Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-02


side of the street, is likely to develop
into a war of large proportions anC
long standing. The Yelodrome rider!
held a meeting at their clubhouse OF
South Orange avenue near the track
yesterday afternoon, and the Motor
drome riders held a meeting al
Maokay's Hall on Market street last
night. Both sessions were stormy
to say the least, but nothing of a
particular definite nature was forth
coming The Velodrome riders are
very hostile and declared they are
for barring the OUTLAWS" forever
The Motordrome riders claim they
have won the battle and are making
preparations to celebrate the victory
Neither side is on record as saying
just what it will do. The regulars,
at their meeting, decided to request
an interview with Messrs. Million
and Chapman before doing anything
rash. The date was set for Wednes-
day afternoon. The OUTLAWS" elect
ed a new set of officers and are to
talk over the situation sometime to-
day with Mr.. Uppercu, their "angel."
That Is all there is to the story as
far as real business methods go. but
there is so much blow and buster on
both sides that war of no easy
quelling may arise.
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The Velodrome riders are for pun
ishing the Motordrome riders severely
and the Motordrome riders laugh
with ghoulish glee at such sug-
gestion. The fact that racing is 70
be conducted in the future under the
control of the N. C. A, would natur-
ally lead one to believe that the reg
ulars" had won, but the OUTLAWS
declare such is not the case and that
they will do all the debating OF the
terms of peace. AS to their proposed
suspension and payment of fines, the
OUTLAWS" emit a nasty grin and
saw forget it," The regulars how
ever, have the recognized organiza-
ton, and among their members are
the best riders in the world. With
such an angle, and with such ODDS
they claim there isn't anything 10
argue about and that they will sim
ply impose the penalties when the
time comes and will insist on their
orders being obeyed. This, OF course
VIII be up to the promoters. Messrs'
Million and Uppercu. Their stand IN
the matter will have much to DO
with settling affairs. OF course, the
promoters will want to take every
body into the fold and make one DIG
happy family out of 1t, but the reel
inc is so bitter Just now they Will hnd
thew have a most difficult job on thelr
hands.
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In claiming victory for their SIDE
the OUTLAWS" point to the fact that
thew forced the Velodrome promoters
To n compromise, which. they declare,
is equivalent to winning. They say,
also. that they made 1t possible for
every rider in the business to secure
more money for his services and that
they would have been able to go on
conducting races all summer and then.
when the New York six-day came
around, so many of the Velodrome
riders would have Joined their ranks
that the N. c. A. would have become
| disrupted. Those are strong state
| ments, but is is said there is consider
able "evidence" in existence that Will
bear out said claim. For instance,
one of the most regular regulars" In
| the fold, and a man who is now
| shouting to keep the rascal outlaws"
! out, BY all means, applied, strictly
confidential" to p. T. Powers for a
contract for the New York race. This
fellow is putting up the cry now that
he stuck to the Velodrome promoters
and the Veledrome promoters should
stick to him, And his is not the
only case.
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Just what the outcome of the affair
| will amount to is not easy to pro-
| phesy, and it may be, II all this back
talk is kept up, that the riders will
never be able to get together. The
"regulars," with the N. G. A. back of
them, feel that they have everything
their own way. They can bar the
outlaws" they claim, and the promo
tiers dare not say "Boo!" With such
men as Kramer, Goullet. Clark, Gren-
da, Cavanagh and Fogler, and the
best foreigners to draw from, the reg
ulars' say that cycling can be sue
cessfully conducted in any city In the
country, while, on the other hand
they point out that the outlaws,
with bunch of second-raters in their
ranks, couldn't draw a corporaps
guard anywhere, and that they didn't
draw flies in Newark, which, they
declare with pride, is the greatest
cycling city in the country.
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The feeling is so bitter that personal
arguments are likely to happen. The
OUTLAWS" are surely defiant Long
ago they are said to have barred fol-
life, Norman Anderson, Floyd Krebs,
George Cameron and Ernest Jokus
This was done because these riders
firted with the outlaws" and then
refused to join them. That is con-
sidered a most grievous offense in the
OUTLAW" ranks. Then, too, the boys
who rode at the Motordrome have
been making cracks right along that
they would win and that after they
had won they would deal summarily
with the Velodrome riders. All this
is sticking in the crop" of the IRE
gulars" and now. with victory, as
they claim, in their hands, they are
going to do some debating and deal
out some punishment on their owr
hook.
The atmosphere up around tn,
| H..
der, and, for that matter. the con
solidation of the Velodrome and tn,
Motordrome has stirred up more dis
cussion than any sporting story tina
has broken into the news of the da,