New-York tribune., 1921-03-11
Brocco and Coburn Regain Lap
And Tie T,oo Teams for Lead
Winners of Last Contest
Make Up Lost Ground
During Night Sprints
By Fred Hawthorne

Just after the finish of the seventh
ison Square Garden last night the team
of Willie Coburn and Maurice Brocco
regnined the one lap that separated
them from the leading teams Of Egg
and Van Kampen and Rutt and Lorenz.
II was only after twenty minutes of
the most desperate kind OF sprinting
that this feat was accomplished, and
Coburn and Brocco were about equally
instrumental in recovering the lost
ground The scene in the Garden was
beyond description, the $4,000 persons
in the big building rising to their feet
az the mad chase went on, and IN the
last half mile of furious riding, shrek
ing, imploring, bowling and then toss
ing hats, overcoats and chairs into the
air in a final paroxysm Of frenzied ex-
citement. 1t was shortly after 10
o'clock that Coburn began the Jam"
that threw the race into din Of noise
and thrills such as has rarely been wit
messed at the Garden.
It was just after the finish of the
seventh sprint that Coburn dashed out
like an arrow from the tired, unsus-
pecting field. In two laps Of the track
he was a good half lap to the good, and
little Brocco, making perfect pickup,
took up the dizzy pace. For perhaps
two minutes there was no one leader
in the field TO take up the chase
Coburn Takes the Lead
Finally Van Kampen set sail and
pulled up the trailers slightly, but when
he fell back Lorenz took the lead, but
could make no headway against the mad
pace that Coburn and Brocco we're set
ting. After riding themselves to the
point Of exhaustion the field was com
PEELED to see the red Jersey Of Coburn
flash into the lead. The Jap was soon
won back and the Garden went COM
pietely crazy.
It came as rather an anti-climax ten
minutes later when Reggie Mcnamara
who formed the reconstructed team
with Lloyd Thomas, regained one of the
two laps that kept him from the lead
ers. Mcnamara accomplished this al
most unaided, showing a burst Of speed
equal to any seen at the Garden this
week. and ne timed his sprint we'll
with the entire field exhausted from the
duel with Brocco and Coburn.
Three Teams Tapped Often
In the ''jam" wherein Brocco and
Coburn put themselves level with the
! two leading teams the teams of De
Greaves and Reiens, keenan, and By
ron and Parisot and Leonard were
Tapped three times. The standing on
distance covered at midnight was as
I follows:
Egg and Van Kampen, Rutt and
Lorenz. and Coburn and Brocco, one
/ lap ahead Of the field
Mcnamara and Thomas. Van Beve1
and Miguel, Chapman and Lawrence
Smith and Taylor, and Beyl and Lamay
one lap behind.
De Greaves and Reilens, keenan, anc
Byron. and Parisou and Leonard, trailec
/ far behind.
The point standing for the week ther
read
Egg and Van Kampen. $50; Rutt anc
Lorenz, 557; Brocco and Coburn. 2l3
Van Bever and Miguel, 244: Chapma
and Lawrence, 233; Smith and Taylor
ia; Beyl and Lemay, >.
Egg and Van Rampen won the spe
cial point total prize, taking seven ou'
Of ten heats, with Mcnamara anc
Thomas second.
Frcnchmen Regain Two Laps
Laps were won and laps were lost
during the afternoon with more or less
abandon, but the comfortable position
one lap ahead of all com petitors-ot
oscar Egg ana Peter an hampen anC
Walter kutt and Willie Lorenz re
NAMED unchanged. despite repeated ef
/ forts of several of the trailing teams tC
regain their lost ground.
Emil Beyl and Ferdinand Lemay, the
festive Frenchmen from fair Paree
who had been three laps behind the ,wc
leading teams. We're the gentlemen who
won back lost ground Just after the
finish Of one OF the afternoon point
sprints Lemay began wild dash for
liberty and opened a gap of a quarter
Of lap. Beyl picked him up cieanly
and was away with n rush that length
ened the lead to half lap.
Lorens and Rutt in turn. attempted
to catch the Bolsheviki of the race. and
did succeed in cutting down the lead
somewhat But when it came TO the
turn of Reggie Mcnamara and Van
kampen TO take up the pace for the
field they did not show any keen desire
TO chase the runaways in real earnest
with the result that the French team
lapped the field three times