Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-27
LAST Of YANKEE
TOURISTS ARRIVE
Jimmy Moran Comes Home
After Very Successful
Season Abroad.
LOOKS IN FINE CONDITION

The Yankee tourists who invaded
Europe last winter are all home now.
James Francis Moran, the much
titled rider from Chelsea, arrived
yesterday on the Olympic after a very
rough voyage from Liverpool. Moran,
like the rest of the returning cyclists,
was very glad to get home again.
Jimmy had very successful season
abroad and was a prominent figure
in all three of the big siX-day races
run in Europe.
Moran did more racing than any of
the other tourists. and the more he
rode the better form he showed. Elk
cept for a more or less faint heart
Moran was the Moran of old Always
aggressive in the past. Moran devel-
oped a pronounced tendency to be on
the defensive in all of the siX-day
races in Europe which earned him
various titles.
In the Paris race he hung on TO the
end of the bunch most of the time,
which caused the other riders to call
him the man with the red lantern"
In Berlin James would not mix when
his partner, Eddie Root, wanted TO
start something, always making the
excuse that they should wait for the
proper "angle." That got him the
title of Angle Jimmy" However,
Moran finished in the money in all
three races with different partner
in each race, and he WAS not Tapped
in a single contest. In Paris he
finished tenth with Joe Fogler; he
was third in the Brussels race with
Reggie Mcnamara and fourth in Ber-
lin with Root.
Moran's last race abroad was a
tandem paced race in Paris a week
ago last Sunday. He met Marcel
Rerthet, the crack French slayer, and
was defeated. Moran was in fine
shape and says that his pacemakers
caused his defeat. According to
James, they We're bought up by Ber-
tibet, who is a highly paid factory
rider, and the pacemakers laid down
for Berthet's money. For revenge
Moran refused to pay the pacemak-
ers, and he was upheld by the man
agement of the Velodrome oliver,
where the race was run. Moran Is
in excellent condition and has not
looked so fit for years. He is down
to his old weight and is going to
keep on training until the motor
paced season opens in order to keep
from taking on weight.
The card of races to be contested
at the opening meet of the Nelodrome
has been announced by Manager
Floyd MacFarland. There will be six
races on the card. The big events
are the b. NJ, Stanley Handicap and
the Overture Prize for professionals.
The other races are o half-mile han
dicap and a three-mile open for the
amateurs, one-mile novice and an
unknown distance race for the pros.
All of the big fellows will start in
the Stanley and the Overture Prize.
including Walter Rutt. the champion
of the world This will mark the
fourth running of the Stanley handi-
cap. The three winners of this race.
which carries 5000 in prize money and
special prize from Bernard NJ. Shan
ley, jr., in whose honor the race is
named. are Freddy Hill, Pete Dro-
bach and Alf Goullet. Goullet is the
only rider who won from scratch.
Frank Kramer competed in the race
twice but failed to win brackets
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Rutt was greatly disappointed when
he was unable to ride on the Nelo-
drome yesterday. The track is fin
ished, but the homestretch is heaped
with the snow that is being removed
from the grand stand. The track will
be ready for the champion today.
Bike riders, like ball players, are
Overwhelmingly optimistic in the
spring. Ask any rider how he is
moving and he will reply: Great;
| was never better in my life, and I'll
knock 'em dead this year"
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Floyd Krebs has pulled his annual
wheeze. Floyd says he is going to
Europe. THE Flying Dutchman' has
made that same declaration every
spring for the past five years, but
never reached a point beyond Newark
Bay in the direction of Europe
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Vailsburgh, in the vicinity of the
Yelodrome, Is as noisy as a factory
town between the hours of and 8
in the afternoon. At that time about
twenty professionals get busy on
home trainers, which are as noisy as
n score of automobiles with open
mufflers,
All professional riders will have to
register their colors with the racing
board this year, and they will be
fined when they appear on the track
in any but their own colors This
practise, long in vogue in Europe. is
a great help to the judges in judging
q finish, and is an even greater help