The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-01

AS intimated in The Herald q very
few members of the League of Ameri-
can Wheelmen in Utah have left that
organizat ion. and united with the Cali
fornia Associated Cycling clubs.
! D. W. Brown, secretary treasurer of
! the Utah branch of the L. y. w, has
] sent in an application to the western
organization. saying that he. with 20
others, of the Utah division, had re-
signed and wished TO join with the Cal
1 ifornia wheelmen in their progress to-
ward independence. he stated that
the days of the league were over in
Utah, and the secession movement was
spreading eastward rapidly.
According to the San Francisco Call
( this gives the association q hold in
Nevada, Arizona and Utah, with the
! chances of gaining control of racing
in Mexico, Oregon and British Column
bia, a scope that the promoters of the
organization scarcely dared hope for
when they began their crusade.
The Canadian cyclists are also eX-
tending the glad handf to California
because of the high handed methods
of the league, and two manufacturing
firms. having branches on this coast,
are figuring on sending teams of Cali
fornia riders 20 Canada under the col
ors of the California Associated Cycling
clubs. It is believed that this course,
if pursued. will cement the bond OF
sympathy already formed, and that ere
long Canadian flyers will be journeying
to this coast to try their speed against
the fast men of the Golden West. a
number of local flyers will certainly
90 TO Canada, for the prizes there are
much more liberal than those given at
league meets, and the Canadians have
the reputation of being thorough sports
men.
In the meantime the association is
making giant strides in this state, and
is planning many new schemes and
innovations for the benefit of local rid
ers. The latest plan is to place guide
boards along roads that are frequented
by wheelmen, telling of the nature of
the country beyond, warning riders of
dangerous hills and giving general in
formation that will be of assistance
The League of American Wheelmen
evidently believes in the proposition
that there is more Joy to be derived
from one sinner that repentS than in
ninety and nine that are righteous, for
it is making des3erate efforts to re
cover the allegiance of a number or
crack riders who have fallen from
grace, even Offering ~ leihSldAC bAlCiii
into full standing in the league without
application for absolution having been
made.
Several months ago. when the Cali
fornia Associated Cycling clubs were
in their infancy. several of the best
men in the state, at that time members
of the eastern. organization, rode in one
of the meets of the association classed
as "unsanctioned" by the league Off
Gals.
Chairman Mott of the national rae
ing board a. once suspended them, the
sentences of some of the men being
for two years. They showed how little
they cared about the matter by join
ing the association, thus. presumably.
disbarring themselves forever, and by
continuing to race as before. Within
the last few days there has been a
change of heart, evidently, for the men
have been asked to come back and sin
no more.
Those who have expressed any in
tention in the matter have stated that
they will stay with the association, and
not accept the overtures of the league
under any conditions.
BY the association this is accepted
as proof that the league is in desperate
straits for men to race in the meets