The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-12
YANKEES OUTARGUED
BY EUROPEAN BIKERS
Win Debate on Style of Sprint
to Decide Six Day Grind:
to BE Hour Long.
PLAN SPECIAL BONUSES

There will be a departure from prec.
dent in the running Of the annual six d,v
bicycle race at Madison Suuaro Gari.,
next week The management daoil,s
yesterday afternoon at a meeting Of IN.
riders to decide the race according TO ~.
European system This means that IN.
stead OF placing the teams at tie ora
OF the race by a one mile sprint the tied
teams will sprint for an hour. Point,
will be given TO the leader at the end a,
each fifteen laps, every mile and hair
and the team with the greatest number o.,
points will be declared winner
This Is the method that has been ,
vogue in Europe for number Of wear.
The way that ii is done thcr,-i,d
probably will be worked out the sam.
way here's to give the leading team ~,
the end of each fifteen laps NUMB.
OF points equal to the number OF teams
left in the race.
When il WAS announced the other day
that the foreigners had kicked about ND
ing If the race were TO he wound M ~,
mile sprint and had threatened to dto,
out it commenced to look as il the r,,.
might narrow down to an Australia.
American affair The management we
kept pretty busy trying TO figure Oh,
Ep'H' S'i'ilf NH'ItDN inc Jung might "a
setsled anicably, but there seemed +, l..
no way. Il was thought at first that tie
Americans and Australians could no
brought around to ride whatever way the
foreigners wanted. Things did not loot
very bright for "A settlement of this kind
however. on Tuesday. for the Yankees ant
Antipodeans announced that they would
quit If the European finish were adopted
and. Furthermore, they expressed then.
selves as being anything but satshtd
with the fact that the Europeans Wanted
to dictate to them.
Manager MacFarland saw that both ..,
riders and management were getting IN
deeper the further they went. so he called
for "A meeting Of the riders yesterday AZ
the offices in the Garden. All the rider.
were there. the foreigners represented Uy
an interpreter, but they were so inte..
ested that they stood around and .ha
Interpreter had hard time saying an.
thing because each one of the visitors
wanted to get his own word in, no matter
what the language was
After long talkfest MacFarlard man.
aged to show the American and Aus.
tralasian riders that it was to their ad-
vantage to let the finish be made BY ,Ns
European system. He told them that.
inasmuch as they all We're good sprinters.
they would have more than an even
''''I'' VI SELLING OUT III front IN the las
hour when the points were scored TIE
foreigners would not hear of an American
finish because they said they would not
have ghost of a show against the speedy
Americans and Australians
At the meeting MacFarland announced
that he would give the men prizes up to
the sum of $4,000. in small bundles o,
cash ranging in size from $50 to 5000
The premiums are to be given out to the
men who set the pace for the longest time
to the teams that manage to steal Lar
and TO the man doing the best all around
work on the saucer in both the after.
moons and nights Of the grind.
The Europeans came out OF the ofYics
smiling after they had won their point
but some of the Australians and Amer
cans were heard to remark that the hour
finish would not do the foreigners mucl
good as the lead would he pretty wei
determined before then. At any rate the
home riders and the Antipodcaus are no,
feeling any too happy in being beaten
on the argument and it is thought that
they Will put up terrific pace early In
the week in an effort to leave the for
eigners in the rear.