Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-16
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orally fair. but sometimes fall
down" when there is the question OF
their personal friendship for rider.
1t is perhaps unnecessary for me TO
say that the respect entertained Tor
your utterances is largely due to the
confidence in your absolute fearless
ness and the fact that you do not
hesitate TO give deserved eensure to
riders with whom YOU have pleasant
personal relations.
1t is the merited severity which you
occasionally dispense, which keeps
the management and riders up to the
correct standard and overcomes the
tendency to relax, which is, very lit
tie, while manifested, and which
would get to be serious II not
promptly checked up.
In closing ! may mention that l
ride about five miles every day, as
part of my regular schedule, and ON
holidays get the benefit of twenty or
thirty miles of riding. feel con-
fident that much of my excellent
health and enjoyment, as well as my
ability to work with very little
fatigue, are all due TO the beneficial
effects of this splendid sport
With renewed expressions of re-
gard. Sincerely
c. r, KILBORNE.
East Orange.
My thanks are numerous. | assure
you, and my appreciation could not
be more keenly felt.
@
\ few words about that tandem
paced ace and placing the credit;
j. p. N:
May | take the liberty to write you
a few words concerning the bicycle
faces? 1t certainly was a very pleas
ing sight to see Kramer out on the
track as a pacemaker. | think 1t is
a great way to promote his own
game. Kramer and Goullet certainly
do make a very formidable tandem
team. In my judgment, | think they
are far superior to Grenda and
Walker. Don't you think Egg owes
his victory to Fogler and Lawson and
then TO Kramer and Goullet? The
tandem OF Fogler and Lawson placed
Egg on even terms with Mcnamara,
and then kept him there. Now comes
the splendid work of the best tandem
in the world and takes Egg so fast
that Mcnamara is lost in the shuttle.
Please. j. r. N, if there is another
tandem paced race next week, have
Kramer and Goullet ride again
F. j.
Here's a bike fan who is mathe
Yonkers, N. Y, Oct. /.
j. p. NJ:
Please tell me on which OF the two
black lines of the Velodrome track
the sixth of a mile is measured. Is
the inside one the pole? How far
apart are they? As you have been
writing of gears quite some lately,
here is handy rule for telling what
gear any. rider is using, providing he
is following the measured line: Divide
$50 by revolutions of crank shaft
from tape to twelfth pole.
In nearly every case the revolutions
are 10, which gives about S915 gear.
This seems too low and is explained
by the fact that the wood rim forms
have not changed diameter since the
manufacturers designed them for rs
inch wheels with ia Inch tires. The
racing tires make a wheel under 81
inches
To the inexperienced IL seems like
splitting hairs when You call 96 a high
gear and 90 low gear, but not so to
the racing man.
| applied the aforementioned rule
last Sunday during the Kramer-Gou1-
let heats and arrived at exactly the
conclusions that you say Mr.. Free
man did. Just one more word in re-
gard to the nine-men tournament. My
criticism is that If each man does not
meet each OF the other contestants.
favoritism can be charged, and he
cannot meet eight men, two at time.
without riding four times II you
want only nine heats and each man to
ride but three times, cross out either
the three horizontal rows OF the three
vertical rows in the diagram, I did
not see your article. but was told Won
said there was only one arrangement
that would solve the problem. and in
vited your readers to try it, There
are two arrangements, as / now un-
derstand you, according to whether
you choose the numbers in the verti-
cal or horizontal row.
YoNKERs VETERAN.
The sixth of mile is measured
from the inside line. The inside line
is the pole. The two lines are 10
inches apart, In the nine-man tour
nament, the intention was to have
each man ride three times.
o
j. P. N:
Do you think Mcnamara can de-
feat Egg? ! believe that Egg will
win again from Mcnamara if he is
given the same teams that paced
him in their recent match. I'm not
saying this because they give all the
best teams to the "Ironman," as YOU
call him. hear that Egg and Verri
are going to team up in the New
York six-day race. S. D. b.
1t is a very even thing between
them. Egg and verri are to team in
the New York race. according to
Floyd mcfarland. and he ought to
know.
j. P N:
Why give Egg all the credit for win
ming the race. when he had the best
pacemakers there are in the Rame9
Why did MacFariand not divide the
paeemakers evenly, as he stated be-
fore, if l am not mistaken, SO one
rider wouldn't have the advantage
over the other? Now that Egg has
won one and Mcnamara won one.
why not have a pursuit race, to be
called the Rubber"
SQUARE DEAL.
C
y. p. N:
Is there premium on a gold dollar
dated 1863? ORANGE.
Your gold dollar, If in good condi-
<1,4f.