Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-29
BAILEY HAS HARD
TASK BEFORE HIM
Will Have to Stand Acid Test in
His Match With Frank
Kramer.
NOTLACKING IN CONFIDENCE

SySiisis VIII Set tiie Greatest Isbt ul
his career as an athlete tomorrow al
the Velodrome. He will meet Frank
Kramer, who he acknowledges TO be
the greatest cyclist the world has
ever produced, and while he credits
the Yankee with being the governor"
of them all ''Sir" Bill, with all due
modesty, believes that he has a fair
chance of coming through a winner.
Immediately upon his arrival here
yesterday Bailey inquired about
Kramer. His principal curiosity was
In what the Yankee had been turn
ing his eighths in. When informed
that the best that had been done by
Kramer or any other rider this year
at the Veodrome was IL 3-5 seconds
the Embellishments face beamed with
satisfaction. Bailey has made the
same time this year in a number of
races and in time trial at Copen-
hagen he went fraction under IL 3-5,
and this has given him considerable
confidence. He did liz seconds for
the furlough at the Danish track,
which beat Leon Hourlier's time by
a tenth of a second and is tenth of
a second better than Kramer has done
in competition.
much speed as Kramer the match
will go to the rider using the best
generalship Just how Bailey COM
pares with Kramer as a tactician Is
a question. His headwork In bis
matches with Donald McDougall last
season was superb, hut there is big
difference between McDougal1 and
kramer, and the latter's long ex-
perience will, no doubt, give him the
advantage over the younger rider.
Bailey made great record this sea-
son in Europe, and for a rider just
out of the amateur class 1t Fas moth
ing short of remarkable. lHe won
more than his share of the races and
defeated every professional star he
met. He was beaten. of course, but
Hourlier, Friol, Pouchois, Dupre, Per-
chicot. Poulain and the rest of the
veterans. including Thorwald Ellie
gard, went down in defeat before
him. Just how he beat these riders
Is not known. He may have won
through superior speed alone, or 1t
may have been a combination OF
speed and good judgment.
The greatest tribute to Bailey's
ability is the fact that the older
riders teamed against him in nearly
every big race in which he was
starter. IL lil6 LIB Ncl1 AAtA
feared the veterans would have taken
. chance without combining against
him. Bailey was a favorite for the
grand prize of Paris, but Pouchois,
PouIain and Perchicot, three French
stars, worked against him in his
semi1 lanai of the big race. and after
mil nv Perchicot and Pouchois,
who were working with Poulafn, the
latter managed to win over Bailey by
y foot and in the final of the Race
g., Grand prize Favorites.n run be-
Tore the graod prize, Ellegaard and
Ja,,,,;e, teamed 10 heat Bailey. Ell
ia9aard nnIIed the French champion
a,e ae H y heat BAILEY by only the
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grand struggle. After ielurling iioni
the Inflated Copenhagen Ipeet balley
remained in training and was in good
shape when he sailed for this country:
He trained yesterday. and he VIII
train again today. Rain may pre-
"
but a home trainer has been placed
;at his disposal and he can get as
much benefit on the trainer as he
could on the track, in respect to his
physical condition, although this will
not help him in becoming accustomed
to the velodrome course.
sprinters and declared Yesterday
that he expected hard race. In
the final OF the Grand Prize Of Eas-
Ter IN aIis inns year, Saley nnisn s
SeoOisa hard for the ana1 o,'artar
IJnon his return to America. kramer
said that Bailey was great rider
and would some day be the best man
in Europe.
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ne sprint nua.eh WIN not % Ing
only magnet that VIII at1ract atten-
ton tomorrow, The paced race for
the international title between Clar-
ence Carman and those veterans of
the middle-distance game, George
Wiley. Bobby Walthour and Jimmy
Moran, is coming in for as much at
tention as the big sprint duel. This
race, which is at 31.01 miles. will be
a real paced race with a horde of
pacemakers, every sprinter, including
Frank Kramer, having been pressed
into service as pacemakers. To see
Kramer. Worlds Champion Walter
Rutt, Jackie Clark, Cesar Moretti
and the other stars up on pacing ma
chimes, Is novelty in itself.
instead OF the riders choosing their
pacemakers Manager MacFarland has
divided the teams among the four
riders as evenly as III Is possible TO.
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