Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-12
Little Fellows Reaped Big Har-
vest Selling Crowds "PrO-
grams" of Race.
ANCIENT RECORD FALLS
Live Bits, of Six-Day Gossip,
Gathered from Mad WhirI
in Garden.

A new scheme to beat the manage
ment was discovered yesterday. Tho
programs that have been tossed away
by the spectators We're being
gathered by various newspaper mer-
chants, and for a while they were on
their way to make fine stake. sill
verman, the chief program seller, dis
covered one of the kids carrying,
what appeared to be a bundle OF
programs. Silver" seeing mis- profits
dwindling grabbed the kid and the
bundle, and when the latter was
opened 1t was found to contain card
and papers cut to the size of pro-
grams. No record was compiled on
the number of spectators who were
bunkoed by the little fellows trick.
The first of the Miller and Waller
records, which have stood since 1899,
went by the board al o'clock this
morning, when, at the completion of
the 10lst hour, Reggie Mcnamara, of
the Root Mcnamara team, completed
1,994 miles, 81 miles and laps better
than the old mileage. At IL o'clock
the riders were 81 miles and 10 laps
ahead OF the record. During the fol-
lowing hour they lost ground being e
miles and . laps ahead. Two laps
were gained in the next hour. At
o'clock the mark was bettered 26 miles
and laps. The increase at o'clock
was set at 81 miles and laps, and at
. O'Clock the Miller Waller distance
was surpassed.
Flags of the nations represented
In tsar. f1-fa aft 10
riders, decorating the place that
hitherto was the scene of nothing but
hard work.
Brocco kept the field on the anxious
edge between the hours OF midnight
and / o'clock with his fake sprnts.
The pseudo Italian would cut out at
a marrying clip, only to slow down
after the trainers had awakened their
reliefs.
The teams of Appellants and Packe-
busch, Cory and Walker and Collins
and Walthour regained lost laps yes
terday afternoon during the scramble
that followed Jackie ClarlTs sprint to
the fore. The Jam" lasted thirty
minutes. and was the longest squirt
since the start of the race. At $3.50
bank and was several yards in ad-
vance before the other riders realized
what was taking place. The big train
took up the chase and overhauled
the wee Australian, only to have APP
pelhans and Packebusch, Walthour
and Collins and Cory and Walker
open up another gap. By dint OF
gruelling pace and speedy alterations
the trio of combinations gained the
coveted circuit. Putting the first two
named on a par with the leaders and
placing Cory and Walker a lap be-
hind. During the half hour Keefe and
Kopsky fell behind another two miles.
Fred Jones. Walter Goerke, Oscar
Goerke, Willie Lee and Joe Judge,
cyclists of other days. were on hand
last night to see the doings.
Fred Keefe is doing the bulk of the
work for the pest" team. Early this
morning Keefe went out and regained
twelve laps of the lost five miles in
three hours, which is an unprece-
denied feat. Keefe would have been
pulling back the lost ground yet were
1t not for Verri and Brocco, who tack
on whenever the green and yellow
shirted rider starts out. The other
morning Keefe rode twenty-four miles
in an hour, setting the pace most of
the way.
Al Copeland, the American trainer
who has been engaged to coach the
Austrian athletes for the next Olym-
pic games, is among the nightly spec
tators Copeland Will leave soon after
the grind for Europe, where he will
take up his new work.
ALI Grenda has been dubbed tho
Camel" The big Tasmanian has a
peculiar motion, similar to that oil
the ship of the desert, when he is
plugging around.
wild scampering resulted at 1924
this morning. when Carmen and Goul.
let spaced several wheel lengths on d
jump off the Madison avenue bank
Grassy Ryan took up the battle
pulling Clark who netted a quarter
lap lead on ~ field. But for a ba6
pickup by Grenda. the orange-colorei
combination seemed due for the re-
gainence Of the lost circuit, RooI