Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-12
BIKE RIDERS AWAIT
CHAPMAN'S PLANS
cycling Promoter Has Been
Working Secretly Preparing
for Coming Season.
ST. YVES TO TAKE UP GAME

There is much joy in the winter
camp of the bike riders in this city,
for today is the day on which John
Chapman is TO make known his plans
FOR a circuit of bike tracks. Chap
nan has been working quietly, and
even the riders who are under con-
tract with him do not know where
bis tracks are to be located That
one of them is to be In the vicinity
II New York is a certainty, and the
1ther, 1t is said, is to be located in
New England. Chapman now has
thirteen professionals under contract.
EN- were signed last November, and
hree more attached their signatures
Q contracts this week. 1t is said
hat Chapman will sign one or two
aore to complete his field. They are
I'll to follow pace.
Henri ST Yves, the little French
'unner, who won the big Marathon
lerby at American League park
some few years ago, is going to take
shot at the bike game. He was in
Newark yesterday, and bought the
NO bicycles used by Norman Ander-
on in paced races last season. st.
ives has tried about every branch of
athletics. Last year he competed in
motor races at Brighton Beach.
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A copy of the Federal income tax
aw. addressed to Frank Kramer. was
received at the office of the Velodrome
his morning. 1t was sent with the
compliments of a local broker. Mr..
Broker did not make any mistake,
or Frank is one of the elite wha
must contribute to the federal tax on
Incomes OF over $4,000. Even if the
old "champer" was married he would
not be exempt, for his income is con-
siderably in excess of $4,000, the mini
mum income on which benedicts are
gaxed.
Amateur Champion Donald McDou-
gall and Harry Kaiser, the Bronx
slyclist, who defeated the champion at
the final meet of the season of 1913
at the Velodrome, will meet in a
contest on home trainers at Neider- |
inier's hall, on South Orange avenue. |
next Monday night. Kaisers victory |
oVer Donald was rather humiliating. |
and the latter is training especially |
FOR the match on the rollers in hopes |
If handing the New Yorker good |
beating. The bike contest is being I
staged by the John f. Riley Savings |
Society, and is the feature on a pro-
ram that contains three boxing bouts
ind eight vaudeville numbers.
In addition TO the bike riders signed |
by John Chapman, the eX-manager
Of the Velodrome has engaged Ben
Hill and Chick Harris for ground
keepers at two Of his tracks. Hill
held the position of janitor at the
Velodrome for three years, DESERVING
the Velodrome last summer when af
aicted with the outlaw" fever. "Old
Zen" will probably again assume his
role of perpetual limit man" on the
Chapman circuit.
In addition to being a rival, ALI
Soullet is one of the stanehest adj
mirers of Frank Kramer. ALI stated
yesterday that Frank is riding even
faster in Paris now than he was |
year ago, when he defeated all of |
the stars of the continent that he |
met with the greatest ease. when I
say Kramer is riding faster than
sver before you may laugh at me.
said "Goullie. "but, nevertheless. it
Is fact. l never saw such speed,
and the way he sprints away from
The tandem teams that pull him for
sprints is a revelation i
Work on the new surface on the
track was halted yester-
lay on account of the snow. which
made 1t impossible to work on the
steep incline of the banks. Pat Null
vey. the veteran track builder. who
IS in charge of the work. called at
he Velodrome Office and stated that
he new surface will be the finest
sver put on bike track, and will
be as smooth as a billiard table when
completed. This will be glad news
70 the riders, who are in the habit
II falling and picking up splinters
when sliding along the race course.