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Show Preparing' for Sis-Day Race. Racing cyclists are now preparing for thn annual nix-day bicycle race, which begins ln Madison Square Garden In Now York on December 5. This year's contest promloos to be moro Interesting than-cvor before. Tho cream of the fast rldors of America and Europe will try' to win tho long race, and the usual record-breaking crowds are certain to attend, Tho contest Is a team rac6 with two men. ori each team, one of whom must bo on the track at all times. The men may relieve one another as- often as they enro to, but no man must ride moro than twelvo hours. In each day. Last year there, wore bIx mon tied at the finish, and Bobby Walthour, of tho Columbia racing team, took first prize by lesa than a lap. The race ls run on a ten-lap board track, highly banked1, that pcrmltD of a speed of about forty mlleD an hour. "Ln some of tho sprints laps ar.e . negotiated ln about fourteen seconds, which ,1s equal to a mile in 1:40. |