Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-24


I JOHN NJ. CHAPMAN
that is the way, and everything evens
| itself up in the long run.
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Eddie Lamson, who is the chief
trainer for Alfred Grenda, has just
returned from Europe, and has sew
eral good stories to tell of the doings
over there. Lamson is an observing
chap, and he comes back here with
the astounding information that
James Frances Moran, erstwhile
|, bear cat" is the greatest six-day
rider in the game today. In making
such a statement, Lamson is taking
Moran's exhibition in the recent
Brussels grind as a basis for his
argument. The trainer says that
Jimmy was a regular "Peck's Bad
Boy" in the Brussels race. He was
"bear-cat'' for fair and recalled the
days in Madison Square Garden when
it was said of him, Yes. Moran is
IIG BTedI6SI SIA-udA IidtA al tliO
world, but he has never won six
day race" And that is true, for no
matter how durable Moran might be,
he hasn't the speed TO beat any of
the sprinters that manage to ride
themselves into the leadership of
those Garden grinds. But it is all
pleasing to know that James Francis
is still himself. 1t pleases me and it
will please the fans, and it will
please. best of all, very dear friend
of his, who, though disputed at every
turn by the wise Solomons of the bike
game, has maintained all along that
Jimmy Moran was the greatest six
day rider in the world.
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According to Trainer Lamson, Reg |
gle Mcnamara threw away victory |
in the Brussels six-day.
Mcnamara had everything his own |
way" Lamson said, "but he pulled |
a bone by attempting TO switch John
of giving Stol a switch. Reggie simply |
rode high enough on the track TO al
low Stol to come through on the pole. |
That settled the finish, but Nc |
Namara has only himself to blame for
his defeat. He had the speed, but he |
didn't have that gray matter the
boys talk about so much" Lamson
declared.
g.
Jimmy Hunter, Daredevil" is back
from Europe-back for good. he says.
Paris is all right and London is all
right and so are Berlin, Monte Carlo
and other famous places abroad, but
no more for Jeems," is the way the
Daredevil puts it, Even the ocean
has a sour look to Hunter. He doesn't
one reason is because he was around
so many sick" bicycle riders so much
that now everything seems sour when
he looks at it. Hunter is a quiet little
fellow and wouldn't say beans when
the bag is open, as general thing,
but without using the expressive
language employed by James, it can
be taken for granted that the Dare
devil as a caretaker or adviser of
six-day cyclists with lost gratis" is
a thing of the positive past The U.
S. A. will ever be large enough for
Hunter, Ee take it, and next year
when the ship sails there will be no
Daredevil on board. Jimmy hasn't
much to say, outside of reiterating
the previous news from abroad that
it was very cold in Paris during the
six-day race there and that Alfred
Goullet might have won the race if
there wasn't such a strong combina-
ton of Frenchmen at the finish.
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Eddie Pierson, who has been fam
Gus around here as a bowler for
years and years, is now in search of
health instead of strikes. 1.-The Dea-
CON- as he is called by his close as
sociates, has gone to Saranac Lake,
months in the hope of recovering his
strength. Few knights of the alleys
were better known than Pierson. He
was a member of the Roseville big
Five" of the Athletic League, but
more than that he was good friend
and side pal of Charley Meyer, who
also rolled on the Rosevilles Pierson
and Meyer were particularly popular
as bowlers. Both were quiet and
easy going, especially Pierson, who
was rarely known to kick on a bowl
ing alley. One exception is known in
Eddie's case. 1t was in New Haven,
where he was persuaded to roll an in
dividual match against one of the
New Haven cracks. 1t is said that in
that particular match Pierson lost in
the neighborhood of five pounds. but