Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-22

lands first Job was In connection Win
a newspaper and It called for ridins
a bicycle. 1lr. F1eeson's Letter to-
lows:
J. P. N.
Friend Joe-Just a iittie INSIDE 3a7s
on our late friend Mac given IN -zss
by Bert Yohl, who wss Macs 2.AE-
mate in san jose. Cal Macs as
lob was on the san jose As-e4zT 1zs1
his duties were 70 ride from t1s a.
ter place 70 Los GatoS. : 5-si11.as :
ten miles each way. svs-T d65- -zza
or shine, and he never missed 3 1za
In three years. While d1z1s Is lls2a
trick the manager .. .Ae Garden ~-sE
Wheelmen Of san jose prevailed q
"Big Mac" TO ride the last Tes2Y .
ten miles IN the annual Rad TSce
around san Francisco hay. & distance
of 100 miles, each team consisting O
ten men and each rider dong ten
miles. Mac" won the race four years
In succession for his team. which
never before or since had look IN
Bert tells me he always got a bad
break in his relay, as his team was
always last at his relief.
Joe. l Was more than sorry TO see
Poor Mac" lying there, and wish
could remember him in life only.
The boys gave him a great send-on,
which he surely deserved. The bike
world loses the greatest man the
game has ever known, game to the
core and a natural leader. I doubt
II we shall ever see his equal again.
Well, Joe. good luck. You have
surely made Newark a big league
town and you deserve all the credit
for pulling It through. Keep on boost
ing, for Newark Is very much on the
'i'a' JOHN ]. FLEEsoN.
@
Throughout the country the sport
ing editors had many nice things to
saw about MacFarland, but 1t re-
mained for Walter st. Denis, Of the
New York Globe to do the big Eel
low" justice. ST. Denis knew Mac
Farland well, and he was in a posi-
ton to know the mans yslue to the
sporting game.
mo sport ever suffered keener
blow than did the great bicycle rae
ing game last Saturday when Floyd
MacFarland was struck down IN the
Newark Velodrome," st. Denis wrote
in his personal column in the Globe.
There was no bigger man in the
cycling sport than this splendid fell
low. who possessed brains along with
his ability to pedal fast and far. To
MacFarland alone Is due the healthy
state in which bicycle racing is found
| today. His name was not In the
prints as a leader, hut his was the
foresight and skill that brought bicy-
Gle racing to Its present popularity In
Newark AMI other places, and his was
the energy behind 1t all that kept the
sport always moving forward to fur
ther conquests. MacFarland was just
on the threshold Of greater things
| in the sport which he loved and fol-
| lowed all his life. He had just about
completed the work OF weaving to-
gether all Of the loose ends" in bioy-
Gle racing INTO strong fabric, which
was and is destined to put the sport
on a more prosperous footing the
country over. He organized the pro-
motors controlling the tracks all over
the United States, so that in the
future they will not cut each others q
throats. This condition will work oui
better for the riders, too, for, with
all the tracks working together or
a circuit basis they will get NOR,
competition than they did in fornel
days, when the promoters were con
tinually fighting each other. AS dis
tressinR as is MacFarland's untimely
death, a far sight worse It would hav'
been had he been killed year OF q
earlier. The former handicap KIM
had Just about finished his task o
: organization in the sport when h
met his death, and affairs are In suol
shape now that his ideas can be car
ried to completion by the men VIII
will take up the Californian's worh
MacFsrlands death is ss hard blo7
to bicycle racing as was that Of Jane
e. Sullivan to amateur athletics
| MaCr bibAAou NAV pOWoA She
kept the bike game humming in th
same manner that Sullivan inspire
the athletic set with his persons
magnetism and force. The two wer
the big men behind Sullivan is sore
ly missed in athletics. Just as F1oy
MacF,arlsnd will be in bicycle racini
! mcfarland, the man, was one in
thousand. He had a personality this
inspired respect and affection.
l fair and square as they come nbst
lutely fearless and a terrific worke
this splendid fellow will be mourne
not only in the sport In which b
life's work lay, but by al with whol
he came into contact"
The tribute of st. Denis is we
|. deserved. and 1t goes to show in VIII