The evening world. Newspaper, December 5, 1908, Page 7

THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 65, 1908. en _ — aerate fin Aon —<- -- "[ERRLPESEE’] NEWS OF ALL BRANCHES OF SPORT CHAMPION CYCLE FAMOUS RIDERS IN SIX-DAY BICYCLE RACE ALY ING JAGQUBELIN STARS AWAIT WORD ea as ‘ = FOR SIX-DAY RACE Re: | Short Distance Events To-Night at Garden Preliminary to Great International Race. ee MNT TE ew) GEORGET HE six day grind—that gruelling struggle that starts at the first stroke of midnight on Sunday and continues until the follow- ing Saturday night—is here again. Dorano Pietri, the Italian Marathon runner will fire the pistol that will send the fifteen teams on their long journey. Not in years has there been such a representative | gathering of stars of the cycle world. It wil) be another battle for international honors. Europe has sent its greatest riders over and the | knights of the silent steed from La Belle France will not only have the big purse money as an inducement, but a Prize of 10,000 francs offered by a cycle firm of France. Last year the honors were carried off | by a $005 1 i Jetfries Lost Many Bailes When Young. an easy victory, for they w to the bitter end by the 4 ers and the French team of Georget an@ Dupre. It was not won until Wal- ter Rutt, riding for his te and Joe Fogler, representing the te Fosler und Mor: na mile race for first tt won. Dupre won his heat when it came to the race eff for third honors. Foreigners Hope to Win. | With this record of first and third Place gained lust year th sn dele- Bation hope to repeat and have brought | used to meet often and we fought ey often as youngsters will do. Jeff YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Dec. 5.— “Yes, I have whipped Jim Jeffries, 4 not once but several times—but we | { were boys then down on the farm in | Fairaea County," sald Bamue! Wil- kins, @ prominent manufaeturer of this “The Jeffries family of five boys and several girls lived on fine farm near the town of Carroll,” said Wilkins, “and my famlly lived a short distance away. Jim and 1 over a team of plus: fourcade, who will go after a reccral was about twelve years old and I was fifteen. He was always ready to serap. Jim was a slender chap then, but he came from ae family of slants “Jim had a nickname when he was a boy that I never hear een- Honed. The boys called him ‘Apple Butter,’ because he nearly always had apple butter on his fa; | BorRocco MBEDELL ap ER Ee MAY. TAYLOR: the cla of men that are to compete. dje Root, winner Faces, and still a you with Bobby Walthour, An Beal grinds in the Garden” Fogler, on twict with Root as a partner and nished second with last year, is to ride one of the gamest a wheel. Go dow eee ayouc will And not onl ew York has her right- { cities of the earth. will Birmingham. It was a twelve-hour af- | eel sure a at N Moran as hs mate falr, with ge Waller, Geo On , ; Dunkin. Derker. and diarey of Ha | |Sullivan’s Plans ‘ould. Ad wtts|Modern Cycle Is an Airship Com- Pee Mania | AFTER TER RECORDS aay Phas Bede rae rome to to wait a de ‘te All New York will then James, Sullivan, Prest- ent of the A. A. U, and member of the rd of Education, 18 the father of Beauty Spot and Have All! 1 Old minstrel, was New York Training. father of six-day racing In Amerlea, Is: with Peter Duryea, bringing over a I" ue to pla fastest but the gamest that could pos- | er once left his SEA et LEME pared With the Pneumatic Ve- Walter Rutt and Johann picked to win again. They hav riding In great form wirosd full of confidence. Eddie Root or exhibitions in, Bos-| Crowley, the wonder of distan: eV In this! ean |ners, who got his sturdy J and |loads of bri The 100r ladders, will about six Stadium Badly Needed. een} of | The need of 4 monster stadium fs felt | t than at other time, van, Anybody who has iful inclosure at ancient sor even the modern structure at d's Bush, hicle of Other Days. he and Walthour will carry the f Charles Tar 8 ers at such a clip that they will be sorry railehrecordeatin Rae eee a ee ceneiand Di the running of the six-day bicycle race in the Garden | hours Regiment game . | t stde— | mor ndred al th sof hamper heavy marci rifle, vlan! nd Ninth Tom iD j ce as gray then as he ts fifty-four pou F y ad there | At eat bul “mile 4 viank! < i t half-mile ra any (ia wale co tens next week, the question more likely to be heard than any other Row, he was suffer from a . Fee ne ay mn dterenchedi arraa: is whether those among the fifteen teams who can stand be ng the gruelling pace in the test of the final days, when stamina counts, pei ee ve worla's | 47¢ Not showing greater endurance than those who first brought the ee ip cy | ninary day record to America. The answer is furnished by a member of The arden to- Evening World's sporting staff who has witnessed nearly tast= land, can’t help first reat | He will c hie | poncho, in }ation military she He will « t gruelling event after running | seats ile ainst Mike Drise ay with the national et is right, and when he i is one of the greatest rider: Metes that can beat the fully slow and lacking in the want of a similar "hy | . making & Was second. nd Albert | ans are embryon ‘ound well und held at si ht. An exceptional car lent bringing togeth: get sprinters and realest ers and, middle distance, 1 nt o the great inc six-day events in America from March 13, 1886, when Albert Schock, in Minneapolis, hung up the world’s record of 1,008 miles for seven hours—twelve hours a day—down to 1,899 when Walter Miller and “Dutch” Waller set up a mark of 2,733 miles 4 laps in Madison S Garden, ‘ 1 | Conditions are vastly different to-day | track at any time, while the old record and th | grom those of 20 years ago, ‘The mod- |holders were trained for enduranci of the meet will he} 1race, In this event |! who established a new | the fy the s ap- tl with a ying July 4° two world, The star ¢ will be the three c between Frank champion of Am one of the fastest the world renow Barvel, Major 1 run. in ‘heats, championship, Rea te uare ‘world | lower the riders, for example. kek a eyelist, but “and Wh # out ont t whom he ¢ Indian move | be one of tt of ath all prevtow Peis Mthe sccond c ird and fourth, if they i he distance will be dec toss of a coin The ten mile. which Bobby Walthou America, will meet he milita bicycle, _preumatte tired and Old Timers Had Endurance, shing only 22 pownds, is an air ship Speed has a deteriorating effect similar compared to the 60-pound high-wheeled |i the long, steady grind, but when I aker with tts hard rubber tires ftnink that Schock never once left the d's hour and SiInch wheel. Then there $8 the /track in the first three d if mile | aiterence of the scientifically banked | change wheels, and that } ‘Wile Md track and the unbanked turns of twen- ling time was 40 minutes in tt Ht ty years ago, when @ “header” meant | it seems to be the m necessary, ded by the of the ye Vive race promises tol AMUSEMENTS. | y-secona, EMPIRE | itl PPOURUME teenth |} grt wr W in JACK 3 sinay | | «s || HUDSON » ‘ im |] ETHEL BARRYMORE reser (1 Hsu nvedeh PCRITERION Py, th, 6, 4% | i THE BL UE MOUSE i aoe | WM. GILLELT LYCEUM Oye BILLIE BUR | GARRICK Matai We WM, COLLIER TANIGKERSUGKER ¥°™4»> | FAIZ) SCHEFF prant!s! Se ; \ SAVOY ats 1 ‘ Bowlers Roll 1,105 Score, ph Aa SL a AIPA SHIR MUA AGRO) OD. 8 THE WINTERFEASI, yew Cire Wills, the holder c record of sixty 4 except to plspior Hat LL almost certain death, ‘Training meine Neelenanrancen inva teres: ods have also changed, the be thut of Mile. Louise A r of to-day training almost eXclU- | beat Jack Prince in v sively for speed, and under the team | cause she never quit riding in the whole arrangement being reileved on thé) time, In the match race betwe — —— and Schock in Minneap ip MAJESTIC 2,4." te E WOLF HOPPER mateur , others will compet nts, complete to ASINO Satine tot R Bi Le when Prince set up a record of 1,040 miles, netthe Ruotution of the acing Bicycle. | reco of 100 mins ses |the entire 72 hours. This r way, was for 41,000 a side, + side bet ever made tn a simi). in America. | A marvel DS} fi " LULU GLASER I in Brat ica D q TH BALY'S "i le Wi, FAVERSHAM tieaieidt 4 engineer Sith is a wide ftiaLu 89, AIH, mabe Siuarlent THE WOL! y Musician, KETin & PROG PUR Sth AVE. in ne 189%, at Chicag uur Outdoor when ld's rec | Spooner ro secutive b ’ follow ite Dany Ma against thn Jnon foored his man twice in the first The First speed Test. GANNION KocKs OUT and Myers went to his corner {a vound, Six-day bicycle riding originated in MEYERS IN SECOND ROUND, | vat «have. frst Mj about mt ba “ive sare aa in the second round Gannon sent a PHILADELPHIA, Dec, b.~Michey |Pi8Nt hook to his eponent's jaw ond MUSICAL. 126th st, TABASCO. 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NICHOLAS RINK ad dv, | Privea 8 Mio Mute Wed. Today 8. By 18 - % 5 j C EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN iis that New York, though she can | It was the foreigners that requested the management to discontinue the ef exhibitions during the wee had the 10,00 fran e in vie If a new record is to be made it will be year or never. have an {dea that the Americans cannot stand a kiiling pace from the very start of the race, How- ever, they are reckoning without their , : host, for the teams that will re n m pe is a ee Sco America are the pick of the ridv t are riding in this country to- glance over the list of entries wi | - B00) 8) WERE ENDURANCE CHAMPIONS, COLLINS WIL GD. «© __ MONUMENT TO ATHLETICS City Whose cis Beat the World Far Behind in Recog- nition of Its Needs. would ‘Don't. the arsenal, th for the cry of phe obelisk, never heen ccanuiasred¢ then why should a tural ex could be ma Would Pay Its Own Way. 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