Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-19


manager for the Cycle Racing Asso-
citation, and who is the big boss OF
the six-day race now on at Madison
Square Garden, says that the contest
this year will break all records for
attendance and smash all previous
figures for receipts hacFarland has
been confident from the very start
that the race would be whopper OF
a success, although the opening night
crowd was not as large as in other
years. Still Mac said:
"You watch; l will turn them away
before the week is out. am going to
give the public clean race and a
fast race, and I know the fans will
turn out to see it. What I'm worry
ing about now is where l will put the
people who will want to see the finish
Saturday night. I am going dead on
this race, if for no other reason than
to make the Sad Birds crawl in their
hole, and I am sure 1t will be the big
gest success in the history of siX-day
racing in Madison Square Garden"
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So there you are. And MAC" was
right. The race is clean, and it is
fast, and the best people from all
around are focking to the Garden, as
sured that the gangs of thugs that
used to hold sway there are not per-
mitted inside the enclosure. p. t.
Powers, who conducted the race for
years, could hardly believe that such
a miracle could be worked, yet Mac
Farland said he could do it, and he
has kept his word. To have lady
ushers was looked upon as joke at
first, but now they are a reality, and
a success, besides. The Garden is as
safe as a church, and the six-day race
is the best, from any standpoint, ever
held. There has been more sprinting
and more tanning during the first
three days than occurred in the last
five grinds in the Garden. The
awarding OF primes" has brought
this about, in a way; but even with
out the primes the riders, under the
hypnotic spell of MacFarland, seem
more willing TO start something than
ever before. 1t is a grand race, and
the promoters deserve all the success
that is coming their way.
o
Talking about primes" every prize
announced at the Garden is absolutely
on the level, despite the insinuations
OF the Sad Birds" to the contrary.
The riders will get every cent OF the
primes" they race for, and only last
night Alfred Goullet was given the
5000 in cash he had won the night
before. This prime" of $500 was
offered by Mr.. Viau, a French sports
man. He wanted to give Manager
a check for the amount
after Goullet had won it,
but Mac" told him to come around
last night and give the money to
Goullet himself. This he did, and
he also put up 500 more for two
"primes," $50 Of which was won by
and $50 of which was won
by Lawson. Mr.. Viau crossed the
track and paid a visit TO Gouliet in
his camp. He congratulated the boy
for winning and then told him to go
on the track and try for the two $50
primes Goullet did, but the best
he could do was to finish second to
and second to Lawson.
Mr.. viau said ne was going back to
today. 1t is believed he is
over here in the interest of the French
government on war matters.
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The tremendous success of the race
is driving some of the enemies of
cycling to desperation, and one of
the "glooms," in order, evidently, to
add a few copies TO the waning cir
culation, gave out statement that
the race would be stopped just as
soon as "his paper came out on the
street" When Manager MacFar-
land and Poke Freeman, the press
representative, heard what the New
ark newspaper man had done they
made a bee-llne for the press stand
in the hope Of locating the culprit.
He was gone, though, and he has not
been discovered since. The big
crowds are disgusting to those who
are craving for the failure OF the
race 1t looked last night as If all
the fans in Newark were at the Gar
den, and Evening Stars, with full
account OF the race, were much in
demand and much in evidence. Every
knock is a boost when the knockers
methods are 80 well known.
O.
The race this year Is really wonder
full, and everybody who goes 70 see 1t
gets his moneys worth The primes
bring out the sprlnts and the spirits
bring out the Jams" Every night
so far, and in the afternoon, too, there
have been from three 70 ten spfints of
the most concerted order. 1t is still
noticeable that the Goullet and
Grenda and the Mcnamara and
Moran teams are the ones which do
most of the hard work, but to Ryan
and wohlrab must be given q lot of
credit for their efforts at starting
something" Last night Wohlrab was
on his way for a lap, but Ryan, his
PARTNER, fell before he could get going,
The nerve of this pair has won them
favor with the fans, and theey are
among the popular kids of the race.
Up to date, however, Goullet and
Grenda still look like the best team in
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