Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-18

| and made Jackie appear no match al
all in either wits or speed. Yet In
winning after the humiliation in the
first heat is positive evidence that
Clark has plenty of grit, and after
he had won the second heat he was
as cocky as you please in the third
heat, and outguessed Kramer at q
most vital point in the sprint.
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When Kramer 'buffaloed'' Jackie
on the backstretch in the first heat
and pedaled to the front and stalled
him and "hipped" him and raced him,
now fast, now slow. and finally came
home the easiest kind of a winner
by almost a full length, it didn't look
as II Clark was much of a formidable
foeman. Jackie had declared he
would ride the race from in front,
but he didn't have any guarantee to
that effect from Kramer, who, evil
IDENTIFY, seemed 70 have something to
say in the matter So, with a lap
and half to go, Clark, figuring, no
doubt, that Kramer would ride his
race from the rear, took little nap
while riding high on the bank, and all
of sudden, while Clark was looking
to the right for big Steve" the
champion, SO as to upset calculations
darted down on the inside and as
sumed command. Clark remained
high on the bank as the men rounded
the Mum avenue turn with the race
just about on and Kramer, showing
his rare old foxiness, hemmed him
up there until the turn into tho
stretch was reached. Then Clark
made a desperate effort to go by
Kramer, and he rode the champion
off on the fiat in front of the grand
stand. Against any other rider in
the world Clark would very likely
have got to the turn first, In which
case Kramer would have been forced
to back out and Clark would have
been in a sweet way to win the heat
But Kramer had the head and he had
the speed, and he beat Clark to the
turn. That settled the heat. From
then on Kramer just toyed with
Clark. He would "stall" Jackie
whenever THE Rocket" made bid
and the only time Big Steve" really
raced was for few yards going
around the Mum avenue turn for the
last time. He had the heat won
even thus early, and he simply
rolled" down the homestretch look
ing around to see what had happened
to Clark. There was almost length
between them at the finish, and the
time of the last eighth of a mile was
twelve seconds fiat.
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To every fan in the grand stand and
bleachers victory for Kramer must
have seemed certain, and even after
Kramer had been beaten in the sec
ond heat there didn't appear to be
anything to worry about, for in the
second heat Kramer made a wonder
full ride. coming out to give battle
with Clark after the twelfth pole had
been passed and them finishing right
UP on almost even terms with 1.-THE
Rocket" Some even thought that
Kramer had won, and Kramer him
self was sure that he had won and
bowed his acknowledgements to the
applause as he rode around the track
close. but the fact that every one of
the five Judges picked Clark as the
winner Is sufficient evidence for me
that THE Rocket" was first over the
line. The Judges are capable and
honest men, and while they are not
infallible their mistakes are few and
far between. In this particular heat
Kramer, in my opinion, rode a pretty
well judged race. He forced Clark to
speed it up at least four times during
the last lap and three quarters of the
race. That should have cut down
Clark's speed considerably, yet when
Kramer made his spectacular ride
from the middle of the Mum avenue
turn to go by he discovered that Jackie
had a lot of racing left and enough
to fight him off to the tape line. Fooled
in the first heat, Clark made sure he
would not be caught mapping in the
second heat, so when he rounded the
eighth pole, with a lap and that dis
lance to go, Jackie beat 1t down on
the pole and from then on he re-
NAMED in the lead. That Kramer
didn't beat Clark was not through
lack of speed--it was because the
champion made his bid just an in
slant late, for as the men came up
the home stretch the King was