Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-29

Manager MacFarland is very proud
OF the card he has arranged for the
Velodrome tomorrow, and he is pre-
dieting one of the biggest crowds of
the season. "Old Mac" Is certainly
giving the fans all kinds of interest
ing racing, and he says he is going
TO keep up the good work. The pro-
gram for tomorrow has three fea-
| lures. The big feature will be the
sprint match, in which Champion
Frank Kramer will meet Bill Bailey,
the Englishman. 1t is not so much in
| the outcome of the race that we are
interested, but In what kind of a
showing Bailey will make against
| Kramer. The American boy is the
greatest rider in the world and he
has won his fourteenth straight
championship this year. He is just
as good as ever. too, and there are
! other championships awaiting him.
But as to his match with Bailey,
Kramer, as usual, is not boasting.
! He won't say how he will race the
| Englishman or what he will do. He
feels that he is going to win, of
course, but he is not so sure that it
will be so easy He will tell you that
Bailey is a good man and that there
are few riders in the game today who
car beat him. Yet we all feel, de-
spite Kramer's conservative view of
the race. that the "Old Master" Will
defeat Bailey and defeat him rather
handily. Bailey must be given credit
for what he has done, both as an
amateur as well as a pro, but against
Kramer we would say he has no
chance at all.
| Another feature is the human paced
race for the middle distance cham
pionship. In this event there are four
riders. including the great comeback.
James Francis Moran. Others entered
are George Wiley. looked upon as the
winner; Bobby walthour, who has
been riding very we'll this year, and
| Clarence Carman. who has scored
more points than any one of the pace
| followers this year. That is a pretty
classy field. The men will ride thirty
three and one-fourth miles. and they
will be paced by tandems. Besides
the alluring prize money, the winner
will receive a solid gold medal, the
second man a silver medal and the
third man a bronze medal.
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The fans will be given treat in
the line of pacemakers tomorrow, for
even Champion Kramer has con-
sented to team up with Ernie Pye on
tandem. This pair will pace Moran,
as will Walter Rutt and Pete Dro-
bach. With such eminent help
Moran's chances are not to be
ignored How Jimmy secured these
teams it is hard to tell. He has been
yelling all season about being abused.
yet when it comes to a championship
race Manager MacFarland helps
Moran to the cream Of the pace
makers. The thigh sign" must be
! working at the Velodrome.
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Kramer and Pye and Rutt and Dro-
bach are not the only prominent
teams. We also have Jackie Clark,
who promises to win a race before
long, and Charley Stein, all doubled
IN ~, npa uvbaaI Than +bara &c "A 1
fred Goullet, Kramer's most hated
rival and Joe Fogler's best pal, lined
up with Lloyd Thomas. known in cy-
cling as plain Cat" Nor is that all.
Down the line you can go, picking
| stars here and there who have kindly
consented to perform low-b brow stunts
| in order to please the fans and make
the game interesting. We find as we
go over the list such noble warriors
| as Alt Grenda, the "Old Hoss," who
does much and says little; Reggie
| Mcnamara, just back from the war,
who threatens TO lick everybody
around when the pursuit champion
ship is put on; Bob Spears, who has
the speed, but who doesn't know how
and when TO use 1t; Joe Fogler, the
business man." who will get caught
with the goods some day, and Others
and others. including the world famed
Larry Corbett, with the sweet voice
and the wooden legs. 1t is such a
wonderful field of pacemakers that the
surprise is how mcfarland got them
to labor in such a mental capacity
But Mac" works wonders, is what
they all say now.
o
The third feature is the Cycle
Derby, with It's semi-hnal heats. All
the stars who qualified will compete
which means Kramer, Rutt, Goullet
Clark and Bailey, who rides his heat
tomorrow. These heats and the repe-
chage should provide some excellent
contests, but it will be the delight OF
most of the fans to see Kramer and
Rutt and Goullet and Clark and the
other "blue-ribbon" riders working al
the same trade with Larry Corbitt
and Ben Hill.
o
The International Baseball League
will play its full schedule of games.
That statement comes direct from
President Edward Grant Barrow,
and it comes straight from the
shoulder The story that the league
would shut up shop after Labor Day