Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-25
BIGGEST BIKE GARD
OF YEAR FOR FANS
Worlds Cycling Derby and In
ternationaI Championships
Start Tomorrow Night.
REPLACES DANISH AFFAIR

The biggest bicycle meeting of the
season will start at the Velodrome to-
morrow night. 1t is the Worlds
cycling Derby and International
Championships meet and il replaces
the worlds championship meet which
was to have been held at Copenhagen,
Denmark. but which was declared off
on account of the war. This meet is
the worlds title meet in every sense
of the word, although it will be run
without the official sanction of the
Union Cyclists Internationale, the
supreme body in cycling, and the one
body that sanctions worlgs cham
pionshlp meets. Taking advant-
age Of the situation in Europe,
the Cycle Racing Association Is call
ing this the worlds Championship.
and at least two On the foreign men,
bers of the Union Cyclists Inter
rationale, Paul Rosseau and Victor
Brewer, have conceded to the local
organization the right to term this
the worlds title meet. But in calling
this series of meets the worlds cham
pionships the Cycle Racing Associa-
.tion will forfeit their claim to the
worlds championships in 1915, the
year in which the worlds body prom
ised at its last meeting that America
could have the title meet.
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The class of the entry for the big
meet here IS of worlds championship
caiiore, and every country with the
exception of France, Denmark and
Belgium will be represented by their
best riders. There is not a really
first-class Belgian Splinter at the
present time, and there hasn't been a
good Belgian Splinter since Charles
Vandenborn quit the game, SO the
fact that Belgium is not represented
does not figure. Thorwald Ellegaard
lis the only good Danish sprinter, and
there are at least six professionals
here who are Ellegaards superior, 80
Denmark will not suffer by a lack of
representation. There is but one
European rider who will not be here
who would have a chance in the title
race, and that is Leon Hourlier, win
ner of the championship of France
and the Grand Prize of Paris this
year. There never was a champion
snip meet in which every great rider
was a competitor, so the fact that
Hourlier will not be starter does not
make this meet any less important
than any former worlds Champion
ship meet. During the thirteen years
that Frank Kramer has been the
champion of America and considered
the worlds greatest rider thirteen
worlds championships have been run,
and Kramer was a competitor but
once; yet five other riders have won
the worlds greatest honors during
that time, as the worlds title is
figured of far more Importance than
Kramer's Yankee title.
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France will be without representa- |
ton at the meet here, but England,
Germany, Italy, Australia and Amer
lea will be represented by their best
riders in the professional class.
Worlds Champion Walter Rutt will
represent Germany, Bill Bailey, the
English champion. will represent
Great Britain; Cesar Moretti, the best
Of the italian sprinters and a former
national champion will represent It.
ally; Jackie Clark, ALT Goullet, ALI
Grenda, Bob Spears, Reggie McNa-
mara, Gordon Walker, Fred Keefe,
Ernie Pye, Frank Cory and Charles
Piercey will represent Australia;
Norman Anderson and Norman Han
son viii represent little Denmark,
and Champion Frank Kramer. Frank
Cavanagh and thirty other Yanks will
carry the colors of Yankeeland. If
liver Lawson will revert back to
Sweden, on whose soil he was born.
that country will not be without rep
resentation. Sweden is great cycle
racing country, but the sport there
is confined almost exclusively to anna
teur racing, Swedish professionals be-
ing few in numifr and lacking in
class.
The races on the card for the first
meet of the championship series are
far "a frofo
ship, professional; seven heats of the
professional sprint championship, a
two-mile handicap. professional:
miss and out" professional. and
uuarter-mile and a three-mile handi-
cap for the amateur riders. All OF
the professionals entered in the big
meet will start in the ten-mile cham
pionship with the exception OF bln
Bailey, who will not arrive here un-
til Thursday. There will be two
heats to this title race with six riders
to qualify in each OF the heats. The
final will be paced by tandems. which
will drop out of the contest three
laps before the finish. The prizes IN
this race are 800, $50, $25. Sl5 and
$40. and there will be worlds cham
pionship medals for the first. second
and third men.
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Bill Bailey's heat of the profess
sionaI sprint championship will not be
run until next Sunday, but the other
seven heats will be run tomorrow
night and they should furnish some
very keen competition. This is the
yerv big race of the meet and every
one of the fifty professionals entered
would give most anything to win this
race. At least thirty-eight OF the
fifty haven't even a remote chance
Of winning, but they will ride Just
the same and will make things IN
teresting In their heats. There VIII
nrobablv be steals and combinations
and every other bit of strategy the
riders can employ on the bike track.
and. ali in all, the heats are sure TO
nrove interesting Then, too. some II
the stars are going to be shut out OF
the heats. Those who are shut our,
however will have recourse to the
repechage heats and final Whicn VIII
he rim next Sunday. With tWeiye
est class riders in the race, three are
Going to be eliminated in the heats
eoa 1enecbage and then six more will
he eliminated in the semi-f1nals.
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THE total amount Of the prize money
ne bie meet is over $1,000. This
sno,,,des the money that will be paid
fns nacing the middle-distance cham
, 1Io Ship and for pacing in other
Faces The Bill Bailey Frank Kramer
match alone will cost the promoters
q ooo, The riders will reap a rich
harvest and the fans will see some
great racing.
Arthur Spencer, the new amateur
champion of Canada, will compete in
the amateur championship race. The
Canadian wired his entry Yesterday