Show bicycle rider faints after being injured new york dec C after the heartbreaking hour long sprint in which the bedell brothers forged to the front with a clean lead ot one lap and several teams were dropped tar in the ruck the riders in the six day bicycle race contented themselves with clow steady plugging for the remainder of the night two of the teams the hall downey and the decamp combinations worn out by the terrific struggle at midnight dropped from the ranks the hall downey loam withdrew from the race when it was found that during a spill in the midnight sprint hall had broken his collar bone several riders all of whom were trying to catch bedell went down in the tall but mounted their wheels and madly ahead hall was as quick as the others to mount and he kept up the pace until after 3 in the morning when he suddenly pitched unconscious from his wheel he was thrown by the fall completely over the fence and into one of the spectators boxes it was reported today that the sprint night was caused by an offer of by a spectator to the rider who would gain a lap on his competitors peti tors at 8 this morning only six teams which started remained in the race the standing at that hour follows bedell bedell ewt fogler keagan loan malcan cloran downing bowler hopper gavin mcdonald dorninger dussol achorn allcox before the hour was finished aej 10 another rider had succumbed to the strain and quit the race this was of the achorn wil cox team who was 3 laps behind the leaders his stomach gave out dw D w ney of the hall downey team who had been out ot the race since early morning on account of the withdrawal of his partner took place with achorn this combination made a new team which rode under the name of achorn downey and continued the score made by the achorn allcox team |