Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-28
CLARK, RIDING LIKE SIXTY,
TOO MUCH FOR ELLEGAARD
Jackie Just Breezes Home in the First Heat, but
Ceverly Makes the Second Heat Look
Like a Hard Race.
CHAMPION KRAMER SURPRISES NATIVES BY COME BACK

Jackie Clark demonstrated that his
victory last Wednesday night over
Thorwald Ellegaard was not a fiuke
by again defeating the Dane in
straight heats at the Velodrome, yes
terday afternoon, before the largest
crowd of the season, more than 10000
persons being present Clarks vic
tory was highly pleasing to the big
crowd and was most impressive, in
that he beat Ellegaard at every angle
Of the game. In the first heat he
let Ellegaard set a terrific pace for
over two laps and then shot to the
front and beat him to the finish line,
while in the second heat Clark hung
to Ellegaard's rear wheel until the
homestretch, and then came by and
won.
The double victory achieved by
Clark over the Dane rather puts him
on the scrap heap, so to speak, at
the Velodrome. In other words, the
management has decided to give
Ellegaard a few more races before
they turn him loose in match races
against any more of the local stars.
AS a result of the move, Ellegaard,
Goullet and Cavanagh will meet in
a French point race on Wednesday
night.
champion Frank l.. Kramer took
down the honors in the mile open
after a rough race, the aforesaid
rough race setting Iver Lawson back
$40 in his bank account, that being
the amount of the fine imposed on
him by Referee Arthur Ross for
rough riding. Lawson had a Salt
Lake City train in tow and did not
care who he TANNED out of the way
trying to get it to the front He
succeeded, too and landed Hehir in
that position on the bell lap, but
Kramer came along and nipped him
in the home stretch, after putting up
a terrific ride around the upper turn.
Lawson's rough riding spoiled what
would have otherwise been corking
finish between Kramer, Clark, Goul-
let, Cavanagh and Verri, all of whom
were in good positions for the final
dash when Lawson began to rip
things up. Verri lost out entirely in
the resultant scramble. while the best
Clark could do was finish fifth. Both
Verri and Clark protested, but it did
no good, as far as gaining them any
thing in the race.
Goullet was going very fast at the
finish, even faster than Kramer, but
the best he could get was third, as
Hehir snagged Kramer's wheel as the
latter went by and sleigh-rided the
last twenty-five yards.
In the match race Clark had a
puncture in the second lap of the first
heat and the heat was started over.
Clark forced Ellegaard to the lead
and he kept it for all during the
early part of the heat. For the first
two laps Ellegaard stuck to the bot
tom of the track, but on the third
he went clear to the advertising signs
at the top, with Clark following him.
On the fourth lap as he was round
ing the lower turn Ellegaard shot
10 the bottom of the track with his
high gear working at terrific speed
and started a wild dash for home
Clark was right with him and did not
try to take the lead until the bell lap,
when he went to the front on the
back stretch and forged a wheel
length to the front. Ellegaard tried
hard to get up to Clark coming
through the home stretch, but failed
to do so.
In the second heat Clark did not
intend to get such a fast ride at the
finish and took the lead himself at
the start and held it for three laps.
Then Ellegaard forged ahead and at