Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-12
NEW INTEREST IS
ADDED TO RACE
French Bicycle Manufacturers
Offer Prizes for Team VIM
ming on Their Wheel.

Two of the leading bicycle manufac-
turers OF France have injected addi-
tional interest in the race by offering
almost as much as the prize money in
the race to the team that wins on
their wheels. The American-Austral-
ian teams in the race are all riding for
one of these manufacturers, while all
of the French teams are riding for the
other. This may cause the contest to
develop into a big teams race, in
which there will be teamwork on a
large scale. This may make the race
more interesting, or 1t may have Just
the opposite effect AS the French
teams outnumber the Australians and
Yankees. it is believed that the former
will make the going very fast in an
effort to kill off the invaders.
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Berlin Won't Stand for It." was the
heading in New York paper over the
cabled report that the government au-
thorities have refused to permit the
proposed Berlin six-day race to be run
at Exposition Hall, in the German
capital. New York sporting editors
are not familiar with the conduct of
six day races abroad evidently. They
are quite different from the New York
race, and it is the best class of people
that patronize these contests abroad.
At the New York race the pickpockets
and three-card monte infest the oval.
but ON the continent admission to the
oval is 81, and the elite view the races
from that position. Among the nota-
bles who were regulars" at the Paris
race last year were Baron de Roth
child, of the famous banking family;
Captain Dreyfus, Coquelin, the great
est actor of the French republic; Duke
D'Orleans, the pretnder to the throne
of France, and the famous Nine. Mis-
quette, the Lillian Russell of France.
Reggie Mcnamara, the Australian
rider who dashed to Europe at the
last minute in hope of making the
Paris race, is evidently on the out
side. Reggie arrived in Paris Satur-
day and the full list of teams which
was cabled to the Evening Star does
not contain the name of Mcnamara.
It is very likely, however, that Nc
Namar will get in the Brussels or
Berlin races.
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1t is evident that the rival six-day
race promoters of Berlin are waring
again. The fine italian hand of one
of these promoters is probably be-
hind the proceedings that caused the
government to place the ban on the
Exposition Hall. For the past four
years these rival promoters have been
at odds. The first race run in Berlin
was a big financial success, and ever
since that time rival promoters have
been battling for the contest and, as
a result of their squabbles, the race
has been hurt as an attraction.
Ned Young, a wonderful little eye
list, is not a very wonderful boxer.
Two years ago Young won the anna
teur championship of the West at the
Salt Lake track, and the professionals
who saw him perform predicted a
great future for him. Young quit the
game and tried his fortune in the
prize ring when the Western track
blew up last summer. He won his
first battles but week ago Ned met
"a boy who knows something and the
former cyclists ambitions in the
squared circle received an awful jolt.
Young is not the first cyclist with
similar ambitions which met the same
fate.