Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-12
AGAIN DEFEATED.
Question of Local Option in L. A.
w. Sunday Racing.
National Assembly Adjourns After Three
Days of Work-Several important
Amendments Adopted.

st. Louis, Mo, Feb. 11.-After three
days Of work. the national assembly of
the l.. A. w. tonight finally adjourned
one of the most notable sessions ever
held by that body. At this session the
fight of President Isaac Potter for re-
election was successful and the impor-
tant question Of local option in the mat
ter of Sunday racing, was again de-
feated.
This evening an amendment was Of
fered to bylaws moving to strike out
in articles 4 of section Z, clause C, all
the words between the words but" and
'or' and insert in their stead the fol-
lowing: mo meeting shall receive sane
ton if it is to be held on Sunday in any
division where the board of officers of
such division shall, by reason, prohibit
the same.'
w. H. Baker, a delegate from Buffa-
10, ~ Y, offered as substitute for
this amendment the following:
1T shall have the power TO grant or
withhold permits ior race meetings and
to impose penalties upon race promoters
and racing men, who may hold race
meetings or engage in racing at the
same time, without the official permit
OF the board. But no race meeting shah
receive official permit if it is to be held
on Sunday, except as hereinafter pro-
Vlded or pass upon any Sunday event
which is open to women competitors.
The League Of American Wheelmen,
While discouraging Sunday racing and
all unlawful and immoderate use of the
Dlcycle, recognizes the fact that section
al customs and uses among reputable
people in certain parts of the United
states approve of the indulgence in out
door sports and athletic games on Sum
day, and among such people, cycle rae
ing on Sunday has been strongly en-
couraged Now to the end that public
sentiment prevailing in particular divi-
sions shall be ascertained and given due
consideration, and that the sport of cy-
Gle racing may in such localities be
Kept from unclean and disreputable
practices, and that all cycle racing on
the track within the United States shall
be subject to the disciplinary rules of
the national racing board or other
wise, it is hereby provided that no cycle
racing on Sunday shall be recognized or
tolerated by permit of the national rae
ing board or otherwise in any DIVISION
unless each division of the league shall
nave first taken a ballot before June,
1888, upon the question of Sunday rae
ing, which each division is hereby di-
rected to do.
"Such ballot shall be taken according
to uniform rule and form to be pre-
scribed by the national executive com
mittee, and all ballots and the results of
such ballot shall be certified by the
chlet consul and secretary and treasur-
er OF each division, to the secretary of
the league, who shall cause the same to
be published in the official L, A. w
Bulletin. The failure of any division to
take the ballot as herein directed shall
be construed as a constructive ballot of
such division unanimously opposed to
Sunday racing.
" And provide further, that after each
division has taken such ballot, and
Where a majority Of the members of any
division have voted in favor of such
Sunday racing, that Sunday racing shall
be permitted in such division, under the
same rules and regulations Of the ma
tional racing board as govern races held
on other days Of the week
"The board shall charge a fee for each
permit, Including all closed meets, but a
league club having 20 league members
on its roll or meets the entries to which
are limited to the members of, or club
holding the meet shall receive a permit
without payment of fee"
Mr. Bakers amendment was substi-
tuted for the original amendment. A
proxy vote was taken on the adoption
of the substitute as an amendment to
the bylaws. II was defeated as the re-
quired two-thirds majority was not in
favor Of it's adoption. The total number
of votes showed IT'S for the amendment,
and 152 against The matter will there
fore be laid on the table until the next
national assembly, President Potter
voted for the amendment.
The vote of Massachusetts was: Aye
80, no 0.
Thirty-two other amendments were
disposed of during the day in various
ways. Some were indefinitely postponed
or withdrawn, while four were defeated.
Among the more important of those
adopted are the following
In article II of the constitution new
section inserted to read: "No profession
al shall be eligible to entry in any open
race run under the rules of the League
of American Wheelmen, unless he is
registered with the racing board
Article III, section % Sub.--Con-
tract at meets closed to college or
to any number of colleges forming an
Intercollegiate meet, may, for those
meets only, be governed Dy the anna
teur rules of the intercollegiate Asso-
citation of Amateur Athletes of America.
Article V, section 3, was amended by
Other amendments provide for pay
ment of $2500 a year as compensation
to Chairman Mott Of the National rae
ing board, and declared that hereafter
no sanctions would be given FOR any six
day continuous race, unless the riders
be compelled to take at least two hours
rest out of every "a
Resolutions were adopted, fixing the
registration fee for professionals at 81
per year, calling on the national gov
ernment to push the demand on the
Turkish government for prompt pay
ment of $4,000 indemnity to the mother
of Frank E. Lenz, the Pittsburg mem
ber of the l.. A. W., VITO was murdered
in Turkish territory while on tour
around the world fayoring the passage
by congress Of a bill introduced by Rep
resentative Davies of Alabama for the
appointment of a committee to view the
roads in the national forest reserve of
Yosemite valley in California, and re-
port to next session of congress the best
location for road through that res
ervation.
M. G. Ratier of Milwaukee, Wis, in
troduced the following resolution, which
was warmly endorsed by prominent
men in the league and finally adopted:
Resolved, that the executive committee
of the l.. A. w. be instructed to in
vestigate the feasibility of turning over
to some other organization or body the
control of racing and to report it's re-
suits at the next national assembly.