Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-19
KRAMER MAY FIND
TARTAR IN BELGIAN
Joe Van Beyer Expected to
xake Champion Hustle
to Win.
TURyILLE ON JOE FOGLER

to Win.
TURVILLE ON JOE FOGLER
Champion Frank Kramer is prob
ably going to have tough customer
to beat in Joe Van Bever, the Belgian
sprint champion. whom he will meet
at the Brussels winter track Sunday.
The Belgian showed his class by
beating Bob Spears the Australian
sprinter in a match in the Belgian
capital recently. Van Bever scored
a decisive victory over long Bob af-
ter the latter had taken the first
heat of the match. BY winning af-
ter losing the first heat shows that
the Belgian is a gamester and can
fight an uphill battle.
Spears rode like a champion here
at the Velodrome the latter part OF
last season and was quite a sensa-
ton after his defeat Of Kramer in
two races. When he first went TO
Europe, Spears did not ride up TO
form and was beaten repeatedly. but
according to recent advtceS from
abroad the elongated one is in fine
day Van Bever defeated him.
Van Bever competed at the worlds
championship meet at the Velodrome,
in 1912. but failed to qualify for the
final OF any of the races in which he
started. He has improved wonder
fully since that time and last season
won a number Of big races In
Europe and defeated. at various
times. the stars of the continent. But
in his coming match with the "Old
Master" he will probably go the route
Of all champions.
Fogler the Best six-Dsy Rider?
There is one division of bike racing
in which the question Of who is the
champion has never been settled and
there seems to be little chance of the
question ever being settled to the sat
isfaction of all those who are inter-
ested. It is the question of who is
the best six-day rider. In the opin-
ion of Charley Turville the rider en-
titled to the crown of champion as a
six-day man is Joe Fogler. TurViiie
puts up a very good argument ana
paints a picture that makes the old
''BattIer" look like the one for the
honors. And Turville knows Whereol
he speaks. Years ago Charley was
vidual races in the Garden and later
started in several team races. When
he retired as rider to take up pacing
in motor-paced races he became q
handler of siX-day men and mas
worked in every siX-day race held IN
New York during the past thirteen
years. -.
In championing Fogler Turville first
points to the fact that Joe has won
more six-day races than any other
rider Being the biggest winner is
very strong argument in favor OF
Fogler He is also the best general
to Turville, and always
knows more about the condition of
the other riders in race than any of
the trainers or managers. He watches
every man in a race, is good waiter
and never makes a mistake in select
ing the best time to ''get" rider VINO
Is weakening. Joe also knows how
to save himself and is always under
cover.
81 have handled many teams in the
Garden and year after year they nave
said 'F'ogler is all in and we will get
him sure said Turville in discussing
Battling Joe" as a grinder, but / al
ways warned my men to look out that
Joe did not get them. He is the
'foxiest' man in the game and has
been fooling them for years. He viii
make himself look bad in order to
make them go after him, and when
they are through he whips one over
himself which in the end makes them
look foolish
"Fogler saves his strength better in
a six-day race than any other rider,
and it is his brains more than his legs
that have made him the great six-daY
rider that he is. He never does any
work and never plays to
the grandstand There are many
riders who fall for cheers of the crowd
and make useless sprints just to
please the fans and their own vanity,
but old Joe would not sprint to please
the President of the United States un-
less there was sure to be some result
that would be in Joe's favor
"All of the stars pay fancy prices
for camp managers in race and then
rely upon their managers to handle
everything, but not so with Joe. He
runs his own camp and no one
ever handled a camp better. During
the last race in the Garden /
went in to see Fogler one morning
and instead Of finding him either
eating or asleep he was telling the
butcher what meat to bring for that
day, ordering certain handlers to go
to bed, while others got on the job in
the camp, and leaving Instructions
for his partner in the race, ALI Goul-
let. He also told the trainers what
to give Goullet when he came off the
track. Fogler was handling himself,
the camp and his partner and that he
handled them we'll is attested by the
fact that Goullet won the race and
both of them finished in very good
shape.
Fogler Looked Bad After New York Race.
After the New York race Fogler
looked very bad" continued Turville,
and I heard many of the riders re-
mark that Joe was evidently all in
They said that he would never go
through the Paris race, He might
have been all in at the finish, but he
was a bear right up to the time he
left the track five minutes before the
finish. 1 saw Fogler myself after the
race and he did look as though he
was about ready to collapse, but that
shows how we'll he saved himself dur
ing the race and what might have
had he wasted any of his
during the race. He had
Just enough to last for the six days
and he was clever enough to make it
last He went through the Paris
race as well as any of the riders who
finished and he would have finished |
one, two, three If he had not been in
erfered with by Engel, the French |
man. And if Joe F'ogler starts in |
The Berlin six-day race the one best |
pet on the race is that he will be one |
Of the riders who will finish.
Percy Lawrence a Marvel.
Next to F'ogler, Percy Lawrence is, |
n my opinion, the best and most con- |
sistent sfx-day man. I think that |
Lawrence has been overlooked both |
~ the promoters and star six day |
men who are always looking for good |
partners. Percy has never had a
.ea11v good partner. In every race |