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Show - ZLZL r:D5?vS-QUIT TGE- vSIX-MY BICYCLE RACE Waithour and. Mine Others Withdraw, Alleging That Contest Is Being Conducted Unfairly. .. . - NEW YORK, Dec 7. Angry because hey believed" the race was being unfairly un-fairly conducted and because methods . . which they allege to be rong allowed other rldera to gain a lap upon them, five teams in the six-day bicycle race at Madison Square Garden, Including some of the best riders competing In . the event, quit the race today. , " The five teams that quit -were Walthour Wal-thour and Munroe, Bedell and Bedell. . Mayo and Newkirk. McLean and Bow- ler, and Butler and Moran. All of them were among the best In the contest and among those most heavily backed to win the highest prise. ' Tha trouble ;was precipitated by the roost exciting pieces of riding in the race thus far given, when Root and Dorlon, followed later by Stoll and Van-' Van-' derstuyft succeeded " In gaining a lap on their opponents. Walthour," who acted as spokesman for the five dlssat-isflcd dlssat-isflcd teams, declared that the members of those teams relieved each other at Intervals not allowed by the rules, especially es-pecially In the case of Stoll and Van-derstuyft Van-derstuyft The trouble began shortly after o'clock. For two miles Dorlon kept up a heartbreaking heart-breaking sprint and gained half a lap on the bunch. Then, hardly losing a second. Root Jumped in and began a sprint even more heartbreaking than Dorlon" s had. been. He kept it up for forty minutes, - with the other riders trying desperately to overtake him, but at the end of that time he had gained the lap he and his partner coveted. Walthour was on the track throughout the sprint and riding a little ahead of the rest. ' When Root was making his meteoric dash half a lap ahead of the rest, little Stoll. the Belgian rider who had just relieved Vanderstuyft, stole up past Walthour and began a sprint to catch Root. In twelve laps he had done ' what he had tried for, and Walthour had been too much taken by surprise to catch him. Then the partners In the five teams named, who were not then on the track, made their complaint and declared their Intention of withdrawing. Their partners part-ners then riding- left the track and all ten riders immediately surrounded the officials and demanded that the lost distance dis-tance be restored to them. Walthour, as spokesman for the dissatisfied dis-satisfied riders, argued that Stoll had not properly relieved Vanderstuyft and that the lap was gained unfairly. P. T. Powers, promoter of the race, told Walthour and the others that they had no right to leave the track as they had done, either by the National Cycling association rules or the special contract? which they made with the management. He concluded: "You can go back on tha track or not Take your choice. After a conference between President Batchelder of the National Cycling association,' as-sociation,' and R. S. Kelcey. chairman of the board of control of the association, associa-tion, Walthour and the nine other riders who withdrew from the race were Indefinitely In-definitely suspended. The caws will not be disposed of until the regular annual meeting of the association in February. Until that time they cannot ride on any track In the United .States. Walthour has engaged to ride in Europe in the I early spring but if the suspension is not lifted he will not be allowed to ride on any track in the world, nor will any of the other suspended men. Chairman Kelcey In speaking of the men, said: "I intend to-make an example exam-ple of these fellows." He would say nothing further. - |
