Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-05
KRAMER'S injury
GETS HIM REST
big Steve" Glad of Chance
to Regain Lost
Form.
MATCH AUSTRALIANS AGAIN

Champion Frank Kramer has been
laundering for a vacation for many
weeks and now he is getting it. And
the champion can thank his own lit
tie automobile for this vacation. Kra-
mer has been knocked around by
Jackie Clark, Aft Grenda and few
others for a couple of weeks, and he
was fast losing all semblance to
champion when that little old auto
came to his rescue. The fans, his
friends and some of the sporting eN-
perts are of the opinion that he has
shot his bolt, but the champion
maintains that all he needs is a lit
tie rest to put him in championship
form again.
The "champer's auto put the fin
ishing touches on the bombardment
of the title-holder yesterday after
noon Just as he was about to cast off
for a trip to Asbury Park for a two
days rest at the summer home of
his good friend Lew Wyckoff. He
had deposited his monthly bonus from
the cycle Racing Association, took
on a good supply of gasoline and fed
the engine a quart of good oil. Then
with his good right arm he gave the
mighty turn. The engine gave two
snorts and then, with the reverse
English back came the crank with
lightning speed and as 1t revolved it
caught the king of all cyclists on the
wrist with shock that laid him
prone on the lawn in front of his
domicile.
AS the champion lay writing in
pain a call was sent in for Dr.
Mitchell, of East Orange, who re-
sponded and gave the champion
his wrist was broken, but it was
found that severe fracture was the
extent of his injuries.
After the injured member was
dressed Kramer felt relieved and
boarded a car for Newark. With his
arm in splints and suspended in
sling and a broad smile on his face
the champion walked into the offices
of the Cycle Racing Association and
exclaimed, Hey, look, I broke my
arm" He seemed so supremely de-
lighted it was thought at first that
he was perpretrating a joke on some
one. The champion was not kid
ding" however, and boarded a train
later in the afternoon to get that
much desired vacation.
Kramer will be out of the game for
a week at least. He stated that he
was hopeful of riding in the races at
the Velodlome next Wednesday, but
that it was more likely that he would
not sport silk again until a week from
Sunday.
Racing at the Velodrome will go on
Just the same without the title-holder
in the lineup. During his absence
Jackie Clark, ALI Grenda and Aft
Gonllet. ct al, will probably have
things pretty much to themselves, al
though the champion has been giving
this trio of invaders little opposition
for several weeks.
A ten-miIe tandem-paced race will
be the feature of the card Sunday,
and Clark, Grenda and Reggie Nc
Namara, who furnished a great con-
test in a similar race last Sunday,
will be the contestants in this race.
Five tandem teams will pace each
Of the riders and the conditions will
De the same as governed the previous
race between these riders.
The other races on the Sunday card
are a one third-mile open, one-mile
tandem handicap and a "miss-and-
out" invitation for the professionals
and a two-thirds mile handicap, a
championship stakes and a two-mile
novice for the amateurs.
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Leon Hourlier, the classy French
sprinter, won the Grand Prize of Ger
many, decided at the Treptow track,
Berlin. Germany, Tuesday, August 26.
The race was run in two heats and
a final, Loren, Arend and Meyer quail
flying in the first heat and Hourlier,
Gardellin and Friol in the second.
The final was a fine contest and
i -, Of
rem. Gardellin and Arend in the order
seconds.
The last day of the Copenhagen,
Denmark. meeting was run on Tues
day. August 26. Walter Rutt won the
5.000-metre (3ls miles) sprint race
from Finn and Pouchois. Ellegaard
the fourth man in the final. had the
misfortune to puncture. A smaller
race on the program went to Pou-
chois. with Wegener and Schilling
following him across the tape in the
order named.
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AT the annual meeting of the Union
Cycliste Internationale, the governing
body in cycle racing circles, held at
the Hotel de Russo, Berlin, Germany.
Saturday, August %, it was decided
to award the worlds championships
to Denmark for 1914. Since the run
mining of the worlds championships
became an annual fixture Germany
has had the title races four times
France three. England two. Denmark
three, Belgium three, Italy two
America three and Switzerland and
Austria one each.