Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-07
BOXING TALK FROM
THE EAST, WEST,
NORTH AND SOUTH.
TERRIFIC SPRINT LAPS
M'FARLAND And CLARKE
This Pair Loses One While Rutt and St0I Go Two
Behind--LaWSOn'S, LaWrenCe'S and GaIyin's
Teams Drop Out Early Today.
THERE was an entirely different
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THERE was an entirely different
complexion to the six-day race
at IL o'clock this morning as the
result of the terrific sprinting which
occurred between 3 and A o'clock.
An hour before noon today the seven
leading teams had Travelled 1,159 miles
and 8 laps. MacFarland and Clarke
and West and De Mara were one lap
behind. while Rutt and Stol were still
two laps behind. The seven leading
teams were Hehir and Goullet, Fogler
and Hill, Root and Moran, Mitten and
Thomas, Cameron and Halstead, Pye
and Walker and Collins and Drobach,
who had Travelled l,159 miles and s laps,
but were away behind the record of
LIZA miles and 1 lap.
Rutt and Stol entered a protest this
morning, claiming discrimination had
been made against them by the judges
In taking two laps from their team
while the hot sprint was on this MORN
ing. which broke up the teams. Rutt,
who was riding at the time of the wild
dash. said that after his team had been
Tapped once he was given to under
stand by someone that mcfarland
had punctured and that he slowed up,
only to learn a bit later that his team
had twice been Tapped.
The biggest surprise OF the race was
the tapping of mcfarland and Clarke
once and Rutt and Stol twice. These
two teams were looked upon as certain
.contenders, and the German-Holland
team is now practically out of it, while
Clarke and Mcfarland have a better
chance. but must do some tall sprint
ing to regain their lost lap. With
Clarke and Mcfarland one lap to the
bad is the West and DeMara team, and
the Rutt and Stol combination were
two laps behind at 8 o'clock this morn
ing.
Ten Teams Left.
But ten of the original fifteen teams
We're left in the race today. Wiley and
Lawrence dropped out of the race at
s o'clock. Lawson and Walthour
quit the race at 1880 O'Clock, after they
had been Tapped. Lawson claiming
that his quitting was due TO pains he
suffered from the spill in which he fig
ured yesterday afternoon.
The sprint was one of the most SEN
sational which followers of six-day
bicycle racing have seen in many years.
1t came in the fifty-second hour, be-
tween 8 and 4 o'clock in the morning.
The pace had been easy and the COM
petition tame for many hours, and the
twelve teams, punched, were speeding
along at a pace which had left them
more than a dozen miles behind the
record.
Hill Starts It.
His rivals were jogging along half
asleep at 1880 o'clock. when Hill, of the
Fog1er-Hn team, found himself forty
or fifty yards In the lead. Like a flash
he put every ounce of his strength on
his pedals and increased his lead TO q
quarter lap before the bunch aroused
themselves. Fogler made a neat pick
up. and on the sixth time around fin
ished his sprint with FIVE of the cams
a lap behind. The other six teams were
able to keep up the terrific pace. and
at 4 o'clock the scoreboard showed
seven teams tied for first place, three
teams a lap behind, n team, the
Rutt-Stol combination. two laps behind,
and n team, Walthour and Lawson,
entirely out of the running.
That Mcfarland and Clarke were
Tapped was. due to an attack OF in
digestion from which big Mac" suf-
fered. Clarke had been doing yeoman
work, but he, too, became afflicted
with the same trouble, and though he
was always ready to take his turn on
the track he was unable to do himself
Justice.
Far Behind Record.
Despite the wild sprinting, the riders
were far behind the record. At 8
o'clock this morning the riders were
peddling away at a snairs pace, the
leaders being 10 miles inc 7 laps be-
hind the record of 1,12S miles and 8
laps. The first squad had Travelled
1,10s miles and 1 lap. The Clarke
Mcfarland and the West-DeMara
teams were one lap behind and the
Rutt-Stol team was still two laps to
the bad.
An hour later, at 10 o'clock, the
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