Show FOOL JOKER CRIED FIRE Panic Followed at the Bicycle Races in Madison Square and Narrow Escapes Occurred New York Dec 7 Serious results were narrowly averted In a panic at the slday bicycle race in Madison Square Garden today when a criminally careless care-less practical joker in the audience lit a paper under a sleepy mans chair and shouted Fire Several hundred persons on that side of the garden rushed In panic from from their Beats and breaking through the cunrd rail fell and slid down the steep sides of the wooden track a I number of the flying riders having closa j escapes from collisions Referee Reaves Immediately ordered the riders to dismount dis-mount and succeeded in stopping them before the leaders reached the struggling strug-gling mass on the trade In the gnllerles the cry of fire caused great excitement but after several I I minutes race resumed order was restored and the I I |