Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-24
To the readers of the Evening Star:
Merry Christmas.
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Merry Christmas.
JPN.
We acknowledge merry Christmas
greetings from Gus Troxler, the box
ing promoter. and we return them
with many thanks.
O.
If there is going to be any bicycle
war around here John M. Chapman
will not be party to 1t. That much
learned last night, after few
moments conversation with Chap
man. He was Just about to depart
for his home in Atlanta, Ga,
when met him, and from what he
said it is a certainty that all the
efforts to persuade him to become an
'out1aw" have proved unavailing.
Chapman as an outlaw never did
sound right, but so many close friends
of his told me that he was going to
run bike races whether or no that
! began to believe the stories myself.
The trouble is Chapman Is being used
as a sort of goat" by the Evening
News to fight against Messrs. Million
and Uppercu. 1t was no particular
fault of Chapman that the News used
his name to further its own end in at
tempting to stir up a cycling war and
another OUTLAW movement, but he
never took the trouble or the pains to
set himself right with his friends and
with the public. Chapman has always
avoided newspaper controversies, but
in this particular case he should have
made himself clear.
@
you'll never make an outlaw out
of me, remember that" Chapman
said to me as he made haste to catch
his train. That was good news, for
would hate to see Chapman, who has
worked so hard for the game, desert
it at time when the sport is bigger
than ever. He likes cycling, and he
evidently wants to conduct races, and
he wouldn't have had any trouble at
all IL he had gone the right way
ciDOut IT. Ac tLNCnAlAB ANOnSb hO0
ever, put Chapman in a light as OPP
posed to the N. G. A, and made it
appear as If he had OUTLAW ten
denotes. In the absence of denial
on Chapman's part, the stories were
accepted as voicing his sentiments,
and with those sentiments Chapman
or anyone else could not hope to secure
recognition from the cycling organl-
zation. Only on Monday the News
made 1t appear as if Chapman was
planning to conduct slx-day race in
Newark. when he never thought of
such q thing. To show that there
wasn't crutch to carry the cripple
story on, the only way Chapman could
run a bicycle race in Newark would
be to run outlaw" and he has as
sured me that he would never do such
thing in his life. Stories about
Million and Uppercu and Chapman
and Mcfarland and calamity-howl-
ing stories about cycling in general
appear in the News nearly every day.
The idea Is to knock cycling and break
up the game, IL 1t can, but the sport
seems to thrive on the abuses of the
News, just as other things have
grown fat on it's knocks. The News
rarely prints the name of Floyd Mac
Farland, although he is one of the
biggest men In the game, and when
his name is used in the anti-cycling
organ he is simply dragged In to be
knocked. The stories, in the main,
are made out of whole cloth, anu most
of them are purely imaginative fakes.
c.
As far as the News Is concerned, 1t
is harmless, and It's efforts to kill
cycling are too we'll understood to be
effective. 1t doesn't print pro-
Chapman news because it likes Chap
man and believes in his methods, for
the News roasted Chapman and
Million during the OUTLAW war In
just the same way as 1t is roasting
Million and Uppercu at the present
time During the bike war the News
| was 6liOnB AOI liC OuAlbNS ohh
absolutely against the Velodrome.
Chapman in those days was not re-
ferred to as a great manager. but, in
stead, his every action was criticised.
Everything was outlaw with the
News, but with all the papers boosted
influence the races didn't draw enough
to pay for printing the programs. Mr.
Uppercu was also a fine man in those
| days, but he Is a terrible fellow now
according to the same newspaper
When the consolidation of the Velo-
drome and the Motordrome took
place the News was beaten on the
story, and the Evening Star printed
it exclusively Immediately Uppercu
was thrown in the same boiling poi
with Million, and Chapman, who was
on the outside. was picked up to be
used as club to fight Million
and Uppercu. But with all its efforts
to harm, the News, 1t would seem, has
increased interest in the sport. The
Evening Star, I know, has done So
and this newspaper is looked upon as