Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-28
big SPILL One OF EXCITING
FEATURES The DAY BRINGS
FORTH AT The VELODROME
Fifteen Stars Mixed Up in One Big Splash
but No Blood Was Shed : Frank
Kramer Makes Great Sprint.
IN THRILLING FINISH CHAMP BEATS OUT ALT oouLle-

There We're enough casualties at
the Velodrome yesterday afternoon to
make a Mexican revolution look like
set of old maids playing lawn ten
mis-, and there was just as much blood
shed as there would be in either of
the latter events.
The big casualty of the day took
place In the tenth heat of the two
mile professional handicap, and when
collection of fifteen wheels, thirty
arms and legs that belonged to the
fifteen riders were untangled and the
casualty list made up, it looked like a
blue book list of who's who in bicy-
Gle circles.
If you don't believe it. Just look at
| tho casualty list and casually note if
| you can find any of the real top
notchers of the game missing. Kra-
mer. Grenda, Clarke. Goullet, Fogler,
Fred Hill, Lawrence, Cavanaugh,
John Bedell, Menus Bedell. Eaton,
Triebel, Root, Ellington and Hal
stead.
Yea. bo. that's some list. and each
one of the fifteen was mixed up in the
biggest spill that ever took place in
a professional race at the Velodrome
track. And the strangest, and luck
lest, part of 1t all was that in all the
crashing and tanning together of
human flesh and steel bicycles that
took place, not one of the fifteen men
were even seriously hurt.
True, cuts and bruises were nu-
merous and many large, healthy
chunks of cuticle were missing from
various parts of the anatomy of the
different riders when It was all over.
but not bone was broken. Frank
Cavanaugh was the most seriously
hurt. He got a badly bruised right
shoulder. OF, the real top-notchers,
All Grenda was the most injured. He
lost a lot of skin off his right leg, but
ten minutes later he rode with Paddy
Hehir in the tandem race and won It,.
The Spill.
The spill happened on the Mum
avenue turn. just as the scratch men
in the race started to overhaul Willie
Goburn and Eddie Rupprecht, who
were third of a lap ahead. About
|
grouped together when Goullet slipped
little and locked handle bars with
Jay Eaton. Goullet was the first to
go down, and. for an instant, 1t
looked as IL the rest of the field were
clear. But Goullets wheel side
swiped Eaton's and Eaton went down
the track, while the wheel went up.
Then II was just a case of slam bang
and crash for couple of seconds, as
one rider after another went down
and slid to the bottom of the track
In a heap. 1t was a miracle that no
one was seriously hurt.
Yes. dear reader there we're some
races at the Velodrome yesterday,
but don't get impatient. You know
II isn't often that you get chance
to tell the story of the downfall of
"Who's Who" in he bike game.
Kramer's Great Race.
And those races were some races
too, believe the writer especially the
one-mile Open where Champion
Frank l.. Kramer cut loose about the
nlftiest lap and a half sprint ever seen
on the Velodrome oval, and came in
winner, when 1t looked as If he was
surely beaten. Yes, indeed, that was
some race, and 1t Is doubtful If any
one of the 5000 present yesterday will
see another one like it again this sea-
son, or any other season.
To the spectators it did not look
as il Kramer had once chance in
ten billion of winning out when the
hfth. or bell lap, was started. He
was in fifth position, with Gonllet
and Grenda in front of him at the
bottom OF the track and Fogler and
Fred Hill q trihe higher on the track
and also ahead Of him. 1t looked as
II Kramer was neatly and nicely