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Show AFTER BICYCLE PRIZE. "Littlo Old Now York Team" Hot After New Wlieel Honors. Tribune Spocinl Sporting Snrvicc. NEW YORK, Dec. 1. Tho famous "Little Old Now York Team," Root and Fogler, winners of last year's international in-ternational six-day bicycle race at Madison Square Garden, have again teamed tip and will make another bid this year for tho big cycling prizo when the pistol shot scuds off tho bunch of champions from ovory country on tho night of December 9. Eddie Root, can truthfully bn called tho six-day champion of the world, as for tho past two years he demonstrated his superiority at this style of racing by winning in 1004 with Otto Dorlou and tnruing the same trick last year with Joo Foglor. Ho and Foglor have bee,n training for the contest "for some weeks even beforo their entry was accepted as they received a quiet tip to tho offoct that this season's crop of riders will bo about ns dangerous a bunch as over started in the long week grind. The Root-Fogler (earn will be able to start on the journey with plenty of confidence, con-fidence, as they are very popular and will have no end of "roofers" to cheer them up. Root has already stnted. and makes no secret of the fact, that ho is going to try to jump his field tho very first day of the race and gain a Inp. Ho claims that he and Fogler will be strong enough to hold it if they can onco get away fromtho other riders. |