Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-08


Double-headers in cycling Is the
latest. This is one of Floyd A. Mac
Farland's ideas, and it must have
come to him at a time when he had
James Francis Moran, retired, in
mind. Anyway, "Old Mac Is going to
give the velodrome patrons a double
header tomorrow. He has staged
two championships, one at half a
mile and the other at fve miles. In
the half-mile race all the pros will
be starters. The five-mile viii be run
in two heats, with all the riders en-
tered.
The championship this year is like
ly to come right down to the last race
in She series. Both Kramer and Goui-
let are in grand form and the one who
gets the breaks Will win the title.
Kramer, of course, has a shade on
Goullet in speed and in generalship,
but he hasn't enough on him to give
him much the best of it and then
hope to win. The race last Wednes-
day night proved that "Goullie" got
off in front and when 1t came to the
finish Kramer just failed to get up in
time, being beaten, the judges say,
by less than two inches. In the half
mile tomorrow. it would be foolish to
look for a winner outside of Kramer.
vet ii is possible for him to be beaten.
In the five-mile, though, while "Old
steve" will take an awful beating,
he will find his task tremendous
one in disposing of Goullet, Rutt and
perhaps Clark at the finish. How
ever, Kramer is so good just now
that he may be looked upon to do
most anything. He knows that he is
up against stiff game and he knows
that he must win those tive-mile
races to win the championship.
c.
The double-header championships at
the Velodrone tomorrow are not the
only ones. At Brighton Beach tonight
there is a third-of- annie title race on
the card for the pros. That will mean
a pretty good scramble. This race
was originally listed as quarter-mile
race, but was changed because the
track is a third Of mile SO we will
have three championship races in two
days, and the results of these will
about decide who is who. This short
race at Brighton should produce a
great contest, and again Kramer and
Goullet are sure to have a hard
struggle.
c.
The race is such close one that
every point is bound to count. Kra-
mer is leading Goullet by two points,
the score standing 20 to 81. Walter
Rutt, the "Weltmeister, is third with
ID points, and these are the only rid
ers who have won championship
race. Great interest naturally at
taches to these races, for on their out
come will depend the winner of the
1914 crown. Kramer Is set on winning
the championship for the fourteenth
straight time, and it would probably
greatly hamper his racing career If
he were to be beaten. He will have no
excuses to offer If he is beaten. The
has been very keen this
year and the champion has been asked
to do whole lot, still Goullet has
shown such excellent form that a VIC
tory for him will merit all the praise
in the world
g
Just eleven riders have scored
points in the table. but one of the
fastest men in the game does not
appear in the standing. 1t is Alfred
Grenda, the "old Hoss.' Alfred,
when the championships have been
on the card, has been more or less up
against it, and thus he does not figure
in the results. The table follows: