Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-20

last evening produced lots of excite
ment and a few upsets. The rain
threatened to spoil the meet and the
fans became peeved at their luck.
Rain did fall, in big drops, too, but
there was not sufficient precipitation
to wet the track There were acct
dents and there were delays and the
last race, somewhat curtailed at that
wasn't over until after II O'Clock.
The racing, though, on the whole,
was pretty good. but there was jinx
around somewhere.
o
The big race and the best race was
the Bill Bailey Stakes, and in winning
it Alfred Goullet displayed great
speed and rare good judgment. He
rode his race from in front and he
battled all the way, and stood off
most determined bid by Walter Rutt
at the finish. Frank Kramer was the
only other starter In this event, these
three stars having reached the final
through a series of trial and semi
final heats. 1t was a fine race to
watch as the men jockeyed and
changed positions almost continually
At the crucial time Goullet was the
fortunate one and poor old Kramer
wasn't in it at all. 1t was simply
case of the breaks. A moment before
Kramer was in front and he would
have been the winner very likely If
Goullet hadn't raced around him.
Then Rutt followed Goullet and Kra-
mer was a hopeless third and out
of it.
With three such classy men COM
peting, not single one of them
could hope to come from third
position at sprinting time and win.
Goullet, out in front, had the best OF
it, but it was his own figuring that
got him in that position. He rode
dandy race, in that he distributed his
speed in the right place at the right
time. Rutt, too, rode great race,
and he came so fast at the finish that
he thought he had won, as did quite
number of the fans. But Rutt
didn't win. He was beaten about an
inch and a half, and the automatic
picker" doesn't lie, Kramer, seeing he
couldn't win, didn't race it out to the
tape, and he was poor third.
o
The track was little wet and
Kramer was a little scary and he
DIDN'T care to take much OF a chance
to go around on the outside. He was
fearful of hard fall, but he got two
OF them in the tandem-paced race be-
fore the night was over. Both falls
were spectacular, and if it wasn't for
the fact that Kramer is an artist in
handling a bicycle he might have
been hurt However, he got away
both times with hardly scratch. He
used rare judgment in the second
heat of the paced race when Cava-
nagh and HILL riding tandem,
crashed to the track along with 9TH
ers in front of him. Kramer picked
his way off the track into the grass,
but his tire punctured and he finally
fell. This heat was declared o ffand
the men started out in the last heat
at five miles. Goullet's front wheel
hit Rutt's rear wheel and Goullet
fell. Kramer came along, and in
order to avoid running over Goullet
he rode off the track. In doing so he
turned a complete somersault. His
wheel was broken this time and he
didn't start in the final heat, which
was run at three miles.
o
The tandem-paced race was a mix
up all around, and General MacFar-
land will not put on another just like
1t. The winner turned up in Cesar
Moretti, who won both heats. He
was first in the first heat at two
miles, with Goullet second, Kramer
third, and Rutt fourth, and in the
last heat Moretti was also the win
ner after a great battle with Goul-
let, who was second. Rutt was third,
with Kramer, in his street clothes,