Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-11
SAY KRAMER PUT
ONE OVER RIDERS
Champion Not Ill, but Sailing,
Some of the Stars Seem
TO Think.
FOREIGN BIKE DOINGS

When 1t was announced at the
| Velodrome Wednesday evening that
| Champion Frank Kramer was i'll and
would not be able to compete in the
races some of the professionals, and
particularly Jackie Clark and ALI
Goullet, his nearest rivals in the
championship race, were more or less
skeptical as to the real cause for the
champions non-appearance. They
were inclined to believe that Kramer,
who is fine and underweight was
stalling and instead of being Ill was
resting to get in shape for the five
mile championship which is scheduled
for Sunday.
All of the riders are pretty much all
in from the continuous circuit chasing
of the last six weeks, and there is not
one of them who would not like to
pass up meet at which there is no
title race scheduled. Clark and Goul-
let would have sidestepped the mid
week meet If they could have mus
tered a good excuse. However, Kra-
mer has nothing on either of them, as
the rain stopped the meet before the
hard race of the evening was put on.
This gave the riders a good rest, as
there was no racing Monday or Tues
day. At that, Kramer will have a
slight edge on his opponents, as all
of the other stars rode at Philadel-
phia last night, while the champion
stayed at home.
Kramer announced this morning
that he has completely recovered from
his cold and will ride in the meet at
the Velodrome Sunday. The races on
the bill are a five-mile championship,
half-mile handicap and a miss-and-
out race for the professionals in ad-
dition to the two remaining heats of
the French point match and the final
of that race. The amateur races are
a one-mile handicap, three-mile open
and a half-mile novice.
~
Details of the running of the heats
of the Grand Prize of Paris, which
was eventually won by Walter Rutt,
of Germany, have just been received
here. Thorwald Ellegaard was the
only star who was shut out in the
heats. Hourlier, Perchicot and B'riol,
who were favorites with Ellegaard,
Won their heats only to be shut out
in the semi-finals, which were run
four days later. Perchicot took the
first heat from Dupont with six
riders unplaced. The last eighth was
ridden in 10 seconds, which is slow.
Hourlier took the second heat from
Meurger. in which seven riders were
unplaced, and the final eighth COW
cred in II AS seconds. Friol ac-
counted for the third heat, which
was slow, the time being Is 2-5
seconds for the sprint of an eighth
of a mile. Seven riders were UNI
placed in this heat, two of them being
Russians. The surprise of the meet
came in the fourth heat, when Ellie
gard, who has won the Grand Prize
of Paris five times, was shut out by
Shurmann. of Germany, the Dane fin
ishing fourth. Ellegaard was
poeketed at the quarter and never
had chance TO get out until the race
was lost. The time for this heat was
IL 1-5 seconds for the eighth. which
was the fastest of the trials. The
foreign exchanges state that the win
ner received a fine pull from Woodie
Hedspeth, the American negro. Rutt
took the fifth heat from Comes in
IL 4-5: Pouchois accounted for the
sixth heat in IL S-5 seconds; Dupre,
one of the finalists, took the seventh
heat, and Moretti, who was second
in the final, won the eighth heat in
IL 2-5 seconds. Moretti is the Italian
rider who has received an offer to
ride at the yelodrome during the
month of August.
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At the same meeting Perchieot and
Berthet won a fifty kilometer team
race from Pouchois and Delrieu, Rutt
and Dafragon, Hourlier and Egg and
Comes and Oliverri, who finished in
the order named. Perchieot. Pou-
ehois. Rutt, Hourlier and Comes
sprinted for their teams, and Perehi-
cot won in the last ten yards after
a hard battle with Rutt and Pouchois.
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All of the stars rode in the handi-
cap, which was at half mile,
Perchicot being the only scratch man
to qualify. Polledri, the italian. with
a mark of IS yards, was the winner;
Pouchois. with yards, was second,
and Perchieot finished third.
-.
The vanguard of the cyclists who
are headed for Newark, as result
of the closing of the Salt Lake track,
will reach this city some time today.
In the party are Lloyd Thomas, of
California: Paddy Hehir and Bill
Finlay, of Australia. Finlay is
middle-distance rider.