Show DA 6 Y BIKE RACE IS 42 YEARS HEAPS OLD Introduced in America Four Years Later Team Racing in New York in in 1899 1399 NEW EW YORK YOUK Nov 17 Interest Interest In the forthcoming six day bike race Is is growIng growing grow grow- ing apace The annual winter sport classic will be held at Madison Square Garden the week weel of December S. 2 While hile sporting devotees have attended at attended attended at- at tended these grinds in New Yorks York's historic historic historic his his- amphitheatre for more than a generation gen gen- this this is to bo be the twenty-fifth twenty renewal of the event few event few know that the I six-day six game gamo originated In Europe more than Ihan forty years ago Six day ix- ix ay cycle cle races date from about 1575 8 when hen a twelve-hour-a-day twelve affair was as run in Birmingham England A little while whilo later ono of the eighteen hours a day was held In London The first invasion of America took tool place In 1879 Peter Duryca and Jack Haverly brought over o a team from Europe and gave e a exhibitions and rode aay six rues races of three and ald six hours a day on roller skating floors in New York Boston Chicago Chicago Chi CW- cago and other cities FIRST BANKED TRACK IN 1886 In 1886 Tom Eck constructed the first track having haying banked or raised corners in a hall at Springfield HI m. This was the first time the riders were able to tomake tomake tomake make turns at full speed The first real six-day six race raco in America America Amer Amer- ica was held In the Washington rink Minneapolis Minn long before they rode these races on the island of Manhattan Albert Shock won with 1405 1403 miles W W. r T. Senator Morgan was second Louise Ar- Ar was third The first six-day six race ever held in Madison Square Garden was in 1891 1591 seventeen seventeen seventeen sev sev- I enteen riders starting and riding twenty- twenty four hours a day Bill Martin Mar Mar- tin of Lowell Loell Mass 1 won with 1446 miles He rode rode rode-on on an old style ordinary wheel Mar I Charlie Ashinger on a high wheel won in 1892 1592 while in 1893 1593 Albert Shock won won on a safety bicycle There was no race rae racen in n 18 1894 4 In 1593 a women's race was contested and was won by Frankie Nelson Nel Nel- son TEAM RACING IN 1899 Again In 1896 the mans man's race was re resumed resumed resumed re- re and Teddy Hale from Ireland Won won while Charlie Miller of Chicago ac accounted accounted accounted ac- ac counted for the races in 1897 and 1898 In 1899 1599 the authorities passed a law prohibiting prohibiting prohibiting pro pro- the contestants from riding more than twelve hours a day da- Team racing was then taken up The first team contest was won von by Charlie Miller and Frank Dutch Waller Wal Wal- ler They covered 2733 miles and four laps a record that stood until 1908 when McFarland and Moran won with a total mileage of 2737 miles and one lap The late Harry Ham Elkes and Floyd McFarland won the following year rear and in 1901 the therace therace therace race was won b by and McEachern McEachern Mc- Mc Eachern George Leander and Floyd Krebs won In 1902 repeated repealed Jn 1903 with Benny Benny Munro as aa a 3 party a p net nero Eddie Root Hoot won his first six-day six race in 1904 his partner being Oliver Dorian Dorlan Root repeated the next year but this time his mate was Joe Fogier Fogler the Brooklyn Brooklyn Brooklyn Brook Brook- lyn cyclist Fogier Fogler and Root won again in 1906 For the first time since team racing was inaugurated a foreign team won the therace therace therace race In 1907 when Walter y Rutt of ot Germany Germany Ger Ger- many and John Stol of Holland came home in front Floyd McFarland again put his name among the winners In 1908 when with Moran as his partner he be hewon hewon won on and established a new six-day six record record record rec rec- ord of 2737 miles and one lap CLARKE AMONG WINNERS In 1909 1903 McFarland started with Jackie Clarke and Rutt had Stol as aa his mate McFarland and Stol retired and Rutt and Clarke paired up They not only re regained regained re- re gained the lap they were penalized but had a lap lead at the finish Eddie Root and Jimmy Moran won in 1910 The rhe 1911 race saw Frank Kramer in I his first six-day six race and he had Jimmy Moran as his partner The best they could do however was to finish In second second second sec sec- ond place a lap behind the winners Clarke and Fogler Fogier Fogler Fogier was again a a. member of the winning team the following following fol fol- lowing year His Ills partner was Walter Valter Rutt Butt the demon Dutchman who recently was killed In the European war ar The 1913 race brought Alfred Goullet Goullet Goullet Goul- Goul let to the fore With Fogler Fogier as his mate the pair carried of oft off the honors also accounted for the 1914 race with Alfred Grenada as his partner The following year yea I saw a new worlds world's record created when Grenda and Hill HiU won with a total mileage of miles A ro foreign combination won the 1916 race when Egg and Dupuy pedaled to victory |