The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-23
POTTER TO BE PRESIDENT.
NEW YORK MAN A SURE WINNER IN
THE l.. A. w. ELECTION.

Officers Urged to Misunderstanding
Rules to BE Amended-MichaeI to
Rest UD-JudEe speer an Ardent
WheeImnn.
1t now seems beyond doubt that Isaac
B. Potter of New York will be elected
| president of the League of American
| Wheelmen at the meeting of the national
assembly to be held in st. Louis Feb 9.
| A meeting of the delegates Of the Penn.
| sylvania division was held last week TO
decide whether that division would stand
by the agreement made between Keenan,
of Pennsylvania and Potter or whether
The division would put out Gideon of Phil
! adelphia to oppose Potter. The meeting
decided to give the support of the state
to Potter for president and T. ]. Keenan,
of Pittsburg for vice president
This upsets all the calculations and plans
of Sterling Elliott of Boston, who has
been making a hard fight on Potter, and
who wanted to run Gideon. With the sup
port of New York and Pennsylvania, with
what other states Potter has already
pledged to him the New York man cannot
be defeated
President Potter has written the officers
of the Georgia division urging them to be
present at the assembly, if possible, and
particularly impressing upon members the
Importance of being present on "Good
Roads day" The national committee on
the improvement of highways is working
hard and expects the coming meeting to
be fruitful of much good.
The Park and Tree Commission has re-
ceived letter from the Georgia division
of the League of American Wheelmen re-
questlng them, in the interests of wheel
men, to place sings on the paths in the
| Park Extension and Forsyth park desig-
mating which paths can be used and on
which 1t is forbidden to ride. The letter
| was signed by Chief Consul W. e. Grady
| Secretary-Treasurer William Denhardt
and Local Consul H. s. Oppenheimer
The division is in receipt of a letter from
! DIR. George II. Stone stating that the petit
ton will be preseRted at the next meeting
OF the commission, and acted upon. There
| is hardly doubt that the comm ssion Will
carry out the suggestion
Several strangers, who We're not famil-
lar with the laws regula ing riding in the
| park, suffered the embarrassment Of an ar
rest recently and it is to prevent recur-
renee of this that the L. A. w officials
took the matter up.
1t will be a surprise to many people to
learn that Hon. Emory Speer, the dis
| tinguished judge of the United States
Court is a wheelman and an ardent one
at that. Secretary Denhardt of the
Georgia division has just received Judge
Speer's application for membership in the
| l.. A. w. Judge Speer is also a member
of the Ocmulgee Cycle Club of Macon.
The Georgia division continues to grow.
/ frA1 L.
following four applicants from Savannah
will be announced in this weeks issue of
the L. A. w. Bulletin and Good Roads:
j. H. Hirsch, Gilbert r. Rossignol Phil
lip Guilmartin and r. r. Oakman.
Reforms in cycle racing are essential to
the success of that sport in the future
and the National Assembly, when ii
meets, should adopt rules that will pre-
| vent any misunderstanding during the
coming season. Tom Eek the well known
trainer, has been delegated by the wheel
men TO attend as their representative.
An important amendment to be offered
will be one that will limit the size of pac-
ing machines in middle and long distance
| races combining them to tandems trips
and quads, and that no electric pacing
machines will be used except by special
sanction of the racing board.
This is owning TO the fact thai CUNTS
"a
source of danger to the riders. Quads and
trplets are said to be fast enough for any
man, are easier to handle and far prefer
abe for pick-ups
In order to give amateurs a change 20
ride in middle distance racing and in pac-
ed mile races, Eek wants rule introduced
which will allow professionals to pace am
ateurs in races and in trials against time.
| The most important resolution that Eek
will introduce will be one that provides as
follows:
| That every professional who races in
America shall be entitled to join the
| League Of American Wheelmen upon pay
ment of 50, which shall be paid to the
chairman Of the L. A. W. racing board in
order to sustain that branch of the league
| That no amateur shall be allowed to COM
pete in races until he becomes a member of
the league, upon payment of the regular
fee required from any applicant.
The money received from this will go to-
ward paying the running expenses of the
racing board. AS the rules of the l.. A. w.
stand now, professionals are not allowed to
! become members, but there has been a dis
position for some time to amend this rule
and strike out the word amateur"
Jimmie Michael has abandoned the idea
| of a trip to. Europe, and has decided TO
rest up for some time. He will probably
| join the racing men now at Belleair in
| a couple of weeks, and do very little work
| for a month or more. After that he will
| begin training for the season of '9S, and
! will go North about April. Michael has
| done an enormous amount of training and
! racing during the last eight months, and
| his rest is well earned. He has ridden in
! fourteen matches, thirteen Of which he
won. Besides these, he has ridden in num-
bers of exhibitions. His earnings in this
! time is said 20 be easily $4,000 He has
recently received several offers TO go on
| the stage and TO exhibit himself in the
music halls but has not entertained any OF
| them.
| Higher gears will be used by the racing
men the coming season than ever before.
| The foreign riders, who are now in this
country, use much higher gears than the
| American riders. Gougloiz, the French
rider rides a SO gear, and the ease with
which he follows pace and sprints sur
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