Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-15
| SPECIAL ATTENTION
GIVEN TO COLLEGE
BASEBALL SPORTS.
Clarke Beats Champion in First,
While Fogler Takes the
Other Two.
BY D. w. L.
q HE three-cornered team mate

IT. HE three-cornered team mattel
race at the Velodrome yester.
day, while it may have dis.
appointed some whose favorite did not
win. was a race worth going miles to
see, and the 1900 fans that came to wit
ness the sport went away satisfied that
they had got their moneys worth.
II took three heats to decide the
Fpgler and team the winners, and
there was not a dull moment In either
of the heats. The racing throughout
was the kim that makes people come
again; but the match race brought
everyone to their feet. and the shouts
must nave been heard a good distance
away.
The first heat started with Frank
Kramer and Willie Fem on the pole,
the Clarke MacFarland and the Fogler-
Root teams in the order named. The
lanky Californian was not satisfied
with that position long, n when they
had gone a lap he started out. n
managed to slip in between Root n
Fogler, so that Fogler had his wheel,
instead of his teammates, and Clarke
was on Fogler's. where he seemed per-
fectly satisfied to be. This heat had
evidently been carefully planned by
MacFarland. because when they had
gone two laps he started out on an ap-
parently purposeless sprint, since his
teaInmate was not anywhere near him.
From then on 1t was rough going"
indeed.
The riders did everything they could
without running the danger of getting
disqualified. Two and a half laps from
home Mac sat up n let the field go,
leaving them in the following order:
Fem. Kramer, Root, Fogler and
Clarke. Here Fem got the signal to
CO., and he vent half a lap, dropping
down on the pole to let the champ"
go by when Root made his bid to go
around. Eddie lac Tapped his wheel
when Frank put on a little squirt, keep
ing his position on the pole. A lap
and a quarter from home Clarke made
his bid, and then 1t was that every
body just stood up n hollered. When
he started Jackie rode so high past
Root that he almost hit the fence.
Getting clear of Eddie, he shot down
the bank as if he were shot from "A
gun. Coming around and down he
effectively shut In .Fogler, and then It
was a race to the tape between the
little Australian and his rival Kramer.
Racing to the tape In a terrific sprint,
Jackie finished first in a well-earned
race, just nipping Frank at the tape.
But for a puncture in Jackie's wheel
in the second heat he would have won
the heat and the race. Foxy old Mac
planned for this heat a trick that,
while 1t was not new, was unusual
enough to bring home the bacon but
for the accident to his teammates tire.
After they had gone n lap he
started a sprint, leaving Clarke with
the bunch. He was a hundred yards
away looking like a six-day racer
stealing q lap with the bunch asleep
when his teammate punctured. and
the neal had to be run over. The wise
old fox had prepared a surprise for the
others, and it almost worked.
The next lea was simple. There
was not much jockeying for position.
They all got off to a good start. and
Root and Mac" dropped their team
mates when there were about two
laps to go, but Eddie Root kept in the
race. pulling his ma to within strik-
ing distance of home, being in the lead
at this time. Here. when they were
allowed to go, they were In the follow
ing order: Fogler. Clarke n Kramer.
Kramer started to go, but when he had
tapped Clarke's rear wheel, thus pin
ming him in, he stalled a bit, evidently
not thinking Joe dangerous. He only
figured on shutting off Jackie. He
Jumped and stalled to the last turn,
keeping Clarke sewed up, n then
started out, but 1t was too late. I'm
like on the old track. where he could
always ride to h front In the stretch
when he started to go in the last turn,
1t was too late. for the blond boy from
Brooklyn won the heat, having had the
advantage of a good pull from Eddie
In the next heat there was another