Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-08
CYCLISTS TO RACE
IN FRENCH STYLE.
GOulIet, Verri, FOgler and Cav
anagh Will Have 1t Out
at VelOdrOme.
BIKE NEWS FROM ABROAD


BIKE NEWS FROM ABROAD
A French point match race similar
to The race won by Jackie Clark sew
eral weeks ago, in which the
Rocket" took liver Lawson, Frank
Cavanagh and Aft Grenda into camp,
will be staged at the Velodrome to-
morrow night. The contestants in
this match will be ALI Goullet Fran
cesco Verri, of Italy; Joe Fogler and
Cavanagh. There will be seven heats
to the match in which each rider
will meet each other in dual heats,
and then the four will come together
in the final heat The winners of
the various heats will be credited
with one point and the second men
two points. The rider scoring the
least number of points will be the
winner.
The other races carded for this
meet are a half-mile handicap, five
mile open and two-mile invitation
for the professionals, and half-mile
handicap and a five-mile open for
the amateurs. q
AS the Monday night meets at
Philadelphia have been discontinued,
all the professional sprinters had
day of rest yesterday, and the ma
jority of the speed merchants were
very much in need of rest. Last
week was the hardest of the season,
and some of the riders were just
about all tagged out.
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The result of the Grand Prize of
Paris, which was won by Walters
Rutt, was the sole topic of CONVEX
sation at the Velodrome yesterday,
and none of the pros" who have
competed in Europe could account for
such men as Andre Perchicot, Thor
valid Ellegaard and Hourlier 3cins
shut out of the final of the big race.
Champion Kramer had picked
Hourlier as the probable winner
while others figured Ellegaard would
win. Rutt and Perchicot were the
logical favorites, however, as they
have been winning with regularity
for the past month in Europe.
Thorwald Ellegaard who is unl Ter
contract with Messrs. Million &,
Chapman, will said for America to-
morrow, and is expected to arrive in
New York next Tuesday. His first
race will be Sunday, July 90, and he
will meet either ALI Goullet or Jackie
Clark. Ellegaard is the grand old
man of the bike game in Europe. He
has won the championship of the
world six times. and on five occasions
he has won the Grand Prize of Paris,
which carries the biggest purse in the
bike game.
1t is reported that Clarence Car
men, of Jamaica, who has been racing
in Europe for the past two months,
with success, will return to America
shortly. Carmen will fit in nicely N
motor-paced races at the N. C. A.
circuit, as there are three tracks
where the motors are being used.
At Gossellas, Belgium, June %, Otto,
the Belgian, defeated Andre Perchi-
cot, the French rider, in the principal
sprint race on the program, Victor
Hourlier and Victor Dupre being
other classy riders that went down
TO defeat before the Belgian. In
two-hour team race, run on American
lines, Hourlier and Huesghem won
from Pouchois and Vandenberghe,
Otto and Melotte and Perchicot and
Oscar Egg
Walter Rutt. the German favorite,
who has performed in numerous six
day races in New York. and. who is
a local favorite. triumphed in
match at the Velodrome Buffalo,
Paris, the night of June 26. Thor
valid Ellegaard Willy Arend, Willy
Lorenz, Julian Pouchois, Emil Friol,
Hourlier, Andre Perchicot Victor Du-
pre- and Walter Rutt, comprised the
entrants. and the race was run on the
heat and point system. In the first
match of the first heat Lorenz beat
Hourlier and Ellegaard, Hourlier
puncturing five yards from the tape.
In the second match of the first heat
Ellegaard won from Lorenz and
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The second heat brought together
Arena, Friol and Pouehois in the first
match, Arend winning from Friol and
Pouchois in the order named. On the
second try Friol came home in front
of Pouchois and Arend. Rutt won
both of the matches in the third heat
with Perchicot and Dupre in second
and third places in each match. Lo-
REM. Friol and Rutt met in the final,
which was run in three heats. Lo-
REM won the first heat with Friol a
half length back. In the second heat
Rutt came home first with Frio be-
ing the runner-up. The big German
also accounted for the third heat. this
time Lorenz finishing second, Friol
dropping out on the last lap.
In a 30-kilometre paced race at the
same meeting, Larrue won from
Bruni and Clarence Carmen, the
young American. The distance of 80
kilometres QS% miles) was covered by
Larrue in 25:10 SIS. AT the finish
Bruni was a lap and half back and
Carmen was quarter lap back of
Bruni.