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Show SALT LAKE MMKS ARE OUT IF f ACE Downing, Palmer andAg-raz andAg-raz Quit; Samuelson and Williams Well Up. . Among the Leaders In the Contest NEW YORK. Dec 10. Owing to the furious fu-rious pace which, has been kept up during -the night . the Dussot-Maxan, Palmer- : Agras and Downing-Lim berg teams were compelled to abandon the contest on the last day of the six-day bicycle race today. to-day. The last two of these teams had , dropped hopelessly tn the rear last night ' and In the early morning, leaving the track from time to time. It Is sot at all unlikely that the Keegan-Logan team will be forced to retire during the day. Kee-gaa Kee-gaa la said to be In a bad state. The other riders merely kept up a steady fast pace and TurvlUe and Mottling gradually grad-ually dropped behind until they were lapped. This puts TurvUle and MetUIng practically out of the race, as they sre cow five laps behind the leaders. Root " and Dorlon and gtol and Vanderstuyft, Root, Stol and Williams were setting the pace early today. At 8 a. m. today the Vanderstuyft-Stol and Root-Dorlon teams had covered 2158 miles, S laps; the Samuelaon-WUllams team H58 miles. 4 laps; tbe Gougolts-Bre-ton, Keegan-Logan and Krebs and Fogler teams 2Li8 miles, 1 laps, and the Turville-Mettllng Turville-Mettllng team 2167 miles, lap. The record for the 128 hours is 2459 miles, C laps, made by Miller and Walter in 1899. |