Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-29
KRAMER AND RUTT
PREPARE FOR RACE
Two Champions Return from
New Haven and Start Train- :
ing at Once.
GOSSIP OF BIKE WORLD

Now that the racing season in New
Haven has been opened and Frank
Kramer and Waiter Rutt have plaved
their part in lifting the lid, the two
champions will get down to the real
business of training for their first
match at the Velodrome Sunday Both
riders fastened back from the Con-
nectlcut metropolis as quickly as the
hazardous New York, New Haven
and Hartford road would carry them
and got busy this morning at the
Nelodrome.
Rutt has the edge on the Yankee,
for the latter is overweight, but there
are four days more In which to make
ready, and there will probably be two
well-primed athletes facing the
starter and the phalanx of referees
sunday Afternoon. Kramer never saw
the time when he was not equal to-
an occasion but once in his life, and
that was when he was called upon to-
make a speech. This affair Sunday
is an affair of Drawn and brain, and
1t is a pretty safe bet that the Amer
lean champion will be at his best.
Kramer is a little worried over his
condition, but that is not unusual for
MIN, as he Is of very nervous dis
posltion-frets about small things
However, Rutt is a parsonage to
worry about, at that. victory in
the Grand Prize Of Paris. the worlds
championship and ffty-one other
races is some record, when such
riders as Hourlier. Friol, Dupre.
Perchicot, Paulain, Pouchois and
Moretti were among those defeated.
And eighteen of these races were won
in row, without break. -
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Rutt Likes Drobach.
Walter Rutt thinks that there is tn
Pete Drobach the makings of q great
bike rider. Pete has thought the
same thing every spring for six years.
There are a lot of sore bike riders
around. Some are sore from riding
in the 100-kilometer race, while there
are some others who are sore BECAUSE
they did not ride in 1t.
Fogler Is Peeved. 5E
| Joe Fogler is very much peeved TO
| think that he took ii for granted that
! on account of the rain of the fore
noon there would be no races Sunday
/ The Brooklynite had trained hard
/ especially for the long race, and had
| "bulled" himself into believing that
! he was going to win it. Joe threw a.
| fit when he read an account of the
/ races Monday morning, and his wife
! kidded him so much he beat 1t for
| Newark, What a fine boob you
are said she to Joe, ito train your
head off all week and then not go over
| and race"
Walthour Coming Home soon. -
! Bobby Walthour, of Atlanta, will
/ leave Europe for America shortly.
/ Bobby win be accompanied by Caesar
1 Moretti, the Italian sprinter. and
/ Leon Ddier, a French paced rider.1a
Bobby has enjoyed his usual success
In Europe, and finished either first or.
/ second in every race in which he
started. The little Southerner is the
grand old man. of the game. He
antedates Kramer by three years.
Bobby came into prominence as
pro" on Jack Princes Southern cir
cult in 1896. -.
! Papa" Ryan.
] Grassy Ryan is the father of =
nine-pound boy 1T was shoes for the
baby every time Grassy sprinted in
the 00-kilometer. va
Hard Headed Mitten.
1t was pointed out to Worth Mitterf
that many riders have been killed In
paced races in Europe We'll, my
head is harder than any cement, so
I'm safe" was the Iowans reply.
"a -
some Prizes.
| There is Sis up in lap prizes in the
! five-mile tandem race Sunday. Watch
those "esquimoux'' go!
Contract for Spears.
Bob Spears signed a Veodrome con-
| tract yesterday and became one OF
those bonus "fellers."
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Three Referees for Match Race.
There will be three referees to see
that Rutt and Kramer observe the
proper battle ettiquet. Three-count
'em-Arthur Ross, Marcus Hurley and
Herman Backenheimer. This consti-
tutes a board We had a board once
before. but it was full of knots.
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Rutt Is Different.
Champion Walter Rutt thinks that
he is going to beat Kramer in the
match Sunday. Very few of kramer's
many victims have had the temerlty
to entertain such thoughts. et
Rutt Jr., Wants Rundown"
Flamm Champion Rutt's German
| trainer, writes from Berlin that tho5
champers young son, Oscar, Insists
upon having a rundown every time
| he rides his little bicycle. Little Oscar
is seven years old, and Film" Flamm
is his guardian while his parents are
I'm America
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Lawson Reported In Form.
| liver Lawson is said to be riding in
championship form in training at
! Salt Lake City and the Swede writes
! that he will be East shortly to "clean,s
up all those Australians" There is a "a
! fine of $500 hanging over Lawson 8
which will have to be paid before he