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Show ness In f ndlsna and a big amount of choice real estate In Nsw Jersey. hkramsr'c own residence In Best Orange le one of the chow places of that ultra fashionable reoidentlai city. Frank's1 hobblee are automohlllng and relaing chlckene. , Frank ta the owner of one of the fastest racing ears In th oowntry, and although he na refrained from entering en-tering hie oar In any racing eyent as la en Inveterate eoorcher and I out on th good roads In the vicinity of Newark and the Orangee when he la not riding his bike looking for victim He Is a Jreat driver and ba never bad aa aocl-enL Kramer con lined to develop and I today to-day considered the finest specimen of Mi speed developed athlete In America. Aa Salnt-Oaudene aald: H I Apollo In th flesh." That famous classic "of the eculptors art 1c so much like Kramer one might think the champion poeed for It hsd It been mnds In recent years. The late Baint-Oaudenc ssw Kramer at Msdison Square Oarden a number of yeare ago and marveled at hla etatueeq'ue appearance and Invited the bike champion cham-pion to pose for him - for a full length figure. Mike Murphy, the most famous trainer In the country who le now training the 1'nlverclty of Pennsylvania track and football teams, coneldsrs Kramsr ths most rsmarkable athlete. In the world. No other champion haa ever gone through the racing day after day for eleven yeare and still held a title, aa Kramer has. Heldom out of form and always up sgslnst the stillest kind of competition. It le a remarkable record. Haa Won Oyer 800 Baca. In th years Kramer haa been riding he has won over ebo races, without a doubt tha beat record ever made. Floyd MsrFarland has been in tha game aeven years longer thsn Kramer, yet the es-handicap es-handicap king'a record I under 400 races , won. Old Msc however, has won a great many mora seconds and thirds than Kramer. Kra-mer. Tha champion's record year by year shows that he was either a winner or out of the race entirely. In 1004 Kramer won Bfty-three races, waa eecond In three, and he did not run third In a single race. In loot Kramer did not finish second In a single raoe, having won nearly every race he started In that season, in ltol he won thlrty-elx thlrty-elx raoee and eecond In ontyave, and he ran third in juet one race. Kramer's record rec-ord aurpassec that of every other athlete, even that of old Cy Young, who haa won over (00 baseball games, and Bremer Is not through yet by any means. Hs Is after all these years a fester rider today thsn at any time In hla long and remarkable re-markable career. He Is ctlll good for many year to come, too. 'Kramer ngurec to ride till he le 40. which will add ten years more to hie record and they more than likely will all be championship yeare. too. What a remarkable record It would be to hold the cycling championship for twenty yeara! Like Autos and Chickens. They thought Eddie Bald waa a wonder won-der when he held the title three years. Kramer le a eleen liver with perfect hab. Its. and ha will be goad away past ths 40 mark If he continues to llvs aa ha has for the past ten yeara. And there to every likelihood that ths marvel will continue con-tinue aa he has In ths past. Kramer thanke bike racing for his hesllh and a very comfortable fortune, a thriving furniture manufacturing bud- |