New-York tribune., 1921-03-13
'Rutt-Lorenz
ssLapped Thrice
=" In Final Hour
sBrocco Starts Clam After
Tenth Sprint That Nets
His Team Second Place
142d Hour Score
By Fred Hawthorne

ny fCo AdWlllOIAC
! 'NOscar Egg, Of Switzerland, and Peter
Van Kampen, Of Holland, won the sin
day bicycle race at Madison Square
! Garden last night after final hour of
, Continuous sprinting that had crowd
/, fnf thousands in a bedlam Of excite
,ment as the contending teams fought
fercely for the lead in the series of
,'one-mile sprints that marked the last
, hour of riding.
f: tnslt was Eggs sensational sprinting
sthat was the feature of the closing
4scenes of one of the most thrilling
: .gaces that was ever. staged on the Gar
! Aen track, for, after Brocco and Co.
! burn had run away into a lead of
! '+hree-quarters Of Jap. following. the
! tenth sprint, the great Swiss leaped
desperate riding caught Coburn.
/ ~ The point totals for Egg and Van
hampen was 2236, with Coburn and
! tBBrocco ST.. Rutt and Lorenz had
scored 1,061 points, but because they
fost three laps IN the last twenty min
started by Brocco, they finished in
third place.
The rest Of the field finished as fol-
lows: fourth, Chapman and Lawrence,
p4 points; fifth. Smith and Taylor, 235
p91nts; sixth, Mcnamara and Thomas,
20 points; seventh, Behl and Lemay.
96 points.
80 The team of Byron and Keenan,, eight
laps behind the leaders, quit the race
at 9:40 o'clock last night. The last
:; Eour OF the race served to show that
rgg ana van kampen were the speed
iflst men in the race
The total mileare a +ba o,d &c 49,
aif"enty-third sprint was 2,3l4 miles
and laps for Egg and Van Kampen
and Brocco and Coburn
-ein Rutt Trails Van Kampen
The feet Van Kampen ran awav
ieft the track except the three leaders
snd the fight for first money began.
80 Egg won the first dash with Lorenz
sd all the way through the last lap, cross
ing the line half length ahead of
~ Lorenz eased up.
- The fleet Van Kampan ran awav
" with the second heat, beating out Rutt
ri WIN %ith wonderful burst of speed on the
insI zap. Coburn was close third
Egg won the third sprint with Lorenz
~ again fighting him to the tape in sec
ond place and Coburn last
''" The teams of Egg and Van Kampen
ana Rutt and Lorenz were constantly
Oh worried IN these sprints lest Brocco
q
Sap 1or tins was the only chance the
'"9atter. had of winning the race and
they devoted all their attention to that
endeavor.
sa4ss Brocco won the fourth sprint bv
a~tWenty yards, as the result of his at
- Tempt to start a "jam." The little
ench-1talian had opened I'D a gan of
thirty yards, he jumping the field, and
s.s,G Goburn, relieving him, added ten more.
~ an kampen had cut this down to TWEEN
.sotty, yards by the time the finish line was
Crossed. N'
Egg and Van Kampen continued to
-, pie up big lead on points in the fol-
owing sprints, winning the sixth, sew
zenith, eighth ninth and tenth.
s.3s. Brocco Nearly Gains Lap
ssti AT the finish Of the tenth sprint Broc-
go started "jam" that had the thou-
asASAhds In the Garden in a tremendous
uproar. AT one time Cob,rn and his
,partner were three-quarters of a Ian
ahead, with Van Kampen dead" on his
s4'~fleei f4 ana Egg not out of his bunk
After what seemed an agonizing delay
. 10 those who were roofing for Egg and
a. van kampen to win the race 0scar
=. easme on the track and started a chase
after the fleeing runaways that has
a. seldom .r peen equaled in the Garden.
49, with furious speed, riding one
;, against two. Egg cut down. the over
son in the big amphitheater was stand- pel
ing and yelling in frenzy of excite
ment mt, as Egg finally caught Broceo after
"a ride OF more than mile and a
ia quarter. "a
- During this five minutes of thrill
u after thrill the Rutt and Lorenz team
~ was Tapped twice, practically puttinp
$A'nem out OF the race. Both the Ger
m mans were literally ridden into the
ground, and the crowd, which had been
s'Assheering them all through the race,
nohegan to "boo" the foreigners.
{ At the end of the eighteenth sprint
rsaEgg and Van Kampen looked like cer-
tain winners, barring the loss of lap.
ss%hch did not look more than barely
possible, with only fifteen minutes to
ss:go. At this point Egg and Van Kamnen
had total of 1871 points, to Brocco
land Coburns $50. Rutt and Lorenz,
~eswho had gathered about 1860, ceased to
snfi'gure in the points after losing their
-. laps; They lost third lap near the
: so'hnish.