Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-19

ing ever since the grind started for
one of their favorite teams to win.
The consensus of opinion before the
race, during the race and right UP to
the last mile of the race was that
Alfred Goullet and Alfred Grenda
would be the winners. Even with
Jackie Clark and Eddie Root as part
ners, Goullet and Grenda were the
big betting choices. So strong a fac
tor were they in fact that the ridicu-
lously short price of even money was
posted shortly after the start of the
grind. But the favorites went
down." the winners turning up in
Leon Hourlier and Tricky Comes, the
Frenchmen. The details from Paris
intimate that Hourlier received much
help at the finish, but 1 can well i'm
agine that Sir Joseph Fogler. who
was teamed with James Francis
Moran, and who came in absolutely
last of the starters in the final sprint,
might have been more than friendly
toward Goullet, although 1t is a WE'LL
known fact that there exists quite a
GOODNESS between the two at present.
However, blood is thicker than water,
as the saying goes, and old friends.
although on the outs, would not pass
up chance to play ''snucks" in a
game to beat the foreigners. Be that
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with Goullet the next man home. 1t
is hard blow for "Goullie," who was
anxious to win the Paris grind, a
feat he accomplished last year. He
has been disappointed though, but he
will come back to us, / hope, good
loser. and endeavor to make up for
it the coming season at the Vel
odrome by defeating the same Hour
lier. who will be over here during
part of August and September.
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The defeat of Goullet was not the
only surprise, for the great Walter
Rutt, the big German" and de-
clared by many to be the greatest
rider in the world, finished a
poor sixth. With the men in the final
sprint, of course, there will be
excuses. Hourlier's victory
was very popular, naturally, and he
was selected as the most popular
rider in the race, although Goullet at
all times was the betting choice. The
race was a tremendous success, more
than $1,000 having been taken in at
the gate. The cash record for Madison
Square is $4,000, and there have been
the receipts at Paris this year. Floyd
deserves great credit for
the success of the race, for it was
who persuaded the
to run six-day race last
year and again this year, and it was
MAC" who showed them how to con-
duct the grind. The riders will now
move on to Brussels, where another
six-day race opens February 2. Goul-
let and Grenda, however, are coming
right back home.
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Edward G. Barrow, president of
the International League, confirms
the story printed in the Evening
Star of Friday that there are plans
afoot to advance the classification of
the International League from a
minor organization to major organ
ization, the same to be taken up at
the spring meeting to be held in New
York on Monday, February 9. As
the Evening Star stated no efforts
at higher classification will be made
this year, but next year, Mr.. Barrow
said, he believed the plan to major
ize" the International League would
Mr.. Barrow said he re-
regretted the fact that the matter
OF reclassifying the International
League had leaked out, but now that
1t was out he admitted that the
story was all true. Just what old
cities will be dropped and what new
cities will be taken UP, Mr., Barrow
didn't care to say, but the opinion is
general that Jersey City is one and
Montreal is the other, while some say
that Providence will also be dropped.
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p T. Powers for president of the
League, which fact was pub
lished in first-page story in the
Evening Star of Saturday last, is de-
clared to be a certainty providing the
men back of the scheme can show
Powers that the league Is a go and
are willing to guarantee him his ask
ing price and three-year contract.
From the same authority it is also
learned that Mr.. Powers's demand is
rather reasonable, as he is asking
only $4,000 a year salary and the ex-
penses of maintaining an office, prob
ably in New York, and a secretary.
G.
AS to Mr.. Powers accepting the
position there might be something in
1t, although "P. T." denied the story
in a talk with me-over the telephone
this morning. II you we're to