Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-30
SOME CLASS TO THE
VELODROME RIDERS
Champions and Near-Cham.
pions Make Up the Field
for TOnight's Races.
BIG FOUR-MAN MATCH

Cooper and Major Taylor there never
were as many distinguished profess
SIGNALS racing here. There are cham
pions ana ex-champions galore and
six different nations are represented
In the cash prize division of the
sport Germany has one professional,
Hermann Packebusch Italy has two
representatives in Alessio Stefani
and Francesca Verri; Denmark APP
pears on the horizon with Ellegaard,
Anderson and Hansen; France is
four strong with Thuau, Provost,
Gauthier and Vedrine; Australia is
next in line with six sturdy sons
in Clark, Grenda, Goullet, Hehir, Pye
and Walker, and there are just an
even dozen Yankee performers.
Enumerated they are Champion
Kramer Cavanagh, Lawson, Fogler,
Cameron. Jokus, Krebs. Loftes,
Ryan, Thoms, Morton and Blocker.
In all there are twenty-eight pro-
fessionals and over half of them are
foreigners.
In this field there are one worlds
champion, Frank Kramer; two ex-
champions of the world, liver Law
son and Ellegaard; three ex-cham-
pions of Australia, Clark, Grenda and
Pye; the ex-champion of Italy,
Verri, and in addition there are two
amateur champions, MacDougall, the
worlds title holder, and Aubrey Tay-
lor, the present champion of the An
tipodes. And as great as this field
is Manager Chapman of the Velo-
drome is not satisfied. To make it
the best ever he has cabled to Europe
for two more title holders, Andre
Perchicot, the champion of France,
and Billy Bailey, the ex-champion
amateur of the. world and the pres
ent champion of England When
these riders arrive he will be salts
field, but before their arrival he win
lose two of his French stars" in
Thuau, the chatterer, and Vedrine.
The latter is compelled to return
to France to serve three years in
the French army and Chapman is
sending Thuau to keep Vedrine COM
pany and give him a chance to spill
his endless chatter on the vast ex-
panse of seas.
All of this big field of foreign and
American riders will be seen in open
competition at the Velodrome to-
night. Goullet, Verri, Lawson and
Cavanagh will compete in a French
point match and all of the rest of
the string, with the exception of
Ellegaard, will ride in the one-mile
handicap. The entire field will COM
pete in the f1ve-mile open which
will mark Ellegaards first effort in
open competition here.
The French point match will be
run in six heats and a final. The
heats have been arranged as follows:
First heat, Verri and Cayanagh; sec
ond heat, Lawson and Goullet; third
heat, Verri and Lawson: fourth heat,
Goullet and Cavanagh; fifth heat,
Verri and Goullet; sixth heat, Cav
anagh and Lawson, and Seventh and
final heat, Lawson, Verri, Cavanagh
and Goulet. The rider scoring the
least number of points will be the
winner. Heat winners will be credit
ed with one point and the loser two
and in the final the points will be
one, two, three and four. The race
looks good on paper and 1t should
prove a bear in every heat and the
final. Lawson is the only doubtful
one in the match, but the famous
Swede may surprise the fans with
his speed. He Is getting better every
day and a race of this kind will at
ford him a chance to show at his
best. At Boston two weeks ago Law
son gave Cavanagh the race of his
life in a match. The Swede won one
heat and he lost the other two by
inches. He is in far better form now
and the 1rishman, the Australian and
the Italian will have to look<to their
laurels.
Since his victory Sunday in the one
mile open championship Kramer is
all smiles. The "champer'' was off
form for weeks and he was more than
trifie worried when he did not come
back as quickly as he has in the
past. At one time his anxiety reached
such a stage that he declared he
would never ride. all winter again.
But now that he has returned to form
the past Is forgotten and he is as
clipper as a sparrow. The peerless"
one is out to give the five-milers a
battle in the long race tonight.
If Jackie Clark does not worm him
eelf into a pocket when the sprint
starts in the five-mile open the fans
will probably see a great battle.
Jackie is at his top form right now,
and If the breaks are right he should
win brackets or come very close to
it. with Kramer and Clark both
fright" they may indulge in one of
their old duels that used to bring the
fans to their feet. But of course
Goullet, Cavanagh and Ellegaard
must not be overlooked for they are
to have a hand in the pie tonight
also.
Verri sprinted an eighth of a mile
at the Velodrome yesterday in II S-5
seconds. The raibirds will tell you
that this puts him in the most ex-
elusive division, and they have made
him the favorite in the point race to-
night.
While champions and ex-champions
in wholesale lots will furnish hol-
iday for the fans tonight, George
Wiley, the worlds champion motor
paced rider, will view the proceedings
from the grandstand. Little George
is as busy as Standard Oil stock
holder during the coupon season, but
he las an off-night tonight and
stopped over on his way to Philly,
where he races Jimmy Moran, Jules
Rudolphe and Worth Mitten tomor-
row night.
Worth Mitten, who thought he was
hover. until Moraxr Gar5op r~o,,od