Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-19
DANISH CYCL|ST
HOLDS SPOTLIGHT
Fans on Anxious Seat for Ellie
gaard-Grenda Match
Tomorrow.
STARS IN OTHER RACES


The interest of the bike fans is
centred in the match race at the
Velodrome tomorrow in which the
great Danish champion, Thorwald
Ellegaard. viii meet ALI Grenda, the
former champion of Australia This
is to be the Danes first race of
series that the promoters hope viii
lead up to a match with Worlds
Champion Frank Kramer.
Ellegaard has been in this country
five days and he is in pretty fair
condition to race. He is the biggest
man in the bike game with the ex-
ccptlon of Frank Kramer, and his
record on the cycle tracks is even
more remarkable than the Yankee
speed kings. Year after year he has
toppled over the best sprinters of
| Europe, and his record in the world
championships will probably never
be equaled Six victories, two sec
onds and one third in the biggest of
all title races is some record. He
has been unplaced in but one of the
ten worlds championships in which
! he has started.
We have heard about the doings of
Ellegaard for years and now we will
see him perform In Grenda Ellie
gard will meet rider who rides
in exactly the same style, and under
the circumstances it would seem
that the Australian will be his hard
est opponent with the one exception
of Frank Kramer The Dane does
not possess the great jump of Emil
Friol, Kramer and Aft Goullet. He
must start early and unwind long
sprint. Once under way he has great
speed, which he can maintain for
an unusually long distance.
In his races with Friol, Leon Hour
lier and other racers of this type
who have great jumps, the Dane al
ways rides from the front and car
ries them at such speed their jumps
are of no value, and he will proba-
bly, do the same thing in his races
here. On past performances Ellie
gard should be the winner, but he
will meet the big Australian just at
a time when the latter is on edge,
/ and ii is predicted that he will have
a big job taking the Antipodean into
! camp.
AT the Vclodrome yesterday after
noon attenuated Alfred declared that
he would stop the, Dane and put him
in the discard the first time out,
which is the longest and most star
Ting statement that the big fellow
| has made since he migrated to this
country. Grenda is a confident fell
low, but he keeps his confidence con-
| fined to himself, as a rule. He also
made the statement of how he would
ride his race, but there was nothing
startling in that, as he rides but one
kind of race, and III; is from the
front.
Ellegaard would make no predic-
tions of how he would ride or what
the outcome would be. 'I'n do my
best" was all he would say. The
Dane is a great staller and in the past
ne has often complained of being
sick when he was really in excellent
form and feeling like a sure winner.
| This stall has caused his opponents
| to become careless and the old fox
! WOULD TeRlSltI an tuSy NlClOl iiS
tried 1t on Kramer once and got away
with it. If Mr. Ellegaard is a Sick
man. tomorrow then let Mr.. Grenda
be on his guard.
The program is big and contains a
variety of races. In addition to the
big match there is a one-mile open
and a half-mile handicap in which
Jackie Clark, Goullet, Kramer Joe
Fogler, Paddy Hehir, Ernie Pye.
Frank Cavanagh and twenty-five
other pros will start An added
starter in these races will probably
be Gordon Walker, who arrived from
Salt Lake City last night. Walker
was accompanied by Harold Taylor.
an amateur rider, who won the ma
iority of the amateur races at the
Western track this season and who Is
said to be very fast, and a rough
ster' of no mean order. He should
be very successful in the races here.
There is a two-mile tandem open
on the bill for the professionals and
eight teams will start in this race.
Fogler, who is more successful on
the tandems than on singles, will ride
with Goullet and as they will be
mounted on Kramer's new tandem
which is a fast machine. they should
show a world of speed and take down
the long end of the purse. The other
races are miss and out" invitation
for the professionals and a three-mile
open, half-mile handicap and a novice
for the amateurs.
| -
Aft Goullet was very much pleased
with himself after working out at
the Velodrome yesterday. II am just
beginning to feel like myself again"
declared "Goullie," land let all those
bear-cats look out tomorrow"
Little Jackie Clark is the rider who
will take some beating in both the
open and the handicap. Jackie has
had several days of good training and
he has garnered some considerable
amount of confidence as a result of
his double win of last Wednesday. He
is banking on victory in the open
and has hopes of taking the handi-
cap, too.
Francesca Verri, the speedy Italian,
cut a big cash in his right foot yes
terday in the training quarters of the
Velodrome while taking a shower
BATH which required several stitches.
He is game, however, and will start
in both the open and the handicap
rapAc tOn1orrow