Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-06-03
M'DOUGALL
Is BIKE STAR
Smashes American Record for
One Third of a Mile and
Captures Five-MiIe.
TITLE RACE FOR KRAMER

although there was a national cham
plonship event on the card, a match race,
also n motGr-paced race. - the Velodrome
yesterday, neither of the professional
events could compare with the amateur
races. Just one simon-pure-he's only
In the game a season-was in evidence.
Ihey call him plain Mac" but in
civilian clothes he sports the name Of
Donald McDougall, of this city.
Superior headwork on the part of this
little fellow In both the events : !. which
he entered won for him the honor as
peer of all pedal-pushers of the day. He
made his opponents look like novices and
celebrated his first good day of the pres
ent bike season by smashing al Ameri-
can record made by Willie Fem, which
has been standing some twelve years.
1t was in the very first heat of the
one-third-mile handicap that Melon
gall set the new mark. Starting from
scratch the clever little lad showed his
way around the saucer In a most sensa-
tional style. He passed the handicap
men as though they we're standing and
at the tape led by at least twenty yards.
1t was some time afterwards, however,
before Referee R. C. Kelsey announced
that McDougalPs time of 3S Id SEE
onds had bettered the old mark of 3S 40
seconds, established by Willie Zen in
Hartford. Conn.,, November 2, 1900. To
make things appear more evenly bal
anced MAC" captured the final of the
6ve-mile event in the same easy-going
way he won the one-third-mile race.
1t was a cinch. and from present indi-
cations will be a c;nch for National
Champion Frank Kramer In the coming
championship events for some time.
The final of the quarter-mile title event
yesterday was simply an ordinary heat,
from a spectators standpoint. 1t was
what one would call a Jack johnson
against Johnny Coulon.' He had no
one to fight and just rode rou the
track one and a half times with appar-
emily no effort. Tommy Smith, Pete
Drobach and Albert Crebs, all of whom
could be called Invitation riders, quail
fed for the final n they finished In
the order named.
Let me out, " Kramer yelled to Freddie
West, as he was poeketed on the bell lap
of the three mile, but Freddie stuck to
his post, and as a result Alfred Grenda,
the big Australian, copied the race. with
the champ watching on. 1t was the con-
sensus of opinion, however, that Frank
would have probably cleaned up here had
1t not been for the stern little West.
Comes, too, was hemmed in and could
not get up in the money. Freddie West
got second, with Johnny Bedell a close
third.
Norman Anderson's clever riding in the
third heat of the three-cornered match
race with Carlo Messori and AL Def
fenbacher enabled him TO take the event
two out of three.
He took the first heat rather handily,
lost the second to Messori in decisive
fashion, and copied the third in a close
race. Delffenbacher was third in each
heat.
The motor-paced race at fifteen miles
wen to Ernie Pye, who rode a great
race all the way. Percy Lawrence, who
lost his pace once. also did well and
was beaten out by half a lap. Nat But
Ter was hopelessly In the rear. being over
a mile to the bad. The Bedell brothers
were the real cheese in the two-mile
invitation, Menus finishing first and
John second. Jumbo Wells took third,
but was disqualified for teaming with
Jake Magin. Jake was fined s. for his
actions.
The novice had its usual spills. V.
Bowen, a negro rider, took the first prize
IN easy fashion.