Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-07-19
BUFFERS WORK
At MOTOR-PACED
GAME IS GOOD
Veteran Rides Mile in 1919 Flat
Yesterday Afternoon, While
He Averages LIZ for His
Mornings Work--Meets Col
Inns and Wiley Tonight.
Quarter-MiIe Title Race Is
Carded.
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Butler. the near centen-
arian of the bike game, who is to
meet George Wiley and Elmer Collins
in a twenty-mile motor-paced race at
the Velodrome tonight, arrived in
Newark yesterday morning and pro-
ceeded to work the kinks out of his
system.
The old boy rode behind h motors
twice and he is apparently as good as
ever and should give the youngsters,
+. Collins and Wiley, a good battle. he
rode ten miles in the morning and
averaged 1:22 for the distance and did
not work up a p~erspiration. In the
afternoon he peat the time made IN
the morning ride by eleven seconds
and covered the last mile in 1:19 fat,
which Ia very good going and VIII win
many races.
While the old, fellow does not hold
Collins and Wiley cheaply. he thinks
well of his chances in h race tonight
and thinks he will be leading the
youngsters on the twentieth mile.
In commenting on his return to the
game Nat had the following to say:
II watched Collins and Wiley in all
tof their races at Boston this season
and I could not figure how they could
heat me if [ came back to form. Chap
man was very anxious to find some
9rider who could hold his own with
these stars of the paced game and
tried a number of Sprinters without
success and l decided to try to come
back. 1 started training and was sur
prised to find how quickly / rounded
into shape.
Las week at Revere Beach l held
Collins safe for twenty-four miles in q
twenty-nve-mile ace and | feel sure
/ would have won if / had not been
caught mapping on the start of the
last mile. / got off in the lead at the
start and fought the champion off re-
peatedly for twenty miles. When he
found / was as strong as he was he
took 1t easy for four miles and then
came with a rush or the last mile and
before | could get going he got around
and with only a mile to go ] could not
get around again. | won't be caught
mapping tonight, however, and II |
ever set the lad Collins and Wiley
viii have an awful time to get around
me-
Butler will ind Collins a tough boy
10 beat tonight. The little fellow is
virtually flying and is riding faster
than at any time in his career. He
rode five miles yesterday afternoon at
Il lis gait. which is the fastest work
ever seen ON the Yeledrome track.
Tho quarter-mile national champion
ship professional, which is the other
star attraction on the a tonight Is
goins 10 be a bitterly contested race,
and 1t would not be surprising to see
someone disqualified for rough riding.
l.LI-s.- sJ..,l- L. EoolOrp a nd AlfraA
Goullct go Champion Kramer's goat in
the nve-mile national championship last
Sunday, and the champ Is out for re-
venge. Kramer claims that Fogler and
Golllet %'roughed" him when he got
alongside OF them, and he was COM
PEELED to drop back for fear Of falling.
Frank is pretty good with the rough
stuff himself, and says If they start
anything tonight he will come right
back at them, even If they all go down
in a heap. 1t sure will be some race.
Clarke is only seven points behind
Kramer now in the race for the cham
pionship, and a win tonight will place
the Australian on almost even terms
with the ten-times American champion.
Floyd MaeFarland, the Napoleon of
the bike game, who is Clarke's mana
ger and adviser, has planned a ride for
Clarke that will land Jackie a winner
and Kramer third or fourth. The cham
pionship season is over half over and
Mac" wants every race to count and
count big for Clarke.
The Australian is riding very fast
now and Mac figures on getting a big
lead in the titualar contest, for Clarke
may experience q reversal in form at
any time. This will be the third quar-
ter-mile championship run this season.
Kramer has won one quarter-mile
event and Goullet won the other one
but in neither of these races was Clarke
in the shape he is in now. He finished
second in one and third in the other.
however. which shows he is a good nan
at the short distance.
The one-nile professional handicap
tonight will not be the luke the two
mile handicap was Sunday. Kramer
and Clarke will both start and there
VIII be a clerk of the course stationed
st intervals around the track to see
that none of the handicap riders steal
up any before the gun goes off.
EWINGVUJE CLASSES.