Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-07
Captures Team Match and
Runs Dead Heat in
Championship.
POOR DECISION BY REFEREE
Ross Orders Semi-FinaI in tt
tie Event Re-run and There's
a Mix-Up in Final.

mania, ran the "champer" TO a dead
heat for first honors in the two-mie
national championship. Grenda rode
we'll and deserves much credit but
the foreigners good riding was for
gotten when Kramer dashed to vic
tory in straight heats in the team
match which followed the champion
ship. The Yankee rode in his most
brilliant form in the matcn, and he
was extended to the limit to win
Frank Cavanagh, who was Kramers
mate in the match, shared in
Kramer's victory, for 1t was big
Frank who pulled the champion into
q winning position in the first heat.
In the second heat Cavanagh took
Kramer up as near to Jackie Clark as
he could, after Grenda had pulled
Jackie away for very comfortable
lead, but it was Kramer's great rid
ing that overhauled him.
1t was a day of disappointments
for Cavanagh, who is about as fast
right now as any of the championship
contenders. In the first semi-final of
the championship Goulet went out of
his way to shut Cavanagh out and
he succeeded admirably Although
Kramer has done the same thing to
Clark several times this season and
no attention was paid to the "cham-
per's" action, the race was ordered
run over when Cavanagh protested.
Cavanagh qualified In the second
running Of the trial which put him in
the final. But more trouble and an
other disappointment followed in the
final of the race, when Cavanagh,
after losing a lap at the start, finally
won the finishing sprint, only to find
that 1t counted for naught as he was
one lap to the bad.
Alf Goullet, who Is some sportsman
! himself, declared Referee Ross the
best sportsman who ever refereed
bike race. Goullet admitted that he
stalled and also switched Cavanagh,
but that the switch was uninten-
tional, but as the switch had spoiled
Franks chances he should nave been
disqualified. But instead Goullet and
Cavanagh were both given another
chance, and they both qualified.
Fogler, however, was the real suf-
terer Joe, who had absolutely moth
ing to do with the action or Goullet,
md rode from the front and won and
should have been in the final, was
hut out in the re-run. Fogler, who
h older than Goullet and Cavanagh,
was very tired after the first running
Of the trial, and he did not come
back as quickly as his younger OPP
eonents, and he was a poor third in
she second running of the TRIAL.
In the second semi-final Jackie
"a. xl< 1nI NE 4
rides and was shut out by Grenda and
Kramer. Grenda went to the front with
Kramer on, and Alessio Stefani, the
Italian, came up on the outside and
poclSeted the Rocket" Kramer
Jumped at the twelfth pole and won,
but the champion did not travel fast
enough to carry Clark, who followed
him around, into second position at
che finish.
The final of the championship was
somewhat of a bungle, such as
marked the two-mile title contest of
1--WE weeks previous. Cavanagh, I'M
ier the impression that he had pune
sured on the backstretch of the first
Jap. dropped down on the fiat and
1Ae other riders slowed when Eddie
Bedford. the announcer shouted no
-ace. When the riders came around
again Cavanagh fell In behind Grenda,
who was following Kramer and Goul-
-et and the race was on again. A
lap and a half from the finish Grenda
jumped and went to the front. When
he slowed Cavanagh took a flier and
tore for home. The big fellow opened
gap Of fifteen yards and Grenda,
81. In hahind LOT hin, on
Cayanagh finished several yards in
advance of Kramer and Grenda, who
finished in "a dead heat. AS Cava-
nagh was a lap behind Kramer and
Grenda we're the winners, with Goul-
let third and Cavanagh fourth. The
announcement that Cavanagh was
not the winner was met with jeers
and boots by the crowd.
The real finish between Grenda and
Kramer was a bear. Grenda showed
fine burst of speed-the best he has
exhibited this season. The Tasmanian
giant sailed along at such speed Kra-
sla = never made an effort to come out
until the middle of the last turn.
Grenda jumped and stalled in turn
and gave about as fine an exhibition
of chipping a rider as was ever seen
at the Velodrome.
AT quarters of a lap from
home Kramer was in an apparently
hopeless position behind Goullet, who
was on Grenda, but in the middle OF
the turn "Goulie" swung high and
before he could get back on the pole
Kramer had jumped in and taken
his position. This killed Goullets
chances in the race for in addition
to throwing him out of his stride he
swung high up the bank to escape
Kramer and this cost him a couple
of lengths.
In the first heat of the team match
Cavanagh went to the front at the
gun and the American combination
was never headed Two laps from the
finish Cavanagh was on his way and
he was strong enough to stave of
Fogler's attempt to pull Goullet into
the lead at a lap and a half from the
finish. Fogler. in turn, stopped Grenda
WHO came strong from behind, with
clark on. At the bell Kramer went
around Cavanagh, and at the same
instant Fogler and Grenda both
swung up to give Goullet and Clark a
clear field
AT the twelfth pole Goullet got Ut
as far as Kramer's pedals, and Clark
Jumped up on even terms with his
countryman, but Kramer had the Aus
gtraiian pair on his hip and he hao
the speed and won. Goullet was Sec
ond
After a magnificent pull by Grenda
in the second and deciding heat of the
match that landed Clark in front with
d Winning lead at the eighth pole