Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1898-02-09
WHEELS AND wHHHLmEN.
Their Session at st. Louis Being Made an Ia
tcrcsting One.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, February 9,-If ap
pearances this morning count for any
thing, President Isaac b. Potter has
the whip-hand OF his opponents and
will be reelected TO the head Of the
League Of American Wheelmen by an
overwhelming majority. The move Of
the Potterites in picking out Thomas
j. keenan,, Of Pittsburg, for first vice
president, Chief Consul Edward Hines.
Of Michigan, for second vice president,
and New Jersey maa for treasurer
has proven to be shrowd one; in
basmuchSas 1t has made it impossible
solid combination Of the west against
the cast and vice versa. The dele
gates are red hot with politics this
morning and are so determined to get
the vexed question out Ct the way that
the election may be sprung this after
noon and forced 10 a result. 40 a
matter OF fact the fight on ofliceis, as
in previous years, is materially inter-
fering with the legislative and other
important business If which there
is always enough to occupy
the entire time cf the conyen-
ton and the result IL that
important matters tat ought to be
deliberately considered anu be as
deliberately acted upon are rushed and
but half digested. The western dele
gates who have combined 10 formida-
BILE sffoit to secure local option ON
Sunday racing held conft renee this
morning to consider their plans. An
ex member of the national racing
board, Douglas w. Roberts, of Mis-
sourI, has offered an amendment which
will give those divisions whose boards
of iioers SO vote the right to hold
Sunday races under l.. A. w. sanction.
II is believed that no best thug to do
with this question would be to submit
it to each western division in "a mail
vote of the division membership.
Such proceeding would get at the
real sentiment OF the division, and not
leave the thing solely 10 the sentiment
of the representatives to the division
board of officers. Mr.. Roberts will get IN
a rap at the six-day game also, for he !
desires the pass4 age nf an amendment
the aware ing of santtions |
to meets, which havu on their pro.
grammes events requf ring The contest
ants to ride more than twenty-four
hours. This latter amendment viii go
through with a rush. Further than
his, MIR. Roberts would have the rae
ng rules go amended that when an
amateur is declared professional he
'haIl not be expelled from the ieague,
,nt transferred TO the PROFESSIONAL
,lass. This is in ket ping with the
conditions which will exist IT the
Of Chief Consul Cooke, of
Rhode Island, is accepted. MIR.
Cooke recommends the striking out of
he. word amateur from the constitu-
ion, so that both amateur and profes-
Iione1 riders may be members of the
body which governs the sport in which
hey Tide.
While the delegates we're getting
iown to business in the big club room
If the Southern there was Kind of
meeting in the rotnnda of
. number OF cycle racing men, profess
ionals aud amateurs, who have
lumber Of grievances in the matter of
be control of racing, and who want to
,e given hearing. The professionals I,
ire urgent IN their demand that the
init to the value Of prizes should be
lbolished and think that race meet
promoters should be the best judge Of
he amounts they could give to racing
men. The possibility is that the league
will consider some changes, but it isl
,ery unlikely that the request Of the T
professionals to be admitted to mem-
,ership will be seriously considered.