Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-22

The war talk story published in the
Evening Star Of Saturday is the red
hot topic of discussion in cycling cir
cles at the present time. Those who
know all the angles of the game say
| that q war is in the wind. Messrs.
Million and Uppercu are quite willing
that six-day races should be run and
that the other tracks should be built
in the East, but with so much money
interested it is only natural that they
would prefer to see some one of their
way of thinking take an interest in
the game. As far as Baltimore is
concerned, a track would be well
coined in that city and In Washing
ton, too, for that matter, and Messrs.
Million and Uppercu would be only
too pleased, Mr.. Uppercu told me, to
interest themselves In such an enter
prise.
The cycling agitation is being
caused through the presence in New
| ark of John M. Chapman, who was
formerly the manager of the Newark
Velodrome. Mr.. Chapman contem-
plates erecting race track somewhere
and he has selected Baltimore and
Washington as probable locations.
He has signed several riders and he
will surely want few more and he
might have secured all the riders
| paednd az ha bod Sbovvv, q dtcnosifior
to be friendly in the matter AS
affairs stand now, it looks as If Chap
man will meet with strong opposition.
1t is doubtful II he will be given a
franchise for either Baltimore or
Washington, and if he should decide
to run outlaw" he would have oppo-
sition in an N. c. A. track in either or
both of these cities. UP to the present
nothing has been done in a positive
way, but much In q tentative way has
been going on. C. r. Klosterman,
who has been identified with cycling
for years, has taken up with Chap
man. Mr.. Klosterman made an effort
during the New York six-day race to
have Mr.. Million talk cycling matters
over with Mr.. Chapman, but Mr.. Min
lon insisted on having a fourth person
present as q witness to what might be
said and Mr.. Chapman refused to
meet Mr.. Million in the presence of
Mr.. Uppercu. That settled every
thing. it seems, as Million has gone to
Europe and Uppercu is looking after
the business of the Cycling Racing
Association.
O.
The hope of some of the riders is
that there will be q war. The last
war, though short and undecisive
one, was a good thing for the boys.
The next war, however, must be to
finish. The last one was so easy that
whenever anyone drops a pin UP crops
the talk of war. In the end real
good disturbance would be the best
thing for the cycling game. There
are a number of riders following the
circuit who are wasting their precious
time, and there are so many very good
| second-raters that all of them will
have difficulty in making a living. A
war would weed out the ranks, and
the best men in the game would be
able to devote their time to racing
and be we'll paid for it In the end.
With SO much available material,
however, the riders and the pro-
moters suffer.
o.
There is q possibility that there
won't be war, and that Chapman
will either go to Salt Lake City, At
lanta or Chicago and conduct cycling
races He would find no trouble, we
take it, in securing franchise for
any of these places. and 1t is likely
that he would make the game sue
cess. He is still In Newark. but he
has called off the contemplated short
hour six-day races scheduled for
Pittsburgh. Buffalo, Toronto and
Kansas City. He says that he was
unable to secure dates in any Of the
big buildings in those cities until the
spring. 1t is said that Mr.. Chapman
will go to Baltimore to have q con-
ference with Mr.. Klosterman aoous
erecting a track in that city It is
also said that Mr.. Klosterman will
not take a hand in the game unless
what he does is favorable to Messrs.
Million and Uppercu. So the situa-
ton would seem to be that Chap
man will have to satisfy Klosterman
that he is all right with these men
IL he hopes to do business with Klos-
terman.
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1t is believed that Chapman has
his mind set on running races in
Baltimore, and that he will build a
track there. II so. 1t would mean an
OUTLAW" proposition, in which event
Messrs. Million and Uppercu would
erect a track to be conducted under
. N. C. A. auspices. Mr. Uppercu told
me he would positively do that, and
he said he contemplated building q
track in Baltimore, anyway.
O.
If we are to have a cycling war let
us have it right away. 1t will make
good reading while It'll asts But this