Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-23

one big day for the cycling fans. To
top a big card of events Mac" has
arranged a race that will give Cham
pion Frank Kramer and Gave Man
Frank Cavanagh an opportunity to
show just what a wonderful pair of
riders they are. AS MacFarland says,
at will be a hard race for the boys
and it would be interesting to know
how the boys" feel about it. Mae"
has named the race the "Old Glory
Challenge" and to win it Kramer
and Cayanagh will have to show both
speed and staying qualities. They
will meet four different teams in four
separate races, and it will be their
ambition, of course, to win all of
them.
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The 'tOld Glory Challenge is an
open def by Kramer and Cavanagh
to the best riders at the Velodrome,
and opposed to the champion and the
Gave Man" will be the following
teams:
Rutt and Lawson.
Clark and PYe. ~
Goullet and Fogler.
Moretti and Grenda.
Now. it will be the task Of Kramer
and Cavanagh to go out heat after
heat and beat each and every one of
these teams. As a team there is little
question that Kramer and Cavanagh
are the best. but whether they will
be able to defeat such strong teams
as those mentioned heat after heat
is another thing The race, however
should prove to be a particularly in
teresting one, and it will be partic-
ularly glorious one if the Yankee team
is able to win it.
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Cesar Moretti. who is to team with
Aft Grenda in the "Old Glory Chal-
lenge," viii make his first appear
ance against Joe Fogler in a match
race at the Velodrome next Sunday.
Moretti will arrive in this country on
Saturday. and mcfarland wasn't
very keen for having the big Italian
race so soon, but both by letter before
he sailed and by cable later Moretti
assured Mac he would be all right
and fit to do himself justice. In Fog
Ter he will not have to beat such
speedy rider, but he will have
heady fellow To dispose Of The
Italian has a lot of speed and he
knows now to race. He is big and
strong and he is second to none when
il comes to roughing. After his race
with Fogler he will likely be matched
with Grenda, and then Cavanagh,
Goullet, Clark. Rutt and Kramer,
providing. of course, he shows form
and class.
MacFarland is giving the fans some
great racing, and his work is being
appreciated. The big fellow receives
letters every day praising his efforts
and such an event. Whenever it is
possible, Mac" accedes to the re-
quest, and he is surely a popular fell
low all around. 1t has always been
said that Million was born with a
horseshoe, but the greatest piece of
luck he has struck in the bike game
was when he secured MacFarland to
manage his tracks.
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Although Walter Rutt is perhaps
sorely peeved at Frank Kramer, that
doesn't prevent them from being
friends outside of the bike track. An
evidence of this was apparent sun
day after the races. when Kramer,
Rutt, Alf Goullet and Alt Grenda left
the Velodrome in Kramer's auto
mobile to pay visit to Willie Bolles,
the track steward at the Velodrome,
who is convalescing at the City Hos
pital after an operation for appendi-
citis. For winning the Cesar Moretti
Stakes Kramer was given an
especially beautiful bouquet of
flowers, and he Immediately made up
his mind to present them to Bolles.
To make Willie feel real good, Kramer
asked Rutt and Goullet and Grenda
to go along. All were quite willing,
for Bolles is a popular fellow with
the boys. AS Kramer drove off with
his load or stars the hero orshipers
who wait outside to get a close
glimpse of the stars seemed amazed.
Not long before, on the track inside,
three of the four men had been in
strenuous combat. and Rutt appeared
to think that he was given the worst
of it. However with the race over,
things we're different, and there was
no sign of grievance among them.
1t is a fine way TO be, but it takes
big men to do it.
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The third big league. as outlined in
New York last Saturday, has turned
out to be a colossal job. Even Ban
Johnson is backing up on the propo.
sition. and it was Ban who really
sprung the idea A third big league is
all right, but everything depends on
it's composition. There is room for an
other organlzauon' providing II rs
composed of the right cities. The
plan. though. to have four Tnterna-
ton League cities and four American
Association cities nodded into third
big league is out of the question. Big
leagues are not big leagues because
they are called big leagues. The
Federal League is not even a big
league, although there are four big
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