Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-24

announcement of his decision to the
readers of the Evening Star He sends
word to me in telegram, the con-
tents of which follow
ATLANTA, Ga, Feb. %, IA.
]. P. Norton. Evening Star, Newark,
N. J.
Please consider me out of the game,
as I have decided to stay here.
Anything you can do for the men
that signed to ride for me will be ap-
-preeiated. CHAPMAN.
The announcement of Chapman is
sure to create a mild sensation in
local cycling circles, for many were
led to believe that he contemplated
conducting bike races on a large
: scale Nearly If not quite all of the
so-ealled bike news printed in the
Newark Evening News about what
Chapman was going to do in cycling
has been looked upon as fake, but
the paper in question has been so
persistent in connecting Chapman's
name with various cycling enter
prises that the old saw. where there
$50 much smoke there must be some
ire has led some of the fans to be-
iieve that perhaps there was some
thing to the yarns after all. Chap
man himself on more than one occa-
SION has stamped the articles in the
News as rank fakes, although he
never took the trouble to deny the
stories. Only recently. after reading
part of an article about his own
cycling plans. Chapman, in public
place on Market street threw the
paper down in disgust with the re-
mark, THAT is all bull wish they
would let me alone"
@
Chapman told me some time ago
that he would never become an "out-
law and I believed him and said so.
The News, however, has done every
thing to lure Chapman into the out
low ranks and it is doing everything
in its weakened power to injure cy-
cling. The sport of cycling is very
big in Newark and there are thou
sands of fans who support it. Those |
who are trying to kill it are sure to |
hear from their efforts in a substan- !
tial way. The News is sore on cy-
cling, and would like to see it out of |
business in this city. 1t doesn't dare
come out and fight the game on fair |
lines. but vicious and positively un
truthful articles are published in the
hope of injuring the sport. Yet des-
pite all the knocks of the News. the
game is bigger and better than ever,
which sows that the News has about
as much power in sports as it has in
politics.
Just about the time he is ready to
return to these free and glorious
United States, Battling Joe Fogler
wakes up to the fact that perhaps
some of his Newark friends would like
to hear from him. To his credit, let
it, be said that Sir Joseph knows
where to blow his horn and how to
blow his horn, but he hasn't been do
ing much of it lately. For time it
looked to me as II Joe was going to
quit the game, he kept stunning the
Iimelight so persistently, and me-
thinks that the Battler must have
been peeved, for he played dead"
ever so long. Now. though, we have
Sir Joseph on the platform again,
and he looks natural and he sounds
haturaL There is a whole lot to Joe
F'ogler, let me tell you. He has more
brains than most of the riders, and
heis a grand old schemer. He figures
right next to Floyd MacFarland in
that respect, and you who know Mac
must know how we'll Mac"
pfsns. But on with Joseph. He is in
atarseille, and he tells me he is train
ing for the Berlin grind, which starts
en- March 4. The pickings must look
pretty good in Berlin or else Joseph
would not remain over in Europe
Tipping his hard-earned Paris day
money away. Joe hasn't much to say
in his missive, but what he says is
TO, the point and has the Fogler fling
of Satire to it. Read:
a+- "Marseille, Feb. IL, 1914
]. P. ~:
es'Hello Joe-Am down here training
for the Berlin race and also showing
the natives a few things appertaining
TO cycling. Expect to ride in Berlin
With Mcnamara or Moran. Will be |
with you for the season of 1914, not |
later than March 25, with an entire |
new act and wardrobe. Regards to all |
Yours, THE BATTLER."
-""e C
That's Joe Fogler-with new act |
and new scenery. That he will be |
with US again is interesting, for he /
is a pretty handy fellow around a
Bike track, and he is just enough of |
a disturber to keep everybody on his |
toes. He likes to battles but he doesn't |
like to get the worst of it, yet have |
known him TO take the worst end of
a bad bargain and not make any
more than the normal "holler." He
is just short of being a great rider,
he has the brains, even if he does
laek the speed. 1t seems too bad at
times to see so much speed wasted
on the track for the lack of brains,
and ii has been said time and time
again that Fogler could spare some
Of his gray matter" and then have
enough. whereas several of the boys
with all kinds of speed were so shy
on. brains that it seemed a pity for
Sir Joseph to be so well supplied. But