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Show I KRAMER SAYS HE'LL BE CHAMPION AT FORTY V ' " - - ' iff " ' . x ;-". :' ' .... i ' .- r. . . . - rKANK L. KEAJdEK America's champion bicycle sprint rider. It ' grant to be a champion. At least, that la what a lot of people think who are fond of athletics and inclined to hero worship. But greatness and tho championship art hold only by tho hardest kind of work on tho part of th "champ" sad sacriUces such as his admirers, who snvy his greatness, would not car to sodurs, says th Newark New. Th patrons of sport are generally with th champion. They want to ss hint win. and when ho hi returned a victor and grab oO big chunk of money for a few minutes' work ens often hoars th remark: "Pretty soft, shl That's making money sasyl" But it isn't as soft as it appears. ors eomes in. Kramer is mssssged for , two hours and it ia two hours of agony, , hut it must be done to get in ahane. There ia nothing for it but to aland ' for it. It ia the only way to keep the fat off and work out the soreness. After a day of hard work aad pbysi-1 pbysi-1 cal torture. Kramer a-oes homo te sit 1 down to a rerwat that ia meaner, to aav tha leapt. The aparaity of the men. would diavmat a hunfrrv man. A amall piece of a teak, half a potato, dry toaat and a enp nf oaaweetenad taa ia thf heat a fat ehamiinn geta who ia bant on retaining hia title. And ha erawli into tha hay every Bight at 0 o'clock. Who wanta to ba a champion! . ' An eminent Americaa painter onet mad n painting in two houra that h afterward aold for glO.000. Aa eminenl Kagliah eritiej after viewing th picture pic-ture at an exhibitioa, eritirreed it si severely in the Londoa Time that th. painter brought suit for damages. When the artist, while oa tha etand aad in answer to a question, ssid that it had required two houra to complete the picture, tho opposing attorney asked the painter if ke did not think that (10,000 waa aa exorbitant flgure to aak for two boars' work. Th painter aa swered thst, although it had required only two hours to paint the picture, it represented th stady . of a lifetime. Aad a it ia with champions. The few minute they are ia the ring or on the track ia. like the artist's picture, sn exhibitioa which required years of prerenal ion. There is one champion, who. accord ing to Mike Murphy, the famous Penn trainer, ia the greatest athlete ever developed, who ia leading a Bog's life. That champion ia Frank L. Kramer. He ie far over weight. In condition he weighs 100. but pist at the present time he tips the beam at 185 pounds after a week of the moat atrenoous kind of training, to nay nothing of numerous Turkish baths. Tha extra flesh that Kramer acquired through the winter dnea not appear to be removable, and he dnea not relish th idea of running run-ning twelve mile oa the road awathed like an Rgvptiaa mnmmy in count leas yards nf baadagea. But that fat mnet name off. for Kramer will be up against the hardest competition of hia career thia year. (and aa one kosws how keenly keen-ly the tea time champion appreciate that fact. Weight is removed with each workout, but with the next meal it romee back again all of which ia some what disconcerting to the chsmpioa. With each succeeding year it be cornea harder for Kramer to get into condition. That ia because be takes on mor fat each sn receding winter. Kramer haa a horrible dread of becoming be-coming fat. The other day, after Jack Neville, Jiia fsithful trainer, had finished fin-ished rubbing him, he sat prilling on a sock, and, looking out the window with a blank and farawsv expression, remarked, re-marked, more to himself thsa to those preeent: 'I wonder bow fst I will get when I onit ridingf " Thea followed a remark that showed the wonderful determination and eon Ideac ef th man whose chin i Indicative Indi-cative of one of these characteristics. 'I am n-oing to ride nstil I am 40 an I'll still be jrood," ke said; "yea.. I think I will still he -rhampioa. Why, look at old Cy Yonng. the great pitch er. he is over to and ia still good. Then take old Boh Fitxeimmoas, th great nffhter. There is a man who was sl-most sl-most in hie heydsy after he had passed the 40 mark.'' Aad it doesn't look like a bad bet at all that Kraok will still be the cham-nin cham-nin when ha ia 40. He ia now 30. Hmce Young and Fits wore good at 40, Kramer otitrht te be good at .Vi The bike champion haa led a life that has been abaolntelv free from diseipa lion. By comparison, he make the Puritan look like "ronnders" and seekers of bright light gaieties. This mode of lifs, combined with a wonderful wonder-ful phvtique. is what has made Kramer, Kra-mer, as Mike Murphv aava. ''the great est athlete ever developed." With the opening of the racing aea-sea aea-sea oa the new track leea than s month awav, Kramer alternately lo"ka at tre calendar and tha rolls of fat on tvs body, snd then cails on Trainer Nevilic t ''dig in" meaning, of eoor-e, re masse ?e harder. It is up to the " i arth-fnl arth-fnl (me" to condition the cbampinn and he doe his work well, lie t-ars in to Kramer ansromv like s Hsncrr estive from s cwnnibsl iMe. Tne rr r a his bsn'is is lm. s wrench snd rt" ' - re is --e r't ef t -ie f - - n k 1 -. -n :--it s ..i...i.g n.j.,.. ..pi. n J |