| Show AT AN END lEE TI G OF THC REPRESENTATIVE REPRESENTA-TIVE WHEELMEN The Most Important of the Results of the Recent Gathering and Their Prolmfole Effects BALTIMORE Md Feb 13The representative repre-sentative wheel have gone home after a assembly which for hard work and its effect upon the future of the league and of Glcycling in general will long be remembered Among the most Important of its results re-sults are the abolition of class B the determination that the league shall retain tain control of cycle racing increasing of lees for sanctions which it is hoped will sacton result in forcing outside club to join the league the adoption of numerous wise rules of racing rUes for the better regulation r and a general strengthening up all around In the leagues position This has been done without the creation of any hard feelingg among the members and the meeting will b marked by a notable absence of anything In the shape of acrimony acri-mony The old administration gave way most gracefully t the new and those who were unable to accomplish what they came here t do I POCKETED THEIR DEFEAT with a smile and promised to do the best they could anyhow By leaving it t the executive committee to adopt a plan looking look-Ing to the selection of the place for the annual meet without leaving it to a vote for the convention a disturbing element ele-ment had been eliminated from tuture gatherings of this nature From the talk in the convention during the discussion of the motion It seems probable that the executive committee will decide to leave the selection of the place for the meet to a vote of all the members of the league the ballot to be cast in January of each year The mate of charity was thrown over the shortcomings of Titus and Cab anne and almost the final act of the meeting va the practical reduction of their sentence from life suspension to suspension for one year Ther a not more than half a hun dred delegates present when the delet preet whe convention conven-tion was called to order most of the others having gone home The most important im-portant step taken wa the appointment of a committee of five consisting of Messrs Dean Massachusetts Cossum New YJrk Harder Pennsylvania Cub more Texas and perU Massachusetts to consider and all report upon a appeals o reinstatement II I AMENDMENTS The discussion of proposed amendments to the constitution was resumed and the following were adopted BrvduJ that all national committees commit-tees except those on auditing and local organization shall be appointed by the president making the fee that must accompany ac-company applications for clubs for league membership 2 requiring such clubs to forward a list of all their members designating des-ignating those who are members of tlve league requiring that members belong ing to more than one club shall designate desig-nate which club they will vote with allowing al-lowing the president to appoint a clerk at a salary of not over 1000 p annum Making the bond of the treasurer 5000 instead of 2000 providing that chief consuls shall report the financial condi Idea of their district at the end of every six months to provide fo the organization organiza-tion of division clubs composed of unattached un-attached members An hours discussion ensued on a amendment designed t increase in-crease the cost of sanctions to non league clubs I was decided to increase additional day a 2 fo athletic meets no for open race meets and 5 for each additional day and 2 for athletic mets scheduling two events All league clubs to have sanctions without cost Messrs Same Cossum and Potter were appointed a special committee to arrange for the incorporation of the league DEFINING DUTIES Ote amendments adopted were To define de-fine the duties ot the new local organization organi-zation committee permitting the racing board to grant sanctions for Sunday ra imr in divisions which have voted to permit per-mit such racing pronouncing a unfair and ungentlemanly anything which tends to disturb a racing meeting providing that members removing from one division for divis-ion new to another membership shall pay a fee of 2 cents Considerable discussion was had on an amendment designed to limit the voting by proxy I was finally decided unanimously unani-mously to Testrict such voting by limiting limit-ing the privilege to delegates who shall become members of the same division and subdivision a the delegates giving the proxy I The special committee on the racing boards recommendations regarding ap neals for reinstatement presented Its report re-port The following were recommended for reinstatement B Barker Rich Harrisburg risbuw Pa Robert J Jobin New Orleans Or-leans L A Ryer Jersey City A W Cleaver Chicago Albert N Price Ghent Ky James W Curra Aurora Ind Reinstatement was refused in the cases of H Bruce Farling BaldwinsviHe N Y Ernest Riggs Guy Anderson Mason Mass David Reed E N Robinson Guthrie Iowa Henry Perry Oregon C A Desmond Iowa R A Hunt Kansas City and F Robertson Plattsburg N Y The report was unanimously adopted Mr Mott offered an amendment to the constitution designed to alter thi manner man-ner of selecting the place for the midsummer mid-summer meat After full discussion it w determined to refer the whole matter mat-ter to the executive committee with Instructions In-structions to arrange a plan to settle the Question in advance of the next annual convention conveton TITUS AND CABANNE MT Potter of New York created a sensation by making a motion that the racing board be required to remove the edict of life suspension from F J Titus Ti-tus convicted of conspiring with Murphy Mur-phy and Cabanne t fake a race Mr Potter made an earnest plea for Titus and another delegate moved to include Cabanne in exemption There was some discussion and the committee hn ally decided to ask the racing board to reduce the sentence In both cases to suspension sus-pension for one year After some further and unimportant business had been attended to President WIlHson made a brief address and handed the to S Elliott his over gavel Elot successor succes-sor after which the convention ad afe conventon learned sine dIe |
