New-York tribune., 1917-12-04
Italian Rider
Unbeatable IN
Cycle Drives
Special Features Add to In
terest in Annual Race
Two Daring Dives
By Fred Hawthorne

Young big Bill' Wellman IS the
Leon Bakst of the six-day bike race
game. He knows the secret Of good
stage management and stage scenery,
and as a result the Garden was the
hangout for close 10 10000 siN-day
bugs" insects" or human beings, as
some sticklcrs for facts insist upon
calling those who sever all home ties
during the week Of the grind.
There IS something to hold the atten-
tion all the time. IL Joan Sawyer is
not doing .he latest dips on the dane
ing platform Daredevil Schreyer" is
doing n thrilling loop the tank oil a
bicycle. starting from a narrow run
way just under the roof beams.
II Schrcyer is not AT his little trick,
then Arthur Holden is diving from the
other end Of the Garden roof into the
same tank The daredevil uses. These
two chaps get along famously together
in the same tub.
Some Furious Sprints
The nightly series of official Berlin
point" sprints brought out some furious
sprinting on the part of Kramer, Nerri.
Magin and Goullet Nerri, the 1.-the
little Italian, was unbeatable last night.
In the first fve-mile sprint he just beat
out Goullet by "A wonderful jump ten
feet from the finish. Il was the great
Kramer himself who had 10 trail the
foreigner in the third test OF speed, and
in the fifth dash Nerri beat out Oscar
Egg by the width of a hard-boiled eggs
shell. j. G., three inches.
Kramer is riding a great race this
year. The perennial sprint champion
is riding partly for cash and partly for
revenge on Goullet, who refused Frank
as a partner before the race.
Neck and Neck Finish
The former national champion had
a neck and neck finish with Jake
MaRin, Gouilet's partner, in the fourth
sprint. and showed over the line just
ahead. In the eighth whirl Frank
shot out from second place, after
trailing Arthur Spencer, the national
sprint champion of 1917, and took first
place in a driving finish from Eddie
Madden. It was Kramer's work last
night that kept his team in second
place. next to Goullet and Magin, on
the nights total.
When the last of these ten sprin's
had been completed Goullet and Magin
led on the days total with &c points,
with the others following in this or
der: Kramer and Egg. AZ; Cory and
Madden, 45; Verri and Spears, 40; Hill
and Hanley, 35; Piercey and Grenda.
25; Root and Drobach, -; Thomas and
Lawrence, II; Carman and Wiley. l.;
A. Spencer and W. Spencer. 10; Smith
and Weber, ., and Linart and Dcbaets, s.
At 1920 o'clock the Canadian team,
composed of the Spencer brothers, Ar
thur and Willie, withdrew from the
race.
The first twenty-four hours of the
big race has proved that six-day fans
are good patriots. How do we know?
Sergeant Harry Miller. Of the United
States Marine Corps recruiting tent,
housed in a khaki tent in the infeld,
announced that seventeen men had
volunteered in the afternoon and been
received with open arms. Tomorrow
n company of marines, accompanied by
a full brass band, under command OF
Major Kip; will give an exhibition
drill.
The sprinting began early in the
race, with Willie IIanley taking a SO
prize offered by Joe Fogler, during the
first hour. Alfred Goullet, one of the
strongest riders in the grind, started
a terrific sprint at 1925 o'clock, and was