Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-08

to Ride in the Newark Grind.
! between these little Welsh marvels.
They raced at Manhattan Beach and
drew one of the biggest crowds that
ever witnessed a cycle race in this
country, the spectators numbering
close to 10000. Michael defeated Lin
ton in their first race and, although
Linton later ON won from the Rare
bit" as Michael was called, Jimmy
won the majority of the races in
which they engaged. Probably Lin
toms greatest victory in this country
was at Waltham, in 1899, when he de-
feated four American stars and AL
bert Champion, of France. Linton
established a complete new set of rec
ords in that race, and won by more
than three miles. At times Linton
was absolutely unbeatable, but he was
an erratie performer and this cost
him much of his early popularity here
However, in 1897, 1898 and 1893, his
only superior in paced races was little
rowly escaped death in a paced race
in WaItham in 1899, in which two
pacemakers were killed by running
over the top of the bank and crash
ng headforemost into an electric light
pole. Floyd MacFarland, the general
manager of the Cycle Racing Asso-
citation. knew Linton well, and speaks
of him as a great little rider and a
fine little fellow"
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Kid Boonton, the fighter, is going
West. He starts tomorrow, with
Cleveland as his destination. Boon
ton has figured it out that if he is to
become anybody in the fighting
game he must get out in the world
and make good. He is ambitious and
wants to become a champion, and he
feels that he will never develop into
the first man in his profession if he
sticks around the old diggins. He
has notified his manager, Jimmy
Johnston, of his intentions, but the
Kid says he will have Johnston as
his manager if he makes good.
81 know l am making a wise move
by going West Boonton said this
morning. 81 will never amount to
anything as long as l stick around
the Oranges. The fans are fifty-fifty
up there-half of them are for me
and the other half are against me.
So I'm going to get away from all
the jealous ones and take a chance
in the strange world. If 1 make
good all right, and if 1 fail, why III
quit the game and try something
else
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Boonton has bright future and I,
for one, would like to see him make
| good. He has shown me more prin-
ciple than most of the scrappers
around here, and he will make friends
by the score in the West. In talk
ing about his, experience in the fight
ing game the Kid said:
81 never knew what fighting was
until ] saw Freddie Welsh and Joe
Shugrue box at the Garden. Then 1
said to myself: Are those fellows
champions? If they are, why, in
about eight months time I'll be the
champion of the world That's why
l am going West, and / am as sure
as anything that | will make good.
+! Gus Troxler thinks well of me, and
his opinion is worth something. You'll
hear from me-good or bad-but /
know I will come back to Orange in
side of year a much-improved
| boxer"
The boy is full of confidence and
his words weren't those of a blow
hard.
o
! Manager Johnston is trying to locate
Charley Weinert. He wants to give
him a fight at the Garden. Weinert
is likely to go under the management
of Johnston, and, if so, he will not
have any trouble getting on matches,
if he is able to make good.
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More boosting for mcfarland. If
this good work keeps up Mac" will
be looking for boost in his salary.
The boost
j. P. N:
To Mr. MacFarland--In regard to
ix-day race in Newark, Manager
mcfarland has done good thing.
The fans of Newark, / think, will
support the race. l was very glad
when I saw in the Evening Star that
six day race is to be run in New
ark. l hope Manager MacFarland
will give us some good foreign teams
Yours, A FAN, W. G.
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This bike fan thinks Manager Mac
TarIand is a wonderful fellow He
says:
J. p. N;
MacFarland certainly knows how
to run siX-day bike races. He realizes
that the team that wins the race Ii
not the whole show and that the
crowd Is with the little fellows whC
make the race interesting during the
week by numerous jams and at.
tempts to either steal a lap or re,
gain a lost lap.
You will notice that the six-day
races he has had charge of so fal
all previous records were broken, tn,
New York race in 1913 and the Bos
ton and New York races in 1914, al