| Show KRAMER IN LEAD AGAIN Champion Wins Last Open Event and Now Leads Jackie Clarke from covering the last race counting for the eastern championship have the following to say about Champion Frank Kramer and his competitors for the honors Frank L 1 Kramer American champion professional sprinting cyclist for many man years took the lead in the points table by which the title for 1909 1809 will be decided when he won on the championship race yesterday afternoon at the Valls Vails burg bull cycle eycle track tr ck in Newark He was tied with Jack Jaek Clarke the Australian a few weeks ago but Clarke had passed him and led until Kramer won woo yesterday Kra Kramer Kramer Kramer mer now has baa 2 points Clarke 21 1 Fogler 11 Root 9 Anderson Ander on 4 Fenn 3 I Krebs 3 I De Do Mara 2 John Bedell 1 I and Menus Ienus Bedell L 1 Clarke was WH shut out of the final yes yesterday yesterday yesterday because he finished fourth In his semifinal heat Anderson started the sprint in the deciding heat but Kramer passed him In the home stretch Fogler and aRd Root finishing ahead of Anderson in inthe Inthe Inthe the order named Clarke made a great sprint at the finish of the twomile handicap and won Oft by more than thana a length in fast time Fenn captured the twomile tw invitation event by sprinting a quarter of a mile and then proving too fast for Krebs and John Bedell both of whom tried to jump by him in the last few yards s Percy Pere Lawrence and Ernest Jokus had hada a hot struggle for tor nearly four miles in inthe Inthe inthe the amateur pursuit race in which the amateur champion caught Jokus when the latter had been within sixty yards of overhauling the San Francisco boy Clarke redeemed himself to a degree in inthe Inthe inthe the twomile professional handicap which he won with one of his rocket spurts He and Kramer were vere on scratch together and they caught up with the leaders at a amile amile amile mile There were a couple of fitful spurts spurt by Charley Stein Pete Drobach and Al Halstead but Kramer and Clarke kept well up with the Australian on the Amer Americans Americans leans wheel Kramer was evidently bent benten en n winning the handicap as he was all animation but a 1 1 lap laii and a halt half home Clarke made mad a Jump shot shut by Kra Kramer Kramer Kramer mer ana ani the rest of ot the field as if they were standing still and went on up to the front passing eight or ten riders He then had a clear field ahead but his hb method of going all in on one ore grand spurt instead of reserving some strength for a final effort almost cost him a vic vie tory Freddy West Vest closing fast with a finish h almost almont nailed Clarke who over the tape a length to the good Fogler was a close third Kramer had been in the final scramble but find ing Jug the task tuk of heading off Clarke impossible Impossible Impossible sible quit coming to the tape and was unplaced ced Percy Lawrence is surely surey par excel lence as a pursuit rider among the tin ama When n it came down to the last two men In tilt the final struggle It was Lawrence against Ernest Jokus with the former almost a i 1 lao laD behind Facing this situation Lawrence went along gradually overhauling Jokus and then on the finish uncorked a sprint that would have done don him credIt cre lt at the end of a dash dosh The distance was five miles five and andI rs laps the longest long st amateur I pursuit of ot the season Beason |
