Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-01
CRENDA SCORES STIRRING
VICTORY IN DISTANCE RACE
Big ALI Lowers Colors of Jackie Clark and Reggie
Mcnamara Lapping Both in Fifteen Mile
Tandem Paced Cycle Contest
PACE IS A HOT ONE THROUGHOUT EVENT

The Marcel Durand prize. a 15-mile
tandem-paced race, which was the
feature Of the meet at the Velodrome
yesterday afternoon and which ran
into the twilight before reaching a
conclusion, was a cross between a
Mexican uprising and Nicaraguan
revolution. There was considerable
noise, great excitement and little
bloodshed. Just as dusk lowered
over the track big ALT Grende, of
Tasmania, emerged a victor with
Reginald Mcnamara second. on lap
to the bad, and the famous awaiting.
rocketing Jackie Clark third, two laps
behind the winner.
The advance notices touted the
race as a gruelling affair, and 1t sure
ly measured up to those predictions
Before the race had progressed one
third of the distance all three or the
contestants were done to a turn and
they were baked repeatedly before
the finish was reached. Very bad
Matchmaking marked the contest and
the pacemakers ran wild throughout,
which killed off the riders from time
to time.
Grenda won largely because he had
the best of the pace, ex-world
champion Frank Kramer and ALI
Outlet. who supervised the battery
of tandem teams that formed the
Tasmanian'S pacing outfit, either
used better judgment or had them
under better control than Jack Ne
vile and Elmer Collins, who looked
after the pacing of Mcnamara and
Clark, respectively. Mcnamara killed
his chances of victory by racing after
Grenda unpaced when the Tasmanian
few by on the fourth mile. Up to
this point in the race the sturdy
Reggie was riding easily and APP
peared to have very good chance
of winning. He tore pell NELL after
Grenda for four laps and when he
was finally picked up by one OF his
tandems he was too tired to hang
on and continued to lose ground. Just
before this happened Joe Fogler and
Paddy Hehir. the star team on the
Clark outfit, the team that was
figured to win the race for him,
murdered the Rocket" when they
sprinted four laps at top speed and
eventually shook him off. Clark
struggled along for few miles, rid
ing unpaced at times and occasionally
he was hanging on to either Grenda
or Mcnamara until he was finally
Tapped by Grenda, who had previous
ly Tapped Mcnamara.
In the latter stages of the race 1t
became intensely exciting and the
5000 fans forgot all about dinner en-
gagements, but increased their APP
petites by standing up and shouting
the greater part of the time. In the
tenth mile Grenda was in bad when
Lawson and Thomas, his best tandem
team, suffered a blown tire and came
to an abrupt stop, which made it
necessary for the giant cyclist to ride
unpaced for several laps.
Seeing Grenda in difficulty Clark
and Mcnamara took advantage of
the occasion and sprinted in an effort
to make up the lost lap that
separated them from the leader.
Grenda took advantage of the pro-
tecting rear wheel of Clark until Dro-
bach and Halstead came to his
rescue. After that Grenda took
things easy and followed his OPP
ponents to the finish without making
an effort to increase his advantage.
In the twelfth mile Clark was
shaken again and lost another lap. In
the last three miles of the battle
tandem after tandem crashed to the
track when tires began to weaken
from the continued fast pace and the