The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-17
MORAN STARTS WILD DASH
wwcnty-fourth Hour score.


laps
cevcnteen teams were still in the six
DAY bicycle race ~ the end Of the first
DAVIS riding Yesterday on the huge saucer
track at Madison Square Garden but
even at this carly stage of the game the
race began to tell on some OF the men and
as result tho real competition was mar
towcd down to only nine teams. Emile
Cousscau and Georges Parent. ono OF the
French combinations. were the first to be
forced out OF the race They left the track
yesterday morning shortly after 8 O'clock
but not until they were hopelessly out OF
the running.
Neither OF these two men was in any
condition to ride in the long grind. Parent
had been discharged from one Of the
French hospitals only a short time ago,
having gone there to be treated for a bull
Jet wound in the leg. and Cousseau was
vcfully out Of form. SO badly off were
these men that in the very first sprint OF
tie race, which took place when the grind
was little more than an hour old. they
lost lap. From that time on they fell
steadily behind until they finally decided
to droD out altogether
all Of the remaining teams were still on
even terms and hitting up pace that
soon had all OF the old records left in
the shade One OF the main causes for
,he fast riding was the giving OF prizes
by the management for sprints of ten
laps These prizes were put up frequently
during the early hours OF the morning and
always brought out a stirring sprint. The
s-ep rpt
ing and kept il up whether there was a
Prize In sight or not.
There were quite few minor spills
early in the morning caused by puncturc.
but none OF them amounted to much and
is a usual thing not more than one man
fell az time. The first serious spill Of
ne race came along at the end OF the
eleventh hour when. with the held going
:, full TILT a whole bunch OF the riders
were piled up on the track. Piercey Of
the Pie~cey- Cavanagh combination, and
Reggie Mcnamara. who is paired with
Jimmy Moran. were the most seriously
hurt in this mess.
T.eyccy was hit so hard that he lost
consciousness and WAS carried from the
tack His handlers and the official
Physicians OF the race worked over him
t0r about twenty minutes before they
we're able TO bring him around. Shortly
after he regained consciousness he came
back OF the track and was evidently not
any the worse for wear because he inn
ipediately started sprint, Piercey had
been bumped badly about the head and
had his right les badly bruised near the
ankle. Mcnamara had one of his fingers
broken in the spill.
1t was during the sprint which preceded
this spill that the tie among the seventeen
leans for first place was broken. Four Of
the teams were Tapped and dropped behind
tae leaders. The combination that could
rot keep up the pace were the Piercey-
Cavanagh team and the Belgian team OF
Victor Linart and NincenZo Madonna, each
II which lost one lap. GEORGES Sores and
Marcel pupuy. the French team, lost two
lars and Joe kopsky and Norman Hansen,
'e Century Road Association pair,
dropped three laps to the rear.
During the first three hours OF the race
me riders were unable to come UP TO the
oes' previous records for the same periods
"' riding. but the intermittent sprints and
sustained fast rd!ns soon put them ahead
90 the old mark, Later they fell behind
10 records again, but another series of
.ulrs brought them up to almost three
niles ahead Of the old record at the six
'"'uth hour. when they had travelled 365
niles and ! lap. The old record for the
sixteenth hour had been 362 miles and
ans, made by Kramer and Moran in 1912,
At tho twentieth hour the leaders dropped
back little and were only one mile and
fSIt laps ahead Of the old record made by
li.ll and Ryan last year.
TIE bis sprint at IL o'clock yesterday
i"rnirS was started by Jimmy Moran
Y causht = great many of the riders I'M
fHdres and there was "A hustling of relief
- the track. There was a great mixup
''r a while because practically all OF tho
..rty-four contestants were on the track
I" d even the judges had a hard time
ding out which member of a team was
tong the riding. \ number Of the pick
nps We're anything but fair and after much
d n inI mill -
teams SO each.
\ sprint that resulted in tho losing Of
ans by nine teams was started by Ne
%Amara at IL last night. While the
o'sn VAS on these teams dropped back a
zap each; Piercey and Cavanach Bedell
end Bclell, Ryan and Wohlrab, Thomas
hrd Hauley, Walthour and Halstead. Nit
''7 ana Anderson, Kopsky and Hansen
''ndrt and Madonna and Dupuy and
Nores, Tho squirt kept the teams ahead
~ the old record, with 516 miles lap,
'.' cred, whereas the former mark wJs
ui7 and 6.
Walthour entered protest against his
team losing a lap. which he was peualized
No ause of an alleged improper pickup
T e officials decided to restore the lap, but
hGci the team S25. This left nine teams
ict for the lead.
Al l2:l5 Victor Lnart was forced by a
strained back to retire, His partner Vim
""nzo Madonna. rode on in the forlurr
hope that somebody else would drop out
within he four hour limit, leaving a mar
70 make a partner for him In new team
Thus, though the first day ended witt
'"yentepn teams In the race, the SECOND
d4Y was not half an hour old when an.
Ter team had dropped out, leaving onll
sixteen The teams at the end of thu
.Ncnty-fourth hour were stiil well ahead
a. the former record, by 537 miles and
'ps as against tho old mark of 532 mile.
and laps,
in,