Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-03
NOVEL BIKE TEAM
RACE FOR PROS"
First String Riders to Draw
for Partners in Big
Event.
GUIOUARD MAY RACE HERE

uO1QOAhD HtAA HEASA
A. team race called the Encourage
ment Stakes will be the piece de re-
sistance on the mid-week card at tho
velodroune tonight. The style OF the
race is entirely new and on paper II
looks. as though 1t might prove very
interesting. 1t is sure to bring to-
pether all of the best professionals
riding at the Velodrome and with so
napv stars in the lineup it will
probably be contested with the bit
terness that marked the Grand Critic
rion of Labor Day.
Eight of the riders who will COM
pete in the race and who have been
selected by the management will not
ride in the trial heats; they are first
string riders and are called the
s'honor'' men. The rest of the field
will compete in four trial heats. in
which the riders who finish first and
second win make the semi finals and
be doubled up with the honor" men.
The Honor" riders are; Champion
Frank Kramer, Jackie Clark, liver
Lawson, Frank Cavanagh, ALI Goul-
let. ALI Grenda, Bob Spears and Reg
gle Mcnamara. Following the trial
heats the ''honor" riders will draw for
mariners. the names of the qualitiers
being placed in a hat. After this lot
terry is over then will follow the two
sefni-fin in which four teams VIII
start in each, and the teams finishing
first and second will make the final.
There will be four moneys in the
finals of the race and the heats will.
no doubt, be very interesting, as the
second string riders are very evenly
matched and they will battle hard 10
get in the final with sure money" for
All that make the final. Each OF the
seni-finals is sure TO be tough race,
and the final should be a Dear.
The drawing for partners will be
interesting. In all team races, in
which partners are selected by the
management, an effort is made to
make all of the teams as nearly equal
as possible. But in this race it will
be a lottery pure and simple. ana
some of the stars may draw lemons,
while others get 'capltal prizes
When the conditions of the race were
made known to Kramer, the title
holder Gid not greet the announce
ment with loud cheers. The poor old
vchanperS' said he was having hard
luck right ralong, and said he would
probab ly draw the veriest "plater" in
the lottery.
In his present form the champion
will have TO have pretty good mate
To make much of a showing and get
IN the final. Clark, on the other hand,
Is SO good right now he appears to be
able. to w in with any old partner and
lucky will be the chap of the second
string who is picked by "the Rocket.
The second string men will be as in
terested as i1le first-string riders wnen
the hat is passed around, and those
who get Clark and Grenda Will feel
like the remittance man who has Just
received a letter from home
The other races billed for tonight
are a three-Inile handicap and
..miss-and-out" invitation for the pro-
fessionals and a two-mile handicap
and a quarter mile open for the anna
tours. Over sixty amateurs and
forty-eight professionals are entered
IN the various events, and the pro-
gram Is a big one. The forty-eight
.pros' will ride TN the handicap
which will be run in one heat, but in
The amateur handicap there VIII De
two trial heats.
Angelo Gardellini, the Italian rider
who competed at the Velodrome the
latter part of last season, won the
championship of Italy. which was run
TeCEInlY. Inc giant 0holCtti Noo So
ond in the title race and Oliveri was
third. The race was confined to ltal-
ian riders.
Joe Fogler has retired for the re-
mainder of the outdoor season and
will not sport silk again until the six
day races get under way Battling
Joe" left yesterday for Mt. Clemens,
Mich, to take the waters at that
famous resort.
An effort will be made to bring old
Paul Guignard, the French pace
follower, who won the worlds motor
paced championship at Leipsic, to
America next season. Guignard IS
one of the greatest stayers the world
has ever seen and he surely would be
an attraction in this country
Mrs. Jackie Clark left for Salt Lake
CITY after the races at the Velodrome
Labor Day to attend the silver we'd
ding functions of her parents in the
Western city 1t is to be hoped that
q temporary bachelor life agrees with
1.-THE Rocket for his delightful mis-
behavior" on the bike track has been
the most pleasing feature to the Velo-
0ronae promoters this season.