Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-06
PETITE MRS. FOCLER'S ADVICE
JOE'S BIGGEST ASSET IN'CRIND
Brooklyn Plugger's Better Half
Has Remarkable knowledge
of Cycling Game.
SIZE KNOWS EVERY ANGLE
Watches All Her Husbands
Races and Is His Stern
est Critic.

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Mrs. Joe Fogler, the petite better
half of the Brooklyn plugger, is his
best adviser in his six-day races, and
there probably never was a woman
with keener insight into cycle rae
ing. There is nothing that escapes
her in race, and she is Joe's most
severe critic when he Is guilty of an
error in Judgment. She has witnessed
every race in which he has competed,
and what she does not know about
combinations" and other inside stuff
is hardly worth the telling. She will
be at the race next week every day.
and her advice to her husband will
be the most valuable that will be Of
fered him.
Little Dolly Fogler, his fve-year-oid
daughter, will be his mascot. She saw
her first six-day race last year in the
Garden, and Joe won. Little Dolly
was also with her mother and father
in Paris last winter, when daddy was
the victor In the Paris contest.
Won Seven Six-Day Grinds.
OF the thirty-four six-day riders
who will start in the annual six-day
race at Madison Square Garden one
minute after midnight Sunday there
is not one with a record that will
stand comparison with the record of
Joe Fogler, the battling boy from
Brooklyn. Fogler has won seven big
six-day races and countless smaller
races. -Four times he has won the
New York six-day race, three times
he has won the Boston race and he
won the only race ever run in Paris.
He has also been placed In the Berlin
and Brussels races In which he start
ed. Nine short hour races have gone
to the credit of Fogler, which gives
won than any other rider.
Within a year Fogler has started
in four races and won them all, which
is the most brilliant part of his six
day career. And all of these races
were big races 1.-THE Batter" started
8 his marvellous winning streak in Bos-
ton last winter by taking the Boston
race. He followed this by victory
IN the New York race with Walter
Rutt. and went to Paris after the
grind in the Garden and captured
the Paris six-day race, one of the
greatest six-day races ever run. The
!. last of his four consecutive victories
was in Boston few weeks ago.
Had Classy Partners.
In all of his races within the past
year Fogler was doubled up with very
good partners, and in only two of
them did he do the sprinting for his
team at the finish. but the result
would probably have been the same
had old Joe been called upon to do
the honors for the various teams in
which he was an able-bodied partner.
The cry has been heard that Fogler
Isl "all in" but he goes on winning
race after race nevertheless. This
year some of the riders are SYM
pathizing with ALI Goullet for being
so unfortunate as to be doubled up
with Fogler in the race in the Garden,
but it is dollars to cents that Joe will
be as good as Goullie and better than
many of his fellow riders who are
saying that he Is finished as a
grinder.
Is Crazy Like Fox.
Joe is the wise old OWL of the
game, and there is not a header rider
in the coming race. Many a time his
head has saved him when his legs
failed. In the recent Boston race Joe
was in bad shape at the finish, but
when his partner, liver Lawson, was
disqualified in the hrst finish the old
battler went out and, outgeneraling
his opponents, brought home the
HDdCOD II was CIltitCly uCdoWOih TIA
won that race, and he will probably
win many others by the use IF that
same head.
Folger learned the game through his
close association with Mcfarland for
20 many years, Big Mac having
Taught Joe all the tricks of the trade.
Fogler's worst fault-a fault that has
cost him thousands of dollars-is his
lack of confidence in himself. Through
this lack of confidence Fogler is prone
10 protect himself by teaming, and.
of course, he has to split his winnings
with the riders who team with him.
He has teamed when he could have
Won ION his own" as the cyclists say.
when a rider teams when he could
Win without assistance It Is costing
him money. Fogler will not agree
with this reasoning, however, and, In
q way, he is correct. It will be
noticed that when Fogler teams he
always arranges it so that the other
fellow does the donkey work and he
wins. AS the winners get the large
bonuses in the big races, this offsets
What it costs him to team.
Has Paris Race mt stake.
In the New York race this year
there Is another incentive besides VIC
tory and the accompanying prize
money which will make Fogler ride
as he never rode before, and ride
without being party to any combi-
nations. If he wins the New York
lace he will get In the Paris race but
be must win by clean race. Mac
Fa-land will be the judge of Fogler's
fidfng, and it will be MacFarland who
will decide whether or not he makes
the Paris grind
81 The Paris race is just as big as the
New York race in point of prize
money and bonus money, and old Joe,
who is fast becoming one Of the big
landlords of Brooklyn. is very anxious
to cut in on some of that French coin.