Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-14
CLARK TO FOLLOW RUTTS
STYLE IN KRAMER MATCH
Jackie Says He Told "Welt'
meister" How to Ride "Steve"
Last Sunday.
Is FULL OF CONFIDENCE
Australian Rocket" Certain He
viii Give Frank a Great
Battle.
BY JACKIE CLARK

a bit sooner than anticipated, am
to have the match race with Frank
Kramer that I have so much desired
and have been looking forward to.
at New Haven Monday night [ have
been selected to meet the master of
match race riders. While 1 regret
very much the painful accident to my
old six-day partner, and am sorry
that we will not have the opportunity
to meet Kramer In q match that
looked very favorable to the WELT
meister," I am pleased to have
chance to meet my old rival, big
Steve
It is one of those peculiar tricks
of fate that has placed opportunity IN
my path, and like a certain illustrious
American statesman, who, through
fate, was placed In a very high posi-
ton and then made good in no I'M
mistakable manner, it may be that L
am going to do the same. And 1t
may be that big Steve" was saved
from a defeat by the ''Weltmeister"
by the same means, for in my opinion
Rutt's chances looked very good in
the mixed match that was to be run
next Sunday.
| have ridden so much better this
spring than ever before that l am
naturally encouraged, and it is with
out any show of egotism that / say
that like my chances against kra-
mer or Rutt or any other rider. Ever
since I have been racing 1 have been
slow in getting into shape in the early
season, and to find myself in winning
form right from the start has given
me great encouragement this year.
Later in the year / may go off form,
and for that reason it is pleasing to
me to be matched with Kramer at
this time, when l am moving In
way to give me confidence. So far
this season I have won five open
races and two match races, and In
nearly every race I have won by a
> wide margin without being extended
10 the limit. Rutt and Goullet are
the only riders who have defeated me
in an open race this year, and they
both did it in the Overture prize at
the opening meet of the season at
the Velodrome.
Past Performances Do Not Count.
But figuring past performances be-
fore match with Kramer has never
gotten a rider anything for precedent,
past performances or nothing else go
with the wizard from East Orange.
AT that 1 cannot help comparing the
way am winning this year with for
ner years at this time and then fig
uring how close l raced Kramer in a
match last July. If 1 have improved
my sprint just a little bit, which I
feel sure have, then there is a fairly
good chance of me turning the tables
on my old rival after all these years.
Then, | know more about how to
ride Kramer now than ever before.
While l am not seeking any of the
credit for Rutt's great showing
against Kramer last Sunday, l tipped
Walter as to how to ride "Steve" and
he followed my instructions to the
letter 1 told him through the col
umns of the Evening Star and then
"chatted' him in the tunnel just
before he went out for the first
heat. At the time, / was just coming
off the track after winning my heat
of the half-mile open. I told the
'Weltmeister" to be on his way and
tearing as hard as he could tear at
the bell and not to ride too close to
the pole, where it seems dead, but to
so up track a bit. [ told him to stall
bit around the first turn and to hold
Kramer on his lap down the back
stretch and to ease up as much as he
dared and then to put it all in going
around the last turn and down the
homestretch.
European Trip Helpful
| will ride Kramer pretty much the
same way, although I shall vary the
tactics to suit the circumstances. l