The New York herald., 1922-03-10
Whirlwind Squirt in Night
Session Brings Shuffle-up
in Six Day Race.
TWO O'CLOCK scoRE-ssrH HOUR

In wild jam that Followed close an
the heels Of the regular night sprints
ana set the Garden into a Juror of en-
cltement the team of Drobach and Han
ley, Horan and F'itZsimmons and Bello
and Gaffney lost a lap and the COM
nination of kopsAy and Erskine which
carrier in the evening had regained one
or tneir two lost laps, were circled twice
During the whirlwind squirt that lasted
ten minutes the team of Coburn and
Lands, which had started all the trouble.
practically Tapped the field and then
lost al ltheir advantage as Egg started a
sprint that was madder and wilder than
the first
For long time the crowd was at a
loss to know what had happened during
the jam. The riders had been strung
out all around the track and the men
had relieved each other so frequently
that it was bewildering. Lands had
chosen psychological moment for his
sprint for the field had Just gone
through hard series of sprints and
seemed willing to get a breathing spell
Not so Lands, however. He saw his
opportunity to catch the rest unawares
and be had half lap advantase before
the chase began. Had it not been for
the fact that Egg and Eaton started
another squirt Immediately after Coburn
and Lands had circled the field. tho
latter pair would now be up with the
leaders They were unequal to the task
OF holding on in the second sprint after
giving all they had in the first.
So the fourth day of the whirI ended
with the teams of Brocco and De Ruyter
and Grenda and Mcnamara still one lap
ahead OF the rest
More than 10000 cycle fanatics were
Jammed into the Garden from roof to
floor when the official sprnts of the
night began at 40 p. M. There was
a good deal of jockeying in the first two
miles. so much so that it was not until
two laps from the finish that anything
that could be called speed was ex
hibited. Then Eaton suddenly. shot IL
the front and stayed there, crossing the
line more than a wheel length ahead,
with Magin second
Hanley Takes the Lead.
In the second sprint Hanley swinging
high around his field in the last Ian
TOOK the lead and won. He was almost
caught by Egg. who came like a streak
III the last desperate rush.
The third sprint. like the second. went
TO the Drobach-Hanley team. So did
the fourth. Hanley barely lasting long
enough TO stave off remarkable effort
on the part of Egg. Hanley and Dro-
nach mus far had won three of the four
sprlnts and were fattening their point
total considerably.
The fifth sprint saw, another victory
for Eaton I Drobach was second. Then
came the excitement of the evening.
Erskine shot to the front. This time
he was away so Unexpectedly that inside
oil two circuits of the track he was more
than quarter Of a lap ahead For
more than a mile others gave chase,
first De Ruyter and then Brocco show
ing the way. Then the leaders In the
race suddenly decided that inasmuch as
the Erskine-k -kopsky team was two laps
behind the two leading combinations and
one lap behind the rest they could afford
to let them catch up a bit. So they
gave UP the chase and Kopsky and
Erskine Tapped the field
In the dash at the end of the fifth
sprint, which came Immediately after
ward. Egg won with Hanley again
second. Again in the sixth sprint the
order was the same. Eaton first and
Drobach second. Between them tho
Eaton-Egg and Drobach- Hanley com
oinations had won all the sprints thus
far.
The first break came in the seventl,
sprint when Goullet finally made his
best effort of the night and led Egg by
an eyelash. 1t. was Drobach first and
Eaton second again in the eighth
Egg won the ninth sprint by fairly
jumping his wheel across the line and
beating out Lands The tenth sprint
went to Goullet