New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-01-17

POTTER STILL BELIEVES IN PENNsYL-
WANNA

WHAT THE PRESIDENT OF THE LEAGUE CYCLING
GLIB OF PHILADELPHIA HAS TO sAY-THE
TRACK ASSOCIATION AT woRK--A BOLD
nIGHwAyMAN ON A BIcyCLE-Rlp'
ING CONTINUOUS CENTURIES
President Potter says that he is not worried owe
the meeting OF the Pennsylvania DIVISION " ',
will be held at Philadelphia tomorrow lie Is 81"
OF the opinion that the Pennsylvania BOARD Oh On
Gers will do as they have been instructed anu WI"
,o,a for Potter and Keenan, and that the oiilciAs
viii not allow Sterling Elliott to manipulate tne''
votes for them Potter's friends are oil inc op''''
that the New-York man will be eiec'eu' cNe' -
Pennsylvania should switch over to Gideon. lhohaS
D. fIaines jr.. president of the League oS"'l"o
Club OF Philadelphia who offered the resolution III
dorsing Mr.. Keenan, for vice-pres'oeh- u inv
League of American Wheelmen organization states
that before the resolution offered he was rei-
ably informed that Mr.. Gideon would not be a can
ddate for office in the League OIL AhheIV@fn 49, W lie
men, hence the resolution IN us Pre5JJn' emher Of
thinks that Mr.. Keenan, Is val uaDie HeilpYi "
he League Of American Wheclmen as well as
on agd Should be Supported for oce OF vice
president especially since ne has te0S1 ~ NJ
unanimous Endorsement Of the division aitSr MT
Gideon had announced that he was not candiaaIe
He SAYS that neither ne nor ms orshn%a W. f oP
nose Gideon on any other grounds IMAM me tdCt
that he has never been candidate and the iaft
that the vote being once pledged TO MT heenan; II
IS Imperative matter OF honor tha' the uI''S'o
4 should be loyal TO its pledge
A, meeting of the Circuit Committee Of the Ma
tional Cycle Track Association nj Boston on Janu-
airy a. the committee revised the Grand Natohai
Circuit dates, starting with Manhattan beach
track May q. when the first race In the Graho
National track series will take pace. This contest
will comprise races with increased prize limits, II
being the intention of the National Cycle Track
Association make the mile race prizes at all OF
these meetings for first 800 for second and $40
for third place. Henry Z. Ducker, secretary OF the
has position
pro tenn. to sign the racing men who have already
made application for the Grand National CIRCUIT.
The committee has also considered circuit OF
middie-dis;ance racing, in addition to the Grahd
National Circuit TO be run by paced teams under
control of tracks in the National Cycle Track As
ISOLATION. The track association has secured a
number Of multicycles. TO be used in pacing the
Manager Quicker says that the men about
to be signed viii admit of challenges being ac
9epied nom any rider, Tor any distance, ana any
KIM Of race on any track. Tracks OF the as
question that is Of interest to the public is the
iorinailoh OF 'ne rsy 'eens Tor i o.aie
the .arge cities what The baseball teams now are
at stated intervals, on a schedule to be arranged
later. the scoring to he by points 1t is said that
petition rider able to 60 from quarter mile Ave
miles one distance man, two mlddle-distance
men, TO go from ten 10 twenty-five miles; one long
distance man, TO ride one hundred miles! or for
pacemakers
theatres tonight. In order to have at least one
OF the characters fit the times chanless bicycle
Will be used in place Of the horse usually ridden
by the bad man OF the play. 1t is expected that
the wheelmen Will be delighted when the actor rides
out on his chaness wheel to DO his deed of daring
and crime Some however, may wonder how a
highw2yman OF mat epoch managed mag TO- get hold
the Broadway Theatre.
Edwards the long-distance rider of the Century
hoe limo riiip p.1iriec dau
matter what the condition of the weather Ed
wards's mount is cha!nless. and he says that
the mud does bother him at al. He finished his
sixteenth consecutive century yesterday, having
starr d on his sef-imposed task New Years
Day II Is said that Edwards really rides III miles
each day; He starts at Fifty -ninth.st. and the
B9g,evafd and goes Ste 70 Prospect Park Br9Pok>a
at regular intervals on his ride each day. Ed
day Of the year. but even his most enthusiasts
friends think tina: he will do well if he completes
desires heat the sixty consecutive one-hundred-
miles record made by Know-es.
1t is said that the professional riders Of the
country will combine and refuse TO ride at the
,ionai meet of the League of American Wheelmen
this year. They formed similar combination last
year. but they forgot all about It when the time
for the championships came around. The alleged
grievance Of the professional riders is that the
League gives nothing more substantial than media =
the races as well as medn's The chances " a iC
however. that they VIII compete for medals a
INDIANAPOLIS in August. as they did Asbury
Park. Louisville and Philadelphia In the last three
years.
II the friends Of Gideon are responsible for the
giving out Of certain stories. there are some mem
beers Of the League OF American Wheelmen who
think that the adoption of such stories ought 10
make the perpetrators feel ashamed Of themselves
The story comes from BOs ion that there l. a we'll
defined rumor that & certain racing syndicate has
offered 10 pay the expenses OF certain delegates
70 ST. Louis nexi month in they will vote for
Potter for the Presidency. The friends Of MIR
Potter that the circulation Of such stories an
outrage.
Plans have been maze for bathing PAVILION in |
connection with the track at Ambrose PARK
This viii be possible. az the park within a block
Of the waters Of the Narrows The privilcg. yviI
be granted only 10 The racing men who are ot ~
isAck, uHu ioI thelr accommodation a gate vii
De cut IN the fence ana d path made Ia ~ bs,h /
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