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Show U COST IB , Bicrapi Six-day Meet Will Cof $15,000 More Than Any j Previous Event XEW YORK, Nov. S3. The high cot ej everything nowadays ia revolutionirM-sports. revolutionirM-sports. Every item of expense necesaijp in the promotion of a big sport conte has shot up like a rocket. Even the pries of printing admission tickets 3-doubled. 3-doubled. In the face of rising cosaTJ promoter who attempts the direction of j-sport j-sport spectacle must indeed be a courage! Soon after assuming direction of tm-year's tm-year's six-day bicycle race in the Gm den, George H. Young was confroM-with confroM-with the problem of increased expeM for everything, big and little, that mm-be mm-be utilized in the week's grind. Afierfl-day Afierfl-day and a night of calculating, the aeJ-manager aeJ-manager figured the cost of runninz tbu-1913 tbu-1913 race would exceed $60,000, whkiM; more than 515,000 over the cost o.f J : previous Garden "bike" contest A chief reason for the costliness o! til ! year's race is the importation of at lea : fourteen foreign stars who will pajlaj I the starting line on November 30 irj th greatest international field of riders thai ever competed In a long-distar.e race in this or any other country. Riders Come High. Bike racing throughout Europe, scl especially in Paris, has become very popular popu-lar since the ending of the world war, and it was necessary to offer the foreign -speed specialists unusually attra:;.ve .:-ducements .:-ducements to bring them to this side of the Atlantic. . r The American stars were cot basi'"J. about asking record-breaking sum; Dr their presence in the Garden race. Nr.:-: rallv, it was imperative to line up Cjm.-strongest Cjm.-strongest home talent to resist th formidable foreign invasion, and Tan t already has struck a total of ; which must be paid the competing te&i . thirty-six riders in the form of mUM bonuses and prizes. In connection with the riders tr.ere : a big additional expense of bringing o"! .: the European wheel fliers, a big itea at; these times of expensive ocean traveiiaSj and the cost of feeding and bandiing tjj riders throughout the week of. cWif U immense track. Food Goes Up. The race management assurr.es ill ill tnse of sustenance; none is borne rfl . competitors themselves. Oniy the choK feeds are purchased and special eke!s ; emploved to dived the meals of conn Ing riders who are pampered like so mU . spoiled children during the grueHag wj The rental of the famous Gariea a gone up. Every detail of prn L hel.H-d to swell the grand wpento t Labor costs a great deal more. MaWJ ,. have kept pace even to the costofPH"; ing tickets. , M In many Instances the Increased ranged over 100 per cent, CountWW, n incidentals that creep to on"g p running ' s o' tullv 560,000 must be made tor a . coming i ike race even before a JWW ; taken a: the deer. . George Young, however. Is connw tint the present boom in snorts otj kinds and the wonderful strength o(B, Internati 1 field of WT''5"3, more than offs I e rrd-brJ -ot staging this year's Harden six I I" |