Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1919 — WELCOME FOR FRANK KRAMER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WELCOME FOR FRANK KRAMER

Australians Take Kindly to Proposed Yankee Cyclone Invasion During Next Autumn.

-dlohn M. Chapman’s proposal to take a team of American cyclists on an Australian tour next autumn is received favorably in the antipodes, according to recent exchanges. Commenting upon the tour the Sydney referee says: “The Australian sporting public have read so much of Frank Kramer that they will flock to see this great rider in action. He has won the American championship in 17 out of the last 18 years. He is still a comparatively young man at thirty-eight, and as the Australian climate agrees with American athletes, he would shape at his (jest, for Kramer is a very clean living man, neither drinks nor smokes, and unlike most successful athletes retires to bed early. “Just imagine the Sydney Cricket ground, illuminated as It was in the good old Sydney Tho® and days, and Kramer, Spears, Spencer and other crack sprinters tearing for the line. It makes one’s mouth water. Cycling In

the Sydney Thousand days was good, but it will be better still if John M. Chapman, Frank Kramer, Spencer, Spears and company arrive in October, 1919, as seems practically certain."

Frank Kramer.