Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-30
OVERHAUL TRACK
FLOR CYCLE RACES
VeIodrOme Saucer Is Strength
ened for Clark-McNamara-
Grenda Match.
BIG CARD FOR LABOR DAY


If. the surface OF the Velodrome
track will stand the strain there Is
every prospect of the fans witnessing
a great bicycle race at the Velodrome
tomorrow. when Jackie Clark, ALI
BRENDA and Reggie Mcnamara meet
in the flfteen-mile tandem-pa paced race.
With fifteen tandem teams pounding
away for fifteen miles there is a ques-
ton as to whether the track Will
hold up under the strain. The boards
in the surface are so rotten the novice
riders punch holes in it with their
heads when they fall and 1t is only
the diligent efforts of Willie Bolles,
the master of the Velodrome, and his
assistants, that has made it possible
to go this far this season.
The tandems do the mischief and
it is with forebodings of dire results
that Master Bolles views the big
paced match race. To make matters
worse there will be a tandem race on
the bill preceding the paced events
and as all of the sixteen teams that
will figure in the paced race will
compete in this event the ship may
be scuttled before the feature is put
on, Bolles and his assistants made
a careful examination of the track
yesterday and all of the weakest
spots were strengthened, but there
are still many places where heavy
tandem team may go through.
The paced match will be pretty
even thing from every angle. The
three contestants are well matched
and the pacemakers will be chosen by
the riders just before the start of
the race by the principals in the
match. They will draw for first and
second choice and then each rider
will pick his team in turn, in the
manner that sides" are chosen for
baseball on the lots BY selecting the
pacing teams in this way no rider
will have the advantage of better
pacing crew than his competitors.
Clark will be a strong favorite, no
doubt. for the honors, but from what
has been seen of Mcnamara he has
proven a very strong and game rider
who will shine in just this sort of a
race. Reggie will probably go right
out from the gun and attempt to lap
his opponents. If he plans his bat
tie, that way "corks" will probably be
riying long before the tenth mile
fora-five tandem teams can give the
stand Clark. with his great sprint
working at a wonderful pitch just at
present. may elect to follow McNa-
mara throughout and beat him in the
final lap. Big Grenda will ride just
according to how he feels and IL he
is in good form he will make the
going, fast all the way. 1t Is good
match and it is anybody's race.
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ss Races Labor Day.
There will be big meet at the
iVelodrome Labor Day and all of
those union riders" from the Motor
drome will pass up the big labor
parade and work" And they may
pay either, which Is against the prin-
ciples of their affiliated unions. The
principal race on the Labor Day card
Us one-mile scratch race called the
Grand Criterion. Twelve of the best
eprinters in the professional class
have been selected for the Criterion
and 1t will be run along the lines of
n French point race. There Will be
6our heats with three starters In each
,knd the winners only will qualify for
|. 1e final. Then there will be a
Kspechage heat for the riders who are
nplaced in the trials and the winner
the repechage will make the final.
he l.Yal will be run In heats and
e winner of the race will have to
Ike two Of the final heats. By
Inning the race in this manner 1t
euld go to six heats before reaching
conclusion. Second, third, fourth
nd fifth money will be decided on
ofntB. The prize money for the race
mounts to $500. of which 500 goes
10 the winner.
Each of the four heats will provide
good race In the first heat All
Brenda. Eddie Root and Reggie Nc
Namara will be the starters The
Second heat will bring together Clark.
Bob Spears and Fred Hill, with
Frank Cavanagh. Iver Lawson and
zoe Fogler in the third heat and
Kramer Paddy Hehir and Grenda In
the fourth heat.
The sother races on the Labor Day
card are five-mile handicap and a
Dne-third- mile open for the amateurs
ande an invitation, miss and out
and a three-mile handicap for the
professionals. The amateur handicap
will be run in heats and this Is the
1rst time a five-mile handicap has
been billed at the Velodrome.
Champion Kramer, who has been
more or less overshadowed this sea-
son by the great riding of Clark, Will
nave n chance to shine In both the
meet tomorrow and the holiday meet.
The majority of the races run this
reason have favored Clark, being at
the longer distance, but there Is
haiftnIile open tomorrow that the
champion should win, and the Critic
ricn appears to be. just his dish.
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The Boil dor, the cruelest race ever
deVfsed, will start at 8 o'clock tomor-
row evening and will finish at the
same hour Sunday. The Boil dor is a
twenty paced race and this
will be the twentieth running of the
classic. The starters will be Shirley,
of England; Vanderstuyft and
EHeraerts, of Belgium; Leon Georget,
Christophe Petit-Breton, Godivier.
Eipefdanger, L. Trousselier, Colsaet
and Dhulst. of France. and Luter and
Joeck. of Switzerland.