New-York tribune., 1921-11-18
lawrence Team
Gets Back Lap
For I'd Place
I,renda and Clarke Finish
Third in Thrilling Sprints
Which End the Race
BY Jack Lawrence

Reggie McMamara and Alex McBeath,
10th OF Australia, won the first twenty
lour-hour bike race New York has seen
nnce 1899, when they led Percy Law
renee and LIoyd Thomas. of San Fran
.iseo, over the finish Tine at Madison
Square Garden last night.
The race, which started at II D. m.
Wednesday night in rather dull fashion.
ended Up at the same hour last night
"a wild blaze of speed, sprints and
excitement. 8, q
In the last Eo-r the team of Law
sssre shu fhos.-s, lap behinS the
leaders as the grind went into the final
Fhirl, started two wild drives that re-
gained their lost ground and nut them
With the combination OF McBeath and
MeNamara, lap ahead of all compe-
tition.
The latter team was the winner in
the point total, scoring 6S7 points to
Lawrence and Thomas's 2Ss. Clarke
and Grenda, lap behind the pair. f;n-
;shed third, with total of Ss7 points.
Lang and Lands, also Ian behind
the leaders were fourth, with sc
points. Drohach and Hanley. two Ians
behind, scored 335 points and were
eth.
Walthour Team withdraws
The Garden had all the atmos-
phere OF six-day grind last night
IN the closing hours of the race.
All the teams that started sur.
sived except Robert Walthour jr., of
Atlantis, Ca, and Charley Jaeger. Of
Newark. This team quit at $50 y, m.
when Jaeger. who had been unable to
eat since the race started, announced
that he could not continue.
The withdrawal of this couplet took
from the gallery gods one OF their
5avorltes. Walthour, a son of one of
the most popular riders the bike game
has ever known, was appearing in his
first professional race and had shown
the stuff Of which his father was made.
The team OF youngsters performed
well against the field of veterans they
were pitted against, and when they
were forced to drop out the race lost
some Of its color. At 10 o'clock last
night three teams were tied for first
place and six teams were a lap behind
Three were two laps behind and these
were not permitted to start in the
sprints OF the last hour, which the
clock ushered in at 10 p. m.
Youngsters Riding Features
The feature Of the race was probably
the remarkable performance Of David
Lands, who rode his first professional
race last summer. Lands proved a
trouble-maker for the veterans from
the start Of the race Wednesday night,
and in the closing hours his power
seemed greater than ever. He set most
of the pace during the end of the race.
During the afternoon, from to 4:30,
there was furious sprlnting, during
whsch Horan and Fitzsimmons started
jam which resulted in the tapping
of four teams and the elimination from
the race of Madden and Van Kampen,
Belio and Gaffney, Kaiser and Erskine.
Waithour and Jaeger had quit pre-
viously.
Mcnamara and McBeath followed the
wild pace set by the Horan-Fitzsim-
mons combination. One hour before
Beath, Grenda and Clarke and Lang
and Lands were leading with 70, 81, 81
points respectively. Lawrebce and
Thomas, a lap behind, were credited
with 33 points.
The first Of the final-hour sprints was
started at 10 p. m, and from then un-
til II o'clock there was fierce riding
tor the points.
Thomas Team Regains Lap
Reggie Mcnamara, tho Australian,
was always prominent figure in these
Thrilling brushes. He took the first
|pne mile affair from Lloyd Thomas, of
Fan Francisco, and while being nosed
put in the next three he was always
contender and was again in front in
Fhe fifth sprint.
Immediately after the seventh sprint
Percy Lawrence and his partner, Lloyd
Thomas, who were lap behind the
leaders, recovered this lost ground in
beautifully executed drive that re-
quired only one relief to lap the field
Lawrence caught the pack as the riders
were relaxing after the seventh sprint,
and shooting down from the Madison
Avenue embankment had lead of
third of lap before the tired field,
led by Grenda, could get under way.
4 ne riding that followed was probably