Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-28
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FLOYD mcfarland promises tc
spring q new ono at the Velodromt
next season. He says he viii pro-
duce a. Masked Marvel" In the
cycling game, and promises that the
unknown will make good. He viii be
a foreigner and viii be brought over
here in August. His identity will be
kept a secret as long as possible. His
arrival from Europe viii not be an
nouncel and he will not visit the
yelodrome until the hour set for the
race in which he is to compete. He
will ride match races only, and Mac
Farland declares he is good enough
10 beat men like ALI Grenda, Joe
Fogler and Cesar Moretti. MacFar-
land believes the Masked Marvel
will furnish interesting gossip for the
fans. and he hopes to keep him
under cover for at least three match
races. He will, too, If he can only
keep the secret from Poke Freeman
the press agent. If Poke ever finds
out. though, good-by secret
o
The European war has brought
about many things, and 1t has affect-
ed the cycling game in various ways.
Because of the war, the American
made bicycle is to take the place OF
the foreign-nade wheel. For years
Frank L. Kramer, the national cham
pion. has been riding a wheel made
on the other side Of the ocean, but
now he is going to ride a bike OF
American manufacture. After tho
outdoor season was over Kramer paid
a visit to Buffalo and had a talk with
the makers of the Pierce bicycle. He
told them he would like to ride their
wheel. and they were pleased to talk
business with the champion. He ex-
planned Just what sort of a wheel he
wanted. and one was made up for
him as a sample. He rode it for the
first time in his race against Alfred
Goullet on the Saturday night pre-
vious to the six-day race. He won
on It, and he is pleased with it, and
now all the boys will want to ride a
Pierce bicycle.
O
The new Kramer wheel was built
especially for the champion and Is
constructed along brand-new lines.
Through Kramer, all the riders will be
furnished with wheels free Of charge.
and Kramer is to act as a sort Of
sporting manager for the Pierce peo-
pie. He will make the trip west with
Floyd and mcfarland and the six
day troupe, and he will give exhibi-
tons as ne did in Madison Square
Garden during the recent grind there.
The Pierce concern will also build a
number of tandems for the Cycle
Racing Association. These will be re-
CURED next season, when Manager
expects to boom tandem
paced races. He will have Oscar Egg
again and he will have Sores, who is
also considered a great man behind
tandems. The cyclists are delighted
with the arrangement for the Pierce
wheels. II will be a big saving for
them, and Kramer says his new Pierce
bike is the best wheel he has ever sat
upon.
o
liver Lawson is tickled with him
self over his showing in the New
York six-day race. He said yester-
day that he believed he could come
back, and expected to be a keen
contender for the cycling honors
next year. He is going to attend
strictly to business, he declared, and
he felt that he would be able to give
the best men in the game @ run for
the money. Once upon a time Law
son was Champion Kramer's great
est rival, and it was always nip-and-
tuck between them If liver can
come back it will be pleasing news
to the fans. He was popular rider
in his day and had big following
He says he is going TO train hard
and be ready for the opening in the
spring. He will go on the western
trip. he says, and that is sure to do
him good. Lawson is almost certain
TO race in Chicago next season, but
he says if he does he will insist on
having it understood that he is to
meet the winner of the champion
ship in the East in a series Of races
for the American title.
O
The commissary department in a
six-day race Is an expensive PROPOSE
ton. 1t is the conmissary that eats
the deepest hole in the riders bank
roll. The riders do not begrudge the
money spent for food, for eating is
the one pleasant end OF the race for
them. In fact, eating helps to pass
the time away more pleasantly than
anything else, and there are stages
of the race when time drags along In
such a manner 1t Ia harder on the
nerves than the hot pace is on the
flesh and muscles.
o
In the last New YORK race it il
figured that fully $1,000 was spent fol
food. or course. the riders did not
consume all of It, for their trainers
and handlers were fed in the camps
But the thtrty-ax riders ate more
than the 100 odd trainers ant
handlers. For instance, McNamars
and Moran consumed sixteen family
porterhouse steaks in every twenty
four hours of the race, and thes'