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Show ROBERT WALTH0UR TALKS OF FRANCE NEW YORK, April 9. Robert Walth-our, Walth-our, tho American paco following cycle racer, now In France, who won his first race of tho season at Paris recontly, writes that ho expects to win tho majority of tho races thero. His assiduity in training is a constant source of wonder. "I arrived hero on Monday morning at S o'clock, and by 10 o'clock I was training. train-ing. Theso Frenchmen couldn't understand under-stand why I should got to work so quickly, quick-ly, but I told them that I had come ovor to clean them up and not to seo Paris, for so far as Paris is concerned, givo me good old Georgia, and I am hungry to seo tho good red hills again. I am riding fine and feeling good. "Tho track which wo will race on is six laps and a little over and narrow. I am following 'Death Dealer, and can follow as fast as It can go, so you seo I am riding rid-ing some. These fellows will all use larger machines than I, but you know I can get away quick, and that Is where I figuro to beat them, for, onco In front, there Is nothing to It but tho money. "I expect to win from these follows easily, for I am riding faster than I ever did before, and to go miles on this track, mind you, for six laps, at 1:03, is easy. 1 can go as fast as the motor can carry me. Of course, wo havo wind Bhlelds on, but Gussio Lawson cannot shako me with all power turned on. "I am up early in the morning and training twice a day, and go to bed at night with tho chickens. These Frenchmen French-men do not understand why it is I am not out for a good time, but 1 tell them I am out for the money and to win Instead." |