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Show FRANK KRAMER IS TAKING A REST NEWARK, July 11 National Champion Cham-pion Frank L. Kramar haa vona to A-oury A-oury Park to recuperate and take on a few pounde of weight. The past few weeka hava been the moat etrenuoua of hie career, and he Is lighter In weight than at any time In the paat ten years. , He haa gone stale and thst edge Is gone. Prom May t until a week ago Kramer waa riding fmster than any rider ever rode be- 1 fore. He was moving so faM he made 1 the other star professionals look like am a- ! teurs by comparison- He attain-M this wonderful form by the hardest kind of i training, and of course the hard training naturally made him very light. Kramer trained hard because he feared i little Jackie Clarke and knew tnat ha would have to be at his best to win from the wonderful little rider from the antipodes. anti-podes. And after gaining this winning form he kept rlrht on with his hard training, train-ing, and then when he had to ride several sev-eral long races in succession. Including the six-hour race on the Fourth, he lost more weight, went stale and that Invincible Invinci-ble edge waa gone. And the hard part of this situation for the champion Is the fact that the six -hour race put Clarke in shape. Just before Kramer defeated tne great Major Taylor In a match race on the old quarter-mile track a number of years ao Kramer waa In the same condition In which he Is now. Ha had been racing Incessantly In-cessantly night after night on the circuit for weeks and ha eventually went si si. This unfortunate change of form came just before this big match and it looked aa though the colored rider, who had been riding on the circuit only Intermittently, Intermit-tently, and was In grand shape, would trim Frank with ease. Kramer knew the Fi roper remedy, however, and after secur-ng secur-ng permission to leave the circuit he took a three -day rest and came hack refreshed re-freshed and as good as aver. Ho beat Taylor. Kramer always has been a marvel for oomliur back after losing his form. During Dur-ing all tha years that he has been racing he has rareiv been out of form, buj when he did go stale ha always came back In three or four days. This Is probablye due to tha wonderful ears he takes of. himself. |