Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-12

General Floyd A. Mcfarland, the
live wire" manager Of the Yelo-
drome. and the Hon. Mr. Bailey. an
agreement was reached whereby the
famous English cyclist win appear
here for five weeks OF racing. He
will sail just as soon as he is able to
secure passage, which, according to
his cable to MacFarland. will be in a
day or So 1t is not known Just what
Bailey will receive for his services,
but he is sure to get a good price.
Earlier in the season he asked for
more money than any bicycle rider
has ever secured in this country,
MacFarland told Bill to Halt"
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Bailey doesn't come here as a
stranger. He was here last year and
he made good, too. He was an ANA
teur then, and he beat our own Dom
aid McDougall In hollow fashion.
Since turning pro Bailey has not been
far behind the best men in the game.
In his first professional start he won.
and in another important race he fin
ished second to Champion Kramer,
with Friol, the Frenehman, third.
This occurred while Kramer was in
! Europe. Bill was very proud Of his
second to Kramer. He told Kramer
so after the race.
1T knew didn't have much of a
chance to beat you, Frank" Bailey
said to the Yankee boy after dis
mounting, but I did want to beat
Friol. As the race was ridden, Kra-
mer kind of favored Bailey. With
Bill out In front Kramer stalled Friol
until well up the stretch. Then Frank
made his bid and he had waited 50
long that he only did just nip the
Englishman at the tape. Friol was
right at Kramer's side That race
showed that Bailey was good man,
and later on he defeated all the best
men in Europe.
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Bailey, during his first trip here, |
proved that he was the best drawing |
card In the game. At his first match |
race with McDougan there were 10000 |
fans present and all records for New
ark cycling record were broken. In his
next match something like 1900 fans I
turned out. In the light of the big
crowds. much was written about I
Bailey as an attraction and two such
notables as Frank L. Kramer and A.
Jackie Clark were not at all delighted
over what they read. But to Bailey
belonged the honors, for he had been
for the big gatherings and
he was only an amateur at that. 1t
hurt Kramer and Clark, of course, to
think that a little English amateur
had come over here and put them in |
wasn't any effort to hide it. Since
that tremendous Bailey McDougall
the attendance record has
again been broken, with Kramer and
Walter Rutt figuring as the record
breakers.
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Bill Bailey is a popular fellow and
he is sure to make his presence felt.
He is a high-class boy and commands
d following that adds to the patronage
Of cycling. He will be welcomed by
the fans, who will be interested in
what he will do against the gang of
bears" he will have to tackle in the
pro ranks. He will ride match races
almost exclusively, and Alfred Grenda
will probably be his first opponent.
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Bailey has an enviable record and
notable career. When he was four
teen years old he rode in a school
meet on a roadster machine, fitted
with brake and free wheel. The
races were held on a grass track, and /
were at one-mile and three miles, re-
spectively. Bailey took the shorter |
race from the eighty-yard mark and t
Tapped the field from the S00-yard |
mark in the longer distance. After |
being advised to stick to cycle racing, |
the boy entered an open and a half |
mile handicap race at Basingstake in |
1906, and won the event from the |
sixty yard mark. Following that, he
won six handicaps and one scratch |
race. The scratch race was for the
challenge cup, and the boy eventually
won the trophy as permanent keep
sake. The club to which he belonged
rewarded his work by presenting him
with a prize. In 1907 Bailey rode with
moderate success. and in 1908 he
found his legs" At the opening Of
the Stadium, which was afterward
games. Bailey won the half-mile and
the one-mile handicaps in the pouring
rain, and in the presence of the king
of England and the prince of Wales.
The following week witnessed some
more victories, until Bailey was able
to say that he had beaten the best
cyclists in England. The Southern
Counties Championship was then
added to his store of victories, and
Bailey was selected to represent his
country in the olympics. Punctures
caused his defeat in the big games,
but he made up for his showing at the
end of the year by breaking the half
mile standing start record, the flying
start quarter-mile record and the
flying start half-mile record. With
the exception of the quarter-mile rec
ord, the other two performances still
stand as the best time. Bailey has
since broken the quarter-mile time.
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The following season Bailey de-
| feated o. L. Johnson. the worlds am