Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-03
HOUR[IER EUROPE'S
FASTEST SPR|NTER
French Cycling Champion Wins
Grand Prize of Reines by
Wonderful Ride.
BREAKS AN OLD RECORD

Evening starr.
PARIS, July 3-Leon Hourlier, the
champion of France, continues to ride
in winning form and is, without
question, the fastest sprinter in
Europe at the present time. In the
annual Grand Prize of Reims, at
Reims, France, the home Of the
champion, he won a signal victory,
taking the final, with Thorwald Ellie
gard, the old worlds champion, sec
ond, and young Sargent third. Sar-
! gent jumped just before the start of
/ the final lap, when Hourlier was lead
| ing The youngster took big lead
and looked like a sure winner but
Hourlier put up a wonderful ride and
| passed Sargent thirty yards from the
! tape, Ellegaard going around with
the champion and riding into second
money. Hourliers last lap was the
fastest ever ridden on the famous old
track, and he broke the record made
eight years ago by Edmund Jacque-
lin. when the latter was in his prime
and the worlds champion. Hourlier's
time was 2-5 of a second better than
Jacquelin's mark.
After the races Hourlier was ten
dered a reception by his society in
Reims and was presented with silk
racing suit In the national colors OF
| France, which he will wear in his
races in America in July and August.
Hour1ier went up into Germany and
defeated the best of the Teuton
sprinters at a meeting at the Treptow
track In the international sprint
race Hourlier was first, with Lorenz,
of Germany, second; Sargent, of
France, third, and Stabe, the new
German champion, fourth. Hourlier,
with Lorenz as his partner, won the
tandem race
Rain Halts Title Meet.
The motor-paced championship of
France. which was scheduled for
June 81, has been postponed until
July 10. The title event for distance
riders had to be called off on account
of rain, and the meet was trans
ferred from the Park des Princes
track to the winter track, the Velo-
drome OLIVER A motor-paced race
in heats at 20 kilometers and 40 kilo-
meters was substituted for the cham
pionship event. In the first heat
Henry Fossier, a son of the we'll
known pacemaker, was the winner,
with the veterans Sores, German and
Parent, a former worlds champion,
following in the order named. Sores
was not in good form and fell
rather easy victim of the young win
ner, who rode brilliantly. In the sec
ond heat the great Darragon was an
easy winner, with Lavalade second
and MIGUEL third The latter fell
early IN the contest and did not
figure.
In the final, which was at 40 kilo-
meters, young Fossier rode splendid
ly, but the performance Of Darragon
was the real feature. Twice during
the contest the old champion had to
change wheels on account of pune
lures, but rode like a demon each
time, after resuming the race, max
ing up distance on the leaders in as
founding fashion Sores triumphed in
the final, with Fossier second, Lava
lade third and Darragon fourth.
Darragon has never been in such
form and, with Guignard out Of the
injured back, the former looks like a
sure winner of the championship Of
France, barring accidents.
"Triclky' Comes Dual Winner.
At this same meeting Tricky"
Comes, who was given the title of
tricky" in America in 1912, was the
winner of both sprint races. He won
the open scratch race from Quaissard
and he took the handicap after a good
ride from scratch with Geurot second.
Transferring the meet from the big
outdoor track to the winter track
did not prove success from finan-
cial point of view, only small crowd
being in attendance.
A 100-kilometer individual race
with lap money was tried at the first
nights meeting at the Buffalo track
here, but 1t did not prove success.
The race got off to a good start and
was interesting until the 60-kilometer
mark was reached. Then the riders
began to tire and the pace became
very slow. When the three best men
in the race, Bailey, of England; Pou-
lain, of France, and Polledri, of
Italy, dropped out the crowd left the
track. Lapizeswas the winner at the
finish, with Piercy, of Australia, Sec
ond and Packenbusch. of Germany,
third. The race was scored on points
the leader Of each lap being credited
with a point, with increased points
at the finish and intermediate dis
tances.
The feature at this meet was Os-
car Eggs onslaught on the one-hour
unpaced record which he wrested
from Marcel Berthet, of France. Egg
bettered Berthet's mark at Az me-
ters. Bethel has announced that he
Il.
again break the record.
Egg, who rode in the New York
six-day race two years ago, was the
winner of the sprint championship
Of switzerland In the national meet
at Zurich, Switzerland. Egg, after
winning the professional title, de-
feated Kaufman, the amateur cham
pion. AS Egg also holds the long
distance title of his country he is
the undisputed champion Of the little
nation in the Alps. At the same
meeting Egg was the winner of the
one-hour race
Bruni, the Italian motor-paced star,
broke the one-hour paced record re-
Gently, beating the old mark set by
Bordoni by $50 meters. Bruni covered
so kilometers $50 meters in the hour.
Bill Bailey still at 1t.
Bill Bailey continues to lead the
way for the best professionals in
Europe. At a meeting in Nantes,
France, he took all three heats of
match from Perchicot and Pouchois,
riding from the front in each heat
Perchicot was in his usual form, and
as he finished third in the worlds
championship in Newark in 1917
Bailey's victories over this French
rider may give some idea of how the
eA-dIitdleuT Cudlupiotl ID pcIlOAinlH6~
McNamara Beats Ellegaard.
Reggie Mcnamara is still racing in
Europe, and with great success. In
a -kilometer race in Denmark a
few days ago the Australian defeat
ed Ellegaard behind tandems and
further distinguished himself by rum
ming a close second to the Danish
champion in the short scratch race.
Mcnamara was the winner of a
-kilometer unpaced race at Haut-
mont, Belgium. Vanhouwaert, the