Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-13
SEEN AND HEARD
AT THE VELODROME
Fans Up a Tree as to Who Won
Two of the Heats in
the Race.
OTHER SIDELIGHT GOSSIP

Many of the, fans thought Spears
should have been disqualified for
switching Kramer on the lower turu
and at the head of the home stretch
in the heat of the match race that
was finally declared dead heat"
Snears certainly gave Kramer two
very neat switches.
Opinion in the grand stand among
those near the finish line was greatly
divided as to the finish of tina dead
heat in the team race. and also as to
who won the deciding heat. Many
thought Kramer had won the dead
heat by three or four inches, While
others were equally positive Spears
had won it. After the heat Spears
admitted that "he thought Kramer
got him right at the line"
In the final heat a few people
thought Kramer was first over the
line. probably due to the fact that
six yards from home he was leading.
At that point Jackie Clark rode up
into Kramer and the pail locked
elbows. thus stopping Kramer enough
to let Spears flash ahead a couple
Of inches.
Bailey defeated McDougall with
just about as much ease as he did
the first Sunday.
The crowd did not take kindly to
the judges decision of dead heat
between Kramer and Spears In the
second heat of the three-cornered
team race. For a long time every
time Announcer Eddie Bedford
would start to say anything the
crowd would yell Dead heat" at
him.
They were yelling this when Bed
heat Of the McDougall-B Bailey match.
Bailey had just dismounted In front
of the stand when he heard the cries,
dead heat" He looked up in aston
ishment and then faced the stand
with his hands stretched yard apart
to show how much he had beaten
McDougall. 1t was some time be-
fore Bailey tumbled to the fact that
the crowd was not yelling dead
heat" at him,
Referee Arthur Rosss work in dis
qualifying Cavanagh and Brenda
fourth in the fve-mile open saved
the Velodrome management a Ave
spot, although Ross did not know it.
The judges had picked only six men
in the finish and with the double dis
qualification a seventh man was
needed as the winner of the fifth
prize. The judges did not know who
had finished seventh, so the manage
ment is in IS.
James p. Mastrup, probably better
known to the fans as No. 65, finally
won a prize in an amateur race yes
terday. Mastrup all season long has
been striving to stay out in front
long enough to cop something, but
has never succeeded. Yesterday. how
ever, riding from the limit mark, los
yards, in the half-mile handicap. he
lasted just long enough to wobble
over the finish line in third place,
ahead of Hanley and Kaiser.
In the six-man spill in the un-
known distance race one of the
riders went down so hard that a. hole
IS inches long was punched in the
track. "Lanky Willie" Bolles, with
Wee Willie Murray as tool-hold .r,
was soon on the Job and repaired the
damage.
The spill early in the unknown dis
lance race, when Coburn, Collins,
Krebs, Morton Drobach and Dupuis
went down in heap, was staged
specially for the grand stand occu-
pants, 1t seemed, as 1t took place di-
rectly in front of the stand. Willie
Coburn was the first to fall, the rest
going over him. None of the riders
were badly hurt.
Robert Henderson, Newark anna
teur riding from the 85-yard mark.
lasted just long enough to win the
half-mile handicap. He was wob
bling all over the track at the finish,
and was cautioned after the race by
Arthur Ross Tor rough riding. THAT
wasn't rough riding" replied Hen
derson. II was just tired" Ross &C.
cepted the excuse, for it was true
one.