Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-02
Blcyele Trick Riding.


 ''In order to become an accomplished trick rider it is necessary above all things to have unlimited confidence in your own ability to master bicycle, said Fred Coningsby, the fancy rider, a few evenings ago. "The slightest hesitation is likely to result in a fall, and it may be serious one. The idea of trick-riding being a natural gift is non sense For instance, take our American champion, Rowe, and the English champion, Howell, who take to cycle riding as though they were born in their saddles, and yet neither of them is able to do the simplest kind of fancy riding. Howell especially, the fastest man in Europe, is unable to mount bicycle without assistance.
 ssIt is practice and nothing else that makes fancy rider.
 "All my tricks are performed on a forty- eight inch wheel, and when I started that was about the largest machine could vault, but have made vaulting my strong point, and now I think sixty inch wheel about right" With this remark he grasped the handle-bar of a sixty inch Expert and start ing across the floor made half dozen cst- like springs and then clean vault which landed him squarely on the saddle. This feat is tho more remarkable from the fact that Coningsby is but five feet two inches in height. lie IS seventeen years o10 ana WelRDs one hundred and sixteen pounds, is finely de- veloped and supple as 8 cat. He works at his trade-he is machinist-every day and does an hour or two of riding in Oraton hall on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday eyen- ings simply, as he says, flor love of the sport and to keep my shand in. ,"
 One of Coningsby's nsatest tricks and one which has given him many fall, is to run along on the side of the machine and vault into the saddle with both feet on the right side. Another very clever feat, which is original with himself, is to ride with the right hand on tho left pedal, the left hand on the left handle bar, left foot step and right leg extended. This trick necessitates a per feet balance. Among the most difficult tricks is that of riding "side saddle;" vault ing from floor to saddle: riding without | hands; without hands and little wheel raised; without hands and legs over handle-bar; changing legs without the hands; standing still; hands of; standing still with one leg over handle-bar, one foot on pedal; vaultlng completely over the machine; riding back ward; one foot on saddle, one hand on bar; still vault; still pedal mount; standing still ! with one foot on the step passing the other ever entire machine; one hand on bar, one on backbone and both feet on one pedal The riders fancy work is by no means confined to the crank wheel, as he is equally proficient in manipulating the Star. He makes back vault as easily as an ordinary
  on the brace on one side of the machine, with one feot on the lever, he manages by series of riding motions to slide along to the front bone and then around this and secures position on the opposite side without di- minishing the speed. He also rides the wheel backward, straddling the front bone, with one foot on either lever and his faes to- werd the saddle.
 Some Chicago Plungers, one of Whom
 Made One Hundred Theusand DO1-
 lars From Eight Hundred Dollars.
 From the Chicago Herald.1
 The latest tsplunger'' to be talked about by the speculators is tall, dark, good locking fellow named Harrie R. Newberry, of Detroit. He has been here a week or more, ,and since his arrival is the prize commis- sion payer in the whole grain trade His operations have been on scale to put even Bloom in the shade. Professionals can guess the swath he is cutting from the fact that his ssline'' is a million; that he bets it each time, and that he has been known to get in and out more than once ] in day. It is to his credit, and vastly. \ 10 the adTantsss Of the brokers, that News