Connecticut western news., 1889-08-14
BICYCLE NEWS.

BICYCLE NEWS.
 The inter-club road race, to be given by the Wilmington Wheelmen this fall, is receiving assurances of support and entry from all the prominent riders of this section. The result will probably be a series of races at Orange, Wilmington and Springfield, all open to the country, and with special inducements in the way of prizes. Several of the Pennsylvania Bicycle Club will probably compete in these affairs.
 Bertha Won Hillern, the pedestrian, took bicycle to Virginia with her, but prefers walk ing. Mrs. Josephine Bedding, the editor of two well-knOwn art periodicals, attributes to the bicycle her recovery from OverwOrk and nervous prostration. Mrs. Florence Finch Kelly, the lately risen novelist, is another, of the Central Park devotees of the wheel Mail and Express.
 At the championship races for Safety bicy- cles held on the Paddington grounds, Eng land, on July 20, w. A. IllstOn, SpeedweIl, covered one mile in 2m. 4s.; H. H. Samson took the five-mile tricycle. race, amateur class, in 15h. 24m. 3-5s., and F. T. Fletcher, Ilk- ston, took the 25-mile amateur Safety cham | piOnship in 1h. 16m 34 2-5s., while the ordin- | aries took In. Ism. 27 Pos. for the 9 miles. At the regular meeting of the Pennsylvania Bicycle Club of Philadelphia, held Aug, 1, | the following resolution was unanimously | adopted Resolved, that the sentiments of | this club are against all forms of road racing | as prejudicial to the best interests of genuine, cycling, and that the indiscriminate indul- gence in ssme is calculated to engender and l perpetuate feeling against wheeling and | wheelmen, which it should be the constant endeavor of every true cycler to live down.
 A. J. Daniel, popular cyclist of Toronto, | died there last week. Mir. Daniel always took an active interest in athletic sports, being member of the Toronto Canoe Club, the Snow Shoe Club, the Wanderers Bicycle | Club, and other sporting clubs. Bicyclists | throughout Canada will miss him greatly from among them. Especially will his loss be felt by his fellows in the Wanderers. A | charter member of this club, an active worker and good friend, he was beloved by one and all.
 A party of Philadelphia and Wilmington | club men will start this week for Baltimore on their bicycles, riding as far as that city, where they take the steamer for Boston, stopping at Norfolk, Va. They will ride home from Boston on their bicycles, coming down the Berkshire valley to the Hudson river, thence to New York city, and via. Dingman's ferry and the Water Gap to Wallace Merrihew and E. Frank Mcdaniel, the long distance riders of the Pennsylvania | Bicycle Club.
 The New York state meet will be held in | New York and Brooklyn on Sept. 13 and 14. | and the committee in charge are making active preparations to make it success. It is as good as decided that there will be no racing, which greatly prOvokes the racing men. Messrs. Cole of the Brooklyn Bicycle Club and DeGraff of the Harlem wheelmen | for the theatre party, which will be in New York. All the New York and Brooklyn wheemen will endeavor to give all the visit l ing cyclers all that the cities afford. Indignant Baltimore wheelmen have pass ed the. following resolution: Resolved, by | the delegates to the nominating committee of the Maryland division, L. A. w., that the ac- | count of the 10th annual meet published in | the bicycling World of July 12, 1889, is un- | truthful, and a scandalous libel on the mem- bers attending that gathering, and calculated | to do the organization serious harm in giving | false impression of the membership at large. It is resolved also that we hereby call upon | President Luscomb and the executive com | mittee to terminate the contract with the Bi- cycling World as the official organ of an or | ganizatiOn it appears to be doing its best to | disrupt"
 | Last week Fred I. Johnson attempted to beat the hill climbing record on Walnut times, and on the fifth trial failed by only | five yards. He was mounted on new | Safety. He secured three members of the League of American Wheelmen as witnesses, and time was taken as follows: First ascent, Inn. 45s.; second, Inn. 4Os. third, Inn. 4Os. :; fourth, Inn. 4Os.; fifth, lacking five yards, | I'm. 5Os.; time from start to finish. 16m. 45s | Unfortunately watering cart came down | the hill during the trials, and made the sur | face very greasy, otherwise MT. Johnson would undoubtedly have bettered his record. So far as is known the best previous record | on the hill is two ascents without a dismount. An interested crowd witnessed the perform | ance.
 | Robert Wagner of Detroit, aged seventeen, recently completed bicycle ride from that city to Toronto. He made the run in little more than fifty hours, averaging nearly ten miles an hour. Master Robbie has high opinion of the hospitality of Western Ontario farmers, and also of the purity of their milk, but he would oppose the annexation of abolition of their numerous colles which tried to bite his legs as he rode past their respective habitations.
 The lady bicycIist is with us, and she has | evidently come to stay. She occupies her seat too securely to be shaken from it. She appears upon her "machine," not in bifur- caled skirts, but in her ordinary garb, for | they have iugeniously invented something to meet the eXiGencies of her style of dress, and, quick to recognize when she is safe, she is at home and daring. She makes graceful it. It is good thing that the lacy bicyclist has appeared. She would have done so long ago had she been given half chance, for she | is not averse to companionship with the monster man, but for long time they neglected to supply her with what she re- | quired. She could not be immodcst nor un- | graceful. Now she has no stress in the matter. She can go out with her brother or | sweetheart and ride beside him on a convey
 ance practically duplicate of his, and feel
 no apprehension. She is his eqlIal.-St
 Louis Spectator.