Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-07-24

PARIS, July 24--Leon Hourlier has
again proved his superiority over the
best professionals of Europe by win
ming the Grand Prize Revenge, a race
which is run at the Velodrome Buff
falo every year following the Grand
Prize of Paris, and in which the final
lists of the big classics are the start
ers AS Hourlier won the race for
Grand Prize Favorites a week before
he won the Grand Prize, he has es-
tablished beyond a doubt that he is
Europe's premier sprinter. Poulain,
who was second in the Grand Prize
of Paris, was second In the revenge
race The event was run in heats.
Hourlier was in wonderful form, al
though he lost the third heat to
Poulairi Hourlier lost this heat
through an error, although it must be
said that Poulain is riding very fast
and Is the master of every European
sprinter with the exception of Hour
lier. Poulain and Houlier were tied
on points after the four heats had
been run, and they rode off the tie
in match in which Hourlier was the
winner =#zzs..-.---
In the first heat Poulain defeated
Frio1 and Eilegaard and in the sec
ord heat Hourlier defeated the same
riders. The final eighth in the first
heat was IL 1-5 seconds and in the
second heat, y 245s seconds. 1t was in
the third heat that Poulain defeated
Hourlier, and this was the fastest
heat of the race, the time. for the
eighth being II 40 seconds. In, the
fourth heat Hourlier won with Pou-
lain second and Ellegaard third in
II 2-5sseconds. In the match Hourlier
was an easy winner in u 2-5 seconds.
McNamara Victor at Antwerp.
Reggie Mcnamara, of Australia,
won the 75-kilometer unpaced race
at Antwerp after running third in a
match with Van Bever, of Belgium,
and Dethier. Van Bever, the former
champion of Belgium, was the win
ner Sargent, the young French
sprlnter, defeated Otto, the BeIgian
champion, in straight heats in
match at Brussels the same night. 49,
Poulain1 won from Ottoa Perchicot
and Gardellini, of Italy. in a four
cornered match at Antwerp, the for
mer worlds champion taking the
two heats in which he started and
the final, The final classment was
Poulain, Ottos Perchicot and Gardel-
ltni. aCocchf, a new motor-paced star.
won the paced race with Ebert Sec
ond and Layillade, third. = 9q
1 Old sDarragon, the great French
paced rider, won the "Gold Wheel of
the Rhine" with Appelhans second.
Kellan third, Janke fourth and Stell-
Drink fifth Darragon rode great
race after losing much ground on
account of tire trouble.
Otto Meyer, the official headsman
OF Germany, won big match at
Chemnitz, Germany, in which he de-
feated Polledrf, the Italian star; Ell
legaard and Emil Friol, the former
French champion. Meyer took three
heats of the match and was fourth
In the fourth heat which PoIledri
won Polledri was second in all of
the heats which Meyer won and this
gave the italian second in the match
Ellegaard was second once, third
twice and fourth once. The best Friol7
BOT was one third place and was last
In the final classment. At the same
meeting little MIGUEL won the paced
race with Weiss, Huybrechts. Demke
and Ryser finishing in the order
named. The. Grand Prize of Dresden
was won by Pete Dicketman. with
Paul Guignard, of France, second;
Thomas, third, and Saldow, the new
German champion, fourth An i'm
mense crowd Witnessed the race,
which was one of the best of the year.
saa Pouchois Match Race Winner. &
! Julian Pouchois, of France, who was
defeated in two match races by
Kramer last winter in Paris, won a
good match from Schilies, Sargent
Schilling and Merguer at Tours,
France. Pouchois. won three heats,
while Schilles and Schilling each took
a heat Schilles was second and Sar-
gent third on points. Hermann Pack
enbusch, the German rider who raced
in Newark last season, won the hour
race at the. same meet. rPackenbusch
is a greatly improved rider and is
now in the first class. AXIS
Another serious accident occurred in
a paced race at Milan, Italy, Bruni,
the best man back Of the motors in
Italy, fell in a paced match with
three other italian riders, The injured
rider is in a hospital in Milan and
in "a serious, condition. The race was
for the motor-paced championship of
Italy, At the same meeting Fran
lcesco verri, the former italian cham
pion, distinguished himself by win
ming the sprint races on the program.
seres Motor-Paced Champion
Leon .OGI6S sNOll---lLld as IuolQI-p -pdc6u.
championship of Europe at the Velo-
drome Gutenberg, Belgium. Luycken
was second, ~ SehipSe third Thinner
man fourth and Demke fifth. The
race was to have been at fifty kilo-
meters but was stopped at the end of
forty kilometers on account of an ac-
cident in which Demkes fell. In an
other race called the Little Grand
Prize of Europe an accident brought
this event to an end before the fifty
kilometers had been covered, 1t was
on the twenty-fourth lap that the
starters were called Off the track.
Appellants, of Germany, was in the
lead at the time of the accident and
Van Gent was second. Darragon, of
France, was battling for second posi-
tion when Yam Cents pedal struck
the track from the fast speed and the
Belgian ran into Darragon's pace
maker. which caused the latter to
lose his balance and crash into the
railing, injuring three of the spec
tators. Van Gents pacemaker got
mixed up in the spill, and the two
big nacine machines, with their rid
ers rolled down the track. Darra-
gon and his pacemaker, Candrillies,
escaped uniniured, but Kaiser, who
was pacing Van Gent, sustained
fractured skull. The riders who failed
to qualify for the final of the cham
pionship were the starters in the
Little Grand Prize" The other
starters were Levicunois and Goor.
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