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Show LONG RACE HASBEGUN Six-Day Bicycle Races Start at Madison Square Garden. ew York, i3ec. 9. All records had been broken this morning at the end of the eighth hour of the twentieth annual an-nual bicycle race In Madison Square Garden. At that time the 15 teams which started at midnight were tied at 1S9 miles, 3 laps. With an entry Hut of fifteen teams and a track considerably improved in its construction, this year's Interna-1 tional six-day bicycle race, starting r.t one minute after midnight in Madison Square Garden, gave promise of being be-ing productive of faster and more interesting in-teresting riding than any of its predecessors. prede-cessors. The new track, which measures meas-ures ten laps to tho mile, was built for increased speed, being banked at a sharper angle at tho turns, with broader approaches to the two stretches, stretch-es, both of which are shorter than heretofore. New Rules Uced. To avoid unnecessary delays in changing partners and "loafing" under tho pretext of unavoidable accidents, the rules governing the race were changed so that any team not represented repre-sented through accident or design after af-ter the others have covered ten laps shall be penalized the distance which it may have lost. Judges and Inspectors Inspect-ors havo instructions that Intentional delays caused by so-called accidents, shall not profit the offenders. Riders Get Cash Prizes. Last year the riders demanded that tho ensh prizes be arranged on a percentage per-centage of the gate receipts and the winners were dlssatlsrlcd with tho result. re-sult. This year the nine leading teams will receive cash prizes as follows: fol-lows: First. $1,600; second, $1,000; third, $800; fourth, $700; fifth, $500; 3lxth, $400; seventh, $300; eighth, $200. ninth $100. In addition, about $6,000 In bonuses will be divided among the riders. Many of the entrants aro voterans at the game, but new blood will be In-lused In-lused Into this contest and the foreign for-eign clement Is strongly represented. The starters were: American team Frank Kramer, Jimmy Moran. Australian-American team Jackio Clarke. Fred Hill. Australian team Ale Greeiida, Ern ie Pye. Gorman-American team Walter Rutt. Joe Fogler. New York-Melbourne team Eddie Root, Paddy Hehlr. Irish team Grassy Ryan, Lloyd Thomas. French team Oscar Egg, Andro PerchicoL Swiss team Paul and Frank Su-ter. Su-ter. Iowa-Long Island team John Bo dell, Worthiugton Mitten. Dixic-Now York team Bobby WaV thour, Georgo Cameron. Boston team Fete Drobach, Elmer El-mer Collins. California-New Jersey team Percy Lawrence, Jake Magln. New Zenland team Jumbo Wells, Gordon Walker. Providence-Jamaica team Alvin Loftcs, Clarence Carman. French-Italian team Marcel Ber-thet, Ber-thet, Maurice Brocco. |
