Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-07-12
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COMBINE OUT To
HANG LAWRENCE
Youthful Pace.Follower, How
ever, Confident He Can Keep
Away from Veterans in the
Pace=FoIlowing Game-Percy
May Go to Europe.
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Tonight Is the night on which the
fate of little Percy Lawrence will be
sealed. Elmer Collins and George
Wiley have got the hangman's knot
all ready and these executions of all
ambitious youngsters who aspire to
enter their domain and follow the
motors are prepared to hand to little
Percy What they handed to Eddie
Root and a few others.
Lawrence trimmed Collins and
Wiley at Boston, but at the local
track 1t Is a different proposition.
The Boston races were overlooked
by Collins and Wiley on account of
the track favoring the rider who got
off in the lead, but on the Velodrome
the lead amounts to naught and it is
on this track they figured the lamb
would meet ltsefate.
On the velodrome any position is a
good position, for If a rider has the
speed he can go around. If Lawrence.
who is a fast starter, gets off in the
. lead tonight, Collins and Wiley
will start a relentless attack from the
rear that will break L~awrence's heart
unless he is their MASTER
Lawrence, however, is not the least
OIL QlSlQTDtu anu 10 COiiildCiAe VI w
tory. Percy likes the Velodrome track
and thinks he will be at his best to-
night. L~awrence's confidence in his
own ability increased when he de
feated Ray Duer last Sunday. Duer
is riding well now and gave Lawrence
a mighty battle, but Percy went at
him like a veteran and showed he was
a gamester by his cool and clever
49, - IT, -,,4Ar ,a,ahfna
rode dangerously near and were al
most leaning on him, lap after lap, In
record time.
If there is the least bit of yellow
in a man it is under these circun.-
stances that 1t will show. Little
Percy never wavered and the expert
enced veterans of the game immedi-
ately put the stamp of approval on
this aspiring y~oungster.
If Lawrence. comes through with n
victory tonight there is a golden OPP
portunity awaiting him in Europe
Jimmy Moran, just when he was
reaching the very pinnacle of success
abroad, had the misfortune to face and
break his collarbone, which will prac-
tically put him out for the rest of the
season.
An American is wanted to take
Moran's place and as Collins and
Wiley are both under contract to ride
here Lawrence is the only rider who
can accept a European proposition,
which is sure to be made If he ticks
Collins and Wiley tonight. Moran has
booking for twenty-seven races and,
as they are all international affairs
and a good American rider Is desir-
able in these contests, little Lawrence
would fit in nicely.
Little Jackie Clarke is out for re-
venge tonight. and he will try to get
'hunk' with everybody by winning the
one-mile open professional, which Is
the other feature event on he card.
After bein. disqualified in the six
hour race and being knocked down
from behind in the one-rnile champion
ship last Sunday by the clumsy Krebs,
Jackie is a bit sore and feels that the
link" has been on his trail long
enough.
The open race tonight was built to
order for Jackie. 1t will be paced n
paced fast, and that is just Jackies
game-a fast, hard race. This race
will be run in eats, with ten riders to
qualify for the final.
After a thfee-day rest Kramer Goul-
let, Mcfarland, Schwab, Fem, Hill
II all the stars are on edge again
n the open is sure to develop into a
"rough-house' race.
There will be no races on the circuit
this week for the professional sprinters,
and as this is the only ia k-pot that
will be opened until Sunday they will
all make a strong bid for IT. money
tonight.
In the amateur events. which are a
half-mile open and a three-mile handi-
cap, there will be the usual big entry.
Frank Blatz. Alvin Lotus, Frank
Cavanagh and Chester Smith will prob
ably be the contenders in both of these
races.
The baek-markers are working well
together in the handicaps now and
generally get up, although the handi-
caps are longer than ever tonight and
the scratch men may never see the
long-markers.
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