| Show SHALL BICYCLE BICKLE RACING GO big fight in the L A W assembly over the question STRONG FEELING ABOUT IT chief consul potters proposal that the league abandon control of oc racing racine will bo be bitterly attacked V views I 1 aws of leading le iding members tho the negro question will stir stil up ill baltzore feb 0 atho tho roost most important in meeting of 0 tho the league of 0 american wheelman wheelmen elmen will be the gathering of cycling leaders in here which begins on the bolh the business meeting of the national as ns embly will convene in royal hoyal arcanum holl hall and tile the good roade ine eting in the Y M C A halt hall the question of whether tho the league should abandon racing will over chadow all others the election ot of a a new president ent of the le league ague has haa narrowed down domn to two candidates did L tes archibald C Wil ilson of maryland lan d the present incumbent and sterling sterline elliott El llott the chief consul of the massachusetts division has haa had the advantage of it a term in office and his administration dinini strat on has haa boon been highly metis EL istra factory tory to many of the el llott has been for several years the leader in tho the ma div division islen ot of the league and li 19 recognized as en an able leader andelt la Is felt alt in many sections that he be would pursue a mo more policy in drall nit w m ith the ef fairs of the I 1 A W than Wil ilson does now kolh both men are in favor of the hie league continuing its control of racing tho the new york state Is olad to support elliott elleott El llott and it Is thought that hat the ilas Eachus etts and connecticut votes will also be cast for the ila massachusetts dc ack r baic ate the southern pennsylvania and 1 I 1 some of the western otes otea are pledged to support Wi likon so thit hit the victorious candidate will only win min by bv a b mall margin elliott could probably control a u amous vote vole for the office bu but for the fact that lir lie Is ett at present under contract m with ith the L AW to publish U I 1 its a w weekly ec my bulletin and this business conn connection lion with the organization Is deemed deeme tc by many to bo be al a se serious ulrus V r I 1 1 1 T 1 A I 1 ill I 1 1 I I 1 I 1 1 k kv 1 nj i I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 U I 1 1 AVI I 1 I 1 I 1 7 N U I 1 gleco drawback to his candidacy tho the list hat of men who little hae held presa a enolal honors Is 19 as follows first p resident president charles platt of 0 boston two terms ISSI anti and 1 second president W V 11 miller ellk r of columbus 0 one terra term issa third president dr N 34 beck math of new york four terms ISSI issa fourth president T J kirkpatrick old 0 two terms 1183 and 1859 il fill and eighth president col C Q I 1 II 11 f L arom b of brooklyn two terms 1890 ind and 5 sixth president J R dunn a aman 5 0 two terms wl 1 and 1891 a seventh th dant rit col C artford ant 1 I burdett of I 1 ir T artford ford con conn rl two terms 1893 and ihl ninth and present president A C of cumberland md elliott believed in the r L A W work ing ine with the cycle board of tilde fiade while othora declare that the league la is rapidly becoming an annex of tho the n min in they point to the lu tact c that it if the racing board attempts attempt t to t 0 discipline a racing man the latter it if he belongs to a big biff manufacturing house appeals to his employer and the board Is called dowil the annual assembly will be composed pos e if of about cobnut delegates represent ing the various divisions throughout the un united ted states ahe meeting will mill not be ba a cut and dried affair as la 19 often the case with ith the annual sessions lons of the league but will bu ono one of 0 the most interesting in the history of the organization abide from the me di n I 1 1 ZI 1 1 I M 2 41 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 t I 1 1 I 1 4 I 1 edward IL croninger bial fight there aro are many matters of importance to como come before the assembly on which there ate aie divers opinions the amendments to tho the tion and bylaw by law tala s will create arc nta a big bilg d ia cu selon solon almost every delegate has an all alteration to make in tho the governing rules of the league leigue and emch each Is vie pic pared to ride bla big hobby without a brake ohp ali louisville ag sleet meet club and the toledo 06 96 meet club have each engaged parlors parlor at the hotel rennert and will boom their chances for the national rare race meet the national assembly aes maily will probably award awara the meet to one or the other of 0 the cities named it Is claimed that isaac potter has pledged now new yorks vote vole to louisville condl tio nally and that halt half of oc the votes of massachusetts will go TO the same way in addition to a solid southern and western vote vole but much tests rests upon i how bow the ballots axe are cast for president ot of tho the league n nearly the whole ot of the first day dar will be taken up with the good roads 1 meeting while tho the second day will mill be 1 given up to the business meeting i 1 theao who tavor favor tho the leu leuguner gueR devoting v all its ha energies to road improvement instead of 0 track racing will uso use tile the frat day of 0 meeting tor for all tta its worth to influence the delegates to vote against racing in connection with the good jia I 1 roads is assion thome who he are arc backing kt I 1 the project of 0 IL cycle path from rom belli dahll ef more to washington will seek the in ant la port of the league in the uniti takina r ono one of tho the moet radical amendments amend menta V I 1 to be offered will be bb that ot of chief con 3 out ul ii L C jacquat Jaca uett of 0 chicago w who he will more that professional wheelmen wheelman elmen be I 1 41 X admitted to the league another subject that will stir up feeling will bo the admission of negroes to tile league there aro are lit at present over ashi 2900 members in the league or more than a year no which will entitle tile tho next am assembly to nearly members tho the yew new boik and mas massachusetts achu setre have altogether over MOW llodo members but they mill only send forty three the atlantic coast states leiv c members and sixty nine members th tho Ml lille stes have sass roem here ani and fifty members tile tho south has am abers anti anil thirty three but tile the question of racing together avill lint be tile tho only 3 whether the three classes remain as they aro are narn carnly ly amateur semi and ani professional or tile tho class claa ri men shift be thrown thron out leaving c na the and profess ionni Is a matter which will consume muli thought and time then tile tho apri cais or of tile the cap expelled ell e I 1 riders titu Ca bottine and murph burphy y evill hlll have to be heard beard tile lews or of loading members of tho the league interested in racing have been vought on the fie subject of abandoning iacini here Is mr potters argument arcuni ent i I 1 I 1 I 1 vf I 1 itic Z b ia rr r A I 1 I 1 15 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 b 1 X if I 1 fl I 1 I 1 fl I 1 I 1 ll 11 1 I 1 I 1 1 ii I 1 I 1 AI a I 1 P g 4 11 I 1 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I IQ I 1 I 1 I 1 dent loon sine of 0 the lacie members nothing for the c wre a re practically it racing of the on account mo one joins of ppe in tile tho way Is for tile rates the bood d loads movement cial tal hotel C guidebooks etc th that at free map tile tho league exists exist 9 find and it la is only because of these that thal t it Is 1 able to elst aa it Is now nom tho league loan Is made to c center about a felt feature thence which la IS of CO consequence na st to but a tithe or of hi members cra and as a matter ot of act ct ahli keeps of tile tho league many from joining american wheelman wheelie elmen la Is not a sporting organ organization a at t leao least st it never was deigned I 1 to be such and not be made dollic doll Imo ting nc hick to the go v c of if mis has buiu ed il from it 11 4 true purpose c by Us its ruling on tile iho professional and amateur amadeu r T qua PA llona lions it has moreover been a bur it r lesque as nn an organization of arnat amateurs eurs and it la is today the ii eughing UK stock of the genuine amateur bodies henry 13 I 1 duckor chair chairman mari OL oi tho th new york if racing 1 card and the manager ot of the I 1 ilp alp ig race meets AL rt springfield ten tell years yara ago aeo says tile argument adAn cerl that racing takes too loo much of tile th time and energies of th the league falls hat flat if we take the rast past billit history ory of oc the L A W VS had the same amount of energy been P rut cu t into the other committees that has haa b ban n put into the mork ork by thi the me racene ienir mon men me m lie b alle to i ide ida front from portland me to to san francisco on tho the fint roads in tho the world take our good roads toik and nearly all of the iho i 6 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I I 1 r I 1 1 I 11 1 1 0 I 1 I 1 I 1 prominent work has haa been done by two enthusiasts cot COL japo and chief consul potter tle the former lias has put money and brains into the work mork and has u undoubtedly n accomplished moro more than the LPG entire league while mr potter potier hits has worked mocked haid to aist tho bork along alone these two tuo men dien have had to po go it almost single handed and it cannot bo be laid to the door of the racing inhere interests te that these men have not had tile backing that the league could give che them those oil nier ibers car rm embr the iho good work that was mas done on oil tho the trana trams port por atlon tation committee c when R B 13 ayers of chicago was waa its chairman at that time that committee wits was at much noticed as aa the tf B I 1 ono ue committees would only as hard as 03 the racing board the league work would bo be the all lapic as its committee would accomplish bor nothing lit in other ways than thail racing the should have IL a rood good strong road committee for this committee to accomplish much it la Is necessary it should have a large lares amount of money much more than under the present system the L A W la 13 able to give tile the racina board can be of tile the greatest possible good because it Is the only committee that has a source of milking making money all other committees are committees ind and this ono with right rules can bv be mode made to 3 beld greater firrest incomes than 1 I 1 now derived from tho the annual dues of the members lot let tho racing board charge a sufficient suin clent fee for sanctions to enable it to turn into our treasury trea aury about liM 0 a year and with that a good roads committee could make some come headway the idea that thai the league should cut ott off the only committee thit that cam he made a profitable one seems absurd of course it Is too bad that the men interested in that branch of the work are enterprising but we cannot afford to loso lose tile tho trien men who are arc tho the life ot of cyclists lat ug u strengthen tile the other committees to a 0 point here they may do a great public work whre where they will have no time to pull down I 1 the he mock ork of thome enterprising ter men mc n who have racene in chauffe ch tuffe chairman goorge D gideon of tho the board that his alc wa cola coin cedo exactly with tho the resolutions n 3 adopted by tile JIN Islon L A W to lo tho the effect that tho the league should continue its 10 control of 0 racing and thit that it went boum lie be detrimental to the league to abandon it ld ed IL croninger of 0 cincinnati southern member ot of the racing board ways mays all honorable racing cyclists r the in the league of 0 american men a a strict but just governor Ko vernor and look to it for protection from a all crookedness which la ia bound to mist alst i amongst ito 0 o greet great an army im fix that of cycle racers they know and i appreciate the fact that without panic como impartial and severe dictator cycle i acini would soon eoon be a a thing of the past and that instead ora ot a very crooked race an honest race would be the exception the league of 0 american wheelmen wheelman elmen will not abandon the control of cycle racing because became the racing men whom it controls con trola anil and interested in racing tor for a goodly ot of the iha membership of the L A W Storli nir I allott says 10 ro lo abandon ab nann would out cut on our r own throaty atia we would at once tall fall in the estimation 0 of f tho the public they would say eay that after fifteen years over racing we tied had proved unequal ual to the teal anti and had to ley lay it down the L A W racca are arc as cloan today ns as they were ten years ago tho the tone hits has not been low cred red let us kolp keep up tho the good work president pre ildene stands by racing ra ile he says euy to FILY we nyo ran mut it give up racing because too nine much 1 I 1 energy la Is given even eva giva to it I 1 a to say eay that when wo we work N 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 4 pt N 0 K f V I 1 k IV I 1 ar y tp I 1 I 1 4 v I 1 ea ZI J t J 1 I 1 I 1 i Y e i t Q it I 1 1 IT F ducker up a department dep artmont to it a point where it la Is energetic and useful lt we e mut rive it up tile the very cry mr potter lotter tier alores lores 1 a 9 reason for far tho rho existence e or of tile the raring racing board it does docs not flat follow that because the tha board dies dieg its eniry energy eni ry woul went I 1 be demoted de doted to other departments dep art ments there Is no patent patel nt yet found to transfer energy let its use commendable energy as we find it legislators 41 I 1 tar rt 1 IV I 1 14 av q I 1 if I 1 1 r fa 1 I 1 r 4 ay ill I 1 R I 1 I 1 it I 1 I 1 senator booth hiram E booth va mas born in clayton county la ii near th ill town of 0 october 25 5 1660 rind feltl resided rel tl at that piece u unlit nill ia 4 1 in lall him father facher macl aith his family to county iii za near nar n ar council young booth received its ills education in the iho common schools schoola 0 ot f lo 10 iowa a in 1 ST ho be bran began the iho study of law velh A ith lion frank shinn rl a pioneer attorney of oc tho the ot of iowa and in september ib lter 5 pas c I 1 nn an ex em I 1 gift lion before tho the supreme court of iowa an aal me admitted to 10 practice in nil all ahn courts of that state lift lia we aoa thi ill editor and proprietor pr prietas of the carfon 0 paper pun h 4 L I 1 a at t caryon carson la ia cometh 1 nc oer cler ayar a biar and after selling out formed a arthers ht mith lah mr in the iho law Eu sineas to tho the practice of luw at tile the county her bar ile he was tied blvd to dwse carlo M robinson at cedar rapids IL II 11 auitt K N I 1 li ills hla wife ito efting duns irk in september aw li ho has ono dauch tor t ao 30 or of it clial int marriage now living mr IT boo t it came cam to elih in 1 aks and was to practice by tile tho supreme court ot of with utah T territory errit ory in janu jana nn ISSI ebirt H I 1 t to 0 1 lovez om in may ly i afta and U A d married ali mi liffland B rei liend of P ost 1110 la ia brier after walli he h gain cretu returned tried to utah and ent enlund red upon tho the of law at salt lake city whore where he v has resided ever anco since lio lie hao ono 0 no 5 6 years of his sec ond end marriage lie ilo served for pomo me time as aa val states commissioner and Is 19 at gent present I 1 iho he senior mercher of the law firm of booth leo G gray a larm r which has hag been in in le na 0 aleco 0 1 ali ara I 1 ilo to served as a member of the ills council of cf c f chrt ahn thirty kimt legis J ts of the or of utah ulah and way was chairman of oc tho the ju jull crary committee it 1 I 1 nt E k II 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 11 I 1 I 1 1 I I 1 k P t I 1 9 1 I 1 I 1 I I 1 I 1 1 4 11 LO I 1 senator tor evans abel J evana was born in achl utah december st IW at the iho are of 0 13 ills his father died and young youg as aa hf he mae the boy had to help im carn support tor for its hla mother and M soen on brothers anti and 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