The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-21
S|X-DAY RACE SCORED
BY NEWARK BIKE FANS
Contest Is Won by the Alleged
Meanest Man in the.
Business.

An interesting letter WAS published
recently in the Newark Evening News
relative to the six.day bicycle races
etc, aud with thousands of bicycle fans
in this city eager for fresh dope" on
the bikestcrs the letter is herewith re-
produced:
j. p. N,-Why is it you bother to
publish letters from childrcn1 There
was one in the News Saturday signed
''Grant,' in which he tries 10 roast
mo by calling me "squarehcad - be.
cause ] expressed my opinion on GER
tain bike riders and managers. / sup
pose he is one of the half grown BOYS
who wears a little cap with the initials
e. O. II. S. east Orange High SCHOOL,
on 1T. He is what YOU call ''newspa
per fam knows all about bicycle rid
ers and baseball players, buG never saw
one of them in action. Then there was
another who criticised me by calling me
'poor sport - and signed himself " Ar
Honest Fan. - Well, Mr.. Honest Fan. -
/ know you. You are ono of those cigar
cite smokers who sits in the bleacher
at the races and yells AT tho boys whC
try to climb MP the steep banks of the
track; If you are such an :" Honest
ran why don 7 you sign Your namc2
| Well, the wonderful six-day race is
over and won by the meanest man in
the business, and perhaps Kramer and
Bloemecke will run 1pthcr six-day.
with Chapman as the .Eurchead Blu:
Chapman says "Never again. as thus
one hardly paid expenses, in spite OF
all the boosting by j. p. n, | told
YOU the Newark fans wouldn u stand for
the double prices at the wind.up aud
they did not, for hundreds of them
| turned around and went home
| How You do love Frank Kramer,
don Z youI Say he is the "fairest and
sduarest fellow and all that sort OF
gush. Wonder why it is? Last year
after he spoiled an afternoon IS pleasure
for 5000 people by making. fzzle ont
of the ive.mile championship you could
not roast him enough | have the clip
pings where YOU roasted him unmerci7
fully because he flunked in the fivc-milc
championship; now YOU praise hirl TO
the skies and You praise Chapman Just
the same. You II be praising old Bone
head Kelsey next.
II must be that season pass you are
looking for now; and then there is a
baseball season pass also What do you
do on Sundays You can Z use both. Do
you rent out one of theml
| don I think you had anything on
me IN your answer 10 my letter last
week. Half of my questions remained
unanswered and the answers Won made
| "NiS WI lut "lSuf NdcnNp Stnet'
less kind. You tried to give me 4 knock
by saying You supposed if the six.da.
race was free ] would be there every
day. Well. / was there nearly every
night had choice seat. saw the fin
lsh and didn Z go in on newspaper
pass. elther, thank you. If it WASH I
for these newspaper passes some peO
pie surely never would see any saing.
Floyd MacFarland calls you n ''Goat
2etter. Whose goat did you ever gel
pray tcll7 But I know who got yours
tbough--a certain fellow by the name
: of Brown. don t know the gentle
| man, but | admire him. Look out o:
this letter might get your goat. EiC
; Mack was right when he said your
answers to sporting inquiries wcro eff
J They are decidedly of at times
} woek or two ago some one asked
YOU who won the Kansas City six.day
race in 1909 and YOU said 'tWalter DE
Mara won it, Yet every one knows
that Eddie Root Just nosed Frank Kra
mcr out for first money. lf You arc
not moro careful in your answers You
are liable TO be farmed out TO the
War Cry or the Bugville Buglc By
the way, did ''Mac' really write that
letter. 1t sounded Just A little aS
though IL was composed by 81. z. n. D
And before L forget it why dDn't YOU
sign your own name TO YOUR column
lou insist upon everyone else doing
that. Well, no hard feelings. | hone
Bye, bye, now, Goat gctter.
H. j. SMITH,
| East Orange.