Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-29
LONG RACE FOR
AUSTRALIAN B|KERS
Fifteen-MiIe Clark Grenda-Mc-
Namara Contest to Be Tam
dem Paced.
BIKE NOTES AND GOSSIP

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A flfteen-mile tandem-pa racA
in which Jackie Clark, Reggie Nc
Namara and ALI Grenda will be the
contestants. is to be- the feature or
the bill for Sunday at the Velodrome.
Fifteen tandem teams will pace the
riders. and there will be one extra
| team to replace any of the pacing
combinations that may suffer acci-
| dents. This race will be a sprint
! middle distance affair." the riders be-
| Ing limited to 100 gear which is the
average sprint gear.
The other races on the bill are a
| one-mile tandem race, in which the
! sixteen tandem teams that will pace
| the feature event will compete a
! half-mile open and an unknown dis
| tance race for the professionals and
! a two-thirds mile open, three-mile
handicap and a novice for the anna
teur riders.
Jackie Clark, who is the lack of
| al, trades in the bike game" will
| probably be the favorite in the tan
| dem-paced match. Clark's versatile
ity is as wonderful as his popular
| ity, and this race will show him in
a new role that may prove a reve-
lation to the fans.
Although Clark has never COM
| peted in race of this kind. he has
| trained behind the motors with
| sprint gear, and it is said that he
| is without a peer at following a fast
pace with a small gear, In match
| ing Clark, Grenda and Mcnamara,
| Manager Frank Million has selected
| the three strongest riders and the
three best distance men in the game
| In America, and the race should
prove q "bear"
| Emil Friol. the great French rider,
who gave Champion Kramer a big
scare and three hard match races at
the Velodrome a year ago, has again
assumed his position of master
sprinter of Europe. Sunday, August
II, Friol won the championship of
France, defeating big field of riders
and winning In most brilliant fashion,
Leon Hourlier was second in the title
race and Poulain was third. This
was the second running of the cham
pionship of France this year. In June
Andre Perehicot won the champions
| ship at the Velodrome d'Hiver, the
winter track in Paris. The race was
| scheduled at the Pare des Princes
| track, but a heavy rain the day of
| the race made 1t necessary to trans
| fer the race to the indoor course.
/ After Perchicot won the race the
other riders protested that as the
race had been run on the big outdoor
| track every year for nearly twenty
years, and as the smaller indoor track
did not give every rider an equal
| chance, the race should be run over.
| After prolonged agitation the racing
authorities decided to stage another
| race that would be recognized as the
real sprint championship of France.
While the affair robbed poor Perchi-
| cot of a justly earned title it was a
windfaIl of luck for Friol. At the
time of the first running of the title
| race Friol was in such poo- form he
| could not lead the way for a Ben
Hill, but just at the time of the real
race he was veritable flying ma
| chine.
There were eight heats a repechage,
| three senii-flnals and a final to tho
race. Perchicot made the semi finals
along with Hourlier Friol. Pouchois,
who was second in the Grand Prize
of Paris; Poulain, Dupre, Simeonie,
| Devoissoux and Schille~. who won
| the repechage. Poulain took the first
semi-final from Perchicot in the fast
| time of II seconds for the last eighth.
Hourlier led big Dupre in the second
semi. covering the final eighth in
| II AS seconds, which was the fastest
sprint of the race. Friol took the
| third semi in IL seconds fiat, with
Pouchois second. In the final Friol
| won by full length from Hourlier,
| and the latter was two lengths in
| front of Poulain. Friol rode the last
eighth in u seconds.
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"Tricky" Comes rode in the French
championship and was beaten in his
| heat by Deyoissoux and Schilles, but
he came within an ace of making
| the semi-finals by fine ride in the
repechage. in which Schilles just
nipped him at the. tape.
A French exchange states that
Perchicot can find some consolation
| for thse loss of his title in the fact
| that he has an attractive contract
| with the Newark Velodrome promot-
ers which will bring him many Amer
| lean dollars. Unfortunately for Per-
ehicot that American contract has
been Cancelled, so that puts the slkids
under that console ton stuff
Herman Packebush, the close
cropped round-headed Dutchman,
whose abbreviated red shirt is still
remembered by the Velodrome fans,
got in the money in a scratch race
of the invitation variety at the French
championship meet. Texier was the
winner. Fournous was second, Ser
gent third. Marcel Dupuy, whom we
also remember, was fourth, and Her.
mann was fifth.
At the same meeting German, a
South African negro, took the course
de primes" with Ruui Russo, who is
no relation to Charlotte Russo, Sec
ond, and Rettich third.
The grand international handicap
went to Dupre, from the 20-meter
mark Ricaux. with 230 meters. was
second and Applicants was third. The
distance of the race was 1900 meters.