Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-07-15
THE HILL CLIMB.
FIVE MEN START AND FOUR REACH THE
TOP.
A Large Crowd Present % Witness the Spor-BankG
Makes the Quickest Time and Takes
First Priss-Fhs Boys Well
Pleased.

Yesterday morning the wheeling Wneei-
mems hill club took place on Fulton Hill
and was a success as far as it went, bat
like the road races, had more interest been
displayed by the Wheelmen oftbis city, il
would have been an event that the boys
could have felt proud OF, There were only
five starters out of the ten who had en-
tered for the contest, the ex-
cuse being that they were
afraid of being beat. Every N could not
EXPECT to win, and the Wheeling boys, OF
some of them, should have entered to make
the contest more exciting and interesting.
Frank Hupp was the only Wheeling boy
who seemed to have thenerye to enter, and
he certainly deserves credit and praise fol
his action in doing so in the face Of the
fact that the hill climb waS o tough jot
and that he was the only Wheeling boy IN
the lot.
At ten o'clock o large crowd Of citizens
had assembled along the course, v Q the
whole of which a view could easily be OBJ
tanned, and they enjoyed the contest very
much. There are something over one
hundred wheelmen in Wheeling, yet there
were only about twenty who attended the
hill climb. This is 3 poor way to boom
ones " show and each of the boys WHIT
showed no interest in the event certainly
deserves q ten-cent chrome OF a man cut
ting his own head off by mistake.
Mr.. 1. q. Dillon was checker and timer
- zctI, ILL naA rnl ETnny.
helm, timer, at the top. He also oihciated III
the capacity of referee and Mr.. sam Nor
ton was top checker. Chief Consul Wright
was starter, and about 1890 he dropped
the red flag. W. d. Banker, of the ALE
gheny Cycles, who was No. 1, started of on
the climb firmly seated upon % 53-inch Co
lumbia light roadster. He was loudly
cheered along the route, and he put in his
best ticks, although the climb is quite
hard one. When the flag dropped above
announcing that he had crossed the home
line, the crowd yelled and the time was
announced to be 3:2Sf.
John V. Stephenson, Of Greensburg, Pa,
| started next, seated upon a 54-inch Rapid,
a machine four inches too small for him,
| which he was compelled to borrow, as ms
own machine had not arrived. AS it wa
he made the climb in 3:34t, just six sec
onds more than Banker. Had he his owl
machine he would have undoubtedly won
Will F. Lewis, of J~OhnstOwn, was No. 3
and he rode a 51-inch Columbia. His time
was 3:4Oi. F. J. l.. Hupp, who rode {
5O-inch Expert Columbia, was No. 4, and
his time 5:07. L. Z. Shoup, of the Ale
gheny Cyclers, started but tho machine hi
! was riding being a strange one, he could
not make the whole distance, and gave ii
up: .,
This finished the two days sports OF the
Wheelmen and yesterday afternoon after
the various prizes had been distributed the
visitors all left for their homes. They
were highly pleased with the sport afford
| ed them and say the Wheeling boys Ger
tainly know how to entertain, and the
next timo a race or wheel contest of any
sort is gotten up by the Wheeling Wheel
men, they will turn out in larger number
to make it q success.
NOTES.
Banker, who came in first on the hill
climb also Won the 80 mile race.
Everybody was pleased with the sport
and the boys should soon have another
race or climb.
There was some difference in the time
taken ; Nessrs. Dillon and Franzheim,
the former be. Is a little slower.
Geo. Pipes and Charley Woodburn, two
cyclists from Cameron, were in the city
yesterday taking in the hill climb.
1t is understood the Wheeling Wheel
men have in contemplation \ race on the
Fair Grounds. 1t would take immensely.
The wheels represented in the races and
hill climb were the Columbia, Victor,
Rapid and Star, the majority being OF the
former machine.
Stephenson says if he had known he was
only five seconds behind lie could have
easily taken first place. He was laboring
under the impression that he was at least
q minute behind.