Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-06

two years, and have been constant
reader of your paper, in order that
might keep in touch with the doinSs
of the riders here and abroad. 1 have
missed very few important meets In
Newark, and you must know, of
course, l was exceedingly anxious to
see the Sunday (May - meet. In
fact | had been looking forward to
1t for months, as you and many other
loyal fans have. In order to be sure
I would see 1t, 1 telephoned to the
track last Tuesday and ordered my
tickets four in number, and was care
full to give my name plainly, and
what l wanted. l ordered four sew
enty-flye-cent seats in section e, and
was told all would be o. X. Sunday,
on reaching the track at 2 o'clock
with my three friends, found, to my
great surprise, there were no tickets
being held for me. l can see no pos
eible excuse for not getting them, as
1 telephoned for same in plenty of
time, but 1 might just as well have
telephoned to the moon. Is there any
way of being sure of your tickets?
Being a constant reader of your
valued paper for so long, I have seen
the great amount of influence you are
able to bring to bear on Improvement
of conditions and forwarding good
movements for the public interest. I
don't want to be knocker, but think
I was treated shabbily and / would
like to see something done to prevent
a repetition of such treatment. For
fair play, r. H. LATIMER.
You certainly have a justified kick
coming, and I'm surprised that Mr..
Million, who is attending to the tick
cts for these big matches personally,
should allow such thing to happen.
He was very careful to see that the
tickets did not get into the hands of
spectators, but IL you telephoned and
tickets were promised you, they
should have been there for you when
you called. That is strictly legitimate
and tickets, I know, were held for
Others. The Velodrome management
owes you at least an explanation. and
I do not believe the men in control
are too big to square themselves If
the mistake is theirs.
- O.
Good evening. IS. o. Il CO. is
back on the job with a bit of COM
ment. Let us see what they have to
say:
j. T. N. -,
The fifteen thousand fans who had
the fortune to see the match race
between Kramer and Rutt, are able
to give proper idea of what real
champs of cycling are. The two gen
erals have presented the public of this
city a wonderful battle OF head.
strength and ability. What won for
Big Steve in the first and second
heats of the match race, was his
great jump and his keen judgment,
which allowed him to out-jockey and
out-general his rival at every phase
Of the race. A youngster who for the
first time was assisting match race,
gave us his modest opinion. To our
question: What you do think of
cycling, now, Bill? Could you give us
a definition of cycling?" came prompt
and enthusiastic the answer: "Oh,
well, it's simply great, My definition
Frank l.. Kramer, that's all" And
we think it was enough.
We would like to see next Sunday
the match race Rutt-kramer at the
American style, with human pace, as
was run last year for the second
match race McDougall-B We
have seen the German champion, yes
terday beaten at the game of jockey
ing by the old master, in impressive
contributed to make Rutt nervous,
and he could not use all his good
judgment when the final sprint of
the first and second heats came.
Rutt, we are sure, will give up the
idea of beating the master at the
out ockeying next Sunday He
should use all his strength and speed
and judgment not to out-jockey, but
to race the American champ There
is still O. chance for the German
champ to show the American cham
pton the way home, if in favorable
our previous letter will be true, that
Frank L. Kramer will win two out
of the three match races.
All the other races on the program,
interesting Goullet-Clark, Grenda-
Spears, showed with advantage
Bobby Spears, the long haired
elongated rider from the Antipodes
lacks as usual of good judgment in
his races. He could have Won as
easily as did Fred HILL from the ten
yards handicap, if he would have used
little more head. in the. two miles
handicap race. While Jackie Clark
is still in our opinion a great little
rider at the five. ten and fifteen mile
race, ALT Goullet is the only man OF
the Australians who will be able to
put up a good fight for the champion
ship. Smith and Kaiser are the CON-
ing boys among the amateurs, who
will show Champion McDougall it will
be a hard task this year to keep the
crown.
Very truly yours.
s. o. & CO.
! In order that there will be room fol-
other letters, will you please con
dense your communications in the
future. They are very interesting
but rather long. Thanks.
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remark:
j. p. N:
| 1t gets my goat. Every time the,
cannot beat Kramer somebody boiler.
Foul" That's all those foreign riders
know. Let me state that if, Their,
was any crooked work Sunday ths
| spectators would have seen it, an(
they are very slick, and you know
that, don't you, j. P. NJ? Now, il
everybody was as clean and honest &
rider as f. L. Kramer there would
never be any fines. So let Walter
Rutt say all he wants about beinf
| fouled. 1t is not true. If Kramer
bumped his wheel he did not do it in
tentionally. Kramer has the name
of being the cleanest rider. and no
body is going to try and stain that
/ either, Walter Rutt. mind you. Your.
| in sports, AN OLD-TIMER.
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The tandem race at the Velodromt
last Sunday didn't please the writer
of the following letter, and some sug.
gestions are also made:
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