The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-12-09
CYCLISTS OFF on
WEEKS LONG GRIN
TEN THOUSAND BIKE FANS ~
PLAUD AS sIx-DAY RACE
BEGINS.
MAY SMASH RECORu
TRACK ~ FASgEsT EVER C0N
STRUCrED. WHICH WILL CON-
DUCE TO RECoRD-BREAx-
INC POSSIBILITIES.
Riders in Six Day Race.

Riders in Ski Day Race.
American Team--Frank kramsf
and Jimmy Moran.
Australian American TIE ns
Jackie" Clarke and Fred Hill.
Australian Tean1--"Alf' crenda
and Ernie" Pye.
German American Tean,--Wat-
ter Rutt and 'Joe" Fosler.
New York Melbourne Teans
Eddie" Root and Paddy, Hshie.
Irish Team-"Grasey" Ryan ard
Lloyd Thomas.
French Tear-oscar Egg and
Andre Perchicot.
Swiss Team--Paul and Frant
Suter.
Iowa Long Island Team-Jolsa
BedeI and Worthineton Mitten.
Dixie New York Team-"Hohbys
Boston Tean--"Pete" DrohaclSs
and Elmer Collins.
California New Jersey Tsani
Percy Larenee and Jake" Masin.
New Zealand Team--"Jumbos
Wells and Gordon Walker.
Providence Jamaica Team--Af.A
via loftes and Clarence carmah.
Franco Italian Team - Maroo&S
Berthot and Maurice 8rocco.
NEW YORK, Dec Before IN
echo If pistol report had died aM1
at one minute after midnight. fifteG
bicycle riders. trained to the high11
point of physical efficiency. and mound
ed on as many glistening "wheeln1
scurried away on the first lap OF IN
weekiong race at Madison square GM1
den, amid the cheers and handclappiQ
Of ten thousand people.
And the six-day race was on.
The riders who made the first c31
cult of the interminable grind for tl19l
respective teams We're:
Moran, Clark, Gronda. Fiogier, Ho3
thomas, Perchiot. Berthet. Paul SUITS
Loftes. John Bedell. Cameron. Din
bach Magtna Wells.
Big Bill" Devery New York; f0z
mer chief Of police, was honored VIII
the post OF starter, Big Bit 1f4
his canister at Is seconds after
o'clock. and the riders were Off on the
seemingly unendiug whirl.
The first hour Of the grind ~
marked by the protracted sprintin8
the foreign riders, who wished to tn
press on their American fellow rideI
early that they were in the race. ~
that they would bear watching.
seems to be tradition that the foreign
ers do most of the early pace maxim
and carry the rest Of the field al01I
at n dizzy clip. The invaders did a
veer from custom this morning, IA
they pedaled fast during the first fel
hours. No one OF the riders could n
ford to lag. for a temporary iap1
would have meant lost ground.
The usual big out pouring OF enthu
siasts filed the Garden long before q
grinders began operations, The cut
tomary Sunday night concert to-
place. in keeping with the Sabha1
law. and the band waited sweet moi
sells of refrain all evening.
Oscar Egg, of France. was the hN
Of many choice remarks from the &1
lery wags. During the early ridtMl
whenever he was in the center "A
cluster of riders, Egg was admoniAhl
not to get scrambled, or broken.
well done,
The track this year is the fA1&4l
ever constructed within the Card
The embankments are sleeper, IN
this is conducive to fast riding. JtWN
Moran. who, with Frank Kramer. f014
one OF the favorite combinations. q!
clared today that he expected = ~
worlds record TO be established for 81
race. He said the track is one ok q
fastest in the world, and will not ~.
nit of slow riding. "Pigy" said IT.
the record of 2,737 miles. one lap. ~
i}v himself and Mcfarland. in IN
would be surpassed.