The San Francisco call., 1897-04-06
AGAIN The
CRY Of
FOUL" !"
But This Time in Connec.
tion With the Big
Relay Race.
OLYMPIC RIDERS ALLEGE
TRICKERY.
They Charge the Bay City Men
With Using Face.
Makers.
KENNA'S FINISH ALSO CUES
TONED.
\
A Formal Protest Filed With the
Racing Beard and an Investiga.
on Demanded.
KENNA'S FINISH ALSO CUES.
TONED.
A Formal Protest Filed With the
Racing Beard and an Investiga.
t on Demanded.

Dreamy peace and joyous harmony are
not destined to be the chief elements of
the aftermath of Sundays great century
relay, after all.
When Kenna, the Bay City Wheelmen's
star, shot over the tape in Alameda full
two minutes in advance of Wing, the
Olympic Club flyer, the popular opinion
was that the absence of the customary
"close t1nish' would leave no room for
subsequent doubt as TO the winner.
But now that the race is over rum blings
of discomfort are heard emanating from
the big red-and.yellow building on Post
street.
In short an obstacle confronts the Bay
City victory in the shape OF formal pro-
test filed with Mr.. Adams of the racing
board. In this document the Olympic
Club Wheelmen charge teat the Bay City
riders did not win the big race on their
merits, that the Bay City Wheelmen as an
organization resorted to trickery and un-
sportsmanlike conduct in order to encom
pass the victory, and in consequence that
the up should be held in allegiance and
not awarded until it is fairly won.
In accordance with the rules governing
amateur bicycle racing this protest will
have TO be given serious consider alton.
The Olympic Club complainants will be
asked 10 prove their assertions. and. on
the other hand, the Bay City boys viii be
accorded the privilege of presenting q
defense. In detail the indictment by the
Olympic Club is that the Bay City Wheel
men totally ignored the rules of the relay
regarding the pacing of the riders.
Sundays event was to be, they say. es-
sentially unpaced and purely amateur
race. The rules granted that each club
participating in the race should be al
lowed to send out behind each rider wear
ing its colors one trailer" but that this
individual should at no time pass in front
of the relsy-rider for the purpose of pac-
ing him.
Now the Olympic Club boys claim that
the Bav Cities paid no attention to this
restriction-in fact that they violated it
in nearly every relay by sending out
dozens of pace-makers. To make it
stronger they declare that in the ninth and
tenth relays the victorious club operated
over fifty riders. 1t was an easy matter,
they say, for many of these extra for ces to
zis-Zag over the course and annoy and in
terfere with the riders who represented
rival clubs.
They will not put themselves on record
just now that this sort OF interference was
resorted to- explaining that they have not
all of their evidence at hand.
This is not all.
The complaining Olympians call atten-
t1Ou 10 henHa HnlSE, WHICH " as
watched by thousands of diIated eyes.
Everybody, they declare. will remem ber
that four riders surrounded the doughty
Bay City athlete when he dashed over
the line. He should have been accom-
panied by but one man, his official trailer.
The others, the olympic men say, de-
hberately whirled into Kenna's wake in
order TO pocket" him, so to speak, and
thus prevent any rival racer from passing
him on the way 10 the tape. True, there
was no competitor near enough TO Kenna
to give him any alarm, but the authors OF
the protest say that is not the point-it is
the principle OF the thing that they are
talking bout.
I'VE don't want to pose as sore heads or
as being envious OF the victors," said
George II. Stratton of the Olympic Wheel
men las; night. I'VE don't want the cup.
What we are after is square deal, and If
there is any way of getting it we propose
to have it.
Now, L was at Mountain View Sunday
to see that our representative. Tantau, got
off all right on the fifth relay. In obedi-
ence to the rules, we sent one trailer out
behind our man. But what did the Bay
City people doP Why, they had six or
seven men there, and every one of them
took care to bring along wheel exactly
the size of that ridden by their relay
rider
Lew Hunter, ex-chairman of the racing
DOaiO anu All cHIuuSldoIlC cycle
was another who was giving vent to his
feelings last night at the Poststreet head
quarters.
Jack McGlynn, also of the Olympics,
says that special complaint will be
lodged with the racing board in regard
to the cond uct of Vincent, who was the
trailer for Krafts, the Bay City rider on
the ninth relay. Vincent, he says,
deliberately paced the Flying Dutch
man" for several miles. Davis, the trailer
for Kroeiz, who carried the Oily mpic colors
in this relay. took Vincent TO task for his
action. and the pair came to blows.
Meanwhile the Bay City lads are still
celebrating their victory and singing
songs, the trend of which is the discomfit-
ure OF their defeated rivals.
Little or no attention is paid to the
Olympic protest. As matter of fact, few
of the boys have mad time to hear that q
''kick'' is on.