The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-23

When the official sprints IN the SIX
day bicycle race at the Twenty-second
Regiment Armory ended last night Jake
Magin and Edward Madden. the Jer-
sey team. were leading the field with
SO points. Charles De Ruyter and Emil
Aerts, the popular Belgium pair, were
second with S. while ALI Goullet and
Fred Hill were third with As. Hanley
and Keller were fourth with 10 and
Spencer and CORY fifth with 80. Dro-
bach and Weber and McBeath and
Walker came next, tied with g.
That Alfred Goullet and Fred Hill
were so far back was due to strategy
or what might be called team work"
on the part OF the other riders. In
sprint after sprint Goullet and Hill
demonstrated that they were as fast IL
not faster than any team IN the track.
but In most instances they found them
selevs hemmed In by several other riders
when the final lap approached. AS n
result they won only two heats.
Once Goullet took the lead at the
start and withstanding challenge after
challenge remained in front to the end
There seems to be III feeling among
the other riders, too. During the second
heat Eddie Madden and Frank Cory
had an impromptu battle. Madden, who
was on the rail, in third position. OBJ
jected to Cory ranging alongside of
him, and struck out his hand to chase
him off Cory resented this action and
retaliated with a straight jab at Mad
den. The blow struck, but failed to
knock Madden off his wheel. When
Strengthened out he aimed a blow at
Cory, but Cory had gone. Madden
10 hne nd
every one except Goullet' to the tape.
For the melee both riders were repri-
manded by the officials and were
warned that repetition would mean
their disqualification.
In the sixth heat Gus Lang and
Alphonse Verraes took a nasty spill.
Lang punctured a tire and went down
with a thud and brought Verraes with
him. Both were splintered, but con-
tinted to ride
The crowd was not quite as large as
on Sunday midnight. The pit was
damned with thousands Of fans. but
there were many unoccupied reserved
seats.
Joe Kopsky stole n lap on the field
shortly after midnight, but II wasn't
allowed because Tom Bello. his partner.
was in the field at the time. KopslSy
stole twenty yards in his first squirt
down the west embanlment. Eddie
Madden was setting the pace at the
time. He started after Kopsky. but
after chasing him for fifty yards turned
around. and seeing Bello on the track
slowed up and allowed Kopsky to 60
oil by himself.
During the day the management put
In more seats by building In fanlike
shape from all four corners. The seat
ing capacity is nearly 5000
There was a big gathering in the
afternoon and during the session there
were some lively spriRts. Besides the
five official one mile sprlnts there were
4 dozen or so prizes offered. These pro-
duced sensational sprints almost every
fifteen minutes. At the end Of the mat
inee performances Magin and Madden
were leading in the point score with 20
points. De Ruyter and Aerts were sec
ond with 2s and Hanley and Keller were
third with %; Eaton and Kaiser came
next with 20 and Goullet and Hill had
81. Drobach and Weber had Is and
speissens and Buysse IL
In the afternoon De Ruyter won two
events and Kaiser garnered a dozen
points By winning two heats, Bello got
tho other
The races won by DeRuyter wero
close and exciting from gong to gong.
He laid close TO the pace in each event
and by displaying a squirt like a Frank
Kramer got up in the final lap In time
10 win by a small margin. Madonna
waa second 10 him in the first event.
Speissens. third; Spencer, fourth: Hill.
fifth, and Bello sixth.
Kaiser captured the second event by
a wheel length from Madden. Hanley
was third Cory, fourth Aerts. fifth.
and Goullet, sixth. Bello beat Madonna
for the third prize by few inches, with
Magin half length back
DeRuyter's second victory came in
the NTH. when he beat out Eaton on the
tape by the smallest possible margin.
Drobach took third points in this race.