New-York tribune., 1909-03-10
CAN Ten Niles OUer Nearest RtOdts
IN Sir-DGy Race. =
SCORE AT 2 A. NJ. TO-DAY.

Cibot and Orphee. making up the French team,
opened up a gap cf ten miles their near
est opponents in the sx-day go-as-you-please race
in Madison Square Garden yesterday in effort 10
win the cup offered the team breaking the 4shouc
record Of 2sS miles laps The task too much
However. and they failed By a narrow margin
Dinaea and Prouty. the pacemakers on Monday
dropped further behind and lost second place 20 the
reconstructed team made UP Of Bill Davis the
Indian. and George Metkus. Of Philadelphia. This
latter pair passed the Boston team shortly after
o'ciock in the afternoon. and kept peggng away
10 such good advantage that by O'Clock they had
gained lead Of nine miles over Dineen and Prouty
and appeared equal TO wearing the Frenchmen
down
Six more teams fell by the wayside yesterday, and
the aeld has been more than cut in two. The
twenty-five runners were more or less footsore and
weary but none showed any signs Of distress, al
though there was far more walking than running.
sam Austin Of the referees of the race. said
yesterday afternoon that in his opinion The chaf
had been sifted and that with possibly one or
two exceptions the men making up the twelve
teams piodding along al o'clock would stay TO
the finish. Those OF the seventeen teams which
completed the first tweuty-foJr hours who found
the task too hard began dropping out yesterday
morning and T. was necessary 10 form a number
Of teams. Among the men who decided that
real sleep better than the chance Of winning
part Of the prize money were the veteran pedes
trian. Peter Golden; the New York team Mike
Spring and Ed Adams: John Colanan, Corey's
partner. Frank Annable and J. P O'Driscol. max
ing Up The New England team: Albert Doms, Of the
Belgian team, and J. z. Blake, the negro
Golden was so sleepy yesterday morning that ne
refused fatty TO relieve his partner. and. all per
suasion failing. was declared out Of the race, 50
that Hegelman. who anxious to continue,
could be teamed up with Albert Corey, the winner
Of the Chicago Marathon and starter in the
Olympic Marathon. This team is looked on
with favor by the critics. although some forty
miles behind the leaders
Coleman. who had been teamed with Corey. got
peevish because he claimed that he doing most
the work He did not want TO stop. but he did
want TO lay out the schedule and this rock the
men SPLIT. Coleman assured The referee that he
had walking gait Of six miles an hour. and run
ming gal. Of eight miles hour that practical
ly sutou-atic, and by keeping 10 the schedule could
complete Loo miles in the six days The referee
suggested that the record 200 miles. and thar
his automatic gait appeared to have failed him. To
this he replied that al he needed good steam
ing out and that he would be back later
Mike Spring and Ed Adams. who well up
with the leaders for the first twenty-four hours.
were another pair who could not agree on the
amount OF work each should do Spring sup
posed 10 do the sprinting and Adams the plugging
but the latter not content with his part of the
programme. and Spring quit IN disgust. Adams
paired Up with Navez long enough TO three
four laps and then decided quit also. Later
Spring and Adams packed their bags and left the
Garden with the latter's wife and their trainers,
sadder poorer. bur wiser
Frank Annsble missed his partner ODriscoll and
his handler for long that he finally left the
track himself hunt them UP. He found both
sound asleep. and when amount Of shaking
would move them he dressed and quietly left the
building. An hour later o. 'DriscolI came 10
the track looking for Annabe. and made quite &
fuss because nc could not be found. He teamed up
for time with Navez. vino had lost his partner.
but found the desire sleep strong that he
soon gave up Navez then paired with Keller
David Hartley. who must be fifty gears old. ap-
Peared as fresh as any in the race last even
ing. and had worked out OF last place Hartley
reached New York from Buffalo by slow freight
and began training apple pie for lack of any
thing else His pluck attracted attention.
terday he had plenty 10 eat.
de may have TO find a team mate, as Pal
lanti. his third since the began was insisting
on the management buying him a pair Of 81 Shoes
as the soles Of his sneakers were worn through
He was offered sneakers OF nothing and may de-
eide nothing
The walters. Guquard and Rovere, were stil in
the last evening, but in spite of training on
bouillon and chicken, could not hold the pace and
were afty-four miles behind the leaders
Herbert WooedEe dropped out about o'clock
and his partner. SemeraU. continued alone for
time hoping 10 receive a partner.
g special attraction tonight John Svanberg
the Swedish hve-nile record holder, wifi race ten
miles 70 five each for Ettore Ferrf and Percy
snailwood a six-Taile relay will also be r1n
with Bob Halion matched against Jack Sapsford
szs Jimmy Currsr.