Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-20
CLARK, SICK, WILL
NOT MEET KRAMER
TOnsilitis Attack Causes Post.
p0nement of Match at Vel
OdrOme Tonight.
JACKIE CONFINED TO BED

Jackie Clark win not meet Frank
! Kramer IN the scheduled match race
at the Xelodrome tonight Jackie Il
suffering from tonsHftis and is in
/ bed. The cyclist was examined this
morning by Drs. Fischer and Vobel
and they both declared that Clark Is
sick man and not IN condition to
| engage IN a bicycle race. Drs. Fischer
and Xobel were sent to examine Clark
by the Cycle Racing Association. Be-
fore these doctors arrived C1ark's
own physician had been summoned
I by Mrs. Clark.
Clark wanted the match called off
and had the officers Of the Cycle Rac-
I Ing Association up in the air for two
days before sickness made the
match impossible. Manager Floyd
mcfarland was anxious to stage
/ the match. as the fans seemed to
want II, and did everything in his
/ power to put ii on.
At 11:45 a. N. yesterday Jackie teie-
I phoned Manager Floyd MacFarland
/ at the offices Of the Cycle Racing AS
( ISOLATION that he wanted the match
called OF. stating that he felt the
night air would be too cold for him
to ride in his best form. He also
stated that he felt sick coming home
on the train after the races al New
Haven.
mcfarland told Clark that. as the
match was advertised and many
tickets had been sold, It was rather
late to call the race off. MacFarland
told Jackie that he had good con-
tract. and should live up to It, Clark
then stated that the Cycle Racing
Association could tear up the con-
tract, If it wished, and that he would
positively not race Kramer Wednes-
day night. MacFarland told Clark
that he would put on a third match
Sunday If he should be beaten, and
that would give him an opportunity
to make it two out of three over
I Kramer Clark would not agree 70
1 this arrangement.
At 1890 yesterday noon Clark
called Frank Million on the telephone
/ and stated that he had been hasty IN
! his talk with MaeFarland, and after
thinking the matter over. he had de-
] eided to meet Kramer in the match
+ At 4:30 yesterday afternoon Manager
MacFarland received a letter fffaTz
4 Clark, written at 2:45. in which Clark
4 stated that he would be unable to
race tonight, on account of his con-
4 dition. II was at $3.50 this morning
4 that Mrs. Clark informed Mr. Million
! that Jackie was suffering from the
/ grip. So, there you are.
An international team match has
been substituted for the Kramer
Clark match tonight Frank Kramer.
Frank Cavanagh. Joe Fogier and
| Freddy Hill, representing America,
/ will meet ALI Goullet, Aft Grenda.
| Bob Spears and Ernie Pye. of AUS
tralia. The first leg of the match
/ viii be run in two sprint heats In
I ? 1r Ey.-4 - -
Hill will oppose Goullet and Pye, and
in the other Grenda and Spears will
meet Cavanagh and Fogler One
point will be credited to the winners
In each Of these heats. The second
leg will be a straight sprint heat.
/ with the eight riders starting to-
gether. and in this heat two points
viii be credited to the winners II a
! third heat is necessary. It win be a
pursuit race.
Alfred Goullet expects to show 70
/ advantage from now on and will be
a very much disappointed rider If he
does not win brackets tonight
/ 'Goullie" will start In the handicap
| and the open. and he likes his
| chances in both events. His record
/ breaking ride of Sunday, followed by
a victory at New Haven, has con-
WINGED the blond haired rider that he
/ is at last in shape to do battle with
/ the best of them, and "GoulIie" who
/ never lacked nerve, will take Some
/ beating now that he is positive he
lacks nothing in respect to condition
-.
Big Cavanagh says that the tam
/ dem paced match at ten miles sun
[ day did him a world of good. and he
+ is now in shape to put over a win oe-
+ casionally and he is going after the
big fellows who have been walloping
4 him this season. The general I'm
/ preston is, however. that Frank is
in shape and has speed to spare but
needs only some nerve to make him
a winner.
i Walter Schlee, the husky amateur
rider, may ride in the professional
races tonight. Schlee is on the verge
of Topping into the cash prize divf-
sion, but cannot quite make up his
mind to desert the simon-pures. L.
+ Georgi rode as a pro" last Sunday
and finished fifth in one of the IN
vitation races. which is not bad be-
ginning. Raymond Eatons srs,a
showing as a professional Is the cause
of this sudden desire to take a chance
with the faster brigade.
-.
+ Some of Kramer's friends are afraid
that he has done too much winter
racing and is going to have bad
year as a result, but the champion
scouts the idea. He was advised after
the match Sunday to rest until to-
night, but the old general has his
own views and went out yesterday
and rode fifteen miles at fast gait
as his final preparation for the race
tonight
The three amateur stars-Chasn-
pion McDougall, Harry Kaiser, Of the
Bronx and little Tommy Smith, OF
Irvington-win bask in the lfmeIight
tonight. also. These riders will COM
pete in match at the French style.
and it should be a keenly contested
race with the result very much In
doubt Kaiser and Smith have been
beating the champion regularly from
the start of the season in open COM
petition, but the champions chances
+ in a match appear quite favorable.
f He is riding fast but seems to lack
/ nerve and Judgment, especially in big
1 fields; but a three-man race is just
f Little Macs" dish,