Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-10
French CYCLISTS
HERE FOR BIC RACE
Parent, Sores, Dupuy and COus-
seau Arrive for New York
Six-Day Event.
PARENT A WAR VICTIM

! Dereu up TO neT JOCK yesterday HiOFu-
Ing the second consignment of for
eign talent for the Gotham six-day
race was deposited on the pier off
| Fourteenth street, New York. Four
parcels of talent were received ap-
parently in good order, although It
was afterward discovered that one
was shy half foot (pedal extremity,
another was a fever patient, third
was shy a finger and the fourth
walked lame. The hobble was the
only deficiency noticeable to the
naked eye, the other discrepancies be-
ing discovered through conversation.
The parcels referred to are George
Parent, the veteran motor-paeed
rider, champion of the world In 1909,
10 and Ii; George Sores, winner OF
the championship of Europe this
year; Marcel Dupuy and Emile Cous-
seau, all sons Of France. With the
exception Of the immaculate Dupuy,
the riders bore. as battered and care
worn an appearance as the old
Rochambeau. Maybe 1t Is the war
and maybe only seasickness from the
rough last day of the voyage that eff
fected the riders, but they We're under
a mental pail that was in marked
| contrast to the usual jovial meanor
of freshly arrived Frenchmen coming
| over for the big race in the Garden.
Parent in Many Battles.
And one of them Is hero a real
hero of the war who has smelled
powder and seen action on the long
battle line in France. 1t was not I'M
/ oier11f 1osv- a
| it was discovered that Parent had
been in numerous engagements for
weeks with his regiment and had been
shot through the right leg and re-
moved to a hospital in Paris. More
might have been learned from Parent
but there was no interpreter around
and Manager Mcfarland, the versa
tile linguist was too busy to engage
the foreigners in conversation. But
we did learn that Parent was in six
big battles and a German bullet
pierced his right calf at the battle of
Chartered This discovery was made
as he was being rubbed down follow
ing a run on the road up In Wallis
burg. A fresh scar on the front and
back OF the riders calf disclosed the
injury and Parent reluctantly ad-
mitted that he had been shot at the
battle of Charleroi. He is now on fur
| Tough and with the others will have
to return to France Immediately after
the six-day race.
One would naturally expect to see
heroes from the war displaying the
iron cross or the cross of the Legion
of Honor, but Parent was as free
from decorations as he was from bag
gage and clothes. The stolid old fell
low was attired In knickerbockers a
sweater and an overcoat that was not
long enough to keep the cold blasts
that swept through the open doors of
the pier from piercing his green
STOCKINGS and making the chiIIs run
| up and down his pinal column. A
very small handbag held the rest of
PARENTS worldly possessions and
rather astounded the custom inspect
ors who appeared anxious to increase
| the United States treasury as much
as possible by levving on everything
the foreigners had. or course, the
INSPECTORS did not see Parents war
| wound or they might have levied on
that
Cousseau Resembles Georget.
Cousseau. with a bristling mus
tache. swarthy complexion and wide
Jaws. is the typical French six-day
man we know so well. He looks like
Georget. the man who made the life
of the six-day riders miserable on
several occasions In the Garden
grind Consseau has a crook in his
trigger finger. and that is why he is
In America instead of In the French
army: but France may use him yet
even with the crooked finger, for he
has instructions to return to France
within a month or be banished for
ever
The suave. snappy and immaculate
Dupuy has been here before and with
the same half a foot that has been
the means of saving him from be-
coming a target for German bullets
Dupuy Is a typical Partisan and he
was the onlv one of the F'renchmen
who showed life or spirit. Dupuy
says he will never have to go to the
front. although he. too, has been told
to return to France.
Sores is the best of the foreigners
and he Is said to be without a peer
In paced races on small tracks Seri-
Gus and with his cap pulled down
over his head te keep II and the wig
that shields his bald nate from being
blown away by the wintry winds the
little fellow was as mum as a clam
and did not utter two words I'D to a
late hour last night. Even the ship
news reporter. who spoke French so
COutl IloI BoI a STORY out
of Sores although he posed for num-
erous photograp hs. Mavbe Sores was
| frightened from Sleening for nine
days in the cabin adjoining the two
international jewelry crooks who
were brought back on the Rocham-
| bean.
All four OF the riders said they are
| in good shape for the race They
trained for several weeks on the
streets of Paris. which afforded I'M
obstructed highways for riding. there
being no traffic and therefore no
| traffic regulations Up until Satur-
day the riders will train on the roads
and at the velodrome. Charley Tur-
Vile. who will have charge of the
| foreigners in the six-day race this
year, arrived from Boston this
morning and Immediately took
charge of the Frenchmen. Seres and
Parent will meet Walthour and Car
man in a ten-mile paced race at the
Garden Saturday night, and Dupuy
and Cousseau will ride in the ten
mile open. Sc, es and Dupuy will
probably ride together in the six
day race, and Parent and Cousseau
will make another team.
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Kramer Welcomes Foreign Riders.
Champion Frank Kramer, who ar
| rived from his mothers home In In
diana yesterday, went over to well
come the foreigners, and he brought