The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-20
BAY CITY CLUB
IS HOT AFTER
ITS TRADUCERS
FahrbaCh on Gaines
Amendment.
THROWS DOWN THE GAUNTLET
PROTESTS AGAINST UNFAIR
LEGISLATION.
Association President Nippert Should
Not Be Thus Embarrassed at
the Opening of His Ad-
ministration.
THROWS DOWN THE GAUNTLET
PROTESTS AGAINST UNFAIR
LEGISLATION.

The members of the California Asso-
ciated Cycling Clubs are engaged in a
bitter internecine strife over two amend
ments to the bylaws proposed at the De-
cember meeting of the board of govern
ors, one of which, the better of the two,
was passed at the January meeting and
will come up again on a motion to recon-
slider at the February session.
The amendment which was beaten was
proposed by Secretary Scovern for the
Olympic Wheelmen and had for it's OBJ
ject the requirement that every contest
ant in an association road race, except
the annual relay and twenty-mle events,
should be an individual member of the
association in good standing on it's
books.
The amendment which was carried was
proposed by NJ. E. Gaines, chairman of
the delegation from Alameda, and COM
bined the good features of the Scovern
amendment with the additional broad pol
icy that no exceptions be made; in other
words. that any member of the associa-
ton could ride in any event, interclub or
otherwise.
The fairness of this latter clause so
captured the delegates at the last meet
ing that they carried the Gaines amend
ment by over a two-thlrds majority, the
only ones against it being the four Olym-
of the Olympic Club Wheelmen has been
so bitter in it's denunciation of the Bay
City Wheelmen because they voted In
favor of the Gaines amendment and
against the OIympics pet scheme, the
Scovern amendment, that President Emil
+. Fahrbach of the Bay City Wheelmen
has thought best that the position OF ms
club toward the amendment should be
frankly stated to The pubic and 70 the
members of the association in particular
in refutation of the unfair lnferenceS tnat
acf1 q
gates, simply because they supported the
Gaines amendment.
President Fahrbach has been an active
wheelman for over fifteen years. He
Joined the Bay City Wheelmen in 1884. 1t
is unlikely that such an old-time devotee
of cycling would support any amendment
sport. His letter is entirely free from
Personalities and is a fair statement of
his clubs position. 1t is as follows:
SAN FRANCISCO, January -, 1899
Cycling Editor The Call: Judging from the
various articles recently appearing In the daily
papers in which Mr.. Gaines amendment was
termed Joker it might be well to give the
same here in full that the cycling public
can judge for itself
The amendment as presented and voted on
at the last meeting of the California Associated
Cycling Clubs reads as follows:
I'm all annual events promoted by the asso-
citation all contestants nt must be members IN
ride in such events. All amateur members of
compete in all races whether open or interclub
events held under the rules of the association,
and further that all rules and laws in con-
fiict with this provision are hereby repealed"
AS matter of record, let me state that this
amendment read in full at the December
meeting of the association. Judge, therefore,
my surprise to have 1t termed a Joker a
month later How any one reading this amend
rnent can term 1t Joker is beyond my I'M
Outstanding. Does it not particularly state that
all amateur members of the association shall
be permitted to ride in club events, and that
all rules to the contrary be rescinded?
Yet ii appears from the statement of one
delegate that he only discovered the sense of
It after a delegate of the Bay City Wheelmen
spoke in it's favor. Immediately he arose in
arms against it, asserting that all past legis-