The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-12
BRENDA AND HILL
WIN SIX DAY RACE;
MAKE NEW RECORD
Score Only 80 Points in Series
Of Sprints During Last
Hour Of Struggle.
FOIL RIDING BY SPEARS
SPOILS CHANCE TO WIN

NAsN AAe ~
h, scoring the low total OF 30 points. in
tho onc hour Berlin finish In which the
POSITIONS At the finish OF sixteen mile
aud n half sprints counted In the scor-
,r Five frsts. six seconds, three thirds,
, fourth and a ninth contributed toward
,,e victory OF the Observation-Disclosures
.am Reggie Mcnamara and Bob
spe,rs Of Australia. were second, with
At rn,n,s. Magln and Lawrence were
-ed FOR third place with Thomas and
RYAN AT % points. Egg and Dupuy were
.fh. with 81 points. and Eaton and
Madden sixth. with 81. Just ore point
halter than Wel,hour and Moran, whose
score was IS.
Az the finish the men had travelled
40 miles and $ laps.
The places up front helped Brenda
And HIl materially in winning. but they
we're not the only circumstance IN
trtbu,ing 10 their victory. The places
would all have gone for naught IL the
i,dges had not penalized Mcnamara and
spears II points for rough riding. This
PENALTY put Mcnamara and Spears out
OF IL, for their actual point score was
only SO. The penalty. however, was
well merlted by Spears. who did n OF
the most glaring pieces OF foul tdins
seen in a six day race In years. Il
was In the fourth sprint that Spears
did the trick. -.
Egg had gone out with a rush and
seemed sure OF winning the heat, but
-.,,- fr~,,, AAktnl vAnrhah nt~RR
rs handle bars and grabbed Eggs sad
die and held the swiss back, sallowtng
BRENDA TO carry of first place. Egg
d-onped back 10 fourth. Cory and Dro-
bach also were penalized eleven points,
but Il made no difference In the ftnal
standing Of the team. Mcnamara and
,irenda we're the most consistent win
rers Of the sprints, each getting four
hrs,s Egg had three leads TO his
,.edt. while spear. had two and Mittsn.
Moran and I'M n each.
Bobby Walthour started the most SEN
r,.onal sprint OF the night in the last
dash of the race, much to the delight or
the huge crowd. The Georgian dashed
around the saucer like mad and gained
q lap on the crowd. According TO the
Tlles OF the race the winner or a lap gets
cr,dtel only for as many iirsts as are
ef after he HAS iiHpth INC lelN' AhA-
meant that Walthour and Moran got
oniy one first.
The sprint was a corker while II lasted
Az kept the spectators on their feet.
waithour had a bad fail Immediately
after ne gained the lap. but Moran
Was on the track II relieved him imme-
diately. II was the second time during
the final hour that the Dixie rider went
down.
After the finish. Grenda and Hill. as
Is the custom with winners. rode around
the track for the plaudits of the crowd
and gained its teers. Mcnamara and
spears were treated likewise. while Egg
and pupuy and Walthour and Moran
We're chcered wildly. In the last hour
the men travelled "a miles. as against
q miles . laps for the same period last
year They finished the grind IL miles
and 8 laps ahead OF the former record
During the afternoon the riders finally
arrived at the realization that the steal
lnS Of 4 lap was almost impossible and
tn eleven teams settled down for the
last hours OF plugging. Georges Sores
| the French member OF the French and
> Belgian team, did what he could to dror
any chance char from the field. He
made many short dashes. apparently
With u, hope OF tapping the crowd. but
~ The Itnote nance that some OF the
short measure dozen might be killed by
the speed.
These short dashes did not shake any
o. the riders off. but served to keep the
i1ers from loaing. The pace helped
nfag the men away from the old records
AID az $ o'clock last night they were
fourteen miles ahead OF the old mark
Tie number Of teams tied at the be
gaming Of the last hour was the larges
or .u a New York race. Prior to las
night the bigges, field to contest thu
NH'Sa was made up of eight leans. Tha
vas IN 1906. when Eddie Root and Jo'
fos.eg Won the final dash for the money
Nnen the tnal hours riding started tn
Garden was damned with one of the big
81 crowds that ever saw a finish.
The men have been ahead OF the rec
OIL steadily since the thirty-ffth hour
"1'N d series of sprints carried the me.
'"w laps ahead of the old mark. Tn
hos' the riders went ahead OF the rec
on was on Thursday night, when the,
~tf" tweNty-eIght miles ahead,
Tie annual last day cleaning out o
w" Garden took place early yesterda,
morning aud most OF M spectators d.
~ Ike the idea OF going out in tn
'"d air, Some Of the sleepers proteste
beng walked up at what they terme'
'' W'Ii'" OF the night, but their pro
vests grew rather feeble when the
!"'Nei arouLd and saw fifty stron
a.n"1 gentlemen prepared to use per
- ou There were a goodly numbe
O. the o%Hluokcrs who went out only a
.s 'h" box office and came RICH
."." ~ again prepared to finish GU
to week
'". and l|sllcss riding marked tn
poem" nance Of the pedallers during IN
"' 'Iuu midnight until 3 O'Clock |
.u". mllg n even primes OF res
.'R1I lender failed to ride them froi
'H'ir i''ndrgy. Whatever contestar
WIS 1I' ia The front carried home tn
money which some spectator figure
"oNi hIng out a real old fashione
'''. In" record crept steadily up o
'' riders until early IN the mori
~ iuev had dropped TO less than thrs
MUS ahead OF the former mark.
l.' Idp1 rt-Seres combination WI
We oI' team 10 make a stab at gettin
OR ~ the eleven cornered tie for FIR.
Lao" lduart relieved his partns
s0ori'r before the cleaning out OF Il
'd'd'0 and finding all of the other cor
'sia'iS Icsting comfortably on the
mounts made Il dash from the pac
h'0 before The others could get goin
one so AZ II zap OF aiinuSt half Il la
4 on ilt 'rONd 1t was not "A case ,
= '''r not missing him. but they simpI
,,I a lnrd time getting their veal
'Ps 70 respond To tho call. Linart wa
t"rg stroug and there was conside
"n'' CONSERVATION IN the other camp
~ NJ tN" riders were called out ON II
'ra'N and trckked after the flying Be
sHn Leg and Moran took turns
pHfIfE tho crowd and finally led n