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Show DIKE RACING IS GREATEST SEA SOU Comeback of Sport Seen In ! Successful Year in East By Walter Bard get t Former Salt Lake Racer. Kvery Airerlonn sport enjoyed proe-perous proe-perous year In H-2T), but It doulitful If any of them surpassed bicycling tn point of Increased activity and public In t treat. It ta an all the ywr m round sport. Mat floor races In New York, Urooklyn and Buffalo keep cyclists, moatly amateurs, busy during tha winter until th spring road racea coma around. Follow In if tha mad racing, tha McvHe, tracks In New " " hrk. y. J.; Rvpr TV-am, Mara.T Trovt-' dene. R. I.. and Philadelphia, open for th aummer whirl. Opening aarly, March t, tha Newark Vayaidrpfrift hud moat successful sea-eon. sea-eon. Two Kuropaan aprtnt atara, Orlando Or-lando riant, Italian aprtnt champion, and Pettr Movakopa, the aprtnt champion of j Holland wer imported, drawina; ca Jactty crowda of cycla fana to the New 0ry aptd bowl. Tha Kevara Beach and Providence trarka alo report a (n-rat lncreae In bicycle rnthuataam amon tha public. Th Philadelphia track anaann waa handicapped han-dicapped by many rain date. . NIW TRACKS FOR Bo auooeaaful waa tha track cycla rac-ma rac-ma aeaaon In the Kaat that new track! are In prospect for lw!l In Itrirignport. Conn.; Ytorcester, Mass., and New York City. Road racing, from which many a champion and proapectlve champion geta his start, also enjoyed a grat year. Over IhQ road racea were contented t h roush -out the year. The road racing actlvtttos f New York City and vicinity are held under the direct supervision of the Inter-club Inter-club Amateur Cycl Road Racing league, and the aforementioned league conducts a series of Individual and team cham-alonahipa cham-alonahipa during the season, which determines de-termines th ria-Mful wearers of the Individual In-dividual and team honors for the year. The Interclub league Is planning to broaden Its field ao that a real road champion of the entire country may be chosen through a course of elimination trials and finals. If the plan la a succeas it will mean that for the first time tn rhe history of the sport a real road rac- i - ing champion may be crowned, with no liapute. TITLES CHANGE HANDS. During the paat season three titles cha nged hands. In t he professional sprint l vision the seaaon 'a honors were captured by Arthur Spencer, the Toronto sprinter who won nine out of ten events. Thia constitutes a record In Itself, It-self, ftpeneer had won In 117, lost In 111 to Prank L Kramer, who In turn lost In lll to Ray Katon. Ueorge Chapman, the youthful Newark (N, J.) paced rider, captured the fifty-mile fifty-mile paced race that carried with It the title of paced champion for the year. Chapman, who had leas than two years 6f experience at following pace, displaced dis-placed Clarence Carman the 11 champion, cham-pion, from the paced throne. In the amateur aprlnt division, Fred Taylor of Newark. N. J., and a World war veteran, won out In a thrilling finish. fin-ish. Taylor, Anthony Young and Chris Dotterweich, also from Newark, reached the final race with 15 polnta each, and -Taylor won the final raoe?, thn five-mile and the championship. In a hair raising finish. Anthony Young, a member of the Ray View Wheelmen of Newark, N. J., proved to be the beat of the Individual perform-'rs perform-'rs In the championship series conducted con-ducted by the Interclub league. Young taking all four Individual races, while his club won the team honors. It waa a Bay View victory throughout. 5ENT OLYMPIC TEAM, eaaaw A team of alg roadmen and four track-ekweaftnen track-ekweaftnen were aent over to compvte In the h-ge-yclw, racea held In connection with the wavMympto games at Antwerp, Belgium, tew'unds necessary to send the ten men. -who were accompanied by a manager and e- trainer, were raised throuah ths trade - wracka and ccla fana, Tha iuaividuai -"tonora, however, were ta ken bv G. eetera, a Hollander, and H. Oeors-e, a "eiglan, while, the road race honore went "o ths French team. The 1,'nlted States Mnlshert in seventh position. pwwtVKftAi. "ICO"Ot SCTTKRIO. A number of road and track records -wtrt bettered during; the year 1920. Kmtl Hrakefelt, a Rochester (N. Y ) amateur. "Mid lvw miles In s hours, ( minutes and "T2 f - seconds, bettering the old mark of mV hours, C minutes and 11 seconds. ' Anthony Young, the Newark amateur, "Thaved a fifth of a aecond from the Vorki s amateur hand lew p record for two miles at the Newark velodrome, doing Jhe distance In 1:64. aa against J B4 l-s, id by former Champion Kred Taylor. r At Hartford. Conn., Louia Rogow, a jpember of the Capital CUy Cycling; club ,of Hartford, succewlcd In bettering the one-hour un paced road record, Hosrow y-ovwlnx tt miles and Ktu feet tn that Jjme. as sgainst th old record of iZ.i .JJUllru. At the Newark Velodrome, Frank K irajner and Oscar Egg did two miles In m jg paced tandem event In I M, establish-aewieia; establish-aewieia; a record for that class of riding. etlVAL PROMOTERS. One outcome of the Increased growth of BlcycI racing; as a sport was a war be-"cween be-"cween rival promoters and ths cycle " riders. An unsanctioned six-day race was run In New York City at the Twenty-second regiment armory. Following Tlhat the Madison Bquare Garden "grind" was run. Both races drew enornvousa rowds, the Garden spin being; a record breaker for attendance. Ray Katon, 1919 champion, and Harry Kaiser of New m Vork won the armory rare. Maurice Hiocco of France and Will to Cob urn of 'Newark captured tha Madison 8u.uare event. For the first time tn alt the history of cycling; sport. New Tork will bav three ju xday races In one season. Tire third gkx-iw Is planned for the Garden In March. a is day raclnr haa secured a hold on ev York fans that U greater than at any prevtoua time. A new organisatloti has been formed for the control of amateur cycle racing-. Th Amateur tflcyde Leru- of America, reprganiad from the lntarclub Amateur Cycle Hoad Racing league, la th new body The Interclub leajru had been conducting; a mat our road racing; in th New York district for seven yeara Sanctions Sanc-tions and registrations will be laaued and representatives of the lew league appointed ap-pointed for various sections of the eoun trv, the new body planning on a national cope. It will affiliate wuh tha Amateur Athletic league and Military AlhieUc league of Nw York City. |