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Show SIX-DAY TEAMS ARE FAR BEHIND THE FORMER RECORD f j French System cf Scoring ! Provides New Kind of I Interest I MA i H S( )N SQC A R K OAK f KN. NKW YOKK. iuc. f-Vh-ii the riders hi the rfix-duy blcvrlc race had completed one-third of the contest here at madnlght ony one team, Drobach and erri, hatl dropped out. Thirteen of the aurvfvlng teams were t rd, having covered 871 miles. 1 lap, with the trading pair, the How ker brothers, one lap behind. The record for forty-eight hours, made by oullet and C rend four years atfo, la um miles, 1 lap. Interest does not center In the dis-! dis-! tance male bv the conttstantH, aa the r r n h a v stem by scoring polnta in the sprints wll" deterTnitic the winners of Ihe catth piir.-J th.s ear I p to date the American team. .Slc.Vamara and Mag-n. are leading po:nt winners, having S4-ored eight f:rsts in the fifteen sprints decided esterday afternoon j and last maht. Madden and Cot ry are I second In the point aire. with tirend.i and Hill ant Im w rem-e and Hanle next In older. At 4 p. ni.. the end of the fortieth hour, the relative positions tf the teams were unchanged. The leader had covered 73 miles. 8 I'ups. The record' rec-ord' for the same penm). made by Mgg and Yerrl In 1114. was M4 miles, it laps. At 8 . m. today, the fifty-sixth hour, (lie badinu thirteen teams In the race had M-dalt d ltu'J miles. 2 laps The j liowker brothers were one lap behind The fifty-sixth hour record is llhSj mint's, a laps, made here by Anderson and Dupuy In 115. ' j |