The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-12-08
THINGS HAPPEN IN BIKE RACE
TSA TEAMS SPLIT INTO THREE
DIVISIONS.
seven Tied for the Lead vim Two Teams
I'm se~eni division ana Rutt and stsl
tine Rear Guard Admission Prse~
Doubled. but Crowd Fiscks TO SHOW.
me scoRk At 4 O'CLOCK.

Root and Moran ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. IL"
hiircn and Thomas-. ...........,......in'
Cameron and halssead. itO'
Pye and walker... Observation-Disclosures. iHI
soiiins and Drooacn.. ..,..-,,..,.......l"
NaeFafiand and Clarke .ip1
west and Dernars.. ....-........,..... lto'
Former record iis7 miles Z laps, made by
Pys and Hehir In ioOL
MADISON SorARk GaRpkS. Dec. Ten
teams WERE left last night in the ak dav
team cycle race In Madison square Garden
The two pairs that were eliminated after
Calvin and Anderson stopped at : minutes
after midnight on Tuesday wer. wal'honr
and La wson and Wiley and Lawrence The
Dxie-Mormon team OF Bobby Walthour
and liver lawson was out OF the race At
ass A " yesterday. their snal score being
.oas miles iaps. The pony team OF GEORGE
Wiley and Percy Lawrence Was out OF tho
race ct 7:ci 4. NJ. when their Anal score
was 1 900 miles and !: Laps
Of the ten pairs left In the race last nj sht
when the evening crowd began 70 appear
there were three divisions. The teams that
were tied for the lead were the Root Moran
Fogicr- Hill, Hehir-Uoullet. Cameron-ual-
stead, Pye-Walk.r. Collins Drobach and
Mitten. Thomas. mcfarland Clarke and
West-Demara formed the second division
one lap behind the leaders. and Rutt- Stoi
were the rear guard. two laps behind tn.
leaders
Public interest in the race shows no signs
Of lessening aud all tho reserved arena
seats and boxes were flled before 0 o'clock
last night, in spite Of the fact Tat tn. man
agement had raised the price OF aCirn.ssio
70 81 yesterday noon. The doubling 81
the admission fee wss probably responsible
Tor the comparatively small crowd IN the
afternoon. but Il had visi BILE N CT on
the night attendance. The thirsty all night
crowd was eubiiant also a. arrangements
had been made To get an all night license
for the bars. and Harry Stevens was walk
ing around with a regular eat ate the
canary expression on his face.
The sprint that split the field M into divi-
sions and ultimately resulted IN the with
drawal OF the Walthour- lawson and Wiley
Lawrence teams started at 81 o'clock
yesterday morning. Contrary to the usual
state Of affairs in these instances. the sprint
was not a prearranged one. but developed
accidentally when Fred HUI was getting
ready 10 relieve Joe Fogler
FoRler noticed his teammate getting
ready to mount his bicycle and started
. moderate sprint out IN front to make sure
OF being well up 70 make the pickup when
Hill got onto the track. The rest Of the
field did not chase after Fosier. as tn. Brook
fynite had expected they would and So he
put on some more speed To take advantage
Of the opportunity that had unexpectedly
presented itself to lose some OF has oppo-
nents.
When Fred Hin relieved Fosier they had
q lead on the field OF about M yards. but
IN the m can time Jimmie Moran had noticed
what Was going on and had started ont in
pursuit. with the rest OF the field tagging
behind the Chelsea Irish American clarke
and stol we're inst behind Moran. and the
latter overlook Hill after four laps Of the
hardest riding seen in the race up to that
time While this sprint was going on
hind and Sa h s 10 Inn had }rss Moran 6
pulled rh. bunch up even sith I'm.
Eddie Root. Elmer collins and waltsr
Rutt were the hrst men to relieve their
team mates after the sprint started When
the sprint had been in progress for about
four minutes Jack clarke raised hts hand
20 the scorers to Indicate that something
was wrong with his machine. The scorers
however. did NOT no,ic- clarkcs signal Of
dfstreas and did not sound the Ave bells
90 tell the field that no laps could b~ gained
or losr for the Tim. being
Johann Srol Oi the RuIr-Stol team Who
had been trailing along At Clarks's heels
saw the little Australian appraised hand
and rh . small Hollsnder .,oEr.a .prin,ins
his place with the fast moving field "a he
ihoaght no lars could b. gained OF lost
clarke had b~"n travelling so fact tina,
even though his rear tir" had been pune
hand 10 N. scorers, ina, he made another
complete circuit Of the track before he could
Eddie Root. H.hir and Collins had been
goinz very fast while Clarke and sol had
slowed down after ,l.rk"'s tir" vas pune,
and after Clarke got anofhar bicycle h. GO,
back onto the track. During the rprinting
Iver lawson had lost ground steadily and
had be-n pa~>a.r siN times before the field
fisved BY Wal,honr during " the excitement r.%
very tired when the sprint started Law
son LETT the rack at Is VI and the team
lUar "A flnf IN ga tan ~ f,ta
, the track Their hnll score wa l.oJ5
nounCement that the West Demara and
Wiley Lawrence teams had each los, one
lag IN the . .prin,'nE ; h-'w.en ~ 70: and .
considerable trouble over the action Of IN.
scorers in marking up loss of two laps
for the MscFarland- lark. team
The officials had eIamin-d h. punctured
Il so soft ,ha, i, Would have been be- da serous
scorers claimed that CIarte had los, one
fused ' to- allow the E &seF.risnd a Hfnrs.
,cam SO be scored even with the leaders
NOT been ,,i-titi.d IN slowing down ' uh.n
he had been trailing clarke, and that ia.
Rnti -S'"l team had io-t Two laps Tn.
at O'Clock Yesterday morning showed
walthouE and laT.on ton II the race.
and and sh n ,1ar AMMO w M
renee and West -Demara teams one lap
behint the leaders.
Later George Wiley mad. a strong pro
test against h- team being scored ono lap
behind the leaders. When the official.
refused 10 put them back even terms vi th
the leaders the Wiley Lawrence team with
drew from the race. They W.r. declared
out OF he contest at ! ~ o'clock yesterday
pnorning. their final seer. being .Oes miles
and laps
After the carly morning sprintinR IN.
bunch moved around the track AZ a pace
that prompted some of the boys in the bal
comics to ask the riders II they were not
afraid NJ being pinched for exceeding the
speed limit. George Cameron fell from his
blcycIe when the field was going AZ a slow
pace and IL was said he had tumbled after
going TO- sleep. though Cameron dented this.
A few minutes after o'clock last night
lSyyalter Rutt started a sprint that prorniaed
'Nrouble for some Of the teams Rutt had
been leadin. the field. which had been
loafinz along for hours. A he started
away from the bunch Jack clarke tackled on
behind and they got good lead before
Fogisr got busy and chased them. FOgler
OverhAiIled RItt and Clarke after q lap 81
hard work. The pace was too fast for Col
Inns, Thomas. De Mara and Walker. how
ever, and this quartet were soon nearly u
third OF a lap behind and losing ground
-Mscfarland relieved Clarke and started
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