Sport: Cycle Champ

In Newark, the air was filled, as it sometimes is, with straw hats. With the hats went up great cheers for Arthur Spencer, who rode his bicycle slowly around the Newark Velodrome, bowing, smiling, showing off a silver loving cup that had just been given him as emblem of the world’s cycling derby championship. A few minutes before, Spencer, back arched like a cat’s, legs pumping furiously, had torn after Peter Moe-skops, giant Hollander, who won the world’s title at Paris in August, had “nipped him at the tape” by inches in the last heat of their third match race in ten days.