Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-05-01
SPEARS ANXIOUS
FOR A WARM DAY
Lanky Australian Wants TOrrid
Weather TO Prevail When
He Meets GOuIlet.
PROMISES TO MAKE GOOD

If there is one thing that will tend
to increase confidence in Bob Spears
tomorrow 1t is for Old Sol to beam his
prettiest and cast warm spell over
the Velodrome. Spears is to get his
big chance tomorrow in a match with
Alfred Goullet. Should he defeat
Goullet he will undoubtedly get an
opportunity to meet Frank Kramer
More of that later, however. What
Spears wants Is a warm day and he
says so in a few words. II the dark
clouds only manage to give the sun
half chance. the lanky Australian
promises to make good.
1t takes Bob almost half a sea3,on
to get down to his real form. If the
hottest kind of weather only prevail ed
here along about the first week in
June friends of Spears predict he
would be up there battling Tor the
championship. Spears made q great
ride last Sunday. Riders and trainers
and the fans Who saw him perform
will all agree that he was travelling
at a great clip. Bob has not had
much chance to get in a good work
out this week On the days tha. he
did his training it was generally cool,
although he seemed to be going fast
just the same. Another day like last
Sunday is all that Spears is asking
for and If beaten all the credit in the
world will go to Goullet.
GouiIet Taking No Chances.
Goullet is realizing just how fast
Spears is going at the present time
and is putting in his lcks in practice.
In other words Goullet is not let.ing
the grass grow under his feet In
fact, he never did let the green ST uff
sprout up while he was standing sill
and this week has seen him work
harder than at any other time. 1t
takes lot to make Goullet talk about
coming match Most OF the time
Jack Neville, his trainer, does the
gossiping. Another thing, too, It is
rather hard to get a line ON the Aus
tralian In practice spins. Sometimes
he seems to be going great and at
other times one would go away from
the track with the idea that he is in
poor form after watching him work
out.
1t Is hard to tell what will happen
when Spears and Goullet clash. Alf
is the favorite, of course, but some of
the wise birds are going around blink
ing one eye with that doubtful ex-
preston running a close second.
Spears is getting his chance mainly
because he rode so we'll last Sunday.
If he did not display such astonish-
ing speed he would have been prob
ably overlooked, at least for a time,
for a match with the man who is be-
ing looked upon to capture Kramer's
crown. The weather might have q
lot to do with the match as far as
Spears is concerned. At any rate it
promises to be a great battle and one
that will hold the attention of the
fans from start to finish.
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Kaiser Was ut tho "Moviesy"
Coburn tells q story about Harry
Kaiser. 1t seems that Harry acted
as one of the trainers on the "gaso-
! line circuit" n few years for Coburn
and almost cost the last named
| lap in the race. Along about the
middle of the week Willie was
pretty tired boy. He came to his
training quarters to get a new tire
for his wheel. Kaiser was supposed
to have n wheel ready, but when Co
burn came into his camp he gave a
good imitation of Mother Hubbard.
There was no wheel ready and, what
was more, there was no Harry Kaiser
around. Willie was a little weary.
but he managed to get wheel In
time to get back on the track before
any damage had been done. Harry IL
said to have explained his absence
was due to the fact that he Just had
to take in a moving picture show.
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Coburn Appears In Good Condition.
Willie Coburn has taken Oh more
than thirty pounds during the winter
months. Willie has been away taking
a much-needed rest at "Califawn." He
appears to be in good condition. and
with Jake Magin as a partner should
make things lively in the SIN milo
team race Sunday.
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Ross Issues Edict.
Referee Arthur Ross has handed
down an edict that hereafter a rider
will be disqualified if he removes
his hands off the handle-bar to ward
off another competitor.
This decision was made as a re-
suit of the situation that cropped up
in the first heat of the Goullet-Clark
match last Sunday. In that heat
Goullet deliberately pushed Clark
away with his right arm.
The referee permitted the heat to
stand as run, for the reason that
Goullet was justified in his action In
that he had to take such measures
to prevent going down himself. Clark
was practically riding him OF the
track.
Some OF the spectators, not real
izing Goullet's predicament, hooted
the rider for pushing Clark away. 1t
is to discourage q recurrence of such
a situation that Referee Ross has
caused a bulletin to be tackled up
at the track, warning the riders of
the disqualification that Is to follow
q repetition of such tactics. At the
same time Ross will see TO 1t that
no rider crowds another man off the
track, as Clark tried to do last Sun
day.
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Want Corbett-MorAn Match.
They're trying to arrange a match
between Larry Corbett and James
Moran. Every day that Moran and
Corbett are on the track the riders
and trainers yell for sprint. Jimmie
is standing for lot of kidding"
these days, but efforts to get him to
race Corbett will likely prove fruit,