Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-21

like to win Six-day race and fol
that reason I would like to take just
one more chance. Perhaps I will
later on, but just now feel as il
1 would stick to the sprinting end of
the game"
O.
Kramer Is going over to Paris this
winter to fill an engagement of in
door racing. He will meet the best
sprinters over there, as he did last
year, but he is not likely to ride in
the Paris six-day race. That is the
way I would size up the situation
after listening to the champion talk
on the subject. OF course, when he
gets over there he may change his
mind, but just now he hasn't any
love for six-day race.
| O.
Bob Spears is going to try his hand
at sprinting in Europe this winter.
Immediately after the Boston six-day
race. along with liver Lawson, once
worlds champion. and Frank Cava-
nagh, who wears a green sweater,
Spears will sail for France. He, as
we'll as the others, is going there as a
free lance" and he expects to make
good. He surely has some confidence
In his ability, for they do say that
life is rather cruel and cold on the
other side when you can't show your
! wheel to the front. Lawson is an old
timer and he has been over across
the water many's the time Cava-
nagh has also been over there, but if
he had as much gray matter as he
has speed he would be going over this
time with fine contract in his inside
pocket. 1t looks as IL he never will
learn, though, for he SPILLED the
beans" in a race at the Velodrone a
week ago when he could have won
like child's play.
@
New York bike fan, in the fol-
lowing letter, asks for information
about the six-day
New York, Oct. 90 1918.
Kindly publish a correct list of the
teams which will compete in the New
! York six-day race. A list was pub
lished which I do not think is cor
rect, and knowing you to be pretty
well posted on bike. dope. am taking
the liberty of making this request
! Which team do you pick to win the
| Boston siX-day race and the New
York six-day race?
A BIKE FAN.
All the siX-day teams have not been
signed up as yet, and the list you refer
to was about eighty miles off. So far
only eight teams have been selected
They are: Goullet and Fogler, Clark
and Hehir, Grenda and Moran, Root
and Mcnamara, Drobach and Hal
stead. Lawrence and Magin, Carmen
and Coburn and Walthour and Col
but who have not been paired UP, are
Ryan, Cory, Hansen, Rutt and Verri.
| Thomas and Ryan were supposed to
ride together, but Thomas doesn't
care to go in the race, it is said.
John Bedell and Cory were paired
for a time, but Bedell hasn't signed
yet. Anderson as Hansen's partner
has been eliminated. and Stol as a
partner of Rutt is not sure. Brocco
isn't likely to ride, SO Verri will have
to get another mate. A French team,
with either Comes and Lapize or
Breton and Perchicot, is also to be
signed. 1t is too early to pick the
winner of either of the six-day races
you mention.
Newark sports will kindly observe
that change has been made in the
date of the Willie Ritchie-Leach
Cross fight. The boys will meet on
Wednesday, October 90, at Madison
| Square Garden, and I expect to see
the same large turnout of Newarkers
| present then that witnessed the
Langford- Jeanette fight few weeks
ago. Somehow or other the local
sports didn't fall very strong for the
Mcfarland Murphy bout, which Is
more evidence that Newarkers like to
see contests in which there is always
chance that something big will
happen. That is all we'll and good
and We must confess that we rather
enjoy such battles; but the McFar-
land Murphy match was a truly in
teresting affair 1t was better in
every way than one of those slam
bang affairs that generally result in
a Knockout. There was lesson in
art, in intelligence, in temper, in the
| 10 10 nd nhx- - - a
that a man could be an artist,
although he was what most persons
call a brutal pugilist." Mcfarland
showed a wonderful range of intelli-
gence and he displayed an evenness
of temper that would make the big
gest man in the world admire him
In all. the fight. to me, was very en-
joyable. Mcfarland did his part and
did 1t well. That Murphy wasn't a
match for Packey was no fault of
his. He didn't make the match
didn't even suggest 1t. He was asked
to meet Murphy in ten-round bout
and he replied:
Eyes, I will box Murphy"
And he did box Murphy. He boxed
his ears and he cuffed him around,
but always in the most conservative
manner. Mcfarland, If you ask him,
will tell you that he isn't fighter,
he Is a boxer. He will also tell you
that he doesn't go into a ring to
knock out an opponent but simply
to outpoint his man. If you go to
see him fight he will tell you that
you will be disappointed, for he isn't
fighter. He has told me the same
thing a number of times.