Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-26
FEARLESS JACKIE
TO RACE SPEARS
Clark Will Take Kramer'S Place
in Match With Speedy
Outlaw"
DOINGS HERE AND THERE

Bob Spears that long, low, rakish
craft that sailed past Champion
Frank Kramer like liner passing
n fishing smack in the two-thirds
mile handicap at the Velodrome Sun
day, will meet Jackie Clark IN a
match tomorrow night at the local
track. Spears was scheduled to meet
Kramer, but that match was caileo
off and the match with Clark SUD-
stituted. Clark is in great form and
Kramer is not In the best OF condi-
ton, which brought about the
change. The race will be the usual
French style match at two-thirds or
a mile, best two out of three heats.
If Clark fails to stop Spears the lat
ter will meet Kramer next Sunday.
Since his advent in the ranks OF
the regulars" Spears has shown
great form and a burst of speed that
places him in the most exclusive d.
vision of the pro class. Twice he
has defeated ALT Grenda in match
events: in the Velodrome- Motordrorne
team match he raced to victory over
Clark, Frank Cavanagh, Joe Fogler
and Grenda, and then he topped 1t
off Sunday with his brilliant triumph
over the champion of the world. The
race tomorrow night will will be his
first match against real top notch
French style match rider, however.
The other races on the bill tomor-
row night are a half-mile handicap,
three mile open and 'miss-and-
out" invitation for the professionals
and a three-mile handicap and one
mile open for the amateurs. The
open is called the Marcus Hurley
stakes In honor of the former Amer
lean and worlds champion.
One more big road classic is to
be decided among the cyclists of
Europe before the road racing sea-
son across the Atlantic draws to
close. The race in question Is the
one to be run between Paris and
Rome and the dates are September
to g. All the stars of the road
will be among the starters. They in
ciude Thys, the winner of the recent
"Tour of France" Petit-Breton, Gar
rigou, Troussilier and others. First
prizez in addition to the liberal bo-
nus money that is being paid Is $500,
second, $400 third, 5000, and the
other prizes are graded down to $40.
The professional sprint champion
ships of the world will be decided
Thursday and Sunday next at Leip-
sig, Germany, and the program as
arranged gives the cyclists plenty
of racing for the two days. In ad-
dition to the Sprints and the motor
paced championships the events in
clude a race for German riders, one
for strangers, two tandem events. a
handicap and an open, a lap race, a
five-eights- handicap and a con-
ISOLATION.
On Friday the sprinters will again
visit Walter Bardgett's relic at New
Haven, and the card as arranged
will include a ten-mile American
Championship, a one-mile handicap
and two-mile invitation for the
professionals, while the amateurs
will cavort in a half-mile handicap
and also ride their heads off in an
Australian pursuit race.
Donald McDougall, the American
and ex-world's champion-one has
to say Tex" now since Bill Bailey
won the title at Berlin on Sunday
has am eye to business, which sim
ply goes to show that the Scotch in
Mac will always assert itself Mac
was married on Monday and left for
Boston, where he appears tonight in
match race with Willie Turville,
the star of the Revere Beach track.
Mac says he will stay in Boston IL
Manager Butler can use him on Sat-
urday In a match race and will then
Come back to Newark for the Sun
day races. To ride two matches on
ones honeymoon shows that Mac is
combining touring and business at
the same time.