The sun., 1916-12-25
FEW CYCLISTS SHOW
EFFECTS OF GRIND
Egg and Dupuy Jubilant Over
Coup That Gave Them
Early Victory.
ROOT HAS. LAST LAUGH

Seemingly nome the worse for their
gruel'ing experience In the six day bicy-
Gle race which came to . close In Madi-
son Square Garden on Saturday night.
most Of the riders were about town yes
terday bright and early.
One Of the few cyclists not In an amia-
BILE mood was Grassy Ryan. who's share
Of The prise none had been attached
EVEN before he had finished his labors In
the race. Reports that eight other riders
had suffered In a similar way because OF
failure to pay "the butcher. the baker
and the candlestick maker In Newark
and envlrons were denied by John Chap
a manager Of the race.
Oscar Egg and Marcel Dupuy. who as
early A. 8 ECO p. NJ. or Saturday won the
race with one Of he most sensational
spurts In the history Of the grind. were
naturally jubllant yesterday.
Dupuy would talk little. but he smiled
volumes. lie was at the Garden before
II In tho morning and superintended the
removal OF his effects. Egg was At his
home In this city.
Probably more jubilant than either
Egg or Dupuy. was tho veteran Eddie
+, Root. who with the ~youngster. Eddie
Madden. won second money.
Root declared that his having been
placed second meant moro to him than
even the financial emolument that goes
| with the placing. When ths teams were
being made up the Management ap-
preached Fred Hill and then PETE Dro-
bach about riding with Root. Both Hin
and Drobach declined on the pisa That
Root Wal too old 20 be Of much uss. n
mat they wanted young partners. NOW
Root 10 doing the chuckling.
Spears and Mcnamara were emone
those missing yesterday. spears had
been suffering with stomach trouble all
through the week and was 81 little as
sis,ance to Mcnamara, who had TO do
most of tho riding. II Spears had not
been taken III II II hardly likely that
Egg and Dupuy would have been able to
accomplish the coup that left them a
lap In front OF the field on saturday
night.s
i, had been expected that the riders
would be paid YESTERDAY. but Chapman
changed his plans. There IL consider
able figuring to he done before the exact
amount due each cyclist can be known
The payorf will take place tomorrow
morning In the ,iarden.
Fred I'M explained yesterday why he
had left the tracksidc an hour before
the race wound up and left Drobach to
finish by himself. Hill declared tina hs
had told Drobach not 10 leave the track.
side ana 10 he at nls Wneci TeduS u
jump to his relief at the ID.
Drobach. according tn Hill. went &c
his quarters downstairs and when Ege
aud Dupuy started the big jam Drobacf
was nowhere to he found. by the time
he WAS located and was ready to give
Hill relief the damage a been done
Angered by the actions Of his partner
Hill quit the race. That Ia likely to have
no effect on Hilrs prize money.
Bobby Walthour. the veteran OF vet
Grams, spent the day In his home ir
Newark fixing a Christmas tree for his
family. Bobby was as fresh AZ a dais.
and ready TO go into another race. Esl
and Dupuy will begin a vaudeville en-
gagemcut In this city to-day.
Some OF the riders declared yesterda,
that they would balk at taking part II
another race conducted on the sprintini
system. Thu spirits o all the yigoI
out OF them. they declared. and lief
them In poor condition for the climax
The next six day race may be staGct
in Chicago In February. The even
scheduled for San Francisco has beer
dccla red off.