Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-13
CLARK COMPELLED
TO QUIT STRUGGLE
Grenda Drops Out and Jackie
Teams With WalthOur, but
Finally Gives Up.
pERCHICOT is ALSO OUT

Shortly after o'clock this morn
ing, Jackie Clark was forced to re-
tire from the six-day race as the re-
suit of injuries sustained In falls dur
ing the early morning Jams" A few
minutes later, Perchicot- gave up the
struggle and Applicants also quit.
Breton teamed up with Packebusch
and the team continued a lap behind
the leaders.
Collins Breaks Shoulder.
In addition to establishing new
figures for attendance and a new
worlds record for distance covered
marks. some of which have stood for
sixteen years, this years six-day race
in Madison Square Garden is also
establishing a new mark for injuries
to the riders. This unfortunate phase
OF the race was accumulated last
night when Elmer Collins fell and
sustained broken shoulder. Collins
is the third rider who has met with
this fate since the race started. Wal
thour, who was Collins's partner,
teamed up with Jackie Clark, but
Clark was forced out early this
morning. Grenda, suffering for two
days with q swollen knee and suffer-
ing excruciating pain with every turn
of the pedals. retired from the race
in order to permit Walthour to team
up with Clark. When the announce
ment of the new team was made at
10:30 p. m. 1t was greeted with great
applause, but the ovation accorded
Clark, when he took the track four
hours later was never before heard at
a slx-day race. Clark and Walthour
have been favorites for years, but
their present popularity is astounding
and very fiattering to the riders and
the race.
Ovation for Grenda.
The crowd did not overlook Grenda
and when he rode off the track after
Jackie went on, a great cheer went
up from the thousands who we're
waiting, expecting when the new
team went on that the wild, fascina-
ting sprint that brought them there
and for which they had waited long,
would soon be started. Never be-
fore was there such a crowd in
Madison Square Garden at a six-day
race. At 3 O'Clock this morning
every seat was filed, hundreds stood
In every aisle and in the passageways
back of the seats in the three gal
leries. The oval inside the track was
seething mass of humanity and in
all this big crowd there was not the
least sign of disorder.
walthour and Clark Tapped.
At five minutes after three this
morning the expected happened, but
the result was not Just what the
crowd had wished for. Wa.thour and
Clark started their effort amid the
cheers of the thousands and IL was
very evident that the crowd expected
to see them get their lap with a rush.
Instead, however, they were Tapped
by six of the leading teams. Wal
thour started the sprint that re-
suited in the absolute rout of the
team. And hard luck again figured
in the further downfar of Clark.
Jackie was caught in a pocket high
on the bank and he could not get out
to go after the leaders following q
loss of ground the team sustained
while Walthour was on the track.
The pocket was not intentional. Five
riders who had just been relieved
swung high on the Madison avenue
turn and were spread pretty much
across the track just as Clark came
rushing up from behind. To keep
from falling Clark was compelled to
OdShRSooi anu OhGk OuL Oh Tie pocket.
With Goullet. Root, Lawrence and
Fiji half a lap in the lead and sprint
ing at top speed they caught Clark
before he could get up speed again.
Many Penalties Inflicted.
Twice before in this jam" Clark
was interfered with by the riders
changing, but 1t was all the luck of
the game, and the officials were pow
erless to do anything. When the
smoke of the battle cleared 1t was a
different lineup that greeted the fans
on the score board. The German
team, Applicants and Packebnsch, and
the French pair, Breton and Perchicot,
who had remained with the leaders for
over five days. were two and one laps
behind respectively. The Cory
Walker team and Carmen and Cam
eron were penalized one lap for max
ing pickups that could not be tolerat-
ed. Goullet and Fogler failed to es-
cape the iron hand of Referee Ross
and they were fined $25 for making a
pickup from the top of the track. The
German pair took exception to the rul-
ing of the scorers and left the track