Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-07-08
Ii Kramer Be Guilty Referee
Says Champion Will Be Pun.
ished Like Others.

Poor Walter Bardgett! Had Walter
eventually befall him it is most Ger
tain hat he would not have permitted
Messrs. Million and Chapman to pluck
him from the ranks of the riders and
make him the official referee of the
| Eastern district of the National Cy-
cling Association.
Little did he realize that from popu-
lar man about town he was to drop
to a lower level than a burglar in the
eyes of his erstwhile friends. My!
what a panning they lave given him.
And It is coming from the fair sex
as well-this abuse. All a In
the faithful fulfnment of his duty he
has found It necessary to ~disqualify
a few riders occasionally.
It was all right when he put the
crusher on some of the small fry, but
when he got the fellow higher up" on
the Fourth for the very same
thing. my, what a "holler' went upl
It was awful and it Is echoing yet.
For his various disqualihcations Mr..
Bardgett has been threatened and can
no longer be found in his favortte
haunts. He does not konw whether
they are going to kidnap him or put
a bomb under his chair or bed some
night, but he is a very cautious young
man in all of his movements nova
days. He has given up his apart
ments in Vailsburg, but no knows
where he hrs one.
The only clue to where he is stop
ping was q telephone call left at the
track, which upon being traced.
proved to be the phone number of the
sailors home at Sailors Snug Harbor.
He may be stopping there under an
assumed name. He has a four-mast
schooner tattooed on his manly chest
and he may have gained admittance
through thai medium. He is not hid
ing or running way, however. for he
is going to stick to his Job. He will
be at The Velodrome Sunday and viii
wave the big stick deiantly at big and
small and all offenders will feel it's
weight. Walter was up to see us be-
fore he went to New Haven Thursday
and did a little chirping or his own
account.
II couldn't understand" said Wal
ter, why / was getting such a PAN
ming, but now I know and 1t makes
me laugh when I think about 1t. I am
just like a baseball umpire and when
I render a decision that does 0 meet
with the approval of certain riders and
their admirers why of course 1 am,
like the poor old Jump. in for a lot OF
abuse. I was one of those umpire
baiters myself once, but now when
ever 1 see an umpire 1 feel k going
out and embracing him. My heart
goes out to those poor fellows now,
yet only a sort time ago I was aim
ing pop bottles at their heads.
II did not know how unpopular l was
until this morning. 1 was going down
Grove street headed for the lunch
cart to partake of a crate egg with
truffles when a big red touring car
came tearing up the street in my d.
rection. There was a very swell blonde
lady gowned in mauve in the tonneau
She took a slant at me and / returned
the slant. Just as the car got opposite
me she looked at me as she might a
burglar and. standing up, shouted,
You're a robber, Bardgettt" / guess
I'll nave to get a pair of false 6
to escape this.
IT am in no wise discouraged and
l am going to stick to my job. 1 will
go right on disqualifying every rider
whom / think Is guilty of teamwork
and I don't think l will make many
mistakes, either. And l won't take
any instruction from Million or Chap
man. ! will get all my instructions
when they are necessary from Chair
man Kelsey of the racing board. I
have been criticised for being so Sc
we're with the amateur riders. Well
1 figure that 1t will be easy to break
them Of their bad habits when they
are young and then when they get