Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-03-14
BICYCLE BRIEFS.

Notes and Jottings of a Local Nature.
There are twenty L. A. W. men in our
city.
Barnesyille, O., has club of seven
riders.
Il is the duty Of every wheeimsn to join
the L. A. W.
Jacob ". Grub will ride spanking AZ
inch Pony Star.
This year bids fair to be the most lively
one in the history Of cycling,
Irwin Singleton has purchased an 1886
pattern ensmeled Expert Columbia.
No headers have been reported st head.
quarters as yet. Soon will be time, how
ever.
Boysl our friend Henry Somehow has
something that will interest every wheel
mai.
Mr.. Swartz, Of New Cumberland, was IN
the city yesterday with full nickeled Co
lambda.
Will Wright received new 48lncb Star
last week, and has commenced the season
with side walk riding.
Hereafter the word Massachusetts" will
be worn on the coat collars of the uniform
of the Massachusetts, Bicycle Club.
Dr. Charles E. Mason will appear this
spring on q new Columbia Expert Sc
iaches, and will make the route hum.
Captain Dave C. Dlnger, of the Wheel.
Jog Wheelnen, has gone to New York to
sceept position in q large hat store.
The St. Louis American Wheelman Of
this month publishes excellent cuts and
sketches OF McCurdy and Van Sicklen.
The Mcclure House is the League Hotel
and Clement Smith the repsirer for the
League of American Wheelmen in Wheel
ing.
The Columbia and Star wheels both have
decided improvements for sc and reduc-
lion in price has been made on both ma
chimes.
The Pope Manufacturing Co. will place
9 new safety bicycle on the market in q
short time, which will be entirely different
ttom anything yet seen.
Allie Wheat will be seen this summer
aSiug through the air on IS inch special
Star. He has been one Of the most active
riders during the winter season.
Arrangements have been perfected for
the race between Schock aud Woodside at
Minneapolis for q stated $500 a side. j.
B. Mannix has been chosen referee.
The royal rollicking road race from
Wheeling to Cniontown, will be one of the
events of the summer IL is likely thst one
race from each end of the route will be run
this season.
Nothing but favorable comments are
heard on all sides about the wheel boys
this spring. Last season the boys had a
hard time of it for awhile, but their manly
actions won the day against public opin-
ion.
An association has been formed in New
York for the purpose Of organizing and
carrying out tours through England, Ire
land, Scotland and France About $500
will pay all expenses for q two months
trip on the wheel through the most inter
e5ting places in Europe.
A road race to GAINESVILLE, o., is being
talked Of The club at that place has ex
tended an invitation to go over and see
them. They promise to have the girls out
in holiday attire and keep few kegs OF
0uttermilk on tap As no more tempting
Inducements could be offered, of course
the boys will take advantage OF the hospi.
tally of their Buckeye brethren.
All the boys are snxiously looking for
ward to the new street Improvements and
are doing some tall guessing as to the next
street to be paved. Mot wheelmen of the
city favor the paving of Tenth TO Market
from suspension bridge, down Market 70
Twentieth, up Twentieth to connect with
Chspine street thus masking a grand tho:-
from Bridgeport to South Wheel
ing, and out Sixteenth to Mccullough.