Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-18

A new angle comes out of the Car
pentier- Gunboat Smith fight in Lon
don Smith and his hackers claim they
were robbed. but the official timer
that the Frenchman was the one
who was cheated. ]. T. Hulls was the
official timer, and he declares that
Smith was down fourteen seconds in
the fourth round and that he told
Referee CORR so and that the referee
refused to pay attention to him and
ordered the fight resumed after the
minutes rest following the fourth
round and the knockdown-or knock
out-as the official timer states.
O.
The fight has left lot or Things
to talk about, but no one has yet come
out and said it was a fake. Hurrahi
Taking a sane and sensible view OF
the encounter, it looks very much as
! if Smith lost fairly and squarely
He fouled and all admit he fouled.
He lost. The fact that Carpenter s
seconds entered the ring illegally has
nothing to do with the matter at all.
That, as we'll as the delivery of the
foul blow, was up to the referee. Mr..
! CORR recognized the foul and he
didn't recognize the intrusion of the
seconds. Thus his decision in favor
of the F'renchman.
O.
Brownie Carslake, the cyclist, who
is said to be a more interesting char
acter than Larry Corbett, appears
to be making good as a motor rider
at Toronto, where George Kraemer,
rival of Jack Price in the promoting
| life, is conducting the races. Like
Corbett, Carslake is an Australian.
! Brownie is also quite a card up in
the Canadian city and after he had
smashed the fifty-mile record the
other night the newspapers said
many complimentary things about
him. In describing the great ride of.
Carslake, the World said:
Carslake. the most wonderful board
track rider in the world, rode the
most wonderful race of his entire
wonderful career, and at the same
time clipped about one and one-half
minutes from the worlds record for
the distance. The repetition of the
word wonderful" may appear an
exaggeration, but it does not seem an
adequate description of the exhibit
ton of nerve, speed and endurance
in this, the longest and most exciting
race yet seen at the local 'drome.
Carslake had been extremely unfortu
nate in the races during the past
couple of weeks, and many fans did
not realize that it was the fault of
his machine. Last night. however,
he came back strong. and the cheers
which greeted him as he passed un-
der the lights winner have never
been equalled at the Motordrome."
Some praise for Carslake, who is
we'll known in Newark, both as an in
teresting conversationalist and as a
cyclist.
When Corbett reads of Carslake's
| performance he is sure to be jealous
and "peeved" and he may go out and
win a race himself That would be
the ambition of his life, and General
MacFarland ought to speak to the
official Handicapped about Larry's
desires and his shortcomings. The
day was when the name of Corbett
meant considerable in cycling. He
| was big favorite over in his home
country nd was always kind to the
American boys when they raced in
the Antipodes He used to win over
some, too, and if you leave it to him
he never started in race that he
could not have won if he was strictly
on his own and had tried. He tells
today of his wonderful performances
of yesterday and Iver Lawson backs
him up in all his statements Be-
sides having been such a wonderful
rider in his best days, Corbett was an
unlucky bird. He finished first on one
occasion in the Sydney Thousand but
he never did get the money. The
claim was made after the finish that
| Corbett was a party to a big combi-
nation. Larry said it wasn't so, but
he couldn't prove it to the satisfac-
ton of the officials. In fact, the con-
tention came a court matter and in
telling of the outcome, Corbett says:
Gosh, strike me pink, / was lucky
to get away with my life" Corbett
says he is going to win a race at the
Velodrome one of these fine days, and
he will, too, if Handicapped Kelsey
will only have a heart.
o
The great ride of Champion Kra-
mer in the Australian pursuit race
Thursday night has gotten him
in trouble. Kramer was so tickled
with--himself that he talked f1atter-
ingly of his performance, which is a
rare thing for him to do. and right
away that mean old MacF arland con-
cocted the idea of making Kramer an
added starter to the ten mile tandem
paced race at the Velodrome tomor-
I row. This race was originally intend
ed to have as starters Goullet, Rutt
and Clark, but Clark displayed such
poor form that MacFarland thought
he would improve the race by elm
mating Clark and using the tandems