Daily News from New York, New York • 122

SUNDAY NEWS, DECEMBER 9, 1923. KOCKLER AND LAWRENCE WIN 6-DAY RACE 53 A STRAIN ON THE FAMILY TIE SOCCER RIVALS MEET TODAY IN A. F. A. CUP TIE Meeting for the fourth time this season, New York Soccer Club and the National Giants, both American WESTERNERS RETAIN LAP LEAD TO FINISH Thousands Barred Out of Garden, Packed Long: Before Riders Start Final Sprints By JACK FARRELL.

Clutching with viselike grip the one-lap advantage which they scored on Thursday night when they caught the field llatfooted, the team of Ernest Kockler, Chicago milkman, and Percy Lawrence, Frisco taxi driver, won the six-day bike race which terminated at 11 o'clock last night at Madison Square Garden. Soccer League members, will clash in an American Football Association third round game at the Polo Grounds this afternoon, with a kickoff at 3 P. M. I MiwmYX III James Master- Final Bike Standing. I nil Vv? 1 1 irS.

X. ,1 1 --av J. wuiuir Only ten of the original fielil of sixteen teams were left to fight it out in the final hour, but the leaders, contrary to the expectations ton of Brooklyn will referee. Hugh Magee's New York Oval contingent has trounced the Giants in each Tranot. roint.

Kofklrr and l.anrrarf 40 Mfinara and V. kfuipra 1,174 tloran and Madden Ml. and Debar! 477 Iteeknian and tlanlry l.onllrt and Piani Mill and l.rrnda 212 Ili-oreo and WweMkopa. 12 t'oburn and kaltrr I2.t Landii and tiavlmia At the unih of tli- nrf. Ihr 1 Ltd Adolf Buslik earlier setto.

The Giants have been shaken .1 i i i 3 hour, tbe winnm bad eovered 2.AX9 aim i-uiisiueraray strengthened re-, cently, however, and on their home heath may be counted upon to force New York to extend itself. Adolf; Buslik, owner and manager of thej Giants, yesterday denied reports! mllra lanx. with all the other -inalninar team ane lap brhind. Tar rerwrd for tbe rare S.K'i'i mile rim, rt bv lmpur and x2 in Reggie McNamara Percy Lawrence mat nis club was for sale. EVANDER RIFLEMEN WIN PUBLIC SCHOOL MARKSMEN'S TITLE Representatives of Evander Childs High School captured the P.

S. A. L. rifle shooting championship yesterday on the indoor range at Brooklyn Athletic Field with a i wf a I I found his benefactors right at his hind wheel. Nefatti and Azzini, however, retired from the grind at 10 o'clock, leaving the other ten teams to battle it out in the final hour.

Although it appeared to the average layman that, the crowds which have sat in at the race since it started Sunday night were the largest in the history of the event, Manager John Chapman announced last night, without cracking a smile, that while the gate receipts would pass the $200,000 mark, yet they were several thousands below the figure of 1921. Wake of the News. many, defied every attempt to dislodge them. They were never in real danger of losing their lead. Reggie McN'amara and Pete Van Kempen won the fight for point honors and landed in second place with a grand total of 1,174 points.

Kddie Madden and Harry Horan. the team, finished third with StWi points. Oscar Egg and Caesar Debates, the Swiss-Belgian combination, took fourth place with 477. The four leading teams will divide a purse of $5,000 of this will he awarded the winning team. The usual festivities attended the close of the event, which was one of the greatest in six-day rac By VPPERCVT.

graduated. I went down to a prominent business man, a Columbia alumnus, whose offices are on the lower part of Manhattan and I asked for a position. "He asked me a few things about where I was educated, if 1 ever Hired? You Bet! "I was very much interested," writes Helper L. D. "in what President Butler of Columbia is reported to have said "when Columbia varsity C's were awarded to high total of 942 points out of a possible 1,200.

Evander's second team captured second honors witif 926 and Morris was third with 858.1 Boys" High, Commercial, Newf Utrecht and Eastern District fin-i ished in the order named. I Individual honors were captured! by Reynolds of Evander, who reg- istered 175 points out of a possibles 200. Kuseling, his team mate, fin- ished second with 172, and Phil- lips of Morris third with 171. Phillips turned in the best card; for the standing position when he registered 68 points, three better" 'QC In i 1 i i L' if crt of forty football players. Among whaf.

school( and wnat kind of a po other things, President Butler is sition I wanted. Then he asked me reported to have said: "We confer my name. all sorts of degrees at Columbia 'Young he said solemnly, tt, I saw you row once and I believe Lniversity during the course of the ran ar.nnnA nm I than Corrado of New Utrecht, who year medals, marks of distinction need some young man who won't I was second. Maurice Broceo Eddie Madden tor scnoiarsnip, ior service, iur jveep in sirone wun me rest oi tiie (1'ictures on page office, who's always out of tune I with the crew and who will stir up i YORK special attainments and achievements; but I fail to see why this distinction of the award of the i. iu, vu uuvic aiuuiiu ill i a got a good, capable bunch in my employ, but they need a little agitation.

I think you're just the man to do all "A straight A. B. degree, unadorned by the might not have earned me the position. That's the A of it all." ing history. Kockler and I.awrence each rode around the track carrying bouquets of roses, presented by the management.

Not So Lively. The final hour of sprints, usually the most thrilling of the race, was not quite up to the mark, although there were several attempts at lap stealing. Hanley. Broceo, Betkman and t'oburn each tried to get away, but somebody hauled them back in each case. Goullet, many-time winner of these races, was not a prominent figure.

His partner, Piani. was not in good physical condition for the final whirl. Needless to state, every nook and corner of the old sport paiace was jammed tight. Shoe horn methods were employed to accommodate the hundreds who sought admission to the infield. Every ticket printed for the racket was gobbled up by hungry fans long before evening, so that thousands of late arrivals had to cool their heels outside the Garden gates.

Mad Hatter Enters. Mike Delori, the nortorioua Dan-bury skypiece sculptor, blew into BEATEN BY PHILLY Philadelphia, Dec. Phila-? delphia Soccer Club surprised it followers today by downing tht-crack New York S. 1 0, at National League Ball Park, in American Soccer League garnet Curran scored for the Quakers ter" minutes after the second half gov under way. Geudert fumbled ati tempting to save.

New York hai many scoring chances but sho3 poorly. Jawn's system of mathematics must be defective somewhere. The riders will be paid off at the Garden tomorrow afternoon. Kockler is thirty years old, a product of the North Side of Chicago, and a World War veteran. He has been a consistent winner of races at practically every distance since 1U15.

Both Know Game. Kockler rode his irst six-day race in Chicago in 1121 and finished in the money. year, teamed with Alf Goullet, he won first place in Chicago and repeated there last October with Carl Stockholm as partner. Percy Lawrence learned to ride in his native city, San Francisco. He developed into a star amateur rider and came East.

He made his debut in the six-day game at New York in 1911 when, paired with 1 IVAN PARKE GETS Modern Song. "I may not know my physics, My Greek, geometry. But I shall get a dandy jolj I have a rowing The news, sad as it may be, has been gently broken to the French that they must furnish nearly 4,000 medals for the Olympic games to be held in Paris next vear. IN WITH 3 MORI' New Orleans. Dec.

8. Y'ounil varsity should not rank with the others in our minds, for it stands for a good piece of college work well done. We have been trying for a good many years at Columbia to prove that we do not regard sporty physical development and athletic competition as a fungous growth but, instead, that they are offering in their own way the development of just those qualities mentioned by President Chrystie (of the Varsity Club) that mark the highest type of college man. What you young men are getting is "a mark of distinction for work well done. "A good many years ago I rowed on Columbia's crew and then I was Ivan Parke, sensational apprenticj jockey, rode three winners toda raising his total firsts for the ninl days to twenty-two.

Parke's wirt the place shortly after 8 o'clock and Walter Demara, he finished third ners were Antonia in the second race at 11 to 5, Royal Crown was preparing to launch into his usual money spending orgy by of-1 nas. P''ea in ine money in ten the third at 3 to 5 and Peggy in the fifth at 2 to 1. termg centurv notes lor special vur sprints, but Messrs. Chapman and whu last put the cuffs on (Other picture on page 64.) BETHS WIN OVER Mike's bankroll, which is generally; "-IWERTIIFAMER HERE, WITH RACE niitincd iniait. i NEWARK F.

2- Dec. 8. Bethh FOR EPINARD ON I IIS MIND Up to 8 o'clock the preems of- fered by generous spectators dur- hem Steel F. C. took second plat in American Soccer League stant ings by defeating Newark F.

2 0, on Schwab Field here th ing tne week reached the SOOi be pla(1 to meet uarry -p. The only thrill the crowd got states to discuss terms for a race right up to the zero hour was between Epinard and Zev," Tierre furnished by the team of Nefatti Weriheimer, owner of the cham-and Azzini. who regained one of French three-vear-old. said aiternoon. Jackson scoref both goals.

The Newark defensj was strong, but the forward liri their three lost laps at 8:53. Ref yesterday when he arrived on the -Well, here's an opportunity not to be overlooked by the United States to get some gold out of France. An office pest doesn't become a real, genuine pest until he starts smoking the same kind of cigarettes you smoke. Thanks! Let you and me and all the rest Say just a word of grace; The Sabbath came around again And stopped the sis-day race. conditions should have governed the Zev-Papyrus race.

"No horse can be expected to be at his best after a long sea voyage and running in a strange country," the Frenchman said. Wertheimer said he came to the United States on business and expected to remain about three weeks. He had no definite engagement to meet Sinclair, but hoped to talk to the American turfman. "I would like to see the race arranged," Wertheimer said, "as it would be a great boost for Franco-American sports relations." made little progress. SUMMERS WINNER Marty Summers, 146 pound! got the decision over Jack Perrj eree Frank Kramer had ordered that they be ruled off the track by 10 o'clock unless they made up some of their lost ground.

None of the other riders made a serious attempt to head off these two boys, but when Nefatti went out to try for an additional lap he steaner ans. Wertheinaer said he believed that if a race between the conqueror of Papyrus and Epinard is held it should be late next year, in either the United States or France, with a return race in the other country. Weriheimer believed tbe same 1452, in a hot eight-round bot last night at the Ridgewood Groj Sporting Club..