Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-16
BIKE FANS ANXIOUS
TO SEE MATCH RACE
GOuIlet-Cavanagh Match Is At
tracing More Than the
Usual Attention.
STAR NEWSIES TO BE THERE

From the big advance sale of seats
for the meet at the Velodrome tonight
1t is evident that the Frank Cava'
nagh-A ALI Goullet match is exciting
more interest than any contest put
on at the big track this season. UI
until noon today the advance sale Of
seats was triple that of any prev
ious meet this season. Big Frank
is very popular and is it safe to say
that the majority of those who attend
the meet will be pulling for the local
boy.
Manager Chapman has made prep
arations for handling a capacity
crowd. over 600 newsboys will be
the guests of Messrs. Million and
Chapman this evening and the ad-
dition of these youngsters will fill
the stands with just the ordinary
mid-week crowd present.
If Cavanagh can win over the
Australian star tonight his populari-
ty will be as great as that of Jackie
Clark and Champion Frank Kramer,
and as popularity has much to do
with the proportions of a profession
ais bonus, Cavanagh is going to put
up the battle of his career to take
Goullet into camp. Frank put the
finishing touches on his training for
l the match yesterday and is credited
with riding an eight of a mile in 10
seconds fiat without being pulled up
to the mark which is a wonderful
performance and savors of victory
against any professional in the world.
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careful preparations for tonight's
race Goullet was in Boston where he
met Champion Kramer in a match
last night. Goullet's preparation was
actual racing which is every bit as
good as training.
Both riders are quite confident Of
victory. The confidence expressed by
Cavanagh yesterday should be very
pleasing to his admirers for conf
dence has heretofore been lacking in
the makeup of the big fellow. Goul-
let rode in grand form against Kra-
mer although he lost the match.
When "Goullie" returned from Bos-
ton this morning he declared that he
would surely win and expects to van
quish Cavanagh in straight heats.
With but two races in ten days
! Champion Kramer has had a good
| rest and is as fit as the proverbial
fiddle for the races tonight and will
take some beating in the one-mile
open. Last week was an easy week
| for all the stars and with the ex-
ception of Goullet and Kramer none
of the big fellows have raced since
Sunday. This has put them all in
| ff,a nd Il
very much in evidence in all the
races this evening.
As eight riders will make the final
of the one-mile open. this race should
be bear. with Kramer, Cavanagh,
Goullet, Grenda, Clark, Fogler, Verri
and Paddy Hehir the probable
finalists. There may be new faces in
the lineup of this race, however, as
it is expected that Iver Lawson and
| Grassy Ryan, who returned from Salt
Lake City yesterday, will ride at the
Velodrome tonight. Lawson is in
very good form and Ryan. who is a
| Newark boy, has come rapidly to the
| front and is good enough to shut some
of the stars out of the final of most
any race. If Ryan and Lawson COM
pete they will start in both the open
and the one-mile handicap, and if
| they fail to finish in the money in
these races they are eligible to start
in the invitation.
The invitation race this evening will
oe miss and-out" contest, which is
far more interesting than the straight
two mile scratch contest. 1t will be
a fight from the gun to the bell and
fast for the full distance.
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Donald MacDougaIl, the amateur
champion, will go after the lf-mile
record in the half-mile handicap to-
night and if the conditions are favor
able he declares he will put the fig
ures under the present mark of So 2-5
seconds This will be for the edifica-
ton of the newsies.
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Thorwald Ellegaard, the Grand Old
Man" of cycling, arrived here yester-
day on the Kaiser Wilhelm H., and
will be a spectator at the races to-
night. Ellegaard will ride his first
race next Sunday and ALI Grenda will
be his opponent.
Jules Rudolphe, the French middle
distance rider. won the paced race at
Boston last night from Worth Mitten
and Norman Hansen before the larg-
est crowd of the season at the Beam
town track.
In match race at Boston Kramer
won from Goullet. The race went
| three heats, Kramer taking the first
and third, with Goullet the winner in
| the second heat. The champions
margin in the heats that he won was
less than two inches on both occa-
sions The crowd went mad when the
Yankee triumphed in the deciding
heat