Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-12

the Nelodrome last night MacDougal
on two occasions smashed the figure:
for the half-mile distance, which
were SO 2-5 seconds and held by E
L. Young, of Salt Lake City. In his
trial heat. MacDougall did Sc Id
which is one second off the mark, and
in his final heat he crashed the rec
ord, doing the distance from scratch
and practically unpaced in SO Id. He
is a wonder and no mistake, but it
behooves him to keep in strict train
ing Besides creating a new record
he defeated Willie Hanley, of Cali
fornia. in a match race. winning two
heats and losing one. Hanley, by the
way, is some rider, yet MacDougall
beat him easily.
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Cycling fans are about as tickle as
fans can be. When Joe Fogler pune
tured his tire in the final heat of the
two-mile championship last night, the
cheers that greeted his predicament
We're tremendous, but when the race
was foolishly stopped and Arthur
Ross, the referee, and John Nj. Chap
man, the manager. refused to allow
Fogler to start, the very same fans
booed the referee and the manager
and said the most unkind things
about everybody. From mortal en-
emies of Fogler, the fans, just to be
contrary, became the "Battler's''
most sympathetic friends. From at
serves him right" to Good boy, joel"
was only the matter of a moment.
So, from that, one cannot tell just
when he is likely to get the axe.
G
All the fuss came about through
a bold, greivous error on the part of
Gay Abeneste. the starter. With
three laps of the race over and the
men on the fourth lap. Fogler got
a puncture and the starter shot his
gun, denoting that the race was off.
Fogler made a big noise in order to
be allowed to start, but Ross and
Chapman wouldn't let him. Then, to
stir up matters worse, Jackie Clark
got puncture, leaving Frank
Kramer and Alfred Grenda as sole
competitors. At this stage, though,
Fogler got into the game again. He
saw an angle where he could be
third and he mounted a wheel and
rode out the race. Clark got on an
other wheel and also finished the
contest, which was won by Kramer
handily from Grenda. Clark was
placed third and Fogler fourth.
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The crowd was in hilarious mood,
and many of the spectators were very
free in showing their disapproval.
However, the race as it was run was
the only proper way. The starter
made mistake in stopping the race,
and he didn't have the authority, any
Wy. When Referee Ross and Man
ager Chapman came in on the seen.
and insisted on the rules being OF
served the spectators put up an awful
howl. However, rules are rules, and
should be obeyed. Championship
races do not call for restarting when
punctures occur, and it must be re-
membered that Kramer came mighty
close to losing his title through
securing punctures in three cham
pionship races. If Fogler and Clark,
after their punctures, had been al
it would have shown weakness on the
part of the promoters and the Of
ficials. AS the matter stands, some
of the fans are "peeved," but the
promoters can console themselves in
the fact that they stuck to the rules
and observed them to the letter.
C
From lowly long shots, the Amer
lean poloists have become the hottest
kind of favorites. The one game
which the Americans have won has
made all the difference in the world
With victory, light is always seen so
plainly, and some of the most expert
of authorities are finding it most
difficult to discover any good reason
why the English were held in such
high esteem before the first match
was played. OF course, to those who
are keen at all the reason for the
small hopes entertained for the Yam
KEGS success is easy. Dame Rumor
did it all. She said that the big
Four" was not in condition and
couldn't get in condition, and she was
responsible for numerous other re-
ports that tended to point out con-
clusively that We didn't have a
chance in the world. And when the
change was made from the big
Four" to the Foxhall P. Keene team
everybody was sure that something
was up-and there was. And when
Keene became injured and the shift
was made to the Big Four again
those who had any perception at all
just dropped the Yankees and gave
the victory to the English for no
particular reason.
G
Now, today, over on the stock ex-
change, the Americans are quoted as
/ to choices in the betting, whereas
on Monday last they were held as
to 1 against The outcome of the
first game, of course, has brought
about this tremendous change in the
speculation, but it is doubtful, for
many reasons, if the result Of the
opening day play showed such a wide
difference. AS the victor, America