New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-23
BY FRED HAWTHORNE

The team of Eddie Root and Eddie
Madden, the veteran and the kid, went
into the lead on points last night in
the six-day race at Madison Square
Garden. They now have a total OF liz
points for the week. Mcnamara and
Spears are second, with 10; Hill and
Drobach, third. with 21t,; Kaiser and
Cameron. fourth. with 81, and Egg and
Dupuy, fifth. with %.
The decisive test will come tonight
when the final hour Of sprinting, be-
tween 10 and II o'clock, will end the
race. Roo nnd Madden are now ia
vored 70 land first place, according TO
Frank Kramer, national sprint cham
pion.
This combination is the strongest as
team IN the grind. Reggie Nc
Namara was a strong favorite in the
betting until after the sprints last
night, but now it is believed the weak
ness of Spears. his partner, will prove
too big a handicap 20 overcome.
Mcnamara won the first sprint, the
third and fifth, and was second to
Kaiser in the seventh. With Alfred
Goullet out of the race Reggie domi-
mated the field, but he is one man
against ten and the task looks too
much for even his iron constitution.
McNamaras sprnting last night
was again the feature of the night, as
it has been on each of the FIVE days of
the race. If Spears were anywhere
near his best form he and Mac would
be far in the lead on points, but in
almost every sprint during the week
McNamaras partner has finished far
in the rear.
The work of the Iron Man" in this
race has been little short of marvel
lous; in the twenty point sprints in
which he has taken part since the start
of the grind, Mcnamara has flashed
across the line first sixteen times and
in the others has not finished worse
than third.
Continuous Sprinting
More laps were lost or regained dur
ing the morning hours than in all the
first four days of the race. An al most
continuous series of sprnts broke up
the field, left the riders so exhausted
that several fell from their wheels and
worked the thousands of spectators
into frenzies OF excitement
When the terrific struggling for laps
was over. the standing Of the teams
was almost completely upset. Spears
and Mcnamara, Egg and Dupuy, Hill
and Drobach, Root and Madden. ksi-
ser and Cameron and Walthour and
Debaetes were still tied for the lead IN
distance covered.
Among those who were killed off dur
ing the mad dashes around the track
were Ryan and Eaton, Lawson and
Mitten. Thomas and Hans Ohrt and
Bello and Ernest Ohrt. Smith and
Kopsky, at one time four laps behind
the leaders, came back strongly while
the other riders were recuperatlng and
made up all their lost ground. The last
lap they regained was not allowed by
the judges, who claimed that kopsky
had made a faulty pickup. This left
the latter team one lap behind the
leaders.
The surprise of the race vas the lap
ping of Eaton and Grassy" Ryan, who
were figured as having an excellent
chance to get in the money. Ryan be-
came so exhausted during the mad
whirl. however. that his team was
Tapped once and later on was penalized
another lap because Ryan failed to
return to the track within the pre-
scrbed ten laps, after stopping TO have
a tire replaced.
Set Killing Pace
But thereafter this team made
life miserable for the other rid
ers. as they sprinted again and again
in the effort to recover the lost ground,
although unsuccessfully. 1t was be-
cause Of the killing pace set by Ryan
and his partner in these attempts that
Smith and Kopsky made up three OF
their laps.
The field was so weary that no at
tempts were made to hold the trailers
at first, when Kopsky cut down one cir
cult separating him from the field.
Smith made il two more. after mile
sprint. and he and Kopsky drew level
by clever relief work, only TO be told by
the judges that the lap would not be al
lowed