New-York tribune., 1921-03-12
Three Combinations Still
Hold 1-Lap Lead; Pace
Tells on Foreign Riders
I2Ist Hour Score
BY Fred Hawthorne

BY Fred Hawthorne
The nine teams still lerr IN the six
day bicyc.e race at Madison Square
Garden when the series of ten night
sprints began at 9:30 o'clock. retained
the same relative position when the
last OF these dashes had been finished
The riding of Reggie Mcnamara, the
Australian. was the feature of the race
up TO midnight The black-haired
Antipodean won four OF these tests Of
speed and endurance out Of his six
starts. while Lloyd Thomas, his part
ner, won two, thus giving this team
the greatest number of points in actual
finishes for the series, 40 being their
total. Chapman and Lawrence was
second with 4S, while Rutt and Lorenz
and Van kampen and Egg were tied for
third with 35 points each.
The standing OF the teams on the
total number of points won during the
week was as follows: Egg and Van
Kampen. s59: Rutt and Lorenz, 705;
Coburn and Brocco, SAT; Chapman and
Lawrence, ESQ; Smith and Taylor, 212:
Mcnamara and Thomas, ITO; Beyl and
Lemay, Is.
"a - @c-t-1A+tOAc GIONQ A4iSu the GdI-
den, lingering until long after midnight
in the hope that one OF the teams
would attempt 20 steal lap, start a
Jam" and make everybody happy ex-
cep. the other riders. And several
times It seemed as though such an at
tempt would be made.
Lawrence Is Nosed Out
Peter Van Kampen took the frst
sprint, after nip and tuck duel of
speed down the home stretch with
Percy Lawrence, who was not shaken
OF until ten feet from the finish line.
BYRON was third and Mcnamara could
CO no better than fourth.
The order of finish in the second
brush was Rutt, Chapman, Thomas and
Egg, the burly German taking the lead
two laps from home and holding the
pole all the way to the finish. Nc
Namara won the third dash, jumping
the held on the last lap, with Law
renee again chasing him right to the
tape. Beyl, the Frenchman. was third,
and Van kampen fourth.
The meteoric sprinting of Oscar Egg
w0n the fourth heat, with big Rutt at
nls rear wheel. Mcnamara showed a
tefiluc sprint N the fifth heat, rush
.ng away into a three-yard lead at The
bell on the final lap. Lawrence again
pressed him hard. Lloyd Thomas took
me sixth dash, with Rutt chasing him
al the way through the last lap.
ss Mcnamara Takes Another
mcnamara, who was riding in great
forrls won his third sprint of the night
~ taking the seventh, this time in an
other stirring brush with Lawrence
VITO was only inches away at the finish
nmith and Egg were the next to cross
the l.ae- Thomas won the eighth heat
-esd.ng Rutt home all the way through
yhe last hundred yards, with Chapman
a1d toourn the next over. Van Kan
pen was sixth again in this brush
making no apparent effort to get VI
with the leaders.
Once more did McNamara's terrifi,
jump shove his wheel over the line
N Hrst place in the ninth, Egg trail
ing him half length back and Law
renee and Lorenz next i'll line.
In the last sprint there was. furi
twen Rutt ana Van kampen. The Hol
lander swung out Of third place. round
lrg the last turn, and challenged Ruct
and Tor the next thirty yards .hese two
Fought out desperate duel. with the
German Just nosing him out. Thoma;
and Chapmen came next.
Foreign Teams Forced to Quit
Casualties had reduced the sur
vivors to nine teams last night, be.
fore the series of ten sprints fo,
points began. CASTOR de Greaves and
Piene Reilens, the Belgians, had given
up the fight early in the morning, dur
ing the $50 o'clock sprints, and at
40 o'clock in the afternoon the
French team OF Miguel and Vanbever
nac thrown up the sponge.
TrYr of
and Lorenz, and Brocco md Coburn
tied for the lead, and Mcnamara and
Thomas, Chapman and Lawrence, Beyl
and Lenay and Smith and Taylor one
LEI IN the rear. Six laps to the bad
were Parisot and Leonard, and last
eight laps behind the three leaders
was the reconstructed team of Eddie
Byron and Frank keenan,.
That was the situation when the
ser'es Of night sprints began and the
Garden began to fill up again afte,
o'clock there were few vacant seats
5y o'clock the house was sold out
the doors closed and nobody hame,
when several thousand impatient visi
tors raped on the front door for ad
nlttance.
During the afternoon sprints there
vas most determined effort by George
chapman and the veteran Percy Law
renee 10 gain a lap that would place
them Oh even terms with the three
leaders.
Had it not been for the great riding
OF Lorenz, the big German, Chapman
and MS partner would have won the
coveted honor, and also young Tommy
Smith and Freddie Taylor. who were
helping Chapman and Lawrence set the
Iace.
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