Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-06

Tomorrow will be a big day at the
Newark Velodrome. Big prizes and
big cards have been the rule this sea-
son but Manager John Chapman has
made tomorrow's program his crown-
ing effort in the matter of staging
attractive racing. The program con-
tains eight races, with two events
worthy of being the features of any
card.
The star events are the grand prize
Of July and a match ace between
Frank Kramer and Alfred Grenda.
The latter event has been looked for,
as it is wanted by the fans, and
finally they will have it. 1t viii settle
all doubt as to who is the better rider,
a question that has been discussed for
weeks. The purse in the July race will
be divided. $500 to the winner, $500 to
the second nan and 500 to the third
man, and there will be only three
riders in the final. Thus winners OF
the heats and semi-finals and the
repechage will divide 5000 of the
purse.
Match Race.
The Grenda-Kramer match should
be a bear. 1t has been give-and-take
between these riders all season. They
have been the big winners and they
outclass the field of pros. Kra-
mer has been the more consistent
winner for the past few meets, but
just previous to the champions win
ming streak Grenda had the upper
hand and was winning the majority
of the races. Racing luck has figured
largely in nearly all of the open races
In which they have ridden, and none
of them could be termed positively
decisive.
In the two-team match races, in
which they have competed they have
divided the honors. Grenda won the
five-mile team match and Kramer
won the one-mile team match. Now
they are to meet in a race in which
their own speed and judgment acne
will figure and the winner will be the
better man. All conditions of the
match r equal. One heat is to be
French style unpaced and the second
is to be paced and paced fast, while
the third heat, If a third heat is nee
essary, will be decided by the toss of
a coin. 4.
A week ago one might have said
that the paced heat would be largely
in favor of Grenda as Kramer is not
good in a fast race, but that idea has
been dissipated. Kramer is just as
good in a hard race as he is in an
easy race He proved that in the
Spartan stakes, run the night of the
Fourth, by winning this race. which
vas one of the hardest five-mile races
ever run in Newark. Kramer's finish
at the end of that race was marvel
GUS. He shook John Bedell, the king
of sleigh" riders. off his wheel and
he did the last sixth in 16 20 sec
onds, which is just one-ffth of a sec
.ond slower than the time he made in
the sixth of a mile record trial three
weeks ago.
Kramer also finished ahead of Gren-
da in the five-mile championship
Wednesday evening. which was an
other hard race. There is not a single
angle in this match that favors either
rider, and it will be decisive in every
way. In case of punctures or other
accidents the race will be restarted.
AS to condition, both riders are as
good as they possibly could be. The
races the past few days prove that.
Grenda put up a great ride in the
Spartan stakes. he came from fifth
position on the last lap n his time
for the last sixth, while 1t vas not
was eve faster than Kra-
for the Tasmanian gained at
ten yards on the last circuit.
The riders who will make the
strongest bid for the big money in
the grand prize of July are Kramer.
Srenda, Tricky Comes, Marcel Dupuy
and Frank Cavanagh. Cavanagh has
been a boob in open competition. and
It is a shame for a boy with his
speed to waste it through a lack of