New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08


Don't you DARE to put thot tack
Just where those poor men are
apheeling.
Hauen't you children any feelangE
The greatest crowd that has seen
a six-day bicycle race in this city IN
many years. was packed into Madison
Square Garden last night, when the
teams still left in the grind began
their final hours of pedalling. Not
only was every available seat IN the
great building occupied before 3
o'clock, but there We're several thou,
sand jammed inside the intield, and
every man, woman and child was a
hopeless bike fan, to judge from the
bedlam of cheers that arose every
time the riders started sprint.
With tears in his voice, Jimmy
Johnston, the manager, came to the
press stand just before s o'clock and
announced that he much feared he
would have to stop the sale of tickets.
''If they would only be reasonable and
sit two in a seat, we could just double
the crowd. but they won't listen to
reason" said Joimes, petulantly.
IL was just AlteT o u CioCh III thc
afternoon yesterday that MARCEL Du-
puy and Tom Bello announced their
retirement from the race, thus re-
moving the most popular team from
the grind at the Garden. The with
drawal of the pair came about as the
result of protest made by Dupuy,
who claimed that he and Bello should
be on even terms with the leaders
How the Rule Reads
According to the official rules. Du-
puy was correct in his contention.
The rule reads: "In combining the
remnants Of two teams, the lower
score must be taken; and should the
teams be tied with the leaders, the
reconstructed team will be penalized
one lap"
Early yesterday morning Dupuy
and Bello made another desperate at
tempt to regain the lap that kept them
from the leading teams, and were ap-
parently successful about 2 o'clock,
after a series of terrible CLANS" But
not be allowed because Dupuy was on
the track and in the last sprint at
the same time as Belo.
Dare Devil Schreyer was the most
disconsolate man in the Garden yes
terday On Friday night the Devil"
celebrated his fifty-seventh birthday,
with "water on the side" taken in
the form of plunge into his tank fol-
lowing his "dip of death" 1t was
the 2.007th time Schreyer had done the
stunt. and after he had gotten into
his street clothes again, he entered the
press stand. armed with a box Of
cigars and written challenge to the
riders in the six day grind
Cigars for the Eggs
"The Eggs will get you if you don't
watch out" warned Jimmy Johnston,
the daring promoter, just before
so "Dare Devil" took along the cigars
as a peace offering to the notorious
Eggs. There were twenty-five cigars
in the box when sd. D." entered the
press box and eight Eggs. There were
NO cigars when Schreyer left, and
eight Eggs.
The DEVILS" challenge to the six
day riders was this: First, a ten-mle
race on the track, then 100-yard dash
down Schreyer's "chute" into the tank
and then another race on the track at
any distance agreeable to the other
riders. Schreyer waited patiently for
an acceptance of his challenge, but
without success. That little 100-yard
dash didn't appeal to the six-day men.
SPEAKING IN THEIR SLEEP AT THE
GARDEN
voice from the gallery, as the
flders pedal along at eight miles an
hour, "Say, why don't youse guys go
HOME and Sleep"
Florrie Barnett (in the press stand) {:
Ferocious Freddy OConnor will now
ohlige with that touching little ballad
What Will the Girls in the Back Room
Have7''
Voice from the Arst tier as Schreyer
starts his dive: Hey, Dare Devil,
you're wanted on the telephone"
Aunt Eleanor Ann: "Why, Johnny
YOUR Uncle Ted dives much more grace
fully off the rock at Falls Hole into
the old pond than that Mr.. Schreyer
and the waters much deeper, too"
A blurb from the Orders: Hey, re-
porter, put my name in de poiper, will
yer" | know Silvey' Burns"
At the end Of the afternoon series
of sprnts, when first place counted
IL points, the team totals were as fol-
lows: Mcnamara and Magin, 408, Cor
ry and Madden, $40; Grenda and Hill
246; Lawrence and Hanley, 1874; Chap
man and Halstead, 1872; Coburn and
Kopsky. 70; Grimm and Thomas, So.
Mcnamara won the first sprint Mad
den the second, Cory the third, Maein
the fourth and Mcnamara the fifth
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