Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-06-09
DIVISION OF RIDERS
REMAINS A SECRET.
Make-Up of Grand Prize Semi.
Finals Will Be Announced
at Trackside.
STAR CYCLISTS MAY MEET

The semi-finals Of the Grand Prize
race will be run tonight at the yelo
drome If the skies remain clear. Thtr
time there can be no plotting of :
race chart, showing the probable out
come of the heats, and no plotting on
the part of the riders to accomplish
the defeat of this fellow or that. for
the simple reason that the riders will
not know in which heat they wfli
compete or who they will have to
meet until they are called out on the
track tonight. Manager John N.
Chapman concluded to keep the
grouping of the nine men who sur
vived the trial heats a Masonic secrea
to guard against any advance schena-
ing that might result In teaming.
Not even the supposed arrange
ment of building the three semi.
finals around Frank Kramer, Alfred
Goullet and Bob Spears--in Other
words, each OF these stars in differ.
ent heats-will be carried out. It La
understood that two of these bir
guns will have to clash in one of the
semi-finals, which will mean that one
or the other will be eliminated, sinoA
only the winners will qualify for the
| final.
The nine men left for the SEMI
| finals are Kramer, Goullet, Spears
| Grenda, Dupuy, Clark Mcnamara.
Fogler and Kaiser No matter In
which heat he is cast Kramer is
naturally regarded as the probable
winner there. For that reason none
OF the other riders fancy getting into
the same heat with the champion.
The outcome of the other two heats
Is left an open question, especially
since it is not known how the riders
will be grouped. If Spears should
get into the same heat with Kramer
the tall Australian would be up
| against Gibraltar trying to make
the final. A battle royal would also
result II Goullet and Spears should
get into the same heat. Grenda also
must be reckoned as a formidable
contender.
Dupuy VIII Bear watching.
| Another rider who must bear
watching Is Monsieur Marcel Dupuy
In fact, 1t would not be at all SUR
prising If the Frenohman made the
final to battle it out next Sunday
with, say, Kramer, and one of the
Australians. This fellow Dupuy isn't
1 SuCn IL AICdh lHCy buppOStQ IlllAt
| to be. There Is some real class to
that boy. as was forcibly demon
strated last Sunday, when he won
three straight heats in the alternance
match against Clark. Moretti and
| Kaiser. If he puts up a race such as
last Sunday he will make even
Kramer step some.
| A purse OF $1,000 will be divided in
the grand prize race. The winner
will draw down $500, the second man
$3.50 and the third 500. The rest of
the purse is split up as prizes for
| the second and third men in the trial
and semi-f1nal heats.
Keen Interest in Title Event.
From a monetary point of view,
consequently, the grand prize racs
has the centre of the stage for to-
night, but interest is just as keen In
the two-mile professional champions
ship race, which is also down for de-
cison. The trial heats and the semi
finals will be at o half-mile, leaving
the four survivors to fight 1t out over
the full two-mile course in the final.
Pace-makers will be furnished for the
first ten laps in the final, so as to
give all four men an equal chance
when it comes down to the deciding
sprint.
First Title Race for Amateurs.
A quarter-mile amateur champions
ship, the first titular race of the sea-
son for the GLORY chasers," is also
down on the slate for tonight. The
remainder of the card Includes n
| three-mile tandem, professional, with
Sc lap prizes, to stimulate the pace; q
two-mile handicap for the class Il
riders, and a half-mile amateur
| handicap.