Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-12
EGG TURNS TIDE IN FINAL
MILE AGAINST M'NAMARA
Swiss Rider Has Advantage of
Wonderful Pull from Kramer
and GOullet.
SLOW RACE AT THE START
Pacemakers Fail to Come Up to
Mark-Spears Defeats
Moretti.


paced race, which was the feature of
the meet at the Velodrome yesterday
afternoon. The celebrated Swiss rider
won in the last. mile, after a wonder
full pull from Champion Frank
Kramer and Aft Goullet, the emer-
gency pacing team which was waiting
at the trackside to perform this very
thing. The race was not the strenuous
contest that was anticipated, and for
the first ten miles ii was very tame.
Mcnamara played a waiting game, as
he did a week before, and Egg was
not taking any chances of being
beaten again by these same tactics.
And the result was a loafing race for
two thirds of the journey. Manager
Floyd Mcfarland was so incensed at
the way the pacing teams rode he re-
fused to pay the winners the bonus
money which was promised the win
ming crew. After the race had gone
seven and a half-miles the manager
was going to stop the race and start
1t over with the riders riding from
opposite sides of the track, but just
as he was going to signal the riders
to stop, Ceyanagh and Piercey. one of
McNamaras star pacing teams.
started a sprint, and from that time
on the riders showed some speed, but
The manager put in nine teams for
the purpose of giving the riders more
than enough pace, but they refused
to take advantage of their oppor-
tunity In the race of a week previous
neither rider had enough pace, and
they complained. Mcnamara claimed
that he was afraid to carry the battle
to the Swiss champion. as the latter
had the stronger pacing crew, but
this was poor excuse McNamaraS
pacemakers could have blown him up
had they gone at top speed all the
way, and the same thing would have
happened to Egg had his teams raced
all the way, which made all things
equal A faster pacing crew would
have been of no advantage If the
riders they were pacing could not
hold them.
Pace Slow at Start.
Egg was for making the race from
the start one that would have
raced one or the other into the
ground, but when Eggs managers
saw Mcnamara was not going to take
the aggressive until near the end they
instructed their pacemakers to take it
easy. Egg got off in front. and led
for four miles. The pace was slow,
and Mcnamara never made an effort
to go to the front. On the fourth mile
Fogler and Lawson, who were pacing
Egg, rode high up the bank in an
effort to force Mcnamara into the
lead. On the fifth mile Thomas and
Moretti tried the same stunt, and Nc.
Namara jumped through on the pole
to get pacing team that was walt
ing to pick him up, and Thomas and
Moretti waited until he was in front
and on his machine before they went
after him. The Australian held the
lead. riding slowly, until the eighth
mile, when Vanoni and Anderson took
Egg 70 the front again. The pace be-
came faster, and good time was made
in the following three miles, in which
Egg was the leader
b. Kramer and Goullet came out to
pace for the first time on the
eleventh mile and the crowd shouted
Justify thinking that surely there
was going to be something in the line
Of fireworks started, but the star
team rode only at the pace which
had been set by the other teams
The appearance of this team caused
apprehension in the Mcnamara camp
and Spears and Walker were rushed
out to take Mcnamara.
Real Race Starts.
At twelve miles and four laps, Nc
race was on. Long had the crowd
waited for the Australian to jump
and every one of the 10000 spectators
were on their feet in an instant.
From that time on there was plenty
of excitement, which made up, in
measure, for the loafing race that had
preceded the real contest. Before
Eggs teams could get under way,
Mcnamara had almost half lap
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utmost to close up the gap for Egg,
but they could make but little prog
resS against the leaders. Fogler and
Lawson relieved this team and they
brought Egg up to the leader amid
great applause following a great ride
for four laps. Four laps from the
finish the two stars were practically
on even terms, when Kramer and
Goullet picked up Egg for the final
dash. Spears and Walker were on
the track for Mcnamara. When Egg
tackled on to the rear of the stars
they set sail for the finish. and how
they did go. They were around and
into the lead in an instant aud there
was nothing to the race after that.
Spears and Walker could not hold
the pace and Mcnamara was re-
lieved by a fresh, but very inferior
team and lost ground. Then the
Bedells, one of the best teams in the
game, came out to take Mcnamara
to the finish, but before they had
their man under way the race was
over and Egg was the winner.
Bob Spears Arrives.
Bob Spears has arrived. Lanky
Bob showed everything that makes
q champion, when he handed Cesar
Moretti a most artistic beating in
their match The Australian lost the
first heat. but he was at his old
game of trailing in the rear all tho
way and waiting for stretch finish.
Following the advice of General
MacFarland, in the succeeding heats,
Spears rode In mastery style and
won. In the second heat Bob as
founded the multitude by actually
jumping by Moretti over a lap from
the finish and chipping the Italian
into submission. 1t was the third
heat that showed Spears at his best.
There was no one more surprised
than Moretti when Spears faced from
the front i'm the previous heat so in
the deciding heat the cagy Italian
got an early start in order to be in
a position to ward off Spears should
he try to go to the front again.
Moretti beat him to the jump, but
Bob did not quit as he has so often
in the past he kept right on going
and after a full lap of hard riding
on the outside, with Moretti giving
him a high corkscrew ride, Spears,
with his great speed and fine display
Vpf gameness, rode the italian cham
pion into the ground. So badly was
Moretti beaten at the twelfth pole
he sat up and quit. Spears got
great ovation for his victory and is
evidently quite a popular cyclist
Grenda in Great Form.