| Show LAWSON BELIEVES OUTLAW RIDERS L WILL WIN O t r. r Former Champ Here Says Boys Want Hardy Downing Downing Downing Down Down- ing as Their Leader I just couldn't stand tand the temptation to come back home to the best town in the world for for- fora I a month ot at so said Iver Lawson Lawson Lawson Law- Law I I son former worlds world's champion cyclist as he shoved out his hands to the sporting editor this morning Iver landed today from Kansas City where he with George Cameron as a partner finished third in the six-day six r race ce which cIos closed d there Thursday evening The Th Swede as he was known during his racing days clays ays here looks the picture of health but says he wants to put himself in even better shape here before he goes East again I ought to be in Newark right now but I couldn't u uthe says Lawson pass up the chance to train here for fot a mont month I and end be near the sulphur springs which I we have at t home here I never found a better place to train than Salt Lake Laker I and I cant can't understand why the bal ball ballplayers players do not train here instead of going to California Lawson of ot course Is brim full of dope clope about the riders riders' strike and the battI battles s between promoters Iver Is ar arrayed arm ar ar- m rayed jed with the strikers and can ean see nothing but success fori the for the boys who ha broken away from the National Nation l Cycling and Joined the White Rats an actors' actors organization which h is affiliated with the American Fed Federation of Labor We Va simply had to do something say pays Lawson b because eau e John Chapman and the N. N C. C A. A were handing it to us something awful They ran things too I much to suit s lt themselves and couldn't tee ce the riders at all It started last fall faU when a Chicago promoter r offered the ridera if it they would ride a flix- flix Fix Bay ay race there Chapman and the N. N C C. A. A refused this man man man-it it was was was' ackey Packey McFarland by the way way way-a a sanction That six thousand dollars looked o ked pretty good to us fellows in inthe th the S' S winter time but the N. N C. C A. A re recus refue refused re- re fue cus fused 4 to let let him him run runor or us have the them m money ey We got together and ad decided to ride anyway and told McFarland we would We Ve knew we would be suspended so we simply banded to together together together to- to gether and affiliated with the White Rats flats Chapman and the N. N C. C A. A suspended suspended sus sus- us of course but we will make Cl Chapman Chapman- hard to catch atch before we get through with him We have given the promoters a af at Newark until the first of oC March to come come in line with us and andIC if IC they dont don't it will be beau all right with us We at already ready havethe the backing to build blInd a track of ot our own We We Ve will not rid ride against the boys who ar are are not members of our union nor will we ve ride for tor Chapman Minion Mihlon and will have hac to get rid of ot Chapman if it we ride at all and they will have hare to recognize recognize recognize rec rec- our union Floyd MacFarland's death left let the game Iame in bad shape Chapman is a a. joke compared to Big Mac What we need to now is a big man like Mac was at the head bead of ot our organization Hardy Downing is the man we want as manager manager manager man man- ager in Newark and I have authority to talk business with him Hardy js s the only man in the country who could handle the game me like Mac did and we want him if it W we can get him either as aslI lI successor to Chapman if we come to toan toan toan an agreement with the Newark promoters promoters pro pro- or if we have to accept the proposition of ot other Newark moneyed men to build a new track Well stick until we win though and and the new now Chicago promoters will stick lUck with us They have already an- an d a six-day six race for tor November Novem Novem- Jer ber er 27 M admitted that the recent day Ix race at at- Chicago lost money but he attributed this to poor management management man man- and says that instead of losing mone money the promoters should have ha had bad a balance on the right side The Kansas City race according to Lawson was also somewhat of a n. bloomer Iver can see no chance for tor future rating racing in Salt Lake City because he pays Fays It would be impossible to get gel enough good riders to please the local fans ans |
