New-York tribune., 1920-12-09

Ihere was no Jap stealing at the night
session up to II o'clock, but you couldn t
make the crowd falter in their hope that
something Ike that would happen be-
fore daylight, and a vast majority of
those present wore that "all-night' leo.
on their faces They were there to stick
10 the bitter end
There were still thirteen teams on
the track at midnight. only two having
dropped out since the start, a very
small percentages, and the relative po-
Sitions had not been changed since
Tuesday night, with Maurice Brocco
and Willie Coburn two laps ahead of
the field and Debaets and Persyn and
Nanhevel and Nanderberghe one lap TO
the good. Grimm and Nandivelve and
the Sutor brothers were three laps to
the bad
In the ten night sprints the men first
over the finish line were: Egg, twice;
Nerri, twice; Persyn, twice; MIGUEL,
twice; Nanhevel, twice, and Belloni and
Leene once each
Fight for Three Places
The main battle for points amone the
field" riders in the ten night sprints
developed between the teams OF Egg
and Mcnamara and Claus Van Mex and
Jules Miguel. The first three places in
these dashes went automatically to
Brocco and Coburn, Debaets and
Persynn and Nanhevel and Wander
berghe because of their lap leads, and
the chief competition was for the last
three places, the man crossing the line
iirst getting three points, second two
and third one.
Al the end Of the seventh sprint Egg
snd Mcnamara had won IA points ana
Van Mex and Miguel II, with Verri and
Belloni getting and his represented
the actual merit of the riding. By the
end of the ninth sprint Egg and Nc
Namara held only one point lead over
Van Mex and MIGUEL, II points to 16,
and when the final sprint had been
finished Egg and Mcnamara had won
total OF II points to Van Mex and
MiquePs 16.
The point totals for the week then
read
Brocco and Coburn, 337; Debaets
no; Nanhevel and Nanderbergho l0l;
BcdcA and Thomas. 10S; Verri and
Ba!loni, 9S; Piari and Leene, 9S;
MIGUEL and Van Mex, 81; Taylor and
Smith. 49, Byron and Staehle, %, and
Spears and Lawrence, 10.
Eggs Great Effort Futile
The riders seem to have made up
their minds TO spring all the fireworks
during the night sessions ard the sun
up hours Yesterday were again devoid
cf any special incident. with the eX
ception OF one great effort to gain a
lap ~ Oscar Egg, just after o'clock
in tne afternoon.
Frp has been one Of the hardest
workers in the race, and were it not
for the failure Of Reggie Mcnamara to
measure up to his Usual standard he
Iaps behind Brocco and Coburn. In
the many "jams" that nave occurred
since Bocco and Coburn gained their
ans EGG mas played leading part in
keeping the field up with the aying
eaders.
Yesterday Oscar jumped the field
9nd began one Of the most sensa-
sional sprints since the start Of the
race he tore around the oval at q
dizzy pace. and was almost half a lap
to the good at the end OF five laps. 1t
looked as though the great Swiss rider
was about to regain one Of the two
laps that separated him and Mcnamara
from the leaders, but just then Lloyd
Thomas, shooting down the high bank
ST Dead Mans Curve. sideswiped
Gerard Leene and the two crashed
heavily 10 the floor
Directly behind came Nannevel and
Miguel. and with no chance TO steer
Gear OF trouble they crashed into the
two fallen riders and piled up on tt
Of them None Of the four Was more
than slightly hurt and resumed riding
IT once, but the spill forced the judges