Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-01
KAISER'S CAREER IN PRO" RANKS
TO BE WATCHED WITH INTEREST

The career of Harry Kaiser, the
former amateur champion, will prob
ably be watched with as much in
terest during the outdoor season of
1915 as that of any other rider, not
excluding General Netherlands mys-
FERROUS, masked and unknown for
eigner, who is expected to be quite the
sensation of the season. 1t is always
hard to tell just what an amateur
will do in the professional ranks, but
with the exception of Kramer, there
never was an amateur who has en-
tered the cash prize division with
better prospects than Kaiser.
Kaiser was a great amateur. He
was not the sensational performer
that McDougall has been. He has
not broken worlds records nor put
up the wonderful finishes that have
marked McDougalls career, but he
has shown qualities that lead the
experts on cycling to believe that he
will be a very successful profess
sional, more successful than Nc
Dougall would be. There were two
salient features of Kaiser's riding as
an amateur that gave him an advan-
tage over the former amateur king;
Kaiser had more confidence, and he
was much stronger than McDougall,
and 1t is these features that are ex-
pected to have much to do with his
success as a professional. Kaiser is
wonderful front rider and the best
since the days of Willie Fem. 1t
seemed as though the Bronx boy
could go most any distance in front
and still cross the tape a winner
McDougall was never wonderful
front rider, although in 1918, when
the motordrome grabbed most of the
best amateurs, McDougall won many
races from the front after sprinting
two laps or more in that position.
Kaiser was able to do the trick
against the best field of simon pures
that has been seen since the retire.
ment of Marcus Hurley, George
Glasson, Bert Ripley and that all
star field of the early part of the
present century. There never was a
better short distance handicap rider
than McDougall, and there are few
professionals who are his equal over
the quarter, third and half-mile
routes in handicap events, but in the
longer handioaps Kaiser was Nc
DougalPs master.
Ksiser's Great Ride.
One of the greatest rides ever seen
Kaiser last September in a three
mile handicap at the Velodrome, but
it did not attract much notice, prob
ably on account of a big professional
match having engrossed the attention
of the fans; but in that race Kaiser
performed what looked like an i'm
possible task. He rode from scratch,
and one after another eight back
markers who had beeen changing off
pace with Kaiser to catch the riders
out in front, dropped out one by one
until finally Kaiser was alone and
almost a half a lap behind the field,
which was punched and tearing pell-
nell with q mile and two laps yet
to go. Kaiser caught the field, after
riding a mile unpaced, and then after
taking a whole lap to get to the
front, a pretty good amateur caught
him mapping and jumped away at
the bell for a clear lead of fifteen
yards 1t looked like curtains for
the champion, but he got going
again, and, catching the leader on en-
tering the turn out of the back
stretch, came home a winner with
about five open lengths to spare. The
race was run in less than six min
utes. and many of the old profess
SIGNALS who witnessed Kaiser's ride
predicted a great future for the anna
teur champion at that time.
In going through the six-day race
in New York without being Tapped
was a wonderful performance for
Kaiser Kaiser had a good partner
in George Cameron, but there were
better riders in the race than Gen.
Villa" Cameron says that he
saved" Kaiser all through the race,
but if he did then Cameron must be
a wonderfully improved rider, for this
race is the first one in which he was
ever tied with the leaders at the
finish, and this race was the hardest
in the history of six-day races.
Kaiser did not do much in the final
hour of the race, but he was about
as good as Cameron, even though the