Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-05

WIN more SaTety. Inc new tires VIII
be the greatest thing ever for the
New York six-day race and all credit
is due to our manager, Floyd Mac
Farland. for insisting that all the
riders use the specially heavy Pye
tire"
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The Pye tires are very heavy and
at first the riders objected TO using
them. Now. though, that they have
given them fair trial they are ap-
parently delighted with them. Mac
Farland says he will insist on all
the boys using the celebrated Pye
tire in the New York race and he
will have seals attached to the tires
to prevent the riders from making
a shift at any time. Some of the
stars will want to ride the light
tires, but General MacFarland will
see to 1t that the stars ride the same
heavy tires as the 'punks" use.
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MacFarland, judging by the way he
handles things, was made to be a
manager. He does things with snap
and a vim and results reward his ef-
forts. 1t is his ambition to be an
owner some day, and he is on the
right road to that goal He already
has twenty-four per cent. of the stock
of the Cycle Racing Association, and
he may become at least a halloween
some day. Mac" has Mr.. Million to
thank for this consideration, although,
of course, he had to pay out his good
money for the holdings, but he got
his stock cheap and the payments
were made reasonable. Luck seems
to be with MacFarland at every turn
For time he was worrying over
what-he would do for foreign riders
in the New York races when all of q
sudden he discovers he has more
European stars than he even cares
to use. This makes Mac" sanguine
that the war, the tight money market
and the change in the date for the
Garden grind will not prevent the
race from being as big a success as
in previous years, when everything
was favorable.
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Another fortunate angle that broke
in favor of MacFarland was in secur-
ing the Pye tires for the big race
Not more, than dozen pair of tires
have been imported from Europe since
the war broke out. and there isn't a
chance in the world of getting any for
long time to come. >Amerlcan-made
tires, by the way. are out of the ques-
ton. But that didn't stop Mcfarland
He requisitioned Pye, who is an ex-
pert, to make 1872 pairs of tires for the
Boston and New York races, and Ernie
has them all ready to deliver. Pye
makes q tire which is built on the
same principle and is just as good as
the best French tires. The new tires
will eliminate the bad feature of g
six-day race, the puncture. Mac
could not trust the French manufac'
turers to make just the tire hi
wanted, SO he had Pye make severa
pairs of sample tires. Mac" accepted
one OF the samples, had few made
up, tried them in the tandem paced
races run the latter part of the season
at the velodrome and found them VI
to the requirements. Pye immediate.
" set to work to fill the order for the
New York race That was tive
months ago, and the last of the SS.
tires was finished yesterday. AS tbs
tires are all made by hand, 1t was {
big Job and long one. Even thu
fabric, which was made of sea islant
cotton thread and measured 6S4 miles
/ In length was woven by hand. Grea
quantities of thread for sewing ant
muslin strips were used, an a pecu
diar feature of the tires Is the fac
that the smallest item in their manu-
facture was the rubber. Just an evei
1866 pounds of rubber were used, tn
amount Of rubber in each tire weigh
ing a trife less than six ounces. On
hundred and ffty-five gallons Of gaso
line and fifty gallons OF benzole wer
used in making rubber solution t.
cement the cotton fabric together
Piled one on top of the other, tn
tires make a stack thirty-two feet Il
height. MacFarland was, indeed
fortunate in having Pye on tn
ground, for without him there woul
have been no tires for the race, an
there might not have been a race
There are American-made tires 70
racing. but the riders will not us
them. The Yankee tres blow up S
easily the riders are positively afrai
of them. For several years Pye ha
been making tires for his own use an
he has made a few for Kramer, Goul
let and some OF the other stars, bu
he never became a real manufacture
until MacFarland gave him the orde
for the New York and the Boston six
day races.
, The Yale stadium, a picture c
which appears at the top of thes
columns, is the largest by far in thu
country and will hold In the neigh
borhood OF 10000 persons, we are In
! formed. This mammoth bowl is bic
ger than the Harvard stadium. an
it is bigger than the new Palmer sta
dunn at Princeton. Still. in all, wit
its 1000 capacity, the Yale structur
will not be anywhere near larg
enough to accommodate the tremer
dous crowd that would like to witnes
! the football game this year betwee