The sun., 1916-12-24
Swiss French Team Gets Away
on a Mad Sprint at
800 p. NJ.
SECOND MONEY GOES
TO ROOT AND MADDEN
u, GEORGE =. UNDERWOOD.

BY a sudden coup at SEQ last night,
Oscar Egg and Marcel Dupuy won the
,wenty-fourth annual six day bicycle
race In Madison Square Garden.
with the finish apparently more than
two hours away. six teams tied for the
lead and the race apparently to he set
tied by the Berlin point sprints. Egg and
Dupuy. catching the rest OF the field
wearieL by several sprints for primes.
suddenly swung out in a series of mad
speed bursts that were kept up until they
had Tapped the entire field.
by splendid riding In the twenty Der
lin sprints at one milo each during the
last hour the veteran Eddie Root and
young Eddie Madden finished second.
Mcnamara M Spears won thirl place.
Kaiser and Cameron finished fourth.
Fifth and sixth places went to the Dro-
bach-Hm and the Naithour- Debaetes
teams. only because Hin quit the race
after the fifteenth Berlin sprint, forcing
Drobach to do all the riding. the team
finished AS low as II did.
The official point sore was Egg
Dupuy. ~; Root-Madden. 69ha Mo
Namar-Spears, IS: kaiser-Cameron.
los Drobach-Hill. ll6is, and Walthour.
DeOaetes. 1870.
Egg and Dupuy were credited with
covering 1925 miles. which WAS 1874
miles and : laps behind the record Of
a,159 miles and . laps made by Goullet
and BRENDA In 1914. The race was Of
l&3 hours Duration, one more hour than
past six day races. which were completed
In it2 hours,
with the lap lead went the first prize
in the big race. All that remained for
Egg and Dupuy was to stave of their
rivals attempts to regain the rst lap.
Egg and Dupuy struck their knockout
blow Just AS the Garden was filling up
! and the spectators were getting ready
for the Berlin sprints. Three primes at
one mile had been held. The last one
had been won by Reggie Mcnamara
after n close race.
! McNamara's %renuo exertions had
loft him spent and winded, Most of the
other riders also were putting and blow
iiry. Noticing the condition OF their
rivals. Egg and Dupuy chose the mo-
ment 10 do or die.
Issue L. Now settled.
launching himself far over his handle
- 'sS '' ~
and was away or a mad burst before
the other riders knew what had hap
pened. Twice Egg circled the track at
a cyclonic clip before he WAS relieved
by Dupuy. In quick reliefs the Swiss
and the Belgian b%ang-banged away in
terrific sprints. Flashing up the
stretches like strcaks OF lightning and
! swooping the curves like striking hawks
the two Europeans stretched their lead
from a quarter OF y lap to half II lap.
| Rider after rider was passed, and soon
the two Europeans had Tapped all teams
except the McNamara-Spears, Madden
Root and Hill Drobach combinations.
Mcnamara, Madden and Hill were
only n quarter Of a lap in front Of Egg.
Reggie was practically dead OH his
wheel. He was laboring badly and his
wheel was x~igxaSglnG as he s,rove
desperately TO prevent Egg from catch
ing him. Pedaling for dear life Egg
crawled up and upon the trio that re-
manned unlapped and finally caught and
passed them. Victory was his and he
raised his hand partly to call the atten-
ton Of the officials to the fact that he
had succeeded In gaining tho coveted
laps n partly az a gesture Of triumph.
The building had been a Bedlam dur
ing the speed spree and fairly rocked
under the roars hat greeted Egg and
Dupuy after their successful coup. The
fans were almost frantic with excite
ment and they cheered the victorious
riders for several minutes.
SPIN Terminates sprint.
Just after ERx and pupuy had gained