| Show BIKE RIDERS STRiKE CHAPMAN IN DUTCH Advices from the thi cast yesterday to the effect that the tho bicycle riders at atthe atthe atthe the Newark track have gone JOne on strike caused the professionals now flow In Ira Salt Bait Lake to declare that a battle having for tor Its ultimate object the th elimination of Johnny JOhnn Chapman front from the bike J game me has been started Floyd Macfarland Macfarland Mac Mac- farland tarland Is president of oC the riders riders' union and ma may have havo to go KO to Newark tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow tomor tomor- row or Friday to adjust tho trouble Tho The following telegram m wa was received by Macfarland yesterday morning Ridera gave gone on a strike They want Chapman out and anti want bigger prizes Collins Collins' Moran and Carman are out also Neville and Kramer have havo split up Wire us Instructions and anti your Our attitude P. P T. T Powers Is to hold a six-day six race In New York In opposition to the Garden affair atair which Is to be berun berun berun run by and Chapman Where do you stand Macfarland wired the following re reply ro- ro pl ply I 1 am nm In tho the same position as all nIl my life life for for tho the bike biko riders Do not know your our grievances but stand of ot riders on prize money question Is Just I am nm an American and believe that the riders of oC this tills country who made mado tho the game at Newark are aro entitled to an even break at least with the foreigners Why should our boys hoys me made to pay Y tho the bonuses and appearance money for tor such foreign lemons as ns Dupuy and Comes and why should such men menas menas menas as Root Clarke Hill Moran Collins and a 8 hundred others bo be re refused ye- ye fused bonuses within reason when amounts all the way from om 1000 to are aro paid laId second and third class foreign riders I have ve signed for eight months months- Root Fogler Hill Lawson Goullet Clarke Hehir Moran and Collins under my management and rest assured that I will expect a reasonable prize money In keeping with tho gates I Pat Powers Is tho the only man capable of oC conducting a a. successful six-day six race raco in New York but oven Pat must treat tho the riders right Will not commit myself at this time Ume on situation as to Newark and six day race I advise tho the riders to stand pat and insist on In open prize money Kramer Kramor gave his word at tho the last union meeting that if It riders would not accent accept ac ac- ac- ac cent the proposition insisted on by Chapman ho would In turn stand with tho the riders for or In open prize money If It situation needs my presence I wilt will come east Immediately FLOYD MACFARLAND President lon t Riders' Riders Union I lOr am now flow ig 1 for or further Information infer infer- mation mallon said last Jast night I If the riders are arc wrong I will U use Q my best efforts to have them call off the strike I If Chapman an and his as associates 3 aro are wrong I will bottle battle for the tho riders as ns I have havo always alwa's dono done and anti try to seo that thoy they got get what Is coming to them I do rio not care to discuss the tho Newark situation at the pr sent sent time It looks to mo rue as though Jack Neville Is makInI making mak mak- ing InI tho the fight there thore He has handled Frank Kramer for tor man many years and the tho news that he has broken with Kramer ramer means a fight tight all nIl along th the line lino na ns is very popular with all aU of at the tho riders and also knows what he e Is doing all the time Ume Many of ot tho the riders now at the tho Salt Palace declare that the tho fight simply means that Johnny Chapman will have I to got get 01 out t of or the tho cycle racing gamo game I He lie is very unpopular with all of tho the riders lie Ho was a n. third class rider himself himself him him- self at one time and many of ot the riders accuse him of or ungratefulness for favors ors Org which they extended to him at nt that time It looks to the tho rl riders ers as though Macfarland is not only sure to run the New Xe York six day race but that he will also get control of the racing In tl th tho cast east next summer eummer I |
