The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-20

Only thirteen teams were left In the
six day bicycle race at Madison SQUARE
Garden after . series Of sharp sprints Lar
night The latest team to drop out was
| that OF Bedell and Bedel. who quit the
track az o:i5. Shortly before. or at 10 10,
kopskN retired and his partner. Hansen,
became member If now team with Pier
cey left over from the disbanded percey.
Dupuv team Thus there were two teams
less than during tho daytime.
At O'Clock last night. upon the com.
pletion of tine ninety second hour. oniy
fourteen teams were left In the race Mar
eel Dupuy of France and Charles Piercey
OF Australia. who had Joined forces upon
the disintegration 81 the teams with
which they started. found the going a little
bit too strenuous and dropped out Piercey
and Dupuy were not in last place when
they decided 10 out but they were sc
dangerously near II that there was little
hope for them. The only thing between
them and the tail end was the team OF
Joe kopsky and Norman Hansen As
matter Of fact riercey and pupuy tried
| hard to fall back into the cellar hu,
kopsky and Hansen fought them back
in their determination 10 prove that they
are the slowcst cycicrs in tho world
outside Of the fact that their case was
hopeless the Dupuy- ricrccy combination
had no reason for dropping out. Both
of the men. however thought that euffi
Gent reason. The Frenchman blames hi.
downfall on " Niau. the fan who has
been offering prizes 10 the pidcrs with
ndefatigable zeal Dupuv said: M viau
has put mo ont OF the race His offering
OF money for sprints so frequently has
called for too much speed and ! canno,
Keep going. IN fact I can hardly sit or
my wheel" According to the rules OF
the race, both Of the men got four hours
TO reconstruct another team and piercey
made use of his chance
Grassy Ryan. who IL riding with Gus
Wohrab, the ers'wh,e amateur. aur who
was mainly instrumental IN rcgaininS
the lap lost by his team In the carly
hours OF the race. kept tho crowd inter.
cstcd carly yesterday morning hy start.
ing series OF sprints In an effort "a
gam another lap The best chance his
team had to go to the front ~ the field
was along about II o'clock on Wednss.
DAY might when Wohlrab got away for
about half lap. The team prohabl,
would have gained tho circuit IN RYAN
had been ready on the track, but he came
up too tate
IN tho "arlT morning hours YESTERDAY
Ryan had LOT OF fun with the riders
and added to the amusement of the crowd
RYAN went NJ 30 the top Of the track
as II he wor" pSparing to make a squirt
and kept riding around as high vi the
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bent low over their mounts. and some
of them almost broke their usCks watch.
! Ing HIM While the leaders were doing
| this. Hansen, who was setting the pace
slipped away and gained lap for his
team. Ryan did start short sprint e
make his blur good but all Of the mcr
were right CIT after him
| Most Il the leading teams are moi
strong for tho money prizes VIII I'll have
| been offered to mako them sprint anC
| Yesterday afternoon four OF the teams
| threatened to quit the race. The pace is
/ faster than any set IN previous GRIND
/ ana has been greatly increased by thes.
| sprints but il il beginning TO tel ou the
men. Tho protesting teams were wal
| thour aud Hnlstead, Cameron and Kaiser
| Root and CLARK, and Moran and McNa
! mara. They based their protest on th'
! fact that the prize money gave the teams
who We're hopclcssly out OF the race
/ chance t. make some extra money while
II made tho going harder for them be
| cdus. tho trailers would set hot pace
| Inv an effort to win tho prizes and loaf thu
rest Of the time
! Moran acted as spokesman for th'
crowd and rendered his complaint {,
! Manager Floyd Mcfarland Mcfarland
promptly told Moran that II the cond
. lions of the race were not satisfactory
to tho mon they were AZ liberty 10 qu
yt any time they saw NJ, hut that II the,
SHOULD uuit they would Nc hlacklisted b,
tine National cycling Association. Th'
/ men th"t decided the" would stay IN IN
race but said that they would reve'
enter another race under similar condi
! tiDuS.