Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-15
WALTER RUTT PROMINENT
FIGURE ATT VELODROME
''Weltmeister" Takes Championship Event,
Defeats Cavanagh in Match Race and
Is Second in Five-mile Open.
KAISER WINS AMATEUR TITLE EVENT

World S Champion Walter Rutt had
big day at the Nelodrome yesterday.
The big German cyclist won the one
mile national championship, he de-
fedted Frank CaVanagh in a match
race and then, when most professional
cyclists would have considered good
days work well accomplished, he
went out and came within an ace of
winning the five-mile open. In the
championship Rutt defeated American
Champion Frank Kramer, Bob Spears
and Aft Goullet and finished fifteen
yards in advance of Kramer, who was
second. Bob Spears was third only
inches back of the Yankee Rutt. won
from CaVanagh in straight heats. but
he was pressed hard in both legs of
the race and won by small margins
only. In the fivemile open the world s
champion again defeated Kramer,
Geullet and Spears and was beaten
by Grenda by the smallest of mar
gins. Rutt was a tired athlete when
he started in the five-mile race, and
had he been fresher he might have
come home a winner.
Rutt Great Track General.
In winning tie championship Rutt
displayed perfect judgment and won
from speed superior to his opponents.
1t is doubtful if Rutt was as fast as
Kramer yesterday, but when he saw
Kramer and Goullet, who We're lead
ing, hesitate at the eighth pole on the
final lap of the race, he jumped and
was by the leaders before they realized
what had happened. 1t was a great
jump and before Kramer and Goullet
could get under way Rutt had the race
won. Keen Judgment has marked all
of the worlds champions races here,
and if he continues to outgeneral the
American and Australian riders his
chances of winning the Yankee title
will be very bright.
Rutt Kramer, Grenda, Fogler.
Spears Goullet, Iver Lawson and
Floyd I<rebs qualified in the
four heats of the title race.
Gavanagh would probably have
made the semi finals, but he
punctured a tire in the first heat,
which put him out of the running.
With Cavanagh out Krebs came
through on Goullet's wheel. which put
him in the second stage of the race.
In the first semi-final Spears, Goullet,
Fogler and Grenda were the starters
and Spears won with Goullet second.
Spears made a great finish and won
y
second semi-final with Rutt second
and Lawson a close third. The Swede
came through on the pole and there
was less than a hand width separat-
ing his front tire from Rutt's.
There was considerable jockeying in
the final, with Goullet and Kramer
both anxious for q front ride. Two
laps from the finish Kramer took the
lead, and Just before the bell Goullet
went around the Yankee champion
and started the sprint for home. Goul-
let was going at q good rate of speed
around the first turn, but at the
eight pole he slowed and looked
around Kramer also hesitated, and
then Rutt made his jump from third
position. The German went around
Kramer SO fast the latter could not
get on his wheel, and while Rutt
made tracks for home, yards in ad-
vance of the others there was a
merry battle down the backstretch
and around the final turn for the
lead. Kramer outrode Goullet and
Spears and was an easy second.
Cayanagb Looked and Lost.
While Rutt deserves full credit for
his victory over Cavanagh in the
match, the Irish champion" was very
fast yesterday and might have won
had he been game and ridden clear
to the tape. In the first heat Cava-
nagh rode from the front and he had
Rutt humping to hang on down the
hackstretch and around the final turn
and then, when he was still leading
and only a few yards from the tape,
he turned to see where Rutt was, and
in doing so evidently quit pedaling.
for Rutt jumped up alongside and
nipped Frank at the tape. In the
second heat Cavanagh rode an aim
less sort of a race and let Rutt do
just about as he pleased. After lead
ing for four and a half laps he al