Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-12
VERB RIDING LIKE |
A REAL CHAMPION
Italian Promises to Give All the
Star Performers a Hot
Time of It.
KRAMER READY TO RACE

The riding of Francesca verri. the
italian sprinter, the past two days is
quite the sensation of the bike game.
At Philadelphia Thursday, Verri de-
feated ALI Grenda In a match and
last night at New Haven the battling
son of Sunny Italy handed big Frank
Cavanagh a beating. Grenda was
taken into camp in straight heats,
but Cavanagh managed to led the
foreigner home in one of the heats
at New Haven. Verri is more than
coming up to the expectations OF the
Velodrome management. With the
exception of Emil Friol no European
rider has ever performed SO well here
as the Italian.
Last Wednesday Verri defeated Joe
Fogler in rather handy fashion In one
of the heats of the French point
match at the Velodrome, but Cavan-
agh beat him in subsequent heat Of
that race. This match did not reach
a conclusion and is to be finished to-
morrow, two more heats and the final
| to be run. Cavanagh has one point
advantage over Verri and ALT Goul1et,
but either of the latter pair still has
chance to win the race. In one
| heat Goullet and Verri are to meet
and in the other Cavanagh and Fog
Ter will come together. Should VERT
win his heat against Goullet he will
stand very good chance of taking
the final. The italian is filled with
| confidence and will take lot of beat
| ing.
After his brilliant riding at the
Velodrome Wednesday night Cavan-
agh's defeat by Verri came as a great
surprise. 1t was believed that the big
| Celt had struck q winning gait and
would show the way home for Cham
/ pion Frank Kramer and the rest OF
the big fellows in the races to follow,
but he is either in a rut again or
Verri is very fast.
There will be a complete field
in the professional races billed for to-
morrow at the velodrome. Kramer
is entirely we'll again and ready for
the five-mile championship contest,
which is one of the features of the
program. The champion was at the
track this morning and took an easy
workout to timber up for the title
race. The champion will also COM
pete in the half-mile handicap. The
professional invitation race will not
be the easy canter that these races
have invariably been in the past. To-
morrow and at all subsequent meets
at the Velodrome the invitationists
| will have to work hard for their
money, as all invitation races are to
be "miss-and- contests, which are
the hardest races ever staged on a
bike track.
ALI Goullet is feeling better now
| than he was at the Wednesday night
meet at the Velodrome. The Austria
liam did not relish his defeat by Cav
anagh, although the last eighth Of the
local boys victorious ride was COW
cred in the fast time of II 1-5 seconds,
which was fast enough to beat the
great Kramer or any other rider.
Goullet was in high spirits yesterday,
as he had, the night before, won a
brilliant victory over Cavanagh, Fog
Ter and Jackie Clark at Philadelphia.
The Australian showed such speed he
is hopeful of taking the five-mile
championship tomorrow.
The European riders who are riding
at the Velodrome are surely an ambi-
tious lot, which is a marked contrast
to some of the riders who have been
imported here. There is much per-
sonal rivalry between Gauthier. Pro-
vost, Vedrine and Thuau, of France.
and Stefani, of Italy, and Packebusch,
Of Germany. After his good ride in
the invitation last Sunday in which
he finished second, Thuau has been de-
claring himself the best of the lot.
Packebusch could not see this and as
q result the riders rode a match at
the Velodrome yesterday for a side
bet of $40. Packebusch took the race
In straight heats. winning the first by
two lengths and the second by two
inches.