Show BIKE GAME EMAY MAY OPEN IN EAST EASI Strange Dope About Salt Lake Riders Going to Ride at Tie The last Issue of the Bicycling World the cycling authority auth of at the east cast Is out with a story that Is entirely different dI ferent from the statements Issued here in Salt Lake It says that neither Major Taylor Floyd Flod McFarland or Iver Lawson has signed to t ride at the saucer track Where the paper gets this line U of dope is hard to tell as the local mana management ement of ot the saucer track claims to have contracts with all three riders Here is the story for what it Is worth and it will make Interesting reading for local cycling fans fansA fansA A very different complexion was put on the racing situation In the cast this week when it was learned that Lawson has not signed up with the management mana ement of at the Salt Lake track Floyd McFarland has not either for that matter and the fact that Lawson has written to McFarland McFarland land to come back may mean a great deal more than is apparent on the sur surface surface surface face McFarland Is the kind of ot a man that will wUl never divulge his glans Ians until he Is quite ready to carry them out and the present condition of affairs would seem to suggest that the veteran campaigner has hasa a trump card up his sleeve that Is yet to be played Major Taylor when whan seen this week admitted that he had bad received an offer from Salt Lake City but that he had not accepted It yet When approached on the question he said he knew nothing but would be quite willing to ride there if It McFarland should take hold of it McFarland stands in with most of the bicycle riders and it will be easy for him to secure foreign talent such as Walter Rutt and Thorwald who it Is understood have hare not bound themselves to ride for any manager Fogler and Bardgett and the Bedell brothers can be secured and there is sufficient local talent to make up the bilL The old man him himself himself himself self will be over oyer in Inn Ina a few weeks and until that time it can only be conjectured what he will do Those who profess to know maintain that McFarland nd has not let Valls burg escape his memory |