Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-05
CLARK'S ADMIRERS
ARE VERY HOPEFUL
VelOdrOme Idol Being TOuted as
Having Good Chance to
Beat Kramer.
CHAMPION is WORRYING

The most important match race of
the year will be staged at the Velo-
dreme tomorrow night, when Cham
pion Frank Kramer and Jackie Clark
meet in single-paced dual which
will be best two out of three heats.
Clark, by the most sensational rid
ing of his sensational career, has
surely earned the right to meet the
champion and not a few who have
seen THE Rocket" perform during the
past six weeks believe that he will
be the winner. Clark has beaten
every rider in the n. c. A. in a most
decisive manner in match races ex-
cept Kramer, and he has defeated
Kramer many times in open COMPETE
tion-many more times than the
champion has defeated him. The
followers of Clark who have seen
their idol fall before the champion in
matches in the past are very hope
full that this time he will be the vic
tor. If past performances count for
anything they surely have reasons to
entertain such hopes.
Kramer is showing unmistakable
signs of fear and he is apparently
none too sanguine of victory. He was
the first bird at the Velodrome yes
terday morning, and he was the only
one who did any training. He was
billed to meet ALI Goullet at Boston
tonight, but when the match was
made Sunday, following Clark's VIC
tory over Goullet. the champion in
sisted that his match with the latter
be called off. These are sure signs
that Kramer feels that he must not
be at disadvantage when he faces
his old enemy tomorrow night.
Frank Million has succeeded John
M. Chapman as the manager of the
Velodrome, and the card for tomor-
row night is of his making. This IS
not his first attempt, however, at ar
ranging a program. The card looks
good and the new manager Is rather
pleased with his effort. In addition
TO the match there Is a fiye-mile open
for the pros" with lap prizes, a one
mile handicap and an invitation race
for the money-chasers and two-mile
handicap and three-mile open for
the simon-pures.
The new manager believes that all
records for attendance will be shat
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sale of tickets is more brisk than the
demands for reservations for the ia
NOUS Kramer-Friol matches of q
year ago, and the magnitude of the
advance sale is always a sure sign
of what the attendance will be.
Floyd MacFarland, who is now the
general manager of all of the tracks
controlled by the Cycle Racing As
ISOLATION, is making his first trip
around the circuit. He left Newark
this morning to take In the meet to-
night at Boston, and he will return
to Newark for the meet here tomor-
row night.
Emil Friol is back in winning form
again and is being figured in France
as one of the most likely candidates
for the championship of the world.
which will be run in Leipsic, Ger
many, late this month. At the Velo-
drome de Buffalo, Paris, July 20 he
won a big scratch race in impressive
style, and he has not lost a scratch
race since the running of the Grand
Prize of Paris. In the race at the
Buffalo track Friol led the way for
Marcel Dupuy and big Dupre In the
final A number of stars were shut
out in the heats of the race.
At the same meeting Leon Didier
defeated G. Sores in two-heat paced
race that was extremely close in both
heats. In the first heat Sores, who
is the best man in France behind the
motors, lost by 225 meters, a trifie
over an eighth of a mile, and In the
deciding heat he lost by twenty
lengths.
Champion Frank Kramer and Joe
Fogler will meet in a match race IN
conjunction with the athletic meet,
which will be held at Ebbets Field,