Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-04
Not Strong for sprlnts.


delphia don't care a fig for the sprint
ers. A sprint meet at either of these
cities, such as the fans here demand,
would not draw a corporaps guard
At meet at Philly last season Cham
pion Frank Kramer won a four-cor-
nered match from ALI Goullet, Jackie
Clark and ALT Grenda, and there was
not even ripple of applause from the
placid audience of Philadelphians, but
later, when Jimmy Moran, Elmer Col
Inns and George Wiley rode a twenty
mile motor-paced race, there never
was silent moment, the crowd being
on its feet from the start to the finish.
The same attitude prevails in Bosom,
so it may be seen that the sprinters
who are going to jump to the more
hazardous division of cycle racing are
warranted in their contemplated
move.
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Cory Flops.
The latest of the Jumpers" is little
Frank Cory, the Australian sprinter,
who came here with Bob Spears and
Reggie Mcnamara last season. Frank
says there is not a chance in the :
world for him to win any money in
the sprint class, and he is going to
flop. "If l make good" said Cory, 81
will stay in this country and follow
the motors as long as I am able to
win an occasional race. but If don't
make good l am going back to Aus
tralia."
Cory says the star sprinters get
all the coin at the Velodrome, and
there is no chance for a second-string
rider. 1.-THE big fellows, such as Kra-
| mer, Goullet, Cavanaugh, Grenda,
Clark and Fogler. get all the bonus
money, and then go out and team
| In all of the open and handicap
races, and win all the prize money
besides" chirped little Frank in
| giving his reason for deserving the
sprint ranks. 1.-THE little fellows
team and scheme in every way to
| beat the big fellows continued
Frank, "but no team of little fellows
can cope with combination of stars
| Why, there wasn't a handicap race
run at the Veiodrome all of last sea-
son in which the bacSmarkers were
not in combination to beat the boye
out in front"
| Darragon and Sores Are Stars.
| If Floyd mcfarland, the general
manager of the Cycle Racing Assoc
citation tracks, succeeds in signing
Louis Darragon and Leon Sores, the
Yankee and Australian notor-paced
riders will have something to think
about Darragon and Sores are two
of the greatest paced riders ever
developed and the only American pace
| followers who class with them ara
George Wiley and Elmer Collins
Darragon, who won the worlds cham
pionship in 1906 at Geneva and again |
the year following at Paris, is a vet /
| ~
route and he is the chap who will
break the heart of many an aspiring
novice in the paced game. Sores is !
| a star performer at the shorter dis
tances-ten and twenty rniles-andI
there is probably not rider in the
world who is his superior at these
distances Fine outlook for the plebei
if Mcfarland signs these French
men. However, 1t takes more than
one rider to make a race and some
one has to be beaten.
Few Make Good at Start.
| We are patiently awaiting to hear
the outcome of Bill Bailey's c, put in
| the professional class, which, we un-
derstand, is to take place before long
in Paris at the winter track. And il -
Honorable Bill gets a severe trounc-
|
In going through the archives we find
| there have been nineteen riders
crowned amateur champions of the
world, and out of this number only
| two of them ever made good as pro-
| fessionals One was our own Arthur
Zimmerman and the other Francesca
verri, the great Italian, who made
history at the Velodrome last season.
August Lehr, a. German, who won the
| Tor
Eden, Hollander, who won the fol-
lowing year at Cologne, were fair
amateurs, but neither set the
world afire by their performances as
professionals. 1t may be that there
| is a. "jinx" in winning the amateur
title, and if so it looks bad for Bailey,
for he won it four times. Marcuss
Hurley, of New York, who won the
championship in 1904 at London, was
great amateur, but there are few
professionals who believe that he
would have been more than a moder--
ately successful professional. The only
amateur champion who ever became
the king of the professionals was Ar
thur Zimmerman. Among the great
| "pros" who never figured in the am
ateur championship were Major Tay-
Tor, Eddie Bald, Tom Cooper, Tom
Butler, Earl Kiser, Floyd MacFar-
land, Jackie Clark, Paul Bourbon.
Willie Arend, Edward Jacquelin,
Thorwald Ellegaard, liver Lawson.
Gabriel Poulain, Emil Friol, Victor
Dupre, Walter Rutt and Leon Hour
lier.
Bailey Will Find 1t Hard Shedding.
! Bailey is an exceptional amateur
with undoubted speed and a very
good head, and he is very likely to
make good in time, but it is hardly
likely that he will score an instan-
taneous success such as marked the
debut of Frank Kramer when he
| joined the cash prize division. If the
Paris promoters use judgment in
launching Bailey's professional career
| they will match him with second
string riders first He should be-
nursed along until he gains conf
i dence and learns the professional
game before being matched with the
pro" stars. To lick an amateur star
in his first match has the same eff
| feet as the first knockout sustained
by a fighter-it is a shock from which
| 1t takes time to recover and in add
ton makes them afraid in following
matches.