Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-19
SPRINTS FOR PRIMES KEEP
SIX-DAY RIDERS ON ALERT
Night of Wild "Jamming"
Brings Out No Change in
Leading Teams.
RYAN AND WOHLRAB BUSY
Grassy Has Opponents on
Anxious Seat by His Fine
Riding.

With many primes being offered
as an added inducement, fourteen of
tbs eighteen teams which started
. Sunday night went through a terrific
twelve hours of tanning" last night
at Madison Square Garden. At 81
o'clock the riders had covered 1874
i miles and were II miles ahead of the
former record. The same ten teams
which have been raising the dust
practically from the start of the
s annual classic were on even terms,
and not once last night, during all
the big sprinting did they appear to
waver. Once the Clark and Root
team was some twenty yards behind
the leaders, but a sprint by Jackie
Soon brought the combination with
the first squad. The offering of
primes by individuals is responsible
for the cycle artists being so far in
! advance of the former figures. Last
might John McGraw, manager of the
New York Giants, put UP $3.50, and
after the riders got through grabbing
off the ten dollar notes five teams
had been circled, four of them more
II han once. Hanley and Thomas were
s5dropped for lap the Bedell brothers
and Mitten and Anderson suffered
the loss of two laps each. while
Dupuy and Piercey and Kopsky and
s Hansen saw the riders go around
"a o'clock this morning Norman Han
5sen brought the crowd to it's feet by
regaining two laps. He was allowed
to go out alone, Goullet refusing to
go after him.
At one time last night it appeared
as though the Martin Ryan-Gus
s Wohlrab team would gain a lap on
AL mi, ~, Nta.aI
Scarlet anG black banded jersey,
zktreaked around the track during the
riding for the primes offered by
ohnny McGraw. Wohlrab again
Started the doings by opening up a J
half of a lap lead. Ryan then came
out to relieve his partner, but some
bad handling on the part of his
trainers caused him to be showed
down the track by Hanley, who was
! trying to make up some lost ground. |
HWhen Ryan got started again the
s field had caught up, and the chssce
for gaining a lap was lost. The riding
of Ryan and Wohlrab featured the
nights activities. Ryan especially
had the other nine leading teams on
the anxious seat as time and again
he shot to the fore, sometimes as a
bluff and at other times in earnest
Cameron and Kaiser Hang On.
During all the big tanning from
1890 o'clock until 1870 o'clock the
little combination of Cameron and
| Kaiser still continued to hang on.
Shortly after the Wohlrab- Ryan at
tempt at lap gaining Alfred Goullet
made a try at putting over a lap on
he field. Goullet opened up about a |
stretch lead on the Twenty seventh |
street side, but Grenda, who relieved |
him, made rank "bloomer" of the |
Job. Grenda made a good pickup,
but somehow or other the tall Aus |
tralian couldn't seem to get going, |
and did not traverse half the course
before the field was upon him. From
now on those who backed the Goullet- |
Grenda team will undoubtedly take
particular interest in Grenda, who |
apparently missed upon a we'll |
planned attack last night. Goullet !
mad every intention of getting a safe |
lead, but his partner was not equal
TO the task Grenda, although he |
manages to hold his end we'll when !
IL comes to the spririts is not looking
in the best of shape. He is not making
any complaint, but, from appearances
last night, 1t looks as though Goullet |
VIII have to do the bulk of the work |
from now on.
During the sprints for McGraw's |
$3.50 Grenda and Piercey were the in |
lividual stars. Both of these riders |,
captured $50 apiece. John Bedell and
Menus Bedell each got two one-mile |
spirits, while Clark, Goullet, Wohl- |
rab, Thomas and Mcnamara got one. |
Practically every one of the sprints |
at the end of each mile developed |
into fight for first place.
Many Primes Put Up.
Between 2:30 and o'clock this |
morning some more primes were put |
up by two gentlemen in full dress |
toggery, who occupied a box near |
the finish line. At 2;30 o'clock the |
Frenchman, who put up 5000 Tues |
day night for a mile sprint, an |
,nounced that he would donate $50 |
FGrenda captured two, while Nc |
Namara, Ryan and Clark each got |
one. At 9 o'clock a $40 prime was |
offered, and Norman Anderson dis |
played enough pep" to get across |
the finish line first at the end of a |
mile. Fifteen minutes later $40 was |
the prize for two one-mile sprints, |
and Cameron and Mcnamara fig |
ured. Cameron only got his ten dol |
lars by jumping Fred Hill at the |
tape. Shortly after this first and |
second prime of SIS and So, respec- |
lively, was offered. Drobach was !
first at the end of a mi'e and Nc |!
Namara was second. Then came a |
$50 offer for a~three-mile sprint for |
those teams which were one lap or |
more behind the leaders. This Of |
fering seemed to appeal to the crowd, |
which is with the ck-markers |
whenever prime is put up. The |
Mitten-Anderson, Bedell brothers.
Thomas and Hanley, Dupuy and |
Piercey and Kopsky and Hansen |
teams were eligible for the 500. |
Charles Piercey, John Bedell and |
Lloyd Thomas fought 1t out on the |
bel lap with Piercey finishing In the |
lead.
From $3.50 o'clock until 10 o'clock, |
when an exhibition was given by |
Frank Kramer and Clarence Carman
while the riders rode on the fat there
were some more primes captured by |
Hill and Thomas. At 1920 o'clock
Mcnamara and Lawson annexed $40
apiece. At half past ] O'Clock Nor
man Hansen stole away on the field |
-while Goullet was in second position.
Goullet made no attempt to go after
Hansen, who completed a lap and