Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-06
Al III O'clock We're Is Laps
Ahead of Previous Record.
One Team Tapped.

wv ITH the field still punched.
w barring Georget and Pouchois,
who brought up nine laps in
the rear, the six-day bike riders passed
the thirty-fifth hour In the six-day
grind at Madison Square Garden, New
York, at IL o'clock today. The leaders
had Travelled 100 miles and 3 laps.
which Is one mile and three laps better
than the former record. Georget and
Pouchois, nine laps behind, had trav-
eled 71s miles and 4 laps, so that they
were four laps ahead of the record,
but had little chance of regaining their
lost ground, or eve finishing the race,
for the first sprint threatened to put
them further put of the running.
At 10 o'clock the thirteen teams were
tied with 703 miles and one lap COW
cred, while the Georget-Pouchois team
brought up the rear with 702 miles 2
laps. Pouchois, of the French team.
after being once Tapped between 8 and
9 o'clock, fell a svictim to further
sprints led by Mcfarland and Moran,
and In repeated circling of the track
at top speed the French rider lost a
total Of nine laps.
At the above hour the leaders were
still ahead of the record of 7o1 miles 8
made by Mcfarland and Moran
in 1908, by one mile and FIVE laps.
Despite the of the contest
the night was replete with interest. All
the sprinters were on the lookout for an
opening and tried time after time to
find a loophole through which to crawl
for a stolen lap. Mcfarland, Clarke.
Root and Moran were prominent in
these sprints. In each case. however.
the sprinter found himself bounced
upon by the pack and beaten down to
a level of submission.
At 8 o'clock this morning h teams
were nearly five miles ahead OF the
record, but the pace slowed somewhat
as daylight approached. The men were
going, however. at a clip that made II
seem likely that records would continue
to fall, as they have been doing since
the fifth hour of the race.
Exactly twenty-one laps, or two
miles and one lap ahead of the record
were the riders at s o'clock today. They
had ridden SOS miles, against h ole
record of $50 miles and nine laps. TIT
new record was due to the steady GRIND
at a dizzy pace which had been kept
ND all night. The race has been practi-
cally devoid of the sensational sprints
but the steady grind is more trying
on the riders.
The first successful attempt at lap
gaining since the series of sprints that
put German and Verlinden out OF the
race early yesterday started at S:Zi
o'clock. Then 1t was that Thomas. OF
the Mitten-Thomas combination. start
ed a sprint and the French team OF
Pouchois and Georget was Tapped
Pouchois was riding at the time. There
was a temporary luli and then Mac
Farland, Root, Clarke n others tooR
a turn at sprinting, and before the
regular grind was resume again an
other French combination had beer
nut out of the race hopelessly. The
team of Georget and Pouchois were
eight laps behind the leaders when the
9 o'clock score was posted. Despite
these sprints the riders, instead Of
gaining on the record, had lost ground
and were only two laps ahead of the
record. The bunch, with Clarke ant
mcfarland leading, had Travelled 6S'
miles and 8 laps, whereas the former
record was es4 miles and 7 laps. Geor-
get and Pouchois were six laps behinc
the record and were expected to quiz
at any moment.
1. Calvin drops out during the mex
few lays there will be reason, accord
ing to a very reliable" authority. TIT
other riders are telling a story to KID
Calvin about how his sweetheart MP II
New York State offered him $1,000 t.
start the race, just for the honor of it
and that he is expected to drop out to
night.
The tapping of Pouchois and George
was not entirely unexpected. During
sprint last night, led by Rutt, Pouchoi
was saved from being Tapped only by
timely puncture, the race being calie'
off while the riders continued TO circl
the track. Pouchois was Tapped TIL
morning at 1927 in a sprint started b,
Thomas. He was apparently firing a
the time and Thomas, who is one o
the Clique of American riders said I
be out after the foreigners scalps, mad
his squirt. When he tired of the job @
pacing, Jimmy Moran forged to tn
front, and in three trips around III
saucer Pouchois was overtaken by tn
bunch, and the French team of Georg'
and Pouchois was one lap behind.
The nearest approach TO a real spi
came last night during a sprint. Bobb
Walthour. in attempting to take I'll
lead, rode too high at the turn comm
into the home stretch. and was cut an
bruised about the legs. Lawson inn It
diately relieved him.
Jimmy Moran is the wonder of tn
race at eating. He keeps his trainer
working overtime to keep him in foo
der. 1t takes a deal of wholesom
food, well cooked, to generate that It
markable plugging machine froI
| Chelsea, Mass. Porterhouse steak
the favorite fuel.
Wise ones predict that Frank Calvin
OF the Galvin-Anderson team. will nc
last long. 1t is expected that the frs
real strong sprint will put him put.
| A remarkable feature of the earl