Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-26
TEN-MILE PRO RACE ONE OF
OPENING DERBY FEATURES
Heats for Sprint Championships Also on
Gard at the VeIodrome Tonight.
Classy Field in Both Events.
FOUR TANDEMS TO BE PACEMAKERS

slohal championship will be run at the
Velodrome tonight. This is the first
Oh the big title races to besstaged at
the cycle derby and international
Championships meet that supplants
the worlds championship, meeting
that was to have been held at Copen-
nagen, Denmark, this year. In addi-
uon TO the ten-mile event, the heats
or the sprint championship profess
sional will also be run. These are the
stellar attractions at the first of the
five meets that will constitute the
derby meeting
This meeting is the most important
cycling event ever staged in America,
as no other meet ever brought to-
: gether so many prominent riders from
SO many different nations. There are
champions galore and the field is
brimming over with class. Four ma
tional champions, one worlds cham
pion, will vie for the honors in their
class, and one foreign country, Aus
tralia, will be represented by every
one of her best riders, even though no
one of them holds the title of national
champion, although ALT Goullet is
probably entitled to that honor.
The ten-mile championship will be
run in one heat with twelve riders
starting. 1t was originally intended
TO run this race in two heats, with six
riders to qualify in each heat With
twelve to make the final and with Just
twelve stars in the race every one of
them sure to qualify, the heats were
dispensed with in order to shorten a
very lengthy program.
The starters will be Walter Rutt, of
Germany, champion of the world;
Frank Kramer, the American cham
pion; Cesar Moretti, ex-champion of
Italy; ALI Goullet, Jackie Clark,
Charles Piercey, ALT Grenda, Bob
Spears, Reggie Mcnamara, all of
Australia Frank Cavanagh, Joe Fog
Ter and liver Lawson, of America.
This is a wonderful field of riders and
the race should be wonderful race.
And it is going to be a ten mile race
in every sense Of the word-not loaf
for nine and a half miles and then a
sprint, but fast race for the full
distance. Four tandem teams will
furnish the pace and the riders will
not refuse to take the pace as the
amateurs did in the five-mile national
championship some weeks ago. There
are few of the starters in the race
who would probably like it to be easy
and then sprint at the finish, and
they may try to drop the field off the
pacemakers, but the strong pluggers
as
Grenda, Piercey Rutt and Clark want
it fast, for they can stand a hard race
and then put up their best sprint at
the finish.
In such a field it is as difficult to Sc
1ect a probable winner as finding a
needle in a haystack. On past per-
formances Grenda would naturally be
selected as having slight advantage
over the others, but he is by no means
a strong favorite and any one of the
twelve starters may carry off the
first prize of 500 and the title Of ten
mile champion. And every one of the
starters would like the honor
Some of the star professionals are
not going to get beyond the repechage
final of the sprint championship.
There are seven heats to be run to-
night, and as the winners will go di-
rectly into the semi-fina1s at least
four stars will have to look to the
repechage as a means of getting into
the second stage of the big race.
Rutt, Kramer, Goullet and Bill Bailey
will probably have little difficulty in
winning their heats, for there is not
strong opposition in their trials, but
Clark, Cavanagh, Moretti Mcnamara,
Grenda, Spears, Fogler and Lawson
have got hard battles before them to
make their way into the semi-finals.
Moretti and Mcnamara are together
in the fourth heat and one of them
will be shut out. From what is known
of McNamara's ability as a sprinter
Moretti appears to have the advan-
tage of a superior finishing sprint ard
should win. But the Australian may
use his very long sprint to advan-
tage by getting an early start with
the Italian in the rear, thus making
it necessary for the latter to ride
around the other four riders in the
heat, which might bring about his
defeat. Clark and Cavahagh are
pitted against each other in the fifth
heat, and the result of this heat is in
deed uncertain. There was a time
when Jackie would be figured a sure
winner, but that time seems to have
passed. However, Jackie has been
coming along nicely of late and he
may be theNmarvel Of old tonight.
Grenda and Spears will have to
fight it out in the seventh heat, and
this is another clash that appears
very uncertain as to the result.
Grenda has a slight advantage, as he
is header ric ar than Spears. The
eighth heat will bring together Law
son and Fogler, and this is another
very even affair. Lawson should win,
however, as he has been showing
great speed lately, and he has trained
hard and most faithfully for this
race.
The sixth heat which is Bill
Bailey's heat, will be run next Sun
day. The great English champion
will not reach Newark until tomor-
row, and on that account his heat has
been carried over to the second day
of the big meet. John Bedell will be
the hardest man the English boy will
have to beat, and if he is anywhere
near his real form he will win. The
other starters in Baileys heat will be
Eddie Rupprecht, Frank Cory, Ernie
Pye and G. b. Georgi.
There is prize money in the heats
of the sprint championship, but it
will go to the riders finishing second.
This will give the second string
riders a chance to win some of the
1855 purse hung up for the race. As
the second raters are barred from the
ten-mile championship two races are
on the card tonight in which the stars
are barred. One is two-mile handi-
cap and the other miss and out
race" The amateur races are three
mile handicap and a quarter-mile
handicap.
Reggie Mcnamara and Eddie Root
were the centre of interest at the
VaIodrome Yesterday The two