Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-30
ANOTHER FOREIGN
TRIP FOR KRAMER
Necessity of Constant Work L
Likely to Cause Champion
to Go Abroad Again.
UNABLE TO LAY OFF LONG

champion Frank Kramer will prob
ably 20 70 Europe this winter. Af.e:
MS return from Europe last sprins
the champidF announced that he Wa:
not going TOY make the "trip again foi
Two years d. he has changed hi
mind. The TAteran fac-s a peculiai
situation, whiAh he did not diseovel
until yesterdaA. To hold his form
Kramer has ID TO train almost IN
eessantly and dfnnot lay of as be
could when he MAS Younger. Yester
day was the frsA time Kramer rode
since last Wednesday, and as a result
of four days off Nis wheel he We
simply not .thereA
The champion rode two hard
Wednesday night. ana as there
five-mile championship billed for
urday night at Brighton Beach
figured that. riding Mat and
handicap would take aAot out of hirlSI
SO he rested instead I'll training. ~
rain prevented both tAe races a.
Brighton and the meet here Sundas
the "champer" had a Auch ing
rest than he bargained fAr. Wit
result he has learned just ixhat =
a lay-off of four days haA upon
form. He was riding far IRON I'd
yesterday and it was a Alaboril
task TO do ten miles at a Glib cons
erably slower than a twb-min
gait. When he is right the cha
pion can simply sail along Il vol
out at even time.
Forced to Go to Hold Pi
The great cyclist wore d 1nc -
worried expression when an Even
Star representative entered his csS
at the Velodro-ne yesterday afternd1
just after be had left the track folX
lowing his workout
You can prepare 10 go to Europe
Kramer was saying as The Star mar
entered and the conversation was ad-
dressed to his trainer, Jack Neville
When asked If he had received such 3
fiattering offer from the European
promoters that he had changed his
plans, as announced upon his return
home last April. the champion then
explained why he was going abroad
II am simply forced to go if want
to hold my place in the bike game,
was Kramer's reply. 81 did not want
to make the European trip this win
ter. 1 have raced continually for over
two years, and was looking forward
W q AObS Nei1dNAOA Ills NAAbCAs UT
have discovered that / cannot lay of
for any length Of time without ex-
periencing a whole lot OF trouble ind
getting back in form. l guess that Is
because l am getting old. After lay
ing off for the past four days ! could
hardly get out of my own way today 1
and if four days off my wheel has
that effect what will whole winters
lay-off do to me- That is a question
dread to think about, much less try
to answer. So l figure" continued
Kramer, that as long as il Is abso-
lutely necessary for me to be on thai
wheel pretty much all the time
might as well pick up few thousant
dollars in Europe this winter as 70
ride around the roads here or on
ome-trainer, which wou.d bring in
no returns at the time for my effort
Contract Awaits Signature.
THE European promoters want me
and ! have got a contract awaiting
nv signature that calls for the best
terms I ever received for my services
in Europe When left for home lssi
April I told my European manager
that I would not be back until 1919
and as a result have been receivine
letters almost daily entreating me t.
come over this winter. l think l VIII
give them pleasant little surprise ps
mailing the signed contract.