The Jersey City news., 1902-08-28
NEWS OF
the WHEELMEN
Clear Course Promised to
Kramer and Taylor for
Their Great Series Of
Races Next Week.
THEY WILL RIDE UNpAcED
Exciting Contests on Board
Tracks at Night Between
Cracks Notes.
THEY WILL RIDE UNPACED

mer and Major Taylor, which is TO D2
decided at the vailsDurgh board track on
Labor Day. will assuredly decide which
of these two riders can claim superiority
over the other. Before making the match
Manager Noigt toasulted with both riders
as to the best method of having the much
discussed cycle topic settled. Both riders
agreed that on a clear track and without
pace-makers would be the best test OF
sprinting skill The champion wanted
each heat to be one mile in distance, but
Taylor declared for a half-mile and one
mile heat and the third distance to De
decided by the rider lucky enough to win
the toss of a coin.
Kramer's quick acquiescence to Tay-
lor's suggestion proved that the East Or
ange flyer was not prepared to stand out
on any trivialities that might Interfere
with the race coming off. Taylor is a
foxy fellow and generally wins his point
when conditions are discussed. 1t is con-
ceded by nearly everyone wise in the
sport that the colored rider has what
ever advantage there is in the conditions
of the race. Taylor tried to whip Kra-
mer in the three-cornered match with
Lawson last year by insisting on pace
makers being employed to carry the rid
ers the whole journey. The pacemakers
were husky set, and, while Taylor and
Lawson gave the champion a terrific
fight, Kramer never quite lost the advan-
tage he gained in the start OF each heat,
when he jumped and caught the pace
makers hind wheel, which he clung to
tenaciously until he essayed his three
eIghths-of-a-mile sprint for home.
In race without pacemakers a riders
brain must be very active to prevent the
hundred and one tricks that can be en-
ployed to bring discontinue and defeat.
The colored rider is full of clever stunts.
He can stop his wheel stock-still on a
track and remain in that position for
minutes at time. TO force his opponent
in the lead. At one time, when his op-
ponent employed the same trick, Taylor
actually rode his wheel backward, so
that his opponent had to go on in front
The colored cyclist is the champion
trickster all right, and if he has the
requisite speed he may lower the East
Orange flyers colors in the dust. Taylor
cares more for the honor of beating
Kramer in a match race than hetdoes
for the $500 purse, as it will completely
square him with thousands of critics who
have consistently shouted that he has no
show because the other white riders COM
bine against him to aid the Jersey lad.
There are tricks in all trades, but ours
may be quoted by the bicycle riders in
paced competition, but the referees and
those who govern the sport find it hard
to promulgate rules to block the schemes
that the men work out in order to secure
a little advantage over their competitors.
The very latest is the bending out of
the pedal cranks on the pacing machines.
This compels the pacemakers to pedal
rather awkwardly, but it means an inch
or two moro of wind protection to the
rider following. Bobbie Walthour of the
Columbia racing team, was first to use
this plan. and as there is nothing in the
rules prohibiting it, it WAS finally agreed
among the pace-follow.rs that it was al
lowable for the cranks to be bent out
ward instead of going straight down
from the nk-hanger. The fast ma
chine that Walthour now owns is said
to be capable Of mile in a minute and
those who have seen it travel do not
doubt the assertion.
George Leander. of Chicago, defeated
w. A. Rutz, of New Haven, best two
in three fve-mile paced heats on the
board track. Atlantic City, last night.
Leander won the first heat in minutes
II seconds: Rntz the second in minutes
50 1-5 seconds, and Leander the third
in minutes 81 1-5 seconds. Each race
was close.
Zimmerman and Sinclair, of New
York, won one-mile tandem motor race
from Thompson and Boake, Of Toronto,
iii minute 26 1-5 seconds. The second
heat was won BY the latter in | minute
rs ;,-5 seconds.
Five thousand people at the coliseum
cycle track last night saw Bobby Walth-
our. of Atlanta, defeat Bennie Monroe,
OF Memphis, in two straight ive-mile
heats Of a motor-paced race.
Munroe was easily distaneed in the.
first heat by three and a half laps,
Walthour finishing in Z minutes Al sec
ofsds. In the second heat Walthour won
BY three wheel lengths, going the dis
tance in 8 minutes 4 seconds.
Much interest is being shown by ama-
teur cyclists in the ne-mile and three
mile races scheduled to take place on
Labor Day. Monday, September LIST, at
the Fof'ty-sixth Annual Games of the
New York Caledonian Club. at Washing
tor Park, Grand street, between Mas
peth and Newtown, 4. ]. The secretary
OF the club. MI james I: Follet. has al
ready received 4 large number of entries,
especially from novices, VINO have enter
ed for the one-nile race.