Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-29

lcording to reliable sources, the Fed
eral league will be forgotten. There
, lis to be compromise, it is said, with
a new third big league the result, and
with a second team in Brooklyn.
O.
The Boston Braves are coming into
more favor every day as likely in
ners of the worlds series. They are
playing winning bali and the fans
are beginning to believe that not
| even that wonderful Athletic ma
chine will stop them The odds, too,
are getting shorter on the Braves
chances and not few strong rootera
for the Mackmen are beginning to
give Boston at least a look-in. On
paper, perhaps, the Braves don't
figure to beat the Athletics, but it is
the hardest thing in the world to
beat a ''comer." The Braves are
"comers'' and they will take some
beating, even when stacked UP
against the formidable MaclSmen.
g
Going back few years. the Braves
are a better betting proposition than
We're the Athletics when they first
met the Chicago Cubs. At that time
the Mackmen were looked upon as
| feeble opponents of that great Chi
cago team. Yet they turned right
around and whipped the life out of
T, the Cubs. Detroit, with the great Ty
Cobb and most formidable team,
couldn't beat either Pittsburgh or
Chicago, and the Giants had two
cracks at the Athletics without re-
suit. The shrewd bettors are taking
| the odds, but the best calculators In
the business are sticking to the
MaclSmen.
| Something to~say about the anna
tours who are allowed to cash in
their orders:
j. p. N:
| have been an interested reader
of your Sport Topics of the Hour"
| for some time, and think them the
NNoN tHiAio III tAo ppOi tii6 AihV, al
though at times you seem to state
your news and knowledge as a posi-
tive fact and do not give the other
side q chance for even q protest.
Your articles on teaming among
the pros at the Velodrome are fine,
as far as they go, but will you adj
wise why Lawson was not put on
the probation list? You must know
that he not only has been in com
boz with the invitation riders in
every race, but has received a good
piece of change from big Steve"
for assistance in winning the cham
pionship. If Cameron has anything
on him, / wish you would advise
what 1t is. You Will also admit,
think, that the tactics used by our
champion in the last two races were
such that a repetition would almost
make the fans think the whole thing
frame-up, and believe me it was
pretty close to 1t.
Why blame Mr.. Kelsey for letting
amateur 81 bicycle riders take
checks from the management? Can
see only one party who is to blame.
The management. knowing that
these checks were to be cashed, is
certainly at fault and IL we are able
| to see amateur races in the future
at the Velodrome, all riders who re-
ceived checks should ride as pros.
If the management wants second
rate pros why not establish class
b, as in the old days? DO you think
it fair for some of our good anna
tours to be turned professional and
not every one who has been guilty
of the same thing?
Let's see if We can't have our
riders get along without teaming
and avoid excuses on the part OF the
public to term them fakes. II anna
tours (?) are allowed to cash checks
why not call them class pros and
give the real bona fide amateur COM
petition in the class in which he be-
longs? Your truly. BUG.
Kelsey is all to blame. If he had
any backbone such a practice would
never have been tolerated. The anna
tours who want to be real amateurs
should be protected. All who have
transgressed should be turned pro.
The whole fault dates back to the
outlaw movement at the Motor
drome Kelsey allowed the anna
| tours who jumped to come back as
pure as the driven snow. He also
allowed the velodrome pros to di.
vide the fines paid by the Motor
drome riders. That was about the
cheapest thing and the meanest
thing that ever happened in big
sporting game. Cycling is grand
sport, but it has weakling in COM
mand.
O.
Another fan who knows something
about the amateurs" writes as fol-
lows:
]. P. NJ:
A few words relative TO the Velo-
drome. The races called amateur
races for N. C. A. titles we're not
won by a pure amateur. Not one
of them Every medal taken was
| won by a rider who cashed his
prizes. Mr.. Kelsey knows that as
we'll as / do and which l can prove
| if so required. What chance has a
pure amateur against these kinds OF
| conditions? In order to get in the
winnings nowadays you have to be
an idler to get the proper amount of
| training to compete against the
pros who are riding as amateurs
| This is fine way to bring out the
future American champion. Another
thing about these conditions is thsfs
| it makes a lot of team work. II
| they had no checks or orders &c
cash they could not split. Ii there
were prizes everyone would ride fol
| himself. A rider who rode under
| the name of Fredericks Won the
novice last Sunday. He did not re-
ceive his prize, owing to the COM
plant of some other riders, who
| claimed he won novice races under
another name. This also was done