Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-25

Velodrome tomorrow afternoon. has
created more interest than any race
held at the local track this season.
The crowd Wednesday was whop-
per for a night meet. and Frank Min
ion. the promoter, said it was sur
passed only by the Kramer-Friol
match race in 1872 According to the
advance sale, which Mr.. Million said
today was the largest of the season,
the fans are particularly anxious to
see the finish between Kramer, Goul-
let and Rutt. That 1t will be a great
race goes without saying. and that
each man has a grand chance to win
is also apparent 1t Is what the
talent" would call a very open race,
and those who pick the winner are
lucky mortals, indeed.
@
Kramer has made good so often
that 1t is a difficult proposition to
get away from big Steve" although
Goullet is riding so fast that he sure
ly has an even chance to win. Rutt,
too, going well, but II their present
form both Kramer and Goullet APP
pear TO hold him pretty safe. or
course, with three men in the race
and all three so anxious for victory
the least break or the least mistake
will change the complexion entirely.
Rutt will win the race as sure as fate
if he is favored by the luck of the
game when 1t comes down to the
| final sprint, but he will have to have
shade somewhere to beat either
Kramer or Goullet, the way these
two men are now riding.
o
Goullet's chances appear very rosy
and he thinks he will carry off the
| honors He is surely flying, and his
Judgment has been very keen in his
races lately. He seems to do the
right thing at the right time and his
legs respond at every appeal. Yet
with all his wonderful form and his
terrific speed he will we'll know that
he has been to the races after he is
through with the Grand Criterion.
o
As to Kramer he is just fit-that is
all He is not flying, as is Usually
the case, when big races come around,
but he will tell you that he is riding
very well. He may reach the top OF
his form by race time tomorrow aft
ernoon and he may win, flying light,
in his old-tim fashion. But from all
indications, his task is going to be
the most strenuous in his career and
he would rather win this race to-
morrow than many of the big races
that have come his way in his life
time. He wants to win for more rea-
sons than one. He wants to win be-
cause of the criticism-most OF it I'M
iust-over his victory in the first
semi-final heat of the big race, in
which there was a suspicious evil
| dence of collision, and he wants to
win to show his old friends and his
new friends. too, that Kramer is still
Kramer and that he is the daddy of
them all.
o
Willie Bolles, the track steward at
the Velodrome, picks up many things
in his meanders around the grand
stand and bleachers at the track.
The lost articles are always brought
to the office, and an effort made to
find the owners. AS general thing,
the patrons call for their lost articles,
but once in a while the things are
never claimed. Last Sunday, after
the races. Steward Bolles picked up
watch fob. 1t was of sterling silver,
dipped in gold, and was won in 1911 in
| the Evening Star headpin tourney.
The owner may have the fob by call
ing at the Evening Star office.
o
II is almost sure pop that the Aus
tralians are the ones we will have to
defeat, if we hope to retain the Davis
tennis cup. Their victories over the
Canadians in the matches in the West
| have shown them to be in rare tennis
form. Brookes and Wilding are two
of the greatest opponents of the game
in the world, and they seem to be
playing at their best at the present
| time. The other members of the
| team, Dunlop and Doust are very
capable players, and it is said of the
| Australians that they haven't a weak
man on their team. Their next oppo-
nent will be the German team, and
the matches will be played in Pitts
burgh next week. AS to our own rep
| resentatives, we are not supposed to
| worry any. In Mclaughlin, Williams,
| Bundy and Behr we have a formid-
able quartet. Some criticism has
been leveled at the committee because
| of the selection of Behr over Murray
and Johnson, but the feeling now Is
| that the committee knows best and
that its judgment was superior in
every way.
The presence of Ban Johnson, pres
ident of the American League, and
Edward G. Barrow, president Of the
International League, in Toronto at
this time is suspicious. Not long
ago the report was current that
James ]. Mccartney, president Of the
Toronto club, was flirting with the
Federal League, but Mccartney. of
course, fatty denied it. However.
from a reliable source 1t is learned
that McCaffrey has had more than
one chat with the Feds and Toronto
as an "outlaw" city is not an un-
| certainty by any means.
O.