Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-02

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the meeting opens, although the anti
cycling organ is doing its best Il
press-agent George l.. Solomon int
the job again. 1t is not only using
its own columns, but the columns Of
the New York papers, through cor.
respondence, to boost Solomon as the
president of the Newark Club. Al
usual, though, the anti-cycling papei
is on a dead one" but 1t is sure t.
lie out of 1t, as 1t is trying to lie oui
of the MacFarland-Po Powers contro-
versy, when it was wrong in every
particular. On record as saying Mac.
Farland would not be allowed IN
Madison Square Garden during the
six-day race, the anti-cycling organ
after Mr.. Uppercu had cut Powerss
comb and placed Mcfarland in full
charge of the race and the riders,
came out and said that the dispute
was over Powers's position as gen.
eral manager of the race and that
Powers had won out in the argument.
That is not the truth, and the paper
in question knew 1t wasn't the truth;
still 1t gave that fake news to its
readers. 1t has done more than that.
1t has endeavored to create dissention
among the riders and against the
Cycle Racing Association, and 1t has
put up the cry of a baby when it
has been beaten on good live news of
the day. 1t has taken up another
papers fight concerning the Jersey
City Baseball Club and by its lying
it has created bad feeling between
Thomas Fogarty and James Lillis.
the president and vice-president, re-
spectively, of the Skeeters. The one
aim of the anti-cycling organ is to
knock anything and everything that
is boosted in the Evening Star. 1t is
having a fat time of It, for the Eve
ming Star is for sports, not against
them, and is boosting everything.
G
The mission of the anti-cycling
newspaper is not an enviable one.
1t is doing its best to put Jackie
Clark in bad repute with the man
agement of the Velodrome as well
as the riders. It has made Clark
stand for statements that he never
uttered, and it has made him, to suit
its own ends, appear small in the
eyes of the fans. 1t has misquoted
Jimmy Moran, who makes no bones
about saying SO, either, and 1t put
words into the mouth of Eddie Bed
ford, the announcer, which Bedford
told me he had never even thought Of,
let alone uttered. 1t has made Mr..
Lillis, of the Jersey City Club, praise
Solomon in its own columns and then
send 1t over to be printed in the New
York Tribune, when everybody
knows that Lillis has said time and
again that Solomon as president Of
the Newark Club is impossible. 1t
fought for Solomon because we were
against him and not because 1t liked
Solomon or believed in his cause. 1t
took up Powers's end of an argu-
ment because we had taken up the
Mcfarland end. During the cycling
war the anti-cycllng paper was heart
and soul for the outlaws" and was
naturally friendly to Powers, but the
consolidation broke the heart and
soul of the anti-cycling organization,
both sides. But 1t went back to
Powers because 1t had nowhere else
to go, and 1t will go to anyone who
will let 1t put words into his mouth
to knock some object or some enter
prise to which it is opposed. In a
sporting way, as well as politically,
the paper with the dictagraph is
| Laundering in the mud. 1t will be
given another "blue eye" and a slar
in the face today, when Its man Solo,
mon is turned down as the president
| of the Newark Club. 1t has fought
| for Solomon up to the very last. YET
1t would not be surprising to see II
declare tomorrow that 1t predicted
his retirement as president. Let Il
lie, as 1t has lied 0before, about Mac.
Farland, Moran, Clark, Lillis ant
others. 1t is noble pastime in some
quarters, and will do the prevarica'
tors the most harm in the end.
o.
Out of the Army-Navy game 1,
coming much discussion and not e
little peevishness. The Army seem.
to be sore through and through over
the published stories giving credit t.
Hurry UP" Yost, of Michigan, fol
the Cadets victory. The Navy feel
that it has been much abused becaus,
of the dastardly trick perpetrated OF
Nichols, the quarterback on the Mid
dies. Thus 1t may be seen that ever
with victory all is not sunshine ant
the defeated foe will always grasl
at the least straw. The Army ha,
gone out of It's way to deny that Yos
was in any way responsible for tn
teams success The athletic council
has seen At to issue statement II
which 1t says that Yost was in Yves
Point only one day and goes on t.
point out that Charles DAILY. its hea'
coach, is entitled to all the honors
is nice of the Army to see that credi
is given where credit is due, but n,
one for a moment will say that tn
visit of Yost didn't do the Army som
good. 1t surely didn't do the boy
in blue any harm and while Coacl
DAILY should be given full credit TO
the brilliant victory, yet victor.