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Show GOULET AND GRENDA OUT OF BIKE RACE NEW YORK, Dec. 22. More than 122 miles behind the record, the six lead in s teams In the six-day bicycle race had covered 21S2 miles and 3 laps at 10 o'clock tonight, the one hundred and eighteenth hour. Root and Madden were setting the pace after a series of sprints in three of which McNamara had taken the honors. Tiiree of the teams were one lap behind the leaders and two other teams were still another lap in the rear. The record for the one hundred and eighteenth hour Is 2304 miles and 9 laps, made by Verri and Egg in 1914. The number of teams in the race was officially reduced to eleven when it was announced that the Goulet-Grenda combination com-bination had been declared out because Goulet was unable to find another partner part-ner to take the place of Grenda, whose collar bone was broken in a spill last night. |