Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-17
.VELODROME OPEN
!. TO RIDERS MONDA
Work of Resurfacing the TrSss
Will Be Completed This
Week.
MILLION DUE TOMORROW,

WI VIM ANANO -
The Velodrome will be open for
training next Monday and there is
small -.rny of bike riders anxiously
awaiting the opportunity to get on
the track and start the real work OF
training. According to Charles Tur-
vile, the old pacemaker, who has
superintended the work of resurfac-
ing the track, the Velodrome is going
to be a revelation when finished. The
track is now completed but the sur.
face is going to get the "once over
from an electric sandpapering ma
chine, which will make it as smooth
as a billiard table. This part of the
work is to be started tomorrow ana
will consume the rest of the week
before it is finished.
In making the track perfectly
smooth faster time will be made on
the track, there will be fewer pune
tured tires and the riders who get
mixed up in spills will not be pune
tured by splinters, as was the case
OH the old surface. Practically the
entire track has been reconstructed.
All of the cross beams have been
trued up, the running board has been
laid at a new angle to permit the
water from rains to run off. and
new draining system is being int
stalled. The lumber used in the new
surface is three times as heavy as
the old surface, and 1t is figured tfias .
it will be ten years before another
surface will be necessary.
Pro Riders Predict Records.
The professional riders who haveS
watched the construction of the new
track have expressed the opinion that
there will he rpnnrde h1tp
up this season. The heavier surface
gives the track greater solidity, and
this fact, combined with the ex-
tremely smooth surface, they figure,
will make the track a few seconds
faster than the old one.
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Frank Million Arrives Tomorrow
Frank Million, the president of the
Cycle Racing Association, who has
been in Europe since last December,
will arrive on the Imperator, which
VIII dock at Hoboken tomorrow
morning. Mr.. Million went to Europe
with Floyd MacFarland, general man
ager of the Cycle Racing Association,
/ to sign up foreign riders for the
coming season at the Velodrome Be-
sides witnessing all of the European
siX-day races Mr.. Million toured
! through the southern part of the
continent in an automobile, Incl
dentally visiting Monte Carlo and
spending some time on the Rivera.
IS
Ben TurtOn to Ride Again.
Ben Turton, who was q promising
young rider when Jimmy Hunter and
Arthur Ross were amateur stars at
the old board track in Vailsburg, is
going to get in the game again. Tur-
| ton Is the first amateur to enter the
amateur avents at the opening meet
at the Velodrome which is scheduled
for April 8.
WalthOur Leaves for Europe.
Bobby Walthour will sail today for
Europe on the liner Mauretania
Bobby endeavored to have r. T.. KelA
sey, chairman of the racing board of
the National Cycling Association, in.
tercede in his behalf and have his
European engagements for March and
April annuled, but Mr.. Kelsey told
the Southerner it was best for Bobby
to conduct his own negotiations
With his first engagement abroad
less than ten days off, Bobby was
afraid to take q chance, so he booked
passage yesterday. The illness of his
wife is Walthour's reason for wishing
the foreign contracts Cancelled
So
Claims Root pulled"
ALT Grenda is of the opinion thai
Eddie Root pulled" Willy Lorenzo.
the winner of the Berlin six-day race,
ALT says that during the Paris race
Walter Rutt agreed to ride the Ber-
lin race with Moran, and when Rutt
took another partner Moran vowed
that Rutt would not win the German
grind If he could prevent 1t. Root
was Moran's partner in the Berlin
race.
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Nat Butler to Build Track.
Nat Butler according to reports
from Boston, has secured a lease ON
plot of ground at Narragansett
Park, near Providence, and will con-
struct an eight-lap track, which will
be one of the tracks on the Cycle
Racing Association circuit.
Jumbo Wells Coming Over.
Jumbo Wells, one-time star of the
invitation division at the Veodrome,
writes from his home in New Zea-
land that he will soon be on his way
to America, and will remain in YAM
keeland for all time.
Home Trainer Match Today
Grassy Ryan and Jay Eaton will
ride match race this afternoon on
home trainers at the Forum Club,
near the Velodrome. Eaton has been
training for two months, and says he
is as light as he was twenty years
ago, when he was the indoor cham
pion