Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-31
MARK
SET AT VELODROME
Close to 10000 Fans TANNED
Local Track at Yester-
days Races.

1t was big crowd and a represent
alive crowd that filled the Velo-
drome to overlooking Yesterday to
witness the Bill Bailey Frank Kra-
mer match, the middle distance
championship and the other races run
at the second days meet of the
worlds cycle derbies and interna-
tional championships. Frank Million,
the president of the Cycle Racing As
ISOLATION, estimated the crowd in
round numbers at 1880, which was
trifie under the actual count. That
crowd, however, breaks all attend
ance records for the Velodrome and
is the largest crowd ever assembled
to witness a cycle meet in this city.
There were in that vast assemblage
people in every walk of life. There
were professional men and business
men, bankers and clerks and common
laborers, and they sat elbow to ell
bow, a common unit, enjoying a
clean, wholesome and decidedly in
teresting pastime. AS early as 2:30
full half hour before the first event
was scheduled to be run, there was
hardly a vacant seat to be seen and
fifteen minutes before the riders lined
up for the first race there were 40
more seats to be had, and hundreds
were streaming through the tunnel
entrance to the arena to stand for
three hours and make human pivots
out of themselves.
AS the eight ticket windows We're
shut, one after another the thou
sands that stood in line, realizing that
few more were to gain admittance to
the track. made mad rush for the
arena entrance. There was stam-
pede at the big entrance to the tun-
mel, and were 1t not for the fact that
bike fans are a jolly, good natured
lot. some might have been injured.
But the strong made way for the
weak and all finally made their way
into the big amphitheatre The en-
trance to the office of the Velodrome
was thrown open in order to move
the long lines of fans into the arena,
something that was never necessary
on any previous big day at the Nelo-
drome.
The inside of the big course pre-
scented a. pretty picture. The general
color scheme was white. The white
shirts of the men blended with the
white frocks of thousands of the fair
sex Here and there a sne' of red
or blue or some other brilliant hue
frightened the picture. There were
babes in arms and feeble old men
there and the great popularity OF
cycling was never more strongly dem
onstrated than yesterday And good
humor prevailed throughout. even
though the fans were intentionally
crowded together. On the back
stretch a party of young men anus
ed themselves and the crowd by de-
moishing their straw hats, which
they threw into the crowd in the
arena for the specific purpose of be-
ing smashed, And how disappointed
those same young men would have
been had their hats been returned
intact.
1t surely was a big day and jolly
day, and there was no lack of in
teresting competition. Every mode OF
conveyance was used to get to the
track Hundreds motored and hum
dreds came on bicycles and motor
cycles, but the vast majority came
via the electric trolley route Among
the notables of the sporting world
who were there were Hughey Jen-
nings, termed by the announcer, the
Irresistible leader of the Detroit Ii
gers" Edward Barrow, president Of
the International League; "Ownie''
Bush, pug" Cavet and Jim Burke.
members of the Detroit team, and
Willie Hoppe, the billiard champion Of
1.-The world There were other celebri-
ties of other walks in life there also.
but they were swallowed up in the
seething mass Of humanity.