Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-25
CLARK NOT AFRAID
To RACE THE DANE
Jackie, With One Victory,
Doesn't Fear Outcome of
a Second Match.
so UNLIKE A FIGHTER

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1t may be pretty tough after having
walloped a great adversary to be
asked TO do battle with him again,
but when Manager Chapman of the
Velodrome. rematched Jackie Clark
and Thorwald Ellegaard, following
THE Rockets" great victory Wednes-
day night, little Jackie uttered not
word Of protest or even passed one
word of comment. Imagine a star of
the boxing game showing such uncon-
cern But Clark has won once and
he feels pretty certain that he can do
the trick again.
Ellegaard is going to return to bu-
rope to ride in the championship Of
the world, and he may win the biggest
of all title races again, and the better
he performs after his return the more
prestige will go to his vanquishers
here. There are innumerable angles
to the bike game and all the profess
SIGNALS who are capable of little in
dependent thinking take advantage of
every possible angle, too. Ellegaard has
had reyerses before. He is quite un-
concerned over his defeat, for riders
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the trick in the past and just as often
he has come back and beaten the best
in the world. Previous to winning
tho worlds championship in Rome In
1910, Ellegaard was riding very poorly
and went down to defeat repeatedly,
but when the big race was run he
was fit again and he won. 1t was the
biggest surprise the Dane ever sprung,
however, as Emil Friol, the favorite,
was believed to be unbeatable at that
time. Jimmy Moran, who Is still pay
ing his dues in the N. c. A, was rae
ing in Europe that year and rode at
many meets at which Ellegaard COM
peted, and TO this day the venerable
James Francis cannot figure where
the Dane got that sudden burst of
speed. A little glory for Moran. But
for boneheaded pacemaker he would
have won the worlds motor-p paced
championship, which was run the
same day Ellegaard won the sprint
title.
The pro races for Sunday are a one
mile open, a two-mile handicap. a
"miss-and- out" and q one-mile tan
dem open. The amateur races are a
one-mile handicap a three-mile open
and half mile novice.
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Bobby Walthour, who can lay claim
to being the Oldest American bike
rider, is still able to win races abroad.
At Nuremberg, Germany, a week ago
last Sunday, Bobby won an hour race
behind the motors, in which he de-
feated Linart. Scheuermann and Dick
entmann and covered almost sixty
miles in the hour. Pretty good going
for an old mani
At the Olympia track in Berlin the
same day Walter Rutt and Leon
Hourlier shared the honors in the
sprint races. In a French point race
Rutt, Hourlier and Meyer were tied
after the final was run, with seven
points each, but in the match that fol-
lowed for first, second and third
money, Rutt was the winner. In the
days racing Hourlier defeated Rutt
twice and the big German led the
Frenchman home just as many times.
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Friol won two races at Angouleme,
France, July Ia. He won the scratch
race for singles and shared first In
the tandem open with big Dupre. In
a 0-Silometer team race Ga la Ameri-
caine) Dupre and Oliverri, the italian,
were the winners. Schneider, of Aus
tralia, and IIedspeth, the American
negro, ran second
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Oscar Schwab, who started his rae
ing career at the old quarter mile
track here years ago, is racing in
Europe again, and he is able to get
in the summaries now and then. At
Mons, France. recently he ran third
in match with John Stol and Otto,
of Germany. Sehwab led the trio in
one of the heats. In 1910 Schwab rode
at the Velodrome with fair success
but quit the game as result of
bad fall, but his retirement was APP
parently only temporary.
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Parent, the ex-champion middle
distance rider of the world, Is APP
parently all in. The Frenchman, who
was star in his day, has not won
any races of Importance this season,
and his latest and most humiliating
defeat was at the hands of Kraft and
Somers, at Strasbourg, Germany
Kraft and Somers are riders of
mediocre calibre, but they led Parent
in both heats of a fifth kilometer
match.
Julian Gauthier, who is racing at
the Velodrome, has a brother riding
on the tracks of Europe who is able
to keep the house of Gauthier on the
map. He was twice victorious in
races In Europe last week.