The sun., 1918-12-09
SIX DAY BIKE RACE
RECEIPTS, $4,000
Riders Receive $4,000 and
Promoters Realize Profit
of 100000.
ny GEORGE h. UNDERWOOD.

When the last ticket was sold at
Madison Square Garden last Saturday
night the six day bicycle racing fans
OF this vicinity had poured close to s1O.-
900 into the Golfers OF the promoters,
James Johnston. Cornelius Fellowes and
Maxey Blumenthal Cornelius Fellowes
yesterday said the receipts. including
the money taken In at the sprint races
on the previous Saturday. had amounted
to more than $4,000. OF that sum
Uncle Sam will receive 10 per cent, or
approximately $500. as war tax.
According to the promoters. the riders
get $4,000 in purse moneys and $4,000
was paid to the corporation owning
Madison Square Garden as rental. The
total expenses probably did not eMeed
$4,000. so the promoters realized more
than $4,000 profit on the enterprise.
For winning the grind Reggie McNa-
mara and Jake Magin split $4,000 be-
tween them. They each received 81 500.
That was quite tidy sum for the weeks
work. In addition. Mcnamara and Ma
gin have been offered an expense and
riding guarantee for their appearance In
the six day race TO be held in Paris
early in January.
BIG Paris Offer.
Besides the fat guarantee offered by
the French promoters, Mcnamara and
Mag!n have the option of taking a per-
centage of the gate receipts. AS the
event will be the biggest sporting ono
staged in France since the war 1t Is ex-
pected 1t will attract a huge gate.
Eddie Madden and Frank Cory, who
finished second. were we'll paid for their
efforts. They split $4,000. Al BRENDA
vided $4,000. The rest of the purs5
moneys was distributed as follows ::
Lawrence Hanley, $1,000; Coburn- Kop-
sky. $1,000: Thomas-Grimm. $3.50; Hal
stead-Chapman, $3.50; Debaetes-Car-
man. $3.50. and Lang Byron, $3.50. Kra-
mer. Dupuy. Bello, Markey, Weber,
Eaton, Gerwig, Keller and the Bowker
brothers shared in the $4,000 paid by
the management to riders who did not
figure in the point score.
Though the race from competitive
standpoint as viewed by mileage COW
cred was one OF the slowest OF recent
years. II smashed all attendance records
The contest attracted a capacity crowd
on the opening night and the manage
ment continued to pack them in through
out the week
New Attendance Record.
Expenses were paid on Wednesday
night and the gate on Thursday. Friday
and Saturday was velvet" to the pro-
meters. The attendance during the hrst
three days greatly exceeded the attend
ance figures for the same days in all
previous races and the throngs the last
three days established n new six day
race attendance record.
With the exception of Fred Weber.
who fractured his nose in the spill on
Friday night. all the riders came out OF
the grind in good shape. There were
many spills during the contest, but few
bad ones. and there were less accidents
than In any OF the past races.
1t was the Berlin sprints that kept the
riders 30 far behind the record for dis
lance covered. The speed bursts Slapped
tho stamina and vitality OF the riders
a. they were unable TO maintain as
fast an average clip as in former years.
While the leaders were far behind the
record OF ass miles and two laps made
ny Goullet and BRENDA in the lac hour
r 3 OF 1914. the mileage covered hy the
riders in the recent race compares IA
vorably with that reeled OF by Goullet
and Magin in winning the IA hour con-
test in 1917.
Last weeks contest was the second
IA hour race staged. The event in 1916
was l43 hours duration and tie 1917
race took up IA hours time. All other
Madison Square Garden team races were
al the old time limit OF l42 hours.