New-York tribune., 1920-03-07
Veterans Ride
To First Place
lin Third Heats
six-Day King Ousriaes Egg
and. Former Champion
Triumphs Over Spencer

Alfred Goullet, formerly Of Aus
tralia, defeated Oscar Egg, of Switzer-
land, his great six-day race rival, in the
$1,000 special match bicycle race at Mad
ison Square Garden last night. In the
other $1,000 match; Frank Kramer, the
wonderful sprihtings veteran, who held
the national title for sixveert years, de-
feated Arthur. Spencer, of Canada, ma
tional champion in 1917 in a two-out-
of-three heats series.
Goullet and Egg met first in one
mile race with sprint at the end OF
each three laps, points to dsunt. Goullet
won all three sprints, uncovering great
speed In each case The second event
+ men starting on opposite sides of the
track. In this Egg showed to the front,
catching Goullet after one mile and
seven laps Of desperate riding.
When the men met in the third event,
= two-thirds Of q mile sprint, Goullet
took the lead at the start.and held COM
mand to the end, meeting Eggs terrific
sprints all the way through the last
two laps successfully.
Spencer Bows to Kramer
Kramer defeated Spencer at two
thirds of a mile In the first. event.
winning by two lengths in 1:46 30,
jumping his man on the last lap. In
the second heat, at the same distance,
Spencer caught Kramer mapping and
rushed into two-length lean, with
gap, but failing by half length to
get the other rider. The time was / :51.
In the final heat Kramer once more
showed his wheel across the finish Hne
In first place, winning by length and
staving off Spencer's sprint as they
rushed down the home stretch. No
tinas was announced for this event.
An international team pursuit race
between Alphonze Speissens and Mar
eel Buysse, of Belgium, and Joe Kop-
sky and Willie Coburn, of America,
suit race, was won by the foreigners
with plenty to spare. The Belgians
seemed full Of riding and were supe-
rior both in the sprint and pursuit
style.
Buysse won the first heat from Kop-
sky with lengths to spare. Coburn
took the second heat from speissens
after a hot sprint down the home
stretch, and in the pursuit rade Che
helgians simply ran. away from their
rivals, catching them in seven and a
half laps, the time being 1:47 AS.
Amateurs Take Tumbles
Inc nrst event on. the program was
a two-thirds Of mile race for anna
teurs, run of in four trial heats and a
final. Some fifty ambitious pedallers
took the track. There was lot of
wild and wooly riding, half dozen
bad spills on the Fourth Avenue turn
and tremendous excitement" before
the winner turned up in.the person of
w. H. Beck, Of the Bayview ,Wheelmen
who took the final. heat with yard to
spare. j. Woke was second, ,.:and Louis
Benezetti, of Unione Sportiva Italiana,
third. Time, 1920 1-5 q
Veteran Fred Hill won the one-mile
professional handicap rac1 from a
speedy field, leading Fred Weber over
the line by twenty feet in the final
Jake Magin was third. Time, 1902 As
A two-mile lap point race for ANA
teurs was run in six heats and final,
with the winner of each lap to score
one point until the final lap, when first
place was credited with five points.
second with four and so on. Anthony
Young. Bayview Wheelmen, was first;
Fred Taylor, New York A. c., second,
and Jerry. Nunziata, Unionc Sportiva
Italian, third, rating them on the. point
system.
The last event on the program,
five-mile international lap point race
for professionals, was won by Jake
Magin, with Marcel Dxpuy of France
second and Marcel Godivier of France
third, Alphonze Verreas Of Belgium
fourth, Charles Deruyter of France
fifth and Fred Hill sixth.