Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-14
Use OF Berlin System in New
York Six-Day Event Fa=
vOrs Pair.
RACE SITUATION ANALYZED
Cycling Champion Looks for
Keenest Kind of COMPETE
ton at the Garden.
BY FRANK L. KRAMER
Champion of America and Worlds Great
ests cyclist.


With the Berlin system of finishing
IN use and ALI. Goullet and ALI.
Grenda in good shape at the finish.
they should win the New York
six-day race. In writing about race
the most natural thing for me TO
figure on is the probable winner, as
that Is always the interesting feature
or any contest-interesting to riders
and fans alike. From what I have
learned from Manager MacFarland
there will be a number of new things
tried out in connection with the rum
ming of the race this year, but of all
Inc innovations the one that appeals
strongest to me is the Berlin system
of deciding the contest In the event
Of two or more teams being on even
terms when the forty-flrst hour has
expired. / have witnessed many
finishes in the Garden grind in which
the best man in the final sprint was
beaten. I know what the sensation
is to have an inferior rider beat me
IN an ordinary sprint race, and that
sensation is nothing compared to the
everlasting chagrin of a six-day star
being beaten through an error of
Judgment or from being pocketed in
The sprint that decides a contest that
was Of 142 hours duration. Not only
is the loser sore, but his partner,
sven. though he may pat his mate on
the back and try to soothe him by
telling him it was all right. cannot
conceal his disappointment, and that
hurts worst of all. Most of the honor
IN a six-day victory goes to the
rider who does the final sprint but
they would, every one of them, like
TO have the other fellow do the
sprinting at the finish.
Berlin System We'll Liked.
The Berlin system of finishing has
many ardent advocates among the
riders in the New York race. The
stars favor it, and the only ones who
have an objection at all to it are
the little fellows. Some of them
probably are objecting because they
know that in case they are up
with the leaders there is always q
chance to get a lucky position, if
there is but one sprint to decide a
tie, and "sleighride" into second OF
third money, which they never could
do with the Berlin system. In 1912
John Bedell finished second, beating
Jackie Clark, Eddie Root and Air
Grenda, and l guess everyone will
agree with me that John has no Ii
cense to finish ahead of these riders
In six-day race. OF course, John
is one of the cleverest generals in
tie game, and he might have been
able to have finished second in every
sprint of a dozen sprints at the fin
fsh. but it is hardly likely.
Sprint Every Fifteen Laps.
Under the Berlin system there
will be sprint every fifteen laps dur
ing the one hundred and forty-sec-
ond hour, so I am Informed, and that
VIII mean between twelve and six
teen sprints. No rider could possibly
make a dozen mistakes in that many
sprints, and that is why l feel sure
that the best team will win the race,
and Goullet and Grenda are, in my
mind, unquestionably the best team.
sirenda is handicapped on a small
track on account OF his size, but he
Is 50 strong and such a game fellow
these qualities offset this handicap.
While I feel that Grenda and "Goul-
lie' are the best team, they will not
win in q walk by any means. Moran
and Mcnamara will be contenders,
and they win take a lot of beating.
But when | select Grenda and Goul-
let over Moran and Mcnamara the
Berlin system figures again in my
dope" With sprints every fifteen
laps both riders on the teams that
are tied will have to sprint. No one
rider could sprint every fifteen laps
if the others alternated, as Goullet
did in the Boston race, in which the
sprints were every twenty laps
Changing to fifteen laps means that
both riders on each team will figure
in the final sprinting, and Goullet is
pretty certain to beat Mcnamara in
the majority of the sprints in which
they meet; while Grenda is sure to
score more often than Moran. II
Moran is as good as L have seen him
in six-day races he will be able to
hold his own with Grenda, which
would upset my calculations.
All a Guess as to Winner.
But there are so many good teams
in ,the race that 1t is pretty much
guess as to who will win, and then
there is always that chance of a
team, and not the best team, gaining
a lap on the field long before the
last day. Root and Clark are an
other goe1. team. While they quit IN
the Paris race this year, and some OF
the boys think they will quit again,
I do not share that opinion. / think
they will go through and will be hard
10 beat at the finish. Jackie has had
a. good rest and so has Root, ana
these are things to take INTO COLI
sideration. They will have something
on the boys who raced right up 70
the close of the outdoor season III
stored stamina. And they can DOM
finish. At the finish of a six-day
race Eddie is a wonder and Jackie is
lust as good. Lawson and Drobach
will probably be up with the leaders,
if liver does not have some OF MS
usual six-day luck, which has always
been bad in the past. with the one
exception of the recent Boston race.
In an hour finish Drobach might sur
prise some of the sprint stars, espe-
eially in the last half OF the hour.
pete is a hardy boy and can stand g; a
lot Of punishment. If the Bedeli
viii he very annoying to the stars, for
they will -et good positions and hold
Them after they get them, too. Dis
lodging either one Of the Bedeiis ! rom n
i GOOD mans wheel in sprint IS one
~ the few things that are impossible
n the bike game, know. for ! have
tried 1t many times. The Bedells
would probably be pretty wen up IN
9 6,afchaC of the Berlin