Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-27
EUROPEAN MODE OF DECIDING
MOTOR-PACED CHAMPION BEST
Promoters Strong for Institu.
ton of Foreign Styles in
Races Here. |
CHANGES PROVE MERIT
Wiley Gave Wonderful Exhibi-
ton in Winning Title Contest
at Revere Beach.
PROVE MERIT

The American cycling promoters
are leaning more to the European
style of promoting and staging races
and the manner of deciding cham
pionships this year than ever before.
And this will probably be greatly
emphasized in the future, now that
Floyd mcfarland Is managing the
affairs of the Cycling Racing Asso-
ciatioi. mcfarland, with years of
experience in Europe, Is strong for
the classic" and the fans will note
at every meet at the Velodrome
race with special name to 1t, a
handle, as it were. BY running these
same races once each season they
become classics. But 1t Is the class
sizes that made the sport in Europe,
and that is why big Mac" Is follow.
ing the willy French and German pro-
moters.
A change was made in the method
of deciding the motor-paced cham
pionship this year, and 1t proved a
big success and drew the biggest
crowd that ever passed through the
gates of the Revere Beach course.
Heretofore the paced title was de-
cided on points scored through whole
seasons racing, but this year 1t was
decided in one race. Friday night at
New Haven the ten-mile sprint
championship will be run and the
second week in September MacFar-
land plans to run the lO0-kilometer
| motor-paced championship OF Amer-
| lea at Philadelphia.
One reason for changing the man
ner OF deciding the paced title was
to give the former Motordrome out
laws" Menus Bedell. Percy Law
renee and Elmer Collins, chance
to win the title. 1t Is by no means
fair way to decide a national cham-
pionship, as the best man, the rider
who Is entitled to the honors, might
| be put out of the contest by an ac-
cident to wheels or tires.
| George Wiley, the worlds cham
pion, was leading by a wide margin
| in the points table, and Is so good
this year he positively outclasses the
| field of competitors, yet he had to go
| in the title race last Saturday at Re-
we're Beach facing innumerablei
/ chances of defeat by way of acci-
dents. Fortunately he was the win
ner after having to change wheels
twice, and for the second time Wiley
is the American champion. If Col
| Inns, Jimmy Moran or Worth Mitten,
the riders who made the final of the
title race, had defeated Wiley it
would have been the biggest joke
In the world to call any one of them
the champion.
Wiley has been riding like a demon
all season and has been rarely beaten
on his merits, accidents being the
| # H.. 1ft l. Il -
| Moran shows great endurance and
speed on the Philadelphia track, and
twice this year he has run little Wi
ley's ankles hot on the big circular
course, but at New Haven and Re-
we're Wiley makes the big pig dealer
look like bush Lacquer.
In the championship, which was at
fifty miles, Wiley rode in the won
derful form that marked his victory
In the worlds championship at the
Velodrome a year ago. The title
holder lost considerable ground on
account of two punctures, and Nit
ten, who finished second, was even
with him at twenty eight and forty
eight miles and pushing him hard.
Had the race been free from acci-
dents Wiley would have left his OPP
ponents far behind long before the
| finish, but as 1t was he won by only
a quarter of mile. Moran was third
and Collins went down and out early
in the race when his front tire ex-
ploded and he crashed to the track.
sustaining broken collarbone and
other painful injuries. Wiley's time
for the fifty miles was 1 hour 8 min
utes and 16 2-5 seconds.
Jimmy Hunter paced Wiley to VIC
tory, Carl Ridden was up on Nit
tens motor, Charley Stein had Moran
In tow and Outlaw" Charley Tur-
vile paced "Outlaw' Collins.
So eager were the Boston fans to
witness the battle for the Champions
ship they stormed the outer gates
and tore down a big section of the
fence surrounding the track. Man
ager Nat Butler estimates that 5000
saw the race without purchasing
| tickets.