New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-26
SPORTS AND
SPORTSMEN.
CYCLING.
SUSPENDED RIDERS MAKE THE FIRST
RETALIATORY MOVE.
CRACK PROFESSIONALS SIGN AN AGREEMENT
TO RIDE AT THE TRENTON INTERSTATE
FAIR-FAIR ASSOCIATION DE


TO RIDE AT THE TRENTON INTERSTATE
FAIR-FAIR ASSOCIATION DE
FIEs THE LEAGUE
Trenton, Sept % (SpeciaD.-Bald. McFar-
land, Stevens Cooper. Gardiner Eaton and the
other crack bicycsts who suspended by
Chairman Mott Of the l.. A. ". Racing Board
for training on the suspended Berkeley Oval
track met at the Trenton House tonight and
signed an agreement to ride tomorrow al the
track OF the Interstate Fair. They agreed fur
,hermore to use their influence toward getting
Major" Taylor Kaiser. Titus. Jim" Ball. Mer-
tens and the other unsuspended cracks TO ride
in the races with them.
The management of the Interstate Fair will
brave the wrath Of the L. A. W. Racing Board
and run the risk of the suspension Of their
track Chairman Mott Of the L. A. W. Racing
Board was expected here to referee the racing
tomorrow. He telegraphed Friday night he could
not come. If he fails put in his appearance.
Captain Allen OF the Century Wheelmen OF
Philadelphia will be asked to serve as referee
What the unsuspended members Of the L. A
". will do is not certain. There is TO be an
other meeting Of all concerned tomorrow morn
ing. BY participating in the racing with the
suspended men they would themselves incur
the danger OF suspension.
THE SUSPENDED PROFESSIONAL RIDERS
MAJOR" TAYLOR's CHANCES GREATLY IN
c-REAssD-TfIE RUN OF THE CENTURY
wHEELMEN
The scene OF the battle royal which has been
going on for some time between the Racing Board
q. the League Of American Wheelmen and several
Of .he leading professional riders and which
reached climax on Saturday. when Bald, Cooper
Mcfarland Stevens. Mosher, Hedstrom. Anderson,
Rabcock Terrill and others who had been training
AZ the Berkeley Oval track were suspended by
order OF Chairman Mott. will move 10 the inter
state fair at Trenton. y. J.. to-day. II was SAID
Yesterday that the men Will insist on riding at
Trenton on the ground that they were entered FOR
the races that to be held there. and also for
those that are to be held later in Philadelphia and
Baltimore before they were suspended and mat
consequently they must keep their contracts. Inc
Racing Board on the other hand, Will insist tnat
II ihey are permitted to do the tracks will un-
doubtedly be declared outlaw tracks Ike the serKe-
ley Oval track has been posted
The chief topic OF talk among the admirers OF
cycle racing yesterday was the great chance ~hich
the suspension Of Bald and the others had provdeo
for 'Nator' TAYLOR. the colored rider. 10 WIN the
National championship this year. 1t was held that
I, Raid and the other suspended men were not
allowed 10 ride at the meeting at Woodside farh'
PHILADELPHIA which begins on THURSDAY IaHiof
would gain such an advantage In points tnat' even
4. the suspensions were raised in time for the
meetings which will follow in Baltimore and ST
Louis and viii n VIII wind the National Circuit
meets they would never catch him. AS shown IN
yesterdays Tribune. Bald has l55 points TO ms
for The championship Metarland mas bs others
and Kimble IL. Cooper Gardner ana the o'heiS
are strung out behind.
Kinble has not been suspended. and he Will Dc
Tavlor's strongest opponent at the Philadelphia
meet II will be seen by this that Taylors chances
~ winning the National championship are rosy
indeed Taylor has a strong desire to win me
championship as he has thoughts OF gong 10
Europe this winter. and it would help him materl-
ally 70 gain recognluCh
The Century Wheelmens around the circle
run +" an annual outing Of much interest TO cy-
lists was held Yesterday and about TWO hundred
r,ders took part in II. The run is around New
York and the route taken yesterday was as fo-
lows: The start was made from the Circle at
E,,tv-ninth-st and the Boulevard TO the Wee
bawken ferry. along the Hudson County Boule-
ward to Bergen Point Port Richmond. Staten
Island: thence to Tottenville and afterward to 81
George then TO Manhattan Borough. ana theh
across the Bridge 20 Bath Beach. where STOP
was made for dinner Then the run was continued
10 Dunton Long Island; 10 Long lsland Cty'
aircie An he riders except two, finished the run
one OF the unfortunate two had a pau ran w q,
edpge and It was feared that his broken
His name could not be learned iast rllsnt, - :
no women were permitted TO take part In T. Inc
first man to finish was John Voekay, and ne was
mart Of this was that these the
heaviest riders who took part In me run, mons ns
M the next @, meeting Of the Fat Mems Club The
was open 10 riders OF a WheeIrnen had
charge Of 1t.
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