Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-28
WALTER RUTT ON
OPENING PROGRAM
Worlds Sprint Champion to
Take Place of Kramer on
VelOdrOme Card.
MCFARLAND HERE MARCH 20

The racing season at the Newark
Velodrome will open Sunday. April
8 This information was cabled by
Floyd A. MacFarland, general man
ager for Frank Million and Inglis Nj,
Uppercu, the principals. from France,
today. The cable also contained the
information that Walter Rutt, the
sprint champion of the world. will
arrive here March q and will compete
at the opening meet. MacFarland
and Million, who is also spending the
winter in Europe will arrive home
March 20. Rutt will take the place of
Frank Kramer as the star at the
opening meet. The American cham
pion will not return from abroad until
late in April
Jackie Clark will start training
Monday. 1.-The Rocket" is about fifz
teen pounds overweight, and is going
to get an early start in order to be
in perfect condition for the first meet.
ALT Goullet and ALI Grenda have been
doing light work for more than a
week and will not, get down to the
serious. business of actual training
until three weeks prior to the start
of racing. Grenda is not carrying
over two pounds of excess weight,
but Goullet has taken on considerable
weight since the Paris six-day race.
Frank Kramer will ride his sixth
match race in Europe tomorrow. The
race will be at the winter track in
Paris, and Leon Hourlier, the sprint
champion of France, will be his op-
ponent The first heat will be at
1000 meters, the second at 1900 meters
and if a third heat is necessary it will
be at 1000 meters. The American
champion has won every match in
which he has engaged abroad, and
from reports from Paris the ''old
master is going so well he is almost
certain to add the French champion
TO his list of victims.
Since the announced retirement of
John NJ. Chapman, the riders who
were under contract by him are
anxiously awaiting the arrival from
Europe of General Manager MacFar-
land, of the Cycle Racing Association.
George Wiley. the middle distance
champion of America. was a caller at
the Cycle Racing Association offices
yesterday, and Ernie Pye and a few
others who had Chapman contracts
are daily visitors. Wiley has an Of
fer from a big motorcycle manufac-
turer to become a motorcycle rider,
but George cannot see that game on
account of the danger
The proposed six day race in
Toronto, scheduled for late in March.
has been called off. L. Solomon. the
owner of the Toronto International
League team there, and who OWNS the
building in which the race was to be
run, wired the Cycle Racing Associa-
tion today that the only open date
available is in May. AS the outdoor
season will be in full swing at that
time the race was called off imme-
diately.
Nat Butler, who is a part owner OF
the Revere beach track. at Boston, is
probably more pleased than anyone
that the proposed Chapman circuit
has been abandoned. Wiley and
Percy Lawrence. two of the best
drawing cards at Revere, were under
contract with Chapman, but now they
will hook up with the c. r. A. and
ride on the middle-d distance circuit of
which Revere is the best paying
track.
Edward de B. Newman. secretary
of the Cycle Racing Association. was
quarantined in his home in Flatbush
last week.