Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-26

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g After the championships had been
n officially awarded to Copenhagen for
y 1914 and to London for 1915, Million
!, moved that the awards be made
unanimous. This was done. Before
: that, however. Million made the ora
torical effort of his career.
$ "I told the delegates with tears in
: my voice that America was entitled
!. to the 1915 championships. 1 showed
them where we had drawn more
, money at the championships in 1912
than had ever been taken in before
at such meets. 1 explained also that
the weather was very bad, and that
we would have played to twice as
much money il the weather had been
7 at all favorable. They couldn't see
! it, however, and | was a badly disap-
pointed man. At that, the u. S. A.
was second when it came to a vote,
but England ran away with the
honors. At first there were four
countries after the championships,
! but Holland withdrew. When it came
down to balloting England received
81 votes, America 10 and Sweden 4.
Mac and / did all We could, and we
championships right up to the last
minute We didn't, though. Yet it
can't be helped"
Frank Kramer is riding faster now
than he ever did in his life, accord
ing to Millions letter.
1.-THE champion is simply flying"
Million writes. "and there is no one
over here who can touch him. He
is only doing light training. at that,
and he will not be stale, like he was
last year. after his trip over here.
He is going along slowly, but in his
races there is no holding him. He
is getting homesick, though, and he
is beginning to count the days to his
departure He has already engaged
passage for home. This may be
Kramer's last trip over here, as We
intend to sign up the champion the
year around after this. Kramer can't
| go on winning forever, and if he
races the year around he is sure to
go bad. We want Frank TO rest up |
! in the winter, so he viii, be able to |
give the Newark fans the best he has |
in the summer, So we are going to |
arrange matters along that line. Be- !
lieve me, Mcfarland will give the |
Nrhnn !
season opens. He is planning already |
for the opening, and he has figured |
out a number of novelties that are !
bound 10 make a hit with our pa !
irons. l will now say 'so-long,' with |
kind regards to all my friends, !
through the Evening Star, with your
permission.
To my surprise, Eddie Root has |
| condescended TO write me. There is
method in his madness, of course. for
he wants to set himself right with the
Newark public in regard to why he
and Jackie Clark, his teammate, adj
journed from the Paris six-day race
so abruptly. From Roots letter, it
seems, it was just about fiip-up.
Both wanted to stop, and one was
waiting for the other. Joe Fogler, in q
letter to Walter Bardgett, well-known
as a member of that famous Board
of Referees" said that Clark was
first to quit. Clark, on his arrival
from Europe, declared that Root was
the one to show the white feather"
As Jackie aired his views in the
columns of Newark paper, why Root
naturally became 'peeved" when he
read the story. Now Eddie comes
back in the following letter, telling, |
what. he says, is the absolute truth
about the quitting affair:
paris, Feb. IA, 1914,
~. p. N,
81 am not overanXious TO write this
letter, as / had long ago given up |
writing to newspapers, for one reason
or another, but l have friends who
insisted upon my writing you and |
giving you the correct information in
| regards to the story Jackie Clark gave |
to the Newark News, claiming L quit |
on him. The truth is that the King |
| OF Montmartre' (the name that has |
| been given to Clark, was the first to |
| quit. knew he had quit when he re- |
fused to come out and do his shift |
when he was due. And when 1 saw |
MacFarland arguing the matter with |
him I knew 1t was all off, so / called |
| out to his trainer to send him out or l !
would get off the track. There was
nothing doing. Mr.. Clark did not come |
/ out, so ] came off and found out he |
had quit, so l could do nothing else |
| but quit myself.
"Now, then, the King of Montmar-
| tre' need not try to save his reputa-
| ton and claim ! quit and that he was
in fine shape etc, and that he wanted
| to go on with Brocco, for Clark was
| through and didn't want any more
Paris six-day race than / did, and /
am not ashamed to admit that was
| glad for the angle to quit when I saw
that the King would not come out
| This Paris affair was the worst ever
in regards to cold building, wet track,
| etc And let me say another thing
| Clark came over here for a good time
and had it. ] don't believe he sat on
his bicycle from the day he landed
until the day of the race We would
never have had a chance to finish
one two, three four had we remained
| in the race. Clark, when he is right.
is one of the classiest of six day bike
riders, but when he is not right he is
one of the poorest there is. And. be-
lieve me, l don't want any of those
guys like Clark, who think they are
the best in the world. Why, Clark
thought / ought to be tickled to death
to get him for a partner and that he
was doing me a favor by riding with
me. Perhaps he was, but | didn't see
| If that waV. Well Mr. Clark in 4ha