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Show I SALT LAKE BIKE RIDERS BEGIN SIX-DAY GRIND Old Favorites of Salt Palace Saucer Compete for Honor and Coin at Madison Square Garden; Fast Time Expected. im .At 1 o'clock, at the end of the I first hour, the riders, -with Grenda leading, had covered 25 miles 6 M laps, one lap ahead of the record M made hy Butt and Fogler in 1012. m The seventeen teams were but fl slightly hehind the record at tho fi end of the third hour. Goulot of 8 the Australian-American team, was m loading tho riders, all of whom had 73 miles and 6 laps to their credit. 1 The record is 74 miles, mode hy I Koot and Hehir in 1912. I T13 "FORK. Doc. 7. Seventeen I teams, composed of the best bi- cycle rlderB In tho world with the exception of Walter Rutt of Gcr-9 Gcr-9 many, a thrco-time winner, who ls M Incapacitated through an Injury, ana I Frank Kramer, tho world's champion fl sprinter, are competitors In the annual H six-day race, beginning: a few seconds I after mldnlffht thla morning In Madison Square garden. This la tho twenty-first race of tho kind to be held In the big amphitheater and the fifteenth alnco, to conform with a local ordinance, tho con- teat, was arranged for teams. ' Whllo many of the entrants for tills year's grind have taken part In previous races here, there are several new names on the list and never before has the make- up of the teams been so markedly lnter- national in character. Last year now records wore established during the first four days and part of tho fifth, but after that stage the pace' dwindled and Kutt and Foglor, the winning team, finally covered only 2551 miles and 5 laps, far behind tho record of 2737 miles and 1 lap, made by McFarland and Morgan In 1908. The track for this year's race lias been banked for higher speed than ever before, be-fore, and tempting cash Inducements have been offered by the management for a now record. Following Is the list of teams: Jersey Skeeters Peter Brobach, Gor- many; Alfred Halstcad, Sacramento, Cal. International team Edward F. Hoot, Now York; Reggie McNamarn. Australia, Australian team Jacklo Clarke. Australia; Aus-tralia; Paddy O'Sulllvan Hehir. Australia. Mutt and Jeff John Bedell, Baldwin, L. I.: Frank Corry, Australia. Italian team rrancesco VerrJ, Italy; Maurice Brocco, Italy. Australlan-Amorlcan team Alfred Gou-let, Gou-let, Australia; Joseph Foglor, New York. Newark team Fred Hill. Newark, N. J.; Martin Ryan. Newark, N. J. German team Willy Aprelhaus, Germany; Ger-many; Herman Ps.ckenbuch, Germany. French team Andro Perohlcot, France; Petit Breton. France. Motor Chasers Elmer Collins, Lvnn. Mass.; Bobby Walthour, Walthourville. Ga. Danish team Norman Anderson, Denmark Den-mark Norman Hansen, Copenhagen. Irish Melbourne team James Francis Moran, Chelsea, Mass.; Alfred Grenda, Tasmania. Tasmanlan team Gordon Walker. Aua-tralla; Aua-tralla; Erne3t Pyo, Australia. Interstate team Jake Mngln, Philadelphia; Philadel-phia; Percy Lawrence. Denver. New York team Clarence Carman, New York; George Cameron, New York. The Mldgots Worth L. Mitten, Davcn-port, Davcn-port, Iowa; Lloyd Thomas, San Francisco. Tho Pents-Too Kopsky, Now York; Fred Keefe, Tasmanln. |