The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-07
EIGHT TEAMS TIED.

In, thrilling series of sprints just before 1o'clock last night Anart and DehaAta were lapped In the six day bicycle race In the Garden Eight teams are now tied for the mileage lead. Chapman and Eager also are one lap behind the field. Eddie Root, ths veteran rider. quit the race yes tsraay morning and his partner, Pete Drobach. later renaated with Oscar Egg. The new combination was psnaHzed two laps and now form the rear guard. The leaders are miles behind the record
 The big jam that resulted in the ] tapping of Linart and Debaets had l been cooking up all night Through out the Berlin sprints Drobach and ] EsE made periodic attempts to regain I lost ground, and Gopl1et and Magin also tnek . hand in shooting the gaff into the field. All of the speed bursts were futsle t1n ono that came shortly befure Il o'clock A rider suddenly shot, out of the haze and went to the front If was Drobach-
 cfrrIing the track like mad Dro. bach opened up third of lap be- fore he was relieved by Egg, and Dro- bach alternated in setting the pace Round and round the saucer the riders skinned at crazy clip. Weber went down on the Twenty-sixth street turn and Spears got a puncture and came . cropper on the Fourth avenue stretch. r
 The officials, however, did not sig nal for fhe sprints to stop. For the /, 1 12 minutes speed burst followed speed burst. The riders were strung { out along the track and 1t looked as if several teams had been 1apped. When the field settled down it was announced that only Linart and De- baets. had lost a lap.
 Mnse Races Next Week.
 Another full house was on hand when the Berlin sprints started last evening. The attendance has so far exceeded expectations that the Gar den management has decided to hold more bike races next week. On We'd nesday night the national indoor sprint championships will be staged and on Friday night there will be started 24 hour motor paced race,
 
 George Wiley brought home the bacon in the curtain raiser of the night sprints for Berlin points. He nosed out Thomas, who came like 6 cannon bah in the last 90 yards. De- baets, Gou1let, Hal-ley and Brenda finished in order. Fred Hill took the second sprint, with Linart, Magin, Corry, Lawrence and Weber getting the other places.
 Goullet had things easy in the third sprint. He took the lead two lapa from home, and did not receive a single challenge. It was slow heat, and Verri did not have to extend him. self to finish fourth. The order was Gou1let, Thomas, Hanley, Verri, Mad den and Brenda.
 Shortly after the third sprint Dro- bach evidently went out in an attempt to regain one of the laps his team Is in the rear. Magin quickly caught him, but instead of slowing up kept pedaIling at terrific rateu ntfl re- Heved by Goul1et. Al opened up a quarter. of a lap on the field before caught by Egg. For 10 minutes the members of the Drobach-Egg and GouIlet-Magin teams alternated in speed bursts. but, none of the riders was lapped.
 Field In Hot Sprints.
 The fourth Berlin sprint was com p1eted in between the speed bursts engineered by Drobach and Goullet, Corry. Lawrence, Hanley. Brenda, Weber and Wiley finished in order. Corry repeated in the fifth heat, with Linart,5 Weber. Goullet. Hanley and Brenda following. Gou11et took the sixth sprint easily, with Thomas, Madden. verr1, Hill and Weber chas- ing him in. Goul1et again was in front at clas end of the seventh sprint. Thomas. Linaxfs Hanley, Corry and Verri took the other places.
 h between the seventh and eighth 'sprfnts Drobacia again cut loose in an attempt to regain lost ground. Magin led the field in desperate pursuit. He caught and passed Pete in the middle of the jam. The eighth sprint was completed with the order Magfn, Madden. Ldnart, Hill, Smith and Wiley. Tho jam was at it's height when Masfn came cropper and took Wiley down the bank with him. That ended the soiree.
 Thomas took the ninth heat, with Goullet. Corry, Verri, Curman and Ldnaxt following. At the end Dro- bach once more jumped away, but failed to catch the field mapping Egg relieved Drobach. Weber fell on the Twenty street tuiq, but the judges decreed the fall wss an inten- f1cnai one and did not sfs nal for the eDffnt to cease.
 When tlae veteran Eldie Root threw up the sponge vest ,rday and left his partner, Pete Drobs sh. to ob- tain new mate or withdraw from the race on more hero of yestesday sur rendered to the relentless assault of FatheF Time. It was in 1904 that Root, then tow-headed youngster of 21, came down from Boston and teamed with Ollie Drolon of Brooklyn captured the Garden race. From then on Eddie has been in the thick of the racing, compiling 8 record approach oA by no other six-day rider with &e exception of Joe Fogler.
 Eddie won the Garden races oi 1904, 1905, 1906 and 1910. third ir 1918; fourth in 1908 and 1912 and eighth in 1914. Considering his grueliing campaigning 1t Is no won- der that the 37-year-oid swede Ed diew ae bora fa Stockholm. Sweden