Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-03
EUROPEAN GR|NDS
HELD IN SUCCESSION
Cyclists TO Get Little Rest Be-
tween Two Big Six-Day
Events.
BRUSSELS STRUGGLE IS ON

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It is just one six-day race after
another over IN Europe The Brus-
+ sells six-day race got under way last
! night, and after an interval OF seven
Gays, just to give the riders breath
/ ing spell. as IL were, the Berlin six
/ day race will be started. Fourteen Of
the riders who competed IN the Paris
grind will start in the Brussels race.
and a number of these same riders
viii go in the Berlin race Riding IN
three six-day races in forty-tWo DAYS
] Is going some and demonstrates the
fact that six-day riders are "giuttons
for punishment" so to speak
Three American teams ara Ia
the Brussels race. They are Eddie
Root and Lloyd Thomas, Joe FozIer
and Jimmy Moran and George Cam
eron and Bobby Waithour. Fog1er
Moran and Walthour went through
the Paris race and will, no doubt, be
in at the finish Of the race In the
stars who viii ride in the race are
! Walter Rutt, the worlds sprint
champion: little Maurice Brocco, the
/ French distance rider; Charles OH
verri, the crack italian spr1nter, who
will probably race at the Velodrome
this season; Leon Comes, the French
rider, who shared the honors In the
Paris race with Leon Hourlier; Petit
Breton and Octave Lapixe. Of Eranc1.
and Francesca Verri, the star Italian
Splinter, who raced in Newark last
summer, and who may race hsra
again next summer.
The best team in the Brussels RAGS
and the team that should win Is the
/
and Vanhouwaert. vanhouwaert Il
the long distance champion OF Bel
gtum and one of the best stayers "a
the bike game With a good partner
Rutt should come home on the bit.
Viewing the race from across the At-
lanuc II looks as though the cen
tenders who will have to be beaten
! by the Belgium ALLIANCES are
Root and Thomas and Verri and
Brocco.
This year the Brussels race is being
run on the new half-mfIiiou do11ar
winter track called the veIodrons
d'Hiver, of Brussels. This track Is
one of the finest In the world. the
building being constructed entirely Or
glass. steel and concrete. The roof
is constructed of a skeleton frame
work, covered with glass which
makes It as light as daylight.
-.
Securing MacFarland to nanaea
the Brussels race is a great tribute
to big Macs" ability as a race pro-
moter. It was AaeFariand vino pro-
NOTED the first six-day race il Hrus-
sells That was three years ago and
the race was a big financial success
Last year the Brussels promoters fx-
nored MacFarland and ran the race
themselves. They made fne meas
of It and lost considerable money.
The owners of the new winter track.
/ however, have secured MacFarland.
TO make sure that the first six-16y
race in the exquisite structure viii be
q success. II Is a sure thing that
Mac VIII make a success OF the
race and will therefore become uer-
manently established In Brussels a.
he Is IN Paris. Sad, sad for the ham,
mer brigadei ss,.e
Lloyd Thomas, the California boy.
who though q demon plugger: de-
spite the fact that he is frau and
delicate In appearance, is not ta1xfnk
Kindly co the paced game. Thomas
declared his intention OF becoming
q motor-paced rider the coming sea
son and went to Europe to be
schooled in the art of following the
''choo-choos," but after one PACED
race abroad he Is reported to have
said that he would rather ride SIX
| day race than ten-nile motor
paced race. Thomas has all the quail
fications for a successful pace-fol-
lower, however, and he will probably
change his views when he gains more
experience.
Orlando Stevens, of Il and stevfes
fame, who was a very popular rider
here during the palmy days Of the
old Quarter-m board track across
the street from the present ye1o-
drome site, is the Western scout for
the Cycle Racing Associations
'Stevie," who is a successful business
man in San Francisco, rotund and
happy, is still very fond of cycle
racing and attends all the meets in the
vicinity of Frisco. He is keeping the
big league" in the East posted on
the promising p1ebes, and in q recent
letter states that there are some
likely looking youngsters In the
Golden State who might make good
in the East. While we hear little
around here of the sport in Cahfor-
mia, San Francisco is, with the ex-
ception of Newark the greatest
cycling city in the country. There
is bike track in Golden Gate Park.
where meets are run almost every
week, and the number of bicycle
clubs with large membership irdf-
Gates the interest in cycling as a pas
time. California. one OF the foremost
athlete-producing States in this coiin-
try, has contributed more stars to the
bike game than any State with the
exception of New Jersey. 1t was there
that MacFarland won his spurs. ana
many other oldtlmers, long since for
gotten. or never even heard Of BY
present day fans, were developed.