Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-23
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not make Kramer hustle all the way
through, 1t win not be any fault oil
mine"
Goullet, too, wants to be something
else besides bicycle rider. He is not
quite sure just now what he would be
best fitted for, but he is inclined to
think that law would suit him fairly
well. With this in view he is going
to do some studying and next winter,
instead of putting in his time in six
day races. he Is likely to stick around
Newark and take course in law. OF
course, he expects to ride in the New
York race, if there is one, and he is
sure to ride in the Paris grind, but
he wouldn't mind it a bit IL there
wasn't a New York grind, and he
won't compete in it unless he receives
a big piece of money and unless he
has a friendly feeling for the pro-
moter. He would much prefer to take
part in the Paris race, for he is quite
willing to spend some time in France,
as he is DESTROYS of studying the
French language.
81 want TO learn French" Goullet
said to me shortly after his return
from abroad. land I am going to take
course of the language during the
summer. Six months, say, ought to
fit me fairly well and then a month
or so in France will put on the fin
/ ishing touches. I like the language,
and it is a very handy thing for>one
who intends to take part in the six
day races over there. Many's the
time during the last race I wished I
had understood the language. Yes,
indeed, I do
According to all reports. several Of
treated the Americans very shabbiy.
Tricky Comes, for instance, did
everything at his command to put
the Yankees lin bad" Some of the
and-glove with Comes. 1t was their
favorite trick to make it appear to
the spectators as If the Americans
were doing something TO them, and
then they would yell out in French.
The spectators, of course, would be-
come wild and would throw papers
and other things at the boys on the
track. That is the way they have of
showing their disapproval over there.
Goullet says that thefAmerican boys
took their medicine gamely, but he
also admitted that they didn't feel
very kindly disposed toward Comes,
who was the leader of the belligerent
movement.
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OF all the riders in France, Comes
should have been the very last one
to give the Yankee boys the worst
of it. When he was over here, lie
received the best there was at the
hands of our boys. He was little
trickster on his wheel and roughster
and was allowed to get away with
many things. The American riders
SdAt iilll d SDOu 6nON anu Tie Alli6Il-
can spectators were with him at times
against some of our own boys. He
was treated like a little lord yet at
the first opportunity he employs the
meanest kind of tricks against the
very ones who were so kind to him.
But that is always the way, and al
ways will be the way. We are the
free country" and We are the good
Samaritan" We receive everybody
with open arms over here and we go
abroad and are kicked out. as it were.
Still, we never keep it in" for any
body, and if the mean littleVComes
were to come to America tomorrow,
[ presume that Goullet and Grenda
and Moran and Fogler. against all
of whom he did his best to bring
down the wrath of the crowd during
the Paris race would treat rim with
rare kindness and just as If nothing
had happened.
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Not a few of the bike riders are
beginning to worry over what is 60
ing to become of them next summtr.
They say there are so many around
that all of them cannot make a 1iv-
ing. Whenever such an argument
was put up to John NJ. Chapman he
used to tell them to go to work. But
there is no one around at the present
time to give them such good advice.
1t is quite time that there is going
to be a preponderance of talent
good and bad-around here during the
season. Messrs. Million, Uppercu
and MacFarland realized the situa-
ton thoroughly before the invasion
of Million and Uppercu in Europe
and it is said they have planned &C
cordingly. MAC" is hustler and
he has great capacity for work and
when he returns home from abroad
he will be able to put everybody to
work-that is, everybody who will
want to work for him. He contem-
plates running Salt Lake City, with
Hardy Downing as the manager, and,
Of course, Philadelphia and Boston
with New Haven maybe, will be on the
circuit There are riders galore, but
there will be tracks for all those who
want to ride on them
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| Mr.. Uppercu has talked consider
ably of building a track in New York
but as yet nothing definite has beer
done in that line. 1t isn't an easy
| matter to get a. suitable location in
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suitable piece of property up in the
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