Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-20

uFoxhall Keene ON the British if they
Will only stand for him.
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Walter Rutt has started something'
and he has awakened new interest IN
cycling. His attack ON Champion
Frank Kramer has created great eX-
element, and the fans are talking
about the feud between the men. How
it will end nobody knows. but while
it is on the game is sure to be more
attractive than ever.
The Rutt outbreak again proves
that Messrs. Million and Uppercu
are lucky men. Features were just
beginning to die out and there was
little to talk about, when along
comes Rutt and accuses Kramer Of
fouling him and declares he will now
do some fouling on his own hook
Could the breaks happen any better
for the promoters, for Vhat could be
more alluring than a promised clash
in angry mood between the two
greatest cyclists in the world. Just
what to expect when Kramer and
Rutt meet in race il is not easy to
imagine. According To Rutt he is
going TO show Kramer what is what.
According to Kramer he is going to
allow Rutt To do all the talking and
he will act when the time comes, This
would seem to Indicate that Rutt is
belligerent and Kramer. is in a recep-
tive mood. If the Nelodrome isn't
packed 10 the rafters tomorrow the
best piece of advertising in years Will
have. gone to waste -
9
For big man in the game, Tor a
worlds champion. Rutt seems to
have much complaint to make. When
Kramer beat him in a match race he
said that the American switched
him, and when All Goullet beat him
at Boston he presented a plausible
excuse. Now, at Boston, Goullet is
likely to beat anybody at any time,
and he has beaten Kra ner in a match
race there, so Walter needn't feel
Inundated if Goullet beats him up at
Boston again. In fact. Goullet has
sufficient class 10 be we'll able 20 hold
his own in any kind of company He
is not just himself this year, but if
he rounds into consistent form he
will beat Rutt as often as Rutt will
beat him. Rutts latest complaint is
that Kramer switched" him in the
team match race last Wednesday
night. Maybe "Ofd Steve" did
switch" Rutt, but If he did it was
very clever performance No one
at the turn seemed to observe the
switch" and there are more wise
fans to the square inch at the turn
into the stretch than there are in any
other part of the arena. Yet not a
single sound Of protest was heard,
and those who noticed Rutt running
around mad after the heat couldn t
imagine what the trouble was. OF
course. when Rutt came out and made
The kick and explained how it was
done, a lot of wise Mikes agreed
with him. The race, as far as | could
see. and as far as Rutt was con
cerned, was truly run. If in follow
ing out his threat Rutt does no more
harm to Kramer than Kramer did to
him at the stretch turn, he viii find
that "Old Steve" who rarely COM
plains, anyhow. will never say "a
word.
If Rutt is correctly quoted, he is
putting up the yell of a cry-baby TIC
intimate that he is being abused be
cause he is a foreigner is a small view
Of a condition that doesn't exist. Ruti
is not being abused and Kramer is not
abusing him. Ruu is being treated
like a king over here but he shouldn't
expect Kramer to get out of his way
on the bike track Notwi outstanding
Rutt's accredited assertion, cyclists
ride no fairer over in Germany thar
| they do here. We would say tina
foreigners are treated much better
over here than Americans are treated
over in Europe-and we don't have t
go very far to prove It.
Q
Well, anyway. the fight is ON am
the battle will be waged, we take it
at the Velodrome tomorrow after
noon All the boys and all the girl
will be out, no doubt, to see how TIL
terrible battle" between the two BIZ
champions will come out. Rutt ma