Show I COURSE WAS SHORT I I Cycle Contestants Did Not Cover a Mile In Nine Laps 1 F CONDITION OF TH RIBES i SHOW NO BAD EFFECTS OP THE S SEVER CONST Every 2Ean That Finished Will Ba Given a Prize Contestants Discuss Dis-cuss Future Plans Cliarge That Foreigners Have ITo Fair Chance I This Country New York Dec 12The managers of the sixday bicycle contest that was finished last night at Madison I Square Garden now admit what has I been alleged since the first day of the I race that the track was short Today i surveyors went over the course and i I although i was officially announced i that the riders had not traveled a full i mile for every nine laps just how short each mile was has not been given out SHORT TRACK I When Miller finished winner of the race 2033 2 miles had been chalked up to his credit From what can be I learned it is believed that the track i was something like 200 feet short to I the mile and therefore the actual distance I dis-tance traveled was about 2014 miles i Miller was 67 miles ahead of Rice the second man and thus the latter will I have to his credit something like 1949 miles Schinneer by the new figures will have beaten Hales old record of I 1910 by about 15 miles instead of by 90 as the nominal figures recorded last I night indicated while Hale himself is much below his old record i i I is stated by the managers that I I the actual figures will not be given out I until affidavits have been submitted by j the surveyors who went over the course today and until other formal steps I have been taken to insure the correctness correct-ness of the records made by the men PRIZES FOR FINISHERS Probably all this will have been accomplished j i ac-complished before the prizes are dis I i tributed So much discussion has been j i raised by the reports that it has been i I decided that every man that finished i j will receive a purse In addition to I j I those who finished who will receive j i prizes is Rivierre the Frenchman who j I as tenth man notwithstanding the i I fact that he had been off the track I more than a full day and night comes I within the list of prize winners there j i being 1 prizes on the list i j MILLERS CONDITION I Charles W Miller the winner of the I race spent the night at a Turkish reached the Bar 1 bath and when he j tholdi hotel today he looked well He I felt in good condition he said and I that he was fit to ride another six days II He certainly did not look like a man who had gone through the terrible ordeal or-deal of working 138 hours and sleeping j i only four hours in the six days just passed His eyes were bright and he I I said he was not in the least exhausted i Regarding his plans for the future he declared he had none but smilingly I announced that he had received a two weeks engagement to ride three miles I nightly on a home trainer in a vaudeville i vaude-ville house in this city 1 UNLUCKY RICE j II I I Joe Rice the Wilkesbarre representative j represent-ative who is always unfortunate was j just far enough behind the leader to win second prize was at a hotel j stretched out on a sofa reading a newspaper news-paper He was having a little levee at the same time tme Oh I am firstclass think you he I I said I went right to bed after a good I Turkish bath and woke up at 10 j l I oclock this morning Then I had as hearty a breakfast as any man could want just a plain substantial affair I without any frills Then I took a walk 1 and came back for a loaf I dont know what I am going to j do unless i is to go back to work I i 1 I dont care to say whether or not I shall enter another six days contest i all l i depends If things seem to come my I I way I will I might have finished better bet-ter if my stomach had not gone back jon j-on me I did no riding of any account i until Thursday but I am not kicking j THE THIRD MANFred I II MAN-Fred Schinneer the third man who j J I like Miller hails from Chicago did not i have much to say except that he was feeling well and that he would race again the first opportunity Teddy Hale is laboring under the same trouble that affected him last year Ks has almost lost his voice But i he looks to be in good shape and says he is He tipped the scale at 164 his weight at the start All he complained of in the race was that he hurt his knee in a fall during the early part of it and was much bothered by the injuries in-juries Hale may start for home on Wednesday he says unless he decides to enter the sixday race at St Louis WHAT OTHERS SAID Golden said I am getting old now I I no more sixday races for me We old fellows are dead uns you know The I youngsters are too much for us i Julius the little Swede rider declared declar-ed Next time I go in Ill make them j see things Im all right dont be I afraid i Enterman the youngest of all the contestants was resting at his home but said he was not used up at al Harry Bikes spent most of the day in sleeping after having taken a long walk in the morning He will spend his time in Florida this winter in setting set-ting in trim for long distance contests The others who finished are in a satisfactory sat-isfactory condition THE FOREIGNERS S Manager Bunott had considerable to say regarding the two Frenchmen Ri vierre and Stephane He even went so far a to declare that no foreigner had a fair chance in this country against the Americans claiming on this score that men were in the race simply to pace some of the Americans Regard ing Rivierres condition he said that the Frenchmans leg was in bad shape but that otherwise he was all right Stephanes complaint was in reference refer-ence to the sprinting that had been done by the exhibition riders during the contest CONDEMNED BY THE L A W One important result of last weeks six day race probably will be a stringent restriction re-striction on Ionsdistance racing bv the League of American Wheelmen Hither to these events have been conducted der the sanction of the L A W but Mr Morrison vice president of that organization or-ganization declares that he will prepare an amendment covering the poInt so thoroughly that it will prevent any possible pos-sible countenance of such an event in the future Mr Morrison declares that from ever poInt of view the six day bicycle race should be condemned that i is an inhuman I inhu-man and healthdestroying institution |