Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-09-06
CLARKE BETTER,
WILL START IN
TWO HARD RACES
Besides the Championship Event
the Rocket" Will Hook Up
With Alfred Goullet in Match
Race-Kramer Now Has Nine
Points Lead in Championship
Event.

The race meet at the Velodrome to-
night may be the last midweek meet
of the season. Unless the weather be-
comes warmer there will be no more
night racing this season. The Wednes-
Cay night meets have been very sue
cessful, both from a racing and a f1nan-
cial standpoint.
The card for tonight Is one of the
best night programs and should fur
'nish some very good racing. Jackie
Clarke has entirely recovered from his
i~ndisposition, and Is ready to continue
the race for the American champion
ship. The Rocket has got a hard
night of racing before him, for he
is not only up against a hard cham
%,pionship race, but also a match race
with Alfred Goullet, a bear-cat of nc
mean order. Goullet is more than
anxious to lick Clarke, too. qoullet
pulled Clarke in the first heat of the
team race Labor Day, and he wanted
Clarke to do the donkey work for
him In the second heat. Clarke re-
fused, and as a result Goullet got sore
4 and will try to get hunk tonight by
trcuncing the Rocket" in the match.
II Is sure to be some race.
Champion Kramer is now leading by
nine points in the championship point
teble. Kramer has fifty-seven points
and Clarke Is second with forty-eight.
There are eight or nine more champion
ship races to be run and Clarke still
has a fighting chance. The least slip
on Kramer's part and Jackie will nail
him to the mast. The champion is
having a taste of the hard luck Jackie
experienced earlier in the season. He
punctured in his two-mile champion
ship two weeks ago, and Labor Day
he was almost thrown at the start
CT the quarter-mile championship. Joe
FCgler and Alfred Goullet both cut the
Marvel when he tried to get to the
front.
In the half-mile title race tonight q
a start will not be so disastrous> A
puncture is the only menace the cham
pion need fear, unless 1t is teamwork.
When Kramer won the five-mile cham
pionship 1t looked as though Drobach
and Goullet were teaming, and Clarke
declared that he would come back at
the champion with a bit Of high-class
teamwork on his own account. How
ever, Clarke may have changed his
mind. 1t would be hazardous for him
W oNlClIlBA tillo Will &C oo
on the job.
One of the last paced races OF the
season will be run tonight, aad it will
surely be the final appearance of
Jimmy Moran In a race with Champion
Elmer Collins. These stars of the
motor-paced game have put up the
greatest races ever seen here behind
pace, and the ten-mile contest should
be no exception. Collins and Moran
arrived here yesterday, and both riders
are in fine condition. Ten miles is the
favorite distance of both riders, and
they can travel at top speed al the
way. Collins trimmed Moran at Bos-
, ton Labor Day; in fact, Collins has
won every time he has met Moran,
but all of the races have been close.
Although beaten. Jimmy was never
disgraced.
At the close of the season here a
number of the paced riders Will leave
for Europe for six weeks of racing on
foreign tracks. They will all return
for the six-day race In Madison Square
Garden In December.
There are two amateur races on tie
card tonight, ani frank Cavauagh Viii
attempt to prove that he is the m;tster
of Alvin Lotus. in the last few meets
the Newarker .lAs shown his neeis TO
the speedy Providence rider, and it
begins to look IS though Cavanash is
the big gun in the amateur class.