New-York tribune., 1914-11-18
Dick Rudolph Puts
Garden in Uproar
Mad Sprinting Follows
5000 Offer Made Riders
by Pitcher of Braves.
FIJRIOUS PACE SET
FOR TWENTY MILES
WcNarara, Goullet and Egg
Tear Around the Track Amid
Cheers of Thousands.
Ev FRED HAWTHORNE.

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Cheers Of Thousands.
Bv FRED HAWTHORNE.
series o. intermittent sprints at
,be SIX day race, continuing for twenty
.Hc, and participated in by every one
oftbe thirty-two riders in the race. set
,he eight thousand spectators in Madi-
soo Square Garden tn an uproar last
-icbt. and caused the stragglers among
ne teams 90 be hard put TO Il to main
tain their positions.
The sprntrC started az 1880
o'clock. when Pete. Prunty,. the an
,opncer stepped forth and uttered
,hese fsteful words: Mr.. Dick Ru-
Soinh. OF the worlds champion Boston
Braves, and the trSt citizen OF The
Pro-x. will give 5000 for the winner
~ q series Of mile Sprints for twenty
niles $40 for each mile winner. Mr..
Pu8cIrh. ladies' and Centlemeni"
Wr. Rudolph stepped bashfully for
usr8 nistol iu hand. and bowed his
head demurc'y as eight thousand
-lroats roGre6 q welcome to him. Ru-
solrh did not look like a man to stir
gp trouble vi'fully. but that is just
u.bet he did. f1r as soon as the report
~ the starting gun was heard wild
scramble for position began among the
riders.
The race was terrific throughout al
most the entire twenty miles. Reggie
WcNamsIa. Noran's brilliant partner,
went OF into the lead with a rush and
b. In.
o1d went TO Goullet. the big Austria
Ian. who had a. thrilling struggle with
Oscar Egg. the popular Swiss rider.
So great was the cheering from the
crowd that t was impossible for a man
With anything but full sized voice to
make himself heard. The sprinting
continued. with Mcnamara winning the
majority Of the prizes, unaided by his
partner
Iyor lawson also was In the fore
iron. Of the prize winners. as were
Gou.lctt and Grenda, his partner. When
Egg shot down from the bank az the
eleventh mile and fairly hurled his
Wheel across the finish line, the entire
Garden audience rose en- maSse and
hecrod their tavOrite.
Although the continual sprinting
sent the racers we'll ahead of all eX-
istnC records the tremendous strain
told its tale later. and all the riders
we're wel content TO take a brief
breathing spell.
Following teu-lap sprint for 5000.
which was won by Goullet, at 12:15
O'clock tl., morning, Egg started
sprint and was followed by the Ryan
Woh'rab team. After several laps had
passed Ryan and Wohlrab regained
The Zap they lost on Monday and placed
themselves again among the leaders.
ll the sprint Cavanagh and Piercey lost
I've laps and kopsky and Hansen and
Seres and DupUy each lost a lap.
Race for Suit of Clothes.
Jus, before Rudolph started TO dis
turb the peace, the crowd was put IN
great good humor when Pete Prunty
announced i- sepulchral tones that
"Messrs Blank & Blank, the well
known tsi.ors. have offered two suits
q clothes for ten-lap sprint"
To Judge By their actions, Mcnamara
and lawson must have discovered that
-he.r present winter wardrobe Is out
az the elbows and bagging at the knees.
They started one of the fastest sprints
Of the night for the prize. and Lawson
showed his wheel ahead by two inches
90 the tape A wit In the gallery sug-
geste5 that q pair Of silk socks be Of
.ersd FOR one-lap sprint. No takers.
Prior 20 this, Frank Kramer, the
worlds champion sprlnter, and Clar-
erce Carmen. the motor-paced cham
gIon, rode exhibitions of one-quarter
Of nile and mile. respectively.
kramer's time was "a l-5 seconds and
Carmen 1891 1-5.
During Che day there was no let-up
10 the fast riding around the Dig
saucer BOO the Garden. On the con
raEy, the sixteen riders LETT ln the
race l.- un such "a fast pace that they
drew steadily ahead of the old ngufeS
made last year.
There were several reasons Tor Jhe
5st.eIuc Of the old records, the prlh-
cIpa. lure being the offering OF prizes
ion mile spr.nts. Some Of these We're
offered by the management ana others
Iut up by enthusiastic individuals IN
-te boxes. who wanted action, as
hey called it They got II. Tor thee
cyclists are just as prone 10 the can
OF the mintod stuff as anybody else 4H
tlis material world.
For q time, between the hours OF, .
and 6 o'clock yesterday morning, the
pace relaxed into a steady grind oil
about eighteen miles an hour, There
was no temptation on the part Of the
riders 10 try anything spectacular. ne
"speuders" had gone until another day
and the management was counting up
the house, and had no time 10 oneI
bonuses. Because Of this the racers
actually fell two or three laps behlno
last years figures in the morning
hours
Something had TO be done to keep
thing. alive. and so the gods up
near :hc ceiling began TO warble' not
wisely but too well, and this occupied
TWO or three hours. When the song
birds had retired TO roost the eN-
temporareous orators got their chance
70 display their wares and heid Ior'h
Ike modern Ciccros.
Just when the gallery persiilage wa,
a. the crest a bhehting influence lelf
upon the crowd in the person OF
George $. Doughcrty, head OF the spe-
cial police who curb wild spirlts AT
the Garden At o'clock the order
came 10 "clean up" and DougneIty
and his aides began the WORK OF eaeihf
Che au-uightcrs into the chill ar %
ttc streets.
Fans Hate To BE Ousted.
One dollar for q twelve hours sleep
IS regarded as prohibitive scale. py
the habitusI -Iy-dav fan, and therefore