Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-06-20
ROOT IS DOWN To
RACE WILEY AND
{. COLLINS AGAIN
Manager Chapman Has Arranged
for This Contest to Feature
Tomorrow Nights Card at the
Velodrome-There Will Be
Thirty-three Starters in Two
Mile PRO" Handicap.
Pages in N. j.
I n ANAGER CHAPMAN. of the Vel
odrome, showed good Judgment

II n ANAGER CHAPMAN, of the Vel
lNi odrome, showed good judgment
as a matchmaker when he put
Elmer Collins and George Wiley on for
a return match race with Eddie Root,
who gave this pair of crack pacefol-
lowers such a fine beating at the Velo-
drome last Wednesday evening. They
are on for the star bout tomorrow
night, and this battle should be even
better thar the first encounter. which
was one of the best motor-paced races
ever seen at the Velodrome or any
other track around these parts.
Wiley and Collins are both eager to
get at the speedy Root again and re-
trieve their lost honors. 1t was a
mighty tumble for Collins, the cham
pion in his class, to have a novice like
Root, who has not ridden a half dozen
paced races in his life, to jump out OF
the sprint ranks and ride rings around
him.
When Root gained his first lap on
Collins in the race last Wednesday the
champion was surprised, and when he
put over the second one the champ"
was amazed, but when Root came
around for the third time the little
~title-holder got sore, and the more
Root Tapped him the sorer he got. He
says he is going to get hunk tonight.
but that remains to be seen.
If Root had only licked Collins, it
could have been put down as a lucky
victory by saying the champ was a
bit off form, but when you figure Wiley,
who is about as good as Collins, was
beaten equally as bad, it shows Root
was their master and won on his mer-
its, and he is the n best bet again
tomorrow night.
The race will be from a standing
start, the same as the race last week,
but the distance has been cut down
to fifteen miles instead of twenty. The
distance Is very satisfactory to all three
riders. and it does not favor any one
of them.
The other events on the card for to-
morrow are a fve-mile open AMI a two
mile handicap for the pros and a half
mile open and a three-mile handicap
forNthe amateurs. The W handicaps
will be run without heats.
In the two-mile pro handicap there
will be thirty-three starters, with
Frank Kramer and Jackie Clarke on
scratch. This is sure to be some race,
and should be as good as the big three
mile handicap Jackie Clarke won three
weeks ago. The long markers are sure
to work together to keep away from
the scratch men, and the latter are
going to have a hard ride to get the
middle markers, for they will all go
and change off pace for their mutual
benefit.
These handicaps are great races now
that team work has been stopped. All
of the men stick to the finish and work
together beautifully. Some of the best
races seen at the Velodron1e this sea-
son have been the handicaps.
The fve-mile open pro will be run
in one heat with lap money for twenty
seven laps, and 1t is going to be the
usual hard grind, with Kramer and
Clarke probably fighting it out at the
finish for first money. While Kramer
has the call and is easily the favorite
in this race, little Jackie Clarke is
coming fast and is getting better every
meet. The Australian made by far
his best showing of the season at the
Velodrome Sunday, and gave Kramer
the hardest battle in an open race he
has had this year. Jackie rode at a
disadvantage, as he was on the out
side, but he showed enough speed to
have won had he been on the pole.
Jackie is about due to put n over
on the champ and 1t would not be
surprising to see him do the trick to-
morrow night.