Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-15
JOE FOGLER WINS
Frank Kramer Takes Mile Open
and Wright the Half
Mile.

artist, did not have to exert him.
self very much to defeat Paddy
OSullivan Hehir, the Australian, in
the f1fteen-mile human-paced race at
the Newark Velodrome bike track yes
terday afternoon. The time, SO min
utes and ~ seconds, was good for the
distance, but this fast time was most
ly due to the fact that each rider
was paced by five other riders, who
took turns at setting the pace. Each
pacemaker rode about half a mile
and then gave way to someone else.
The five men who paced Fogler r
ing the fifteen miles were Peter Dro-
back, Percy Lawrence, Walter Bard
gett, Norman Anderson and Eddie
Root. 1t might be said that these
men putclassed the Hehir pacemakers,
who were AL Goullet, Jumbo Wells,
Philip Wright, Pedler Palmer and AL
bert Crebs, not as individuals, but as
a team. One of the big points that
helped Sir Joseph win the race was
the fact that he outgeneraled Hehir
from the start to the finish.
Hehir was allowed to lead most of
the way by from five to ten yards.
Only ono during the entire race did
Fogler try to open up a gap between
himself and Hehir. The fans did not
understand the race at the start, but
soon got wise, and then there was ex-
element galore. Something like the
six-day race when someone starts a
sprint.
At the start of the race Peter Dro-
back was Fogler's pacemaker and
Goullet vas eHhirs. Hehir had the
pole and got away in the lead, which
was apparently just what Fogier
wanted. Percy Lawrence took Fogler
into the lead by five yards at three
and a half miles. Five miles were
covered in II minutes and IL 20 sec
onds. Fogler was then leading by ten
yards. Anderson started the first bit
of excitement of the race by cutting
out a sprint at five miles and W
laps. Root made a good pickup, but
Fogler was working his W game on
Hehir, and when Goullet picked up
Hehir Joe and Eddie let the other pair
pass them.
Lawrence and Phil Wright wanted to
show each other up, and both fought
hard to get his mar in the lead. Seven
miles saw Hehir leading by ten yards.
This he held until at eight miles and
two laps. Norman Anderson again set
the crowd wild with cheers by taking
Fogler into the lead by twenty-five
yards. Root relieved Anderson, but
Fogler did not car to try to gain a
lap and Jumbo Wells brought Hehir
up even with Fogler. Joe soon too the
lead again and held 1t until Albert
Crebs took Hehir into the lead at ten
miles and lap.
There was a mixup of p~ace-makers at
| eleven miles, and most of them were on
the track. Peter Drobach, who was
pacing Fogler, would not let anyone
relieve him until everything had cleared
up. Hehir kept In front by ten yards
from the twelfth to the fourteenth mile,
where Fogler's rear tire blew out and
| the rae was stopped until 1t was re-
paired.
When the race was started again both
riders rode from the tape, with the
| privilege of as many changes of pace
makers ais they chose. Fogler allowed
Hehir a ten-yard lead until three laps
to go. Then Anderson cut loose and
Eddie Root relieved him on the next
lap. Hehir sent his pace-makers from
the track on the bell lap and Root rode
in front of him, with Fogler at his side
on the back stretch of the last lap. On
the turn into the home stretch at the
finish Fogler passed both riders and
won easily, with Root right beside him
and Hehir several inches behind.
Paddy protested after the race, claim
ing that Root should have left the track
on the last lap and given him a better
chance to win. This did not go, as he
had agreed to allow the p~ace-makers
on the track until the finish.
Frank L. Kramer won the one-mile
open for class A professionals in good
form, with Eddie Root a close second
and John Bedell third inches behind
Root and Kramer. Menus Bedell, who
had hung on behind John most of the
way, nosed out Freddy West for fourth,
while West took fifth. Chris Scheller,
who rode his first race in class A ranks
yesterday, rode inside the black line
on he fiat in the back stretch of the
last lap, and as the riders were going
onto the turnout of the back stretch
he tried to take the lead and the pole
from Fogler. He rode straight into
Fogler's front wheel and sent Joe over
his handle-bars on his head. Kramer,
who was riding behind Fogler, saw the
accident in time to save himself and