Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-12
BERLIN RACE ENDS
S|X-DAY SCHEDULE
Bike Fans Now Turn to Sprint
and MOtOr-Paced
Events.
WALTHOUR STAYS HOME

When Willie Lorenz dashed to VIC
tory In the Berlin siX-day race, which
came to a conclusion Tuesday night
at 10 o'clock, the six-day racing sea-
son came to an end for the present
winter. From now on until the next
Boston grind. which will be run next
November, there will be only sprint
and motor-paced races here and In
Europe to amuse the bike fans of
the world. But as the shorter out
door races are every bit as popular
as the long grinds the fans viii not
regret the ending of the six-day sea-
son.
Five big six-day races have been
run the present winter, and there are
some very interesting features in con-
nection with the results of the va
rious contests. Five teams figured in
the five victories, and nine riders, all
told, made up the five teams. There
was but one rider who figured in two
victories, and that was Joe Fogler.
No one team won two of the big races.
Fogler, with Iver Lawson for a mate,
won the Boston race and Fogler and
Goullet took the New York race in
Madison Square Garden. In the Paris
race which followed the New York
race, Leon Hourlier and his cousin,
I Leon Comes, were the vlctors. At
! Brussels little Johnny Stol, who Is
well-known here In Newark, won with
Cyril Nanhouwaert, the long-distance
champion of Belgium, as his partner.
Lorenz and Saldow won at Berlin.
Native Son on Winning Team.
1t will be noted that there was at
least one man on each of the win
ming teams who is native of the
country In which the race was run.
The Boston race was won by two
Yankees, the New York race was won
by Yankee and an Australian, the
Paris race was won by "A team of
Frenchmen, a Hollander and a Bel
gian shared the victory in the Brus-
sells race and couple of native-born
Teutons won the Berlin race
The real stars of the five races are
Fogler, Goullet, Hourlier, Stol and
Lorenz, for they are the riders who
were more responsible for their vari-
Gus victories than their mates, for
they are the riders who won the final
sprints and, incidentally, were met by
more or less strong opposition. Prior
to the finish of the Paris race, Fogler
had won five straight siX-d day races in
| Boston, New York and Paris, which
was wonderful record, but his great
record of consecutive victories went
to smash when Hourlier took the
| Paris race.
$4,000 Distributed.
| proXimate amount of prize and bonus
money received by the riders was
| $40, 600 The returns from the Berlin
| race are not known at this time, but
| the riders received about the same
amount as in former years for the an
nual grind in the German capitol. If
| the riders rode in Berlin on a per-
centage basis, their prize money was
probably greater than in former years,
| for the attendance was larger than
ever before. But as the bonus money
| is the big thing, the prize money, if
| larger made no great difference in
| figuring the total amount.
American Riders Play Big Part.
The American riders who competed
in the races in Europe were factors
| in all of the races even though they
did not win brackets. Goullet and
Grenda were second in the Paris race,
| Moran and Mcnamara were third in
| the Brussels race and Root and Moran
were fourth in the Berlin race And
none of these teams were Tapped in
the races mentioned. Fogler and
Moran finished tenth in the Paris race
and were even with the leaders in
point of mileage at the finish. In Ber-
! lin, Fogler and Mcnamara lost a lap,
which is one of the very rare instances
in which Fogler was ever Tapped in a
six day race. The exact circum-
stances of the tapping of Fogler and
| MCNAMARA have not reached this
country as yet, but it is safe bet
that they did not fall behind from a
lack OF speed or the result of fatigue.
The impression which prevails here
among the students Of the game, is
that the team was penalized for a bad
pickup or something of a technical
nature.