The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-07
AND DUPUY
 STRIVE TO REGAIN THEIR LOST LAP
Three Riders Fall in Smash up at Six-Day Garden
 Race.

Reggie MCNamara, the bike rider from the land of the Kangaroo, was the victim of the most damaging spill of the six-day race when he collided with Al Brenda on dead mans curve at the Fourth avenue end of Madison Square Garden last night. McNa- mara was coming around the outside of the pack to beat Frank Corry in the wild finish of the sixth sprint. His pedal caught Grenda's wheel, and McSamara, Brenda and Weber were hurled to the foot of the track.
 The riders, badly bruised and scratched, were carried from the rack and their partners were rush. d from their cots to take up the re- lief riding. It is feared that Me Namara was so badly shaken up that t may impair the chances of his team in the finishing sprints tonight. There was much wild riding dur ing the night Freddy Hill cptured the first sprint in a dizzy pedaling duel with Willie Hanley. Eddie Madden got the second, just beating young Ray BAAon by the fraction of m inch. McNanara grabbed the third sprint amid g. chorus of misses and his partner, Jake Magin, Captur- ed the fifth drive. Then came the sixth sprint, which looked like a whirlwind finish until McNamara, Weber and Brenda went down in he biggest spill of the race.
 Fred Weber was badly hurt in the spill. His noso was broken and his lace badly cut.
 The mysterious fascination which the six-day race has for the sport hungry public prompted the promot- CTS to boost the prices last night, and sven with extra financial burden Mad ! son Square Garden was damned from pit to attic. Except during the ! 3prints, the race has settled down to ia noontonous loafing procession. [ with the riders haggard, muscle sore and sleepy. They are nearly 2OO niles behind the record.
 It is the sudden outbursts of iprinting by the drowsy riders that 1 keeps the crowd alive with eXtrava- rant enthusiasm. It takes very It. 1 .le to start the mob cheering. They shout at each other, at the riders, and tt the song boosters. If MoNamara , pr MaEin get out in front they hiss ! The only one who holds a spell over 1 the bowling multitude is Jimmy | Flynn the diminutive singer. They will listen to him and to no one i else.
 { When the sprints started last night | McNamara and Magin led in the point score, with 321,with Madden and Corry nsoond with 259. Grend and Hill were hlrd with 200.
 Probably none among the thousand L,ofI homeless cycle fans has enjoyed the ace dnite as much as the party of 18O wounded soldiers from Base Hospital E No. 8 which was the old Siegel Cooper | store on Sixth Avenue. A request for \ automobiles to convey the soldiers to Ithe Garden brought enough cars to transport an army.
 The soldiers received the freedom of the place and for a few hours they were able to forget their pains and aches. There was plenty of good sprinttng to entertain the soldier lads.
 At o'clock in the afternoon the Ipack was loafng along trying to force &opsky to set the pace. Kopsky wal riding high on the embankment wheT he tried to cut down and collideC with Halstead. The pair turnbIet down but were not badly hurt.
 The soldiers gave a great recep ion to Ray Eaton when he raced away with the second afternoon sprint. McNamar and Magin, how ever, with their relentless riding managed to get away with 23 of tn afternoon sprints while Madden ant Corry were next with 19.
 Early yesterday morning two O the fans in the attic gallery though that there wasn't enough exoitemen on tap, so they climbed down the stee posts from the upper roost to tn lower tier. Then they went on { he track and did some ground an iofty tumbling. The riders didn't q much work while these two were per forming.
 The bike sharks who have bee watching the riders all week predic that McNamara and Magin hay been doing so much sprinting a :, week that when the final test come in the final hour of sprinting tonigf chey will crack. Al Brenda and Fred die Hill have been holding back an will have a lot of reserve strengt
 Or the big blow off this evening, E6 lie Madden and Frank Corry wi
 L1Bo make a strong bid for first plac
 ls both are riding strong and al not as tired as most of the othC
 -iders.
 If MeRamara is growing weak I lid not show 1t last night, for in Il fhtrd sprint he shot ahead and led u pack to the finish. Dupuys ridir has been the most sensational I nnd Bello have already made up or If their lost laps and the Frenchman gtanina is such a surprise to the oth, riders that they are watching hi constantly, waiting for him to maj mother break to steal 8 lap. Ride ss past races have been as far ; two laps behind to come up on u last day and win the race, and maI look for Dupuy end Bello to do II ksame thing. The strain under whit these riders have been working, hoy ever. makes the task a colossal on
 The real hair-raising riding of u race was done early yesterday nor ing by Marcel Dupuy. Dupuy ke
 the pack eircling around the trac without letup until nearly every oI of the riders was close to the point
 cKhaustion, For more than an hou 1)apuy would take the saucer at his speed high up near the edge and the fuddenly dive down to the foot of u track at an angle of 45 degrees. The
 was no sleep in any of the cam while Dupuy was on the speed rar rage.