The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-17
NEAR RIOT At
END OF BIKE RACE
Dispute Over Second Place Causes
uproar at Madison Square Gar
den and Heat is Run
Over.
FoGLER AND CLARKE
This Team Won Six Day Race With
Frank Kramer of Moran-Kramer
Team as Winner Of
Second.

Team as Winner of
Second.
UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.1
NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-Madison
Square Garden was the scene of a near
riot at the close Of the six day bike
race tonight. Immediately after the
judges had declared Fogler and
Clarke the winners, the riders start I
ed off on heart-breaking sprint for
second place. Frank Kramer, the Or
ange, New Jersey flyer, led the field
and finished several lengths ahead
of his nearest competitor, but the
judges announced that it was mo
race owing to the premature ringing
of the bell calling for the last lap.
Kramer protested vainly and an
nounced that he would not ride again.
The house was in an uproar and
riot was threatened when it was an
nounced that Moran, Kramer's team
mate would ride. The teams started
to line up and after an argument that
lasted fully ten minutes, Moran an
nounced that he would not ride.
! Again the house was in an uproar.
Kramer and Moran were hooted and
! jeered and the police were taxed to
| the limit to prevent an outbreak.
Even the judges had exhausted all
patience and We're ready to declare
| the Kramer-Moran team out of the
! sprint for second place, Kramer rode
out on the track and announced that
he would ride.
Lorenz, the European champion,
/ then decided that he had a grievance.
\ Three minutes of arguing failed to in
h duce him to mount his wheel and the
rest Of the riders started at furious
{, pace. Kramer duplicated his Garlic.
performance, opening up gap of ten
yards on his competitors at the first
quarter and finishing an easy winner
of second lace
Demara and Lawrence finished
third Halstead and Drobach, fourth;
Cameron and Magin fifth, and Pye
and Collins sixth
Fogler and Clarke, the winners of
the first prize of $1,000 failed to
come up to former records. they fin
isheG with mark of 2,71S- miles and
laps The previous record made bS-
Mcfarland and Moran in 1908, was q,
7S7 miles and one lap.
In, ie{o az ciy dou
bicycle ,.acing have such sprints been
seen as the attempts of the leaders in
the second division to gain the covet-
cd lap which Fogler and Clarke main
tanned to the finish. There were heart
breaking tests. Time and again ride.
ty or fifty yards, gradually increasing
the advantage for few laps only in
the end to be overhauled.
The crowd which packed the Gar
den goaded the riders on with uproar
ious yells to "hit 'er up and "ge,
the lap Until the gong sounded 70,
the last miles, the crowd kept UP its
hooting and the riders their hare
sprinting, but it was all in vain. Fog
Ter and Clarke were not to be denied
the advantage which they gained at
ter four hours of hard pedalling !.
the early morning hours.
The biggest disappointment of thu
race was the failure of Frank Kram
er, champion sprinter of the worlu
to hold his end up with Jackie Clark,
in the sprint that gained lap for tn,
winners.
Thousands of dollars had been wag
cred on Kramer being in at the finish
it was the champions first attempt a
. six day racing but Jackie Clarke-th
seasoned veteran-was master. TIL,
riders at the finish looked like fl
candidates for hospitals, but imme
diately after the race was over, the,
We're hustled off to Turkish baths.
OF the fifteen teams starting in tn
race, only eight finished. Five wer
forced to quit early and during tn
last hour the teams CT Georget an,
Brocco, and Lapize and Van Houwar
more than a mile to the rear, retired
y-sss ~ as iss'S'ssstsa
Standing at Finish.
Fogler-C Clarke 271S-9.
Kramer Moran PISS
Halstead-Drobach PISS.
Pye-Collins PISS.
Cameron-Magin 271S-S.
Denara-Lawrence PISS.
~Lorenz-Saldow 271S-S.
Hill-Bedell 271S-7.
Lapize-Van Houwart Pitts.
Georget-Brocco 2717-0.
The former record is 2737 miles,
lap, made by Mcfarland and Mora
in 1908
self.Euident.