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Show BELGIAN CHIP! IS SIX-BAT PLUGGEB Has Established Cycling Record Second to None in Europe. Tribune Special Sporting Service. N'JEW YORK. Dec. S. Three thousand miles for a chance to win a prise. That Is Is the trip that Arthur Vanderstuyft, the plucky little Belgian cycling champion, who for the past two years has been a contestant in the slx-dav races, teamed with .lohn Stol of Holland, has Just made for the purpose of taking part in the six-day race at the Garden on December Decem-ber 9 to 15. The management of the race. In search fpr now faces and now champions, cham-pions, had rejected Vandcrstuvft and Slol's entry this year. This refusal was not good enough for Vanderstuyft. and without a word to anyone except his partner, he took a steamer for America and In person demanded the entry of the famous Belgium-Holland learn bo accepted, ac-cepted, and It was. Vanderstuyft began riding a bicycle In 1805. JIo Is 23 years old. weighs Ml pounds and Is only live feet throe Inches In height; he makes up In tho width of his legs. It would take a column to enumerate enu-merate the Belgian's long string of victories. vic-tories. He won the Rcl d'Or in Paris last year and broke the world s human-paced human-paced twenty-four-hour record riding during that time. 013.0(1(5 kilometers. Ills victories this year have been numerous. Starting with the Grand Prix of Marseilles, Mar-seilles, In France, he continued his winning win-ning streak and "copped" tho Grosser Sommer Prels of Berlin and the Golden Wheel race of Treptcw. and finished second to Darragon In thej world's championships cham-pionships at Geneva. Switzerland. Vanderstuyft Is well known as a sis-day sis-day pluggcr. making his debut In UiO.I, when he and Sampson of Belgium were team mates; thoy finished ninth. The following year Vanderstuyft and Stol were tied with the leaders, Root and Dorlon. The team lost first position onlv by being beaten In the sprint that decided de-cided the tie. In 1D05 the two little for-clgncrs for-clgncrs finished fourth. |