Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-07
MAC FARLAND HAS
TEN TEAMS IN LINE
Field for Local Six-Day Bike
Race Nearly Com
pleted.
ROOT ROUNDING INTO FORM

Manager Floyd MacFarland, of the
Cycle Racing Association, was busy
man yesterday, and as result of his
activity the lineup for the Newark
six-day race, which will Start in the
First Regiment Armory a week from
today, is almost complete. MacF'ar
land has secured ten of the twelve
teams that will compete in the race,
and he expects to have the other two
combinations signed by today or to-
morrow at the latest.
The teams signed to date are Verri
and Fogler, Mcnamara and Moran,
the Bedell brothers. Wohlrab and
Walker, Linart and Dupuy, Colom-
bato and Provost, Kopsky and Ham
sen, Cameron and Kaiser, Lawson
and Root and Carman and Walthour.
Carman and Walthour are both
signed for the race, but Manager
MacFarland will probably not start
them as a team. Charley Piercey, the
young Australian, who rode SO well
in the New York race, may be signed
today to ride with Carman and an
other rider will be signed to mate
with Walthour, according to the pres
ent plans of Manager MacFarland.
After Another Star.
While there is in the number of
riders now signed for the local grind
the winners of dozen New York six
day races, Manager MacFarland is
angling for another big star to COM
plete the field of riders. Just who
this star is the manager would not
state this morning, but it is a big man
who will top off the field and make
the entry the classiest that ever
started in a short hour six-day race
in America.
Pete Drobach will be starter in
the race and Bob Spears will also be
signed, and they may ride as team,
although it has not been definitely
decided how these riders will be
paired. There will be more or less
interest in the performance of Spears
in this race on account of his we'll
kr.own antipathy for small tracks
and the fact that he has declared that
he is going to make this race school
of instruction for mastering the lit
tie saucers. Spears is very popu-
lar rider with the fans of Newark,
and his efforts in this race will sure
ly be watched with interest.
Cavanagh May Be starter.
After his more or less deplorable
exhibition in the recent New York
six-day race Frank Cavanagh, the
intermittent hopeIul or the YANKEE
riders, declared that he was satisfied
that he was not cut out for a six-day
rider, but after thoroughly recuperat-
ing the big fellow has found fresh
ambition, and now seeks a chance to
ride in the local six-day contest.
Frank is pretty good man in the
short hour races and he may be ten
dered a contract. Past performances
show that Cavanagh can go through
the siXty-hour races in good shape.
He rode four of them on the famous
"gasoline circuit" of two years ago,
and he showed improvement in each
one.
The fact that Cavanagh has the am
bition to want to try another six-day
race, and one which will be run be-
fore his friends, and also one that he
knows full well will be very hard
race, has appealed to Manager Mac.
Farland There is no one who would
rather see Cavanagh at the top of the
heap than MacFarland, and If Cav
anagh had as much faith in his ability
as MacFarland has he would be ur
and fighting for the honors in sprint
championships and six-day races, in
stead of looking for job as a police
man,