
more than the blue blur of his racing
jersey as the b~lond-haired New Eng
land boy shot past.
Roots burst of sped was one of the most
and marvellous riding power that has ever
been seen in a six-day contest In the gar
den. Although he had been riding at top
intermittent stages Of the race. he put Up
a clip that has seldom ben equaled. even
in a short distance contest.
Fashionably dressed women In the boxes
who formed members of theatre parties
went almost hysterical with excitemept
while their escorts yelled themselves hoaEse
as they saw that Root was catching tho
leaders.
Even after Root had Tapped the bunch
he continued to ride at a furious speed as
II to try to regain the remaining lap that
IS all which separates them from those In
first place -
been forced TO follow, several of the RIDERS
T TBefr' condition iii M seems sa1s' to be fast nssrise
Who dropped fainting from his wheel BE-
'Dsvonavich.. Of the Russian team. and
and are suffering terribly. Their drawn.
pinched faces show the torture they are
going through, and their constant calls TOR
water as they rid around are taken 10 IN
dictate that the pace is proving too much
The heartbreaking pace kept up by the
leaders has caused men who were fampuf
In other six-day races to quit. 50 fast u
the speed that in some cases the riders
have. dropped from their wheels IN sheer
physical collapse when relieved by their
Before the race Is 2 day 9ldsr i !: PR Pc,
S Siet oSt t NJ tb at T Ieast t Several amer OF i tbe str AZ
glers have declared that 1t is past theiI
powers of human endurance to keep pp tht
strain.
Victor Dupre, the famous French rider
and partner of Georget, tainted and ther
lapsed into a comatose condition at tbs
stuck coura geously to the bunch as they
whirled around the oval until GeoTget re-
lieved him, aud then dropped fainting to
the track.
His trainers lifted him to bis cot and
tried to arouse him. but he was 50 Ax-
hausted that his limbs were practically
paralyzed. The team was finally forced to
withdraw, as Depre could not be revived.
One of the most sensational riders in
the race is Walter De Mara, the partner
of Fred Hill. He Is one of the most mar
velous riders ever seen In this country and
is picked as the dark horse who may
win out at the end.