Omaha daily bee., 1890-02-03
LOCAL SPORTING GOSSIP.


"tStt NottS.
Frank Shill, au Omaha boy, who ia after
his first laurels on the bicycle track, is only
seventeen years of age, but has the stun in
him that has made such men us Rowe, Prince,
Temple and other record breakers, He re.
Gently covered nineteen miles and three
laps within an hour, beating the record
made by VIII Urlan Of eighteen miles aud
nine laps.
Everybody Is specializing as to the individ.
uality OF Princes unknown, but as Jack
miles to ride in this race, the chances are
that II he gets n place Johnny Bull will
claim him as his subject.
j. c. La Croix, another ''sojer boy'' from
the fort, has been nicknamed La Grippe
by the boys for sJubbornly sticking TO them,
no matter how hard they try to get away
from him.
Charlie Ashinger, the mayoro of Oklahoma,
rides with two 45 Colts navy revolvers in
his belt and a nine-inch bowie kniie between
his teeth, and is daily receiving from ten TO
fifteen kilograms from the city council of his
town, which is anxious for him to decide on
the location for the postofice.
Ecks unknown is Il giant and required a
wheel built especially for his use, as no man.
utacturer had material on hand which was
strong enough to hold 22T pounds of
humanity.
The record of 1899 shows that though the
Omaha wheel club has not done as well on
the road as was expected early in the season,
it has covered several more miles than dur
ing the prevIou year. Socially the club has
been a grand success. but the boys will have
TO do a great deal more leg work the coming
season If they want to come any where near
the road records made by some of the
eastern wheelmen. Our roads are all that
can be desired. We can ride miles and miles
out in the country without striking sand or
uncllmbable hills and there is no excuse for
some OF the boys not making from ., 500 to
| 5000 miles during the summer of 1890. The
1 rnnh mfr DFA yhn hat nln.,. ~ 49, -1-l.
rooms, started in with very great enthus
iasfn, but a few rainy aud unpleasant days
discouraged some of them and towards fail
runs were like hens teeth, few and far be-
tween. The captain certainly did his duty by
calling club runs, but somehow they were
not very well attended.
Here are 4 few facts that may be interest
ing. The club officers during 1889 were:
President, f. N. Clarke; vice.president, A.
ID. Hughes; treasurer, G.. o. Travecisco;
secretary, Perry Badollet; captain +. l..
Mittauer; first lieutenant, j. H.. Lathrop:
second lieutenant, William Emerson; third
lieutenant, b. l.. Porterfield color bearer,
| w. j. Morris: buglers: Fl. H.. Rhodes, ID.
NJ. Lewis and Perry Badollet; librarian, w.
II. Head.
Fortty-two machines are owned by the
club members. of which twenty-elght are
Ordinaries. two Stars, nine Safcties and
three Tandems.
Two championship medals were won last
season. The l.. A. w. one-milc state cham
pionship by Charles Peabody, and the l.. A.
w. state Safety one-mile by II. H. ithodes.
Two century runs were taken, TWO runs to
Blair, one to Fremont. one TO Lincoln. three
TO Glenwood, Ia, Hinoe to Missouri Valley,
Ia, together with u number Of smaller runs.
The longest distance covered within TWEEN.
ty-four hours was the rideto Lincoln and re-
turn Dy Peabody ana Schnell, the former IN
seventeen, the latter in twenty hours.
The Omaha wheel club polo team, consist
ing OF III. h. Rhodes caDtain. W & Rph-
erts, Oscar Epeneter. w. j. Morris, u.
Bacon, Substitute w. T.. Coombe, bid fair TO
win the penant in the city league.
The club will in the spring move into
larger quarters, not yet decided upon, but
probably on Sherman avenue. as the present
rooms are getting too cramped for such u
large membership, and the way applications
are coming in prospects are that the rolls
will swell to 100 members during 1899.
The league of American wheclmen is rep
resented by Chief Consul Clarke, with
James Josephi as local consul, and has u
snug little balance in the bank, to he used
toward putting up signboards on the roads
leading out of Omaha for the benefit of
touring wheelmen.
1t is conjectured whether this was written
to arouse the jealousy of the Omaha wheel
club: 1--WE would like to know whether
there is a bicycle club in the country that can
show the financial strength equal TO the
Maryland CLUB of Baltimore. They own
S5O,0OO worth Of property, included in which
is a splendid club house, sumptuously APP
pointed, and certain houses which rent. The
yearly income OF the club is from l,5OO 10
81, 800 over and above its expenses. Can
this be equalled. Bicycle World.
Extract from the application column of the
Bicycle World OF January IL, 80:
NEBRASKA pIvIsIoN-S-97.
Lexington Wheel Club-26Ol3, j. II. Camp
bell, Lexington: 260l5, George Il. Mackey.
Lexington; 26ol4, Il. s. Goodrich, Lexing-
| ton. DnunO O. NJ Anuma Tayinptnp. W
Gillespie, Harvard; 26052 M. w. Stuckey,
Harvard. Observation-Disclosures. Edw. Titus,
lock box %, Harvard 26993, Il. ii. Updike,
lock box y, Harvard. Let the good work go
on. 5t
Chicago Journal: ''There are now abou,
1000 yelocipedes of all KINDS In Chicago.
1000 OF which were sold this year. There
are from 4,50O to 4, 500 expert bycyilists and
about 1,0O0 ladies' machines in use. BY ac-
tual count there were over 800 ia use last
June, and the demand has been very active
all the summer ! brought the first twenty
eight of them to Chicago over a year ago Inst
June, and the first ladies who learned TO ride
were Miss Blackman ana Miss Fehrman. IL
is o most wholesome and healthful exercise
and you would be astonished at the rapid
improvement of ladies' VINO have taken it up.
For instance, Miss Grace Lloyd, one of our
most expert riders, was ordered by her docs
tors to have a change of climate, Inste I'd of
that she took to riding and gained twenty
pounds IN a few months. For amusement
cAp WV aAObb coe - nhC no do
training for the races ana she can now do q
quarter OF a mile i'm twenty. nine seconds.
Pretty good going for a girl. isn't i'll How
far can a lady ridel Well, Miss Fehrman
rides sixty or sixty-five miles every Sunday;
ana l could name ten young ladies. who, with
q weeks practice could easily do 100 miles in
a day"
A Cowboy Preacher on the Rampage.
Harry Watkins, the cowboy preach
err" takes the cake and has made a rec
ord for himself in Porteryille that will
never be forgotten, says the Porterville
(Colo.) Enterprise. He arrived here
Sunday last-drunk; remained in that
state until Tuesday, when he got into a
row in u saloon aud had his face slapped.
LaIer on that night he got q touch OF
Snakes" which prevented hin from
keeping his engagement to give q lee
ture in the old school house the follow
ing evening. Kind friends got hold of
him on Wednesday, and the last We
heard Of him vas that he was going
through that dreadful stage OF nerve
i hnrstinn nnnmaniV nallal .AsnhalinU