The Six Day Race

Snatching a lap from the straining pack in the waning minutes of the final hour the two Alfreds, Goullet and Grenda, won the 34th six-day bicycle race at Madison Square Garden, Manhattan. This final hour offered the most intense drama ever presented in the great wooden saucer. Oscar Egg and Peter Van Kempen, the Swiss-Holland team, were far in the lead for points when Gastman and Lands, of Newark, caught the field in a jam and stole a lap. With 30 minutes to go the race seemed finally theirs. The veteran Goullet, sensing the exhaustion point at the end of the twenty-second sprint, went after the lap like a bullet. In three reliefs he and his partner had circled the field and won the race on the strength of a higher sprint record than Gastman and Lands.