The New York herald., 1922-08-19
CHAMPION SPENCER
BEATEN IN BIKE RACE
Willie Fails to Qualify for
Mile Contest at the
Veiodrome.

The one mile handicap race for pro-
fessionals. one of the attractions at the
New York Nelodrome last night pro-
vided surprise when Willie Spencer,
the newly crowned sprinting champion,
failed 10 qualify for the final heat. AL
fred Goullet, the best all around rider
OF them ALL was equally unsuccessful.
The other two scratch men, Alfred
Grenda and Reggie Mcnamara, had bet
ter luck in their trials. but neither was
able to lead his field.
In the final Grenda met with the best
fortune OF the quartet OF scratch men.
however for he obtained third place.
First horors went II Harry Horan OF
Newark, who had an allowance of lis
yards and made use OF 1t in both the
preliminaries and final. lie had 10 dis
play lot OF pluck as well as speed TO
do the trick. for he beat Moronce de
Clark of Chicago. another long mark
man, by only a few inches in grueling
and spectacular finish. Grenda lost the
place by n length after a real good
effort
Perfect coordination Of effort enabled
Orlando Piani and Francisco Verri.
Italy's speediest of sprinters, to defeat
Eddie Madden and Harry Kaiser in
team match race at one mile heats. The
Italians won in two straight heats.
Their victory followed no contest heat.
which was due to a puncture to Plants
wheel 1t occurred in the first test.
In the second attempt Piani took up
the role Of pacemaker with Verri follow
ing closely behind. two laps from the
line. Nerri went to the front entering
the homestretch and won by six inches
from Kaiser. The latter made up two
lengths of bicycle in the final half lap.
Piani again got the jump on the others
in the second heat. He set a terrific
race and retained his leadership to the
end. Verri was one length back. About
$4,000 spectators watched the races
verri equaled the track record when
he rode the last eighth mile Of the first
heat in IL seconds.
Willie Spencer fared a lot better in
the Ave mile open race. in which he de-
feated a big field by a length. In this
event his path TO victory was smooth
one, because all the contestants started
from scratch.
HALF MILE HANDICAP CAMATEUR)--
Won by William Mollica, Jersey City go
YARDS. second Joseph Bfexel, : unione one
Sportiva Italiana 900 yards) third: Sam
eastman. Bay View Wheelmen go yards.
fourth; Edward g. Bendi. Unione Sportiva
ltaliana 90 yards) fifth. Time. 50 sec
onds.
C4Nf. MILE HANDICAP (PROf ESSlONALl
Won by Harry Horan. Newark I15
yards) Moronce De Clark Chicago d35
YARDS. second; Alfred Grenda. Australia
tscIatchl, third; Chris Det.erweich, New
ark GS5 yards), fourth: Robert II. Wal
thour. Jr. (05 yards) fifth; Alex McBeath,
Australia; go YARDS. sixth; Jerry Nun
ONE MILE NOVICE (AMATEUR) Won by
John Desimone. New York; George Cam
eron, Jr.. Bronx. second. Time. 07 40.
TWO MILE OPEN (AMATEUR) Won by
Fred Spencer. Newark A. c.: Roy MobecS.
Chicago. second Edward G. Bend. Unione
Sportiya ftaliana, third; Gus Merkel.
ONE MILE TEAM MATCH RACE (PRo-
FEsSIONALl-Orlando Piani and Francis
co VERT, Italy, versus Harry Kaiser,
Bronx. and Eddie Madden, Newark; won
by Verri and Piani. First heat won by
NeIrl and piani; time, sl2 is. Last
eighth mile, II seconds. Second heat won
by Piani and verri; time. . 40 4-5. Last
eighth mile, y Is seconds.
AUSTRALIAN PURSUIT RACE FOR ANA
TEURS-Won by Anthony Beckman. Sea
caucus; Fred Spencer, Newark Athletic
club. second Time, 80 As. The win
ner passed his man after racing three
miles ana five and one-half laps.
FIVE MILE OPEN CPROFESSIONAL)-
Won by William Spencer. Newark: Reggie
Mcnamara. Newark. second. Alfred Goul-
let Newark, third, Alfred Grenda, Aus
tralia, fourth; William Hanley, San Fran
cisco. fifth. Fred Hsll. Boston. sixth: Cecil
Walker. Australia, seventh. Time, 1913 2-5
THREE CoRNERED MOTOR PACED
MATCH RACE PROFESSIONALLY
Eddie Root. Bostonl Clarence Carman,
Jamaica (paced BY Jean Antenucci, Italy.
and John Schlce Newark. tied for second
place with Vincent Madonna. Italy paced
by Otto Miller. Brooklyn. Time OF first
ten mile heat. 1872 80. time OF second
ten mile heat. 14.4l ID.