Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-14
ARRANGE KRAMER'S
FOREIGN PROGRAM
Frank Writes There Is
Chance of Match With
HOurIier.
SAILS FOR HOME APRIL
BY FRANK L. kRAMER


PARIS. March 3.-With the excep-
ton of one date, Sunday, March 20
all of nv engagements over here are
now arranged. March 10 | am golns
to compete In a team race IN Brusr
sells over the 100-kilometer route, ana
Cyril Vanhouwaert, the long-ois-
lance champion of Belgium who, with
John StoI, won the recent Brussels
six-dav race, will be my partner.
Fifteen teams will start in the race
and there Will be some strong com
binationS. On the following Sunday
March %, at Marsalis, l am to meet
Caesare Moretti, the Italian, ana
Andre Perchicot, the French sprinter.
The match will be French style
race. in heats. March 29 is still open.
| do not know where ] Will ride on
that date or who Will be my oppo-
nent or opponents. April 4 am 10
ride at a night meet in Paris on the
winter track. The race is to be
10o-kilometer, teams event, and JIM
nv Moran will probably be my part
ner. The following Sunday VIII
meet Thcrwald Ellegaard, the Dane.
and Perchicot, at Bordeaux, France.
This is a French style match, IN
heats. My last appearance here VIII
be April Il. when l ride in the Easter
Prize. an annual race, which marks'
the opening of the outdoor season
at the Pare des Princes track in
Paris. Three days later. April TO-
will sail for America on the German
Ii,,a,, With elm
viii Not Meet Hourlier.
There is not a chance of Leon
Hourlier, the French sprint cham
pion and winner of the Paris six-day
race, meeting me here. Hourlier is
asking more money for a match with
me than the promoters will give, and
they have abandoned the idea OF
matching us I was to have raced
Hourlier, but when he would not
come to terms. Octave Lapize was
substituted. We rode a tandem
paced race, which is out of my line
entirely. / won, but had to ride
some to gain the verdict.
First Heat Some Pursuit.
The first heat Of the match with
L.apize was a pursuit at four kiio-
meters, and, believe me, it was some
pursuit. We averaged ] minute and
"A seconds to the mile and did the
four kilometers In 4 minutes and 20
seconds. j had the heat won, Lapi2e
having been shaken off his tandems,
but when my pacemakers saw La
pize was off they lost their heads,
sprinted, and as result | was
shaken off also. While | was Off and
tioundering around alone, Lapize got
l. l.
Frenchman almost caught me be-
fore | got on my machine again.
picked up ground rapidly after l got
Strengthened out and gained consld-
erably on each lap. When the bell
rang for the final lap Lapize was
leading by a safe margin, when ne
was shaken again. l tried hard to
beat him out but he won by small
margin.
+ Second Heat Corker
The second heat was straight
heat with both of us starting on even
terms. 1t was a corlling race all the
way and / trailed LapiZe, who made
the going very fast, up to three laps
from the finish. AT three laps to go
sprinted past Lapize, but the tandem
team that was to finish with me
failed to come out. The team | was
on was dead and on the last lap the
II 80
behind Lapize and 100 yards from
the tape | sprinted and won by two
/ lengths.
In the last heat | went to the front
at the start and stayed there. My
tandems worked great and my best
team took me the last two laps.
They fairly flew and we won by q
comfortable margin.
Puncture Beats Moran.
| On the same day, Moran and Me-
! Namara rode in a four cornered tam
| DEM paced race AMI both were de-
! feated by Brocco and Georget. MO-
! ran was the best man in the race ana
would have won, but at 80 kilome-
ters. 10 kilometers from the finish,
Moran punctured, which put him out
OF the running. Brocco won, with
Georget second and Mcnamara third.
Mcnamara is not riding well here
and is far from the rider we saw at
the Velodrome last summer. Moran
is going in great shape and seems to
be as good as he ever was.
Easy Life for Frank
| 1 am taking things easy and am
I not training my head off, as | did
I last winter when l was here. l train
once a day and do only light work.
+ came home last year "all in ana
! was dead one" most or the season
and | am guarding against repeti-
/ ton. l shall stop training altogether
the last two weeks of my stay here,
and Will do no training on the boat
/ crossing the Atlantic. Last year |
was walking and running throughout
4 the voyage, when l should have been
resting. This time l shall lounge on
a steamer chair and read all the way
across and get n good rest. | want
some beef to work off when l get
back and something to carry mel
through when the hot weather comes.
The boys have my best wishes for
a propitlous opening at the Velo-
drome, and / hope there will be no
rain to interfere, as was the case last
year l do not want to ride the open-
y IT, Avarr