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Show LOCAL CYCLISTS IN AUSTRALIA. Samuelsou. and McParlar.d Picking Up Easy Floral Wreath Honors. Word hao bin received from Australia that Floyd McFarland nnd Billy Samuolton, th "Prldo of Provo." aro still doing well In the Antipodes, but will b back, among tho old folks when th saucer track season opens. McFarland r.y that ho will be In tho llno-up llno-up on May 1C, aa ho concluded to cut out tha Sydney handicap. He won tho half-mll5 International cham-plonihlp cham-plonihlp at the cycling carnival of the Ad-laldo Ad-laldo Lagu of Wheelmen from Mayer and Rutt, the German experts. Thf Mayer ntakes for the half mllo were won by Samuplron from Rutt, McFarland flnlshlnu third, the local llycr, nccordlnR to rcporte, cdRlntr Into victory by a six-Inch lead over tho Dutchman. Ono of the Australian papers has this to vny about Ivor Lavnn, tho former world's champion, cham-pion, which shows that ho woo not Klven qultu tho consideration dtii him In Australia but what cares ho: "Ivor Lawnon, It Is understood, who Is now en routo to Europe, will bo In ample- time to prepare himself for tho Continental season. Ho was- not fatlefied with tho small amount of appearance money which the combination of srort promoters gave In Australia, and, belner rulrly wll off, was much too Independent to suit some of ihem. who. finding he was, In a senso, beyond their reach, declared that ho was not wanted, and did not stIvh him fair representation by nny means. Lawson's natural nat-ural taciturn temperament provented him making mak-ing any marked protest acalnst any such treatment, but ho maintained his rlsrht to dispose dis-pose of himself or he plensed. Much of the feollpg was caused through not understanding the man, and this wan apparont not merely In Sydney, but In a lesser degree In Melbourne. But th Melbourne public wnu never against Iowson. Lawpon was popular, ond certulnly .a draw. With McFarland he mode the difference differ-ence between a paying and a. non-paying gate, as witness the attendance at the tlnal days of the Austral meeting." |