Sport: Cycles In Manhattan

After almost a week of pedaling around a steeply inclined pine-board track in Madison Square Garden last week, most of the riders in Manhattan's 52nd International Six Day Bicycle Race were from 5 to 15 Ib. heavier than when they started. They had not slept much—five hours per day, mostly between 5 a. m. and noon—but they had made up for it by eating huge quantities of beef, chicken and raw celery. The basement of Madison Square Garden is never more malodorous, even when populated by show dogs or poultry, than when its catacombs...

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