Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-10-02
OUTDOOR SPORTS.
WHEEL NOTES.

has 100 riders, thirty Of whom are
ladies.
III. E. Laurie believes he can ride
mile on the pneumatic machine in 1928.
The recent half-mile record of 1 min
ty was phenomenal.
Miss Ellen Terry, the celebrated
actress, has been elected president OF a
ladies' bicycle club in London.
BY unanimous vote of the racing
board Ed A. Leopold, of New Haven,
has been reinstated as an amateur.
An electric bicycle running on wires
stretched about ten feet apart, has been
devised by an Austin, Tex, man.
The Press Cycling Club of Buffalo
are adding quarters to their club rooms
for lady members, whom they will
shortly admit.
Messrs. Van Sicklen, Thorn and Bar
rett, of Chicago, recently established a
one mile record of 2:4s for the new Park
side track.
ginia division Of the League Of Ameri-
can Wheelmen will be held at Norfolk
on October 6 and Z.
The many rumors of trouble and dis
satisfaction in the New York Bicycle
Club are pooh-poohed by the officers of
that organization.
Charley Kluge, of the New York Ath-
letic Club, will have go at some Of the
standing safety records before the end
of the racing season.
1t was easily seen at the National
championship races at Niagara that the
Western cracks lacked the sprinting
powers of our Eastern riders.-Sporting
Life.
There are prospects Of a number of
our fast safety men sending to England
for pneumatic tired bicycles since the
Racing Board refuses to penalize the
wheel.
The Orange Wheelmen have issued q
challenge for five mile team road race
to the Hudson County Wheelmen, Alta
lanta Wheelmen and Elizabeth Wheel
men, the teams to consist of four men
each.
The new bicycle club of Mon Oclair, N.
Young, President; Phillip Young, Vice.
Suits, Lieutenant. The club is stead
lily growing.
The net profits on the late Pennsyl-
vania division meet, amounting to near
ly 5000, have Just been turned over to
the Associated Cycling Clubs by Mr.. A.
F. Bracher, chairman Of the finance
committee.
The first steps taken against the "bal-
loon tire" in England are by the mana
gers of the race for the Sydney chal-
lenge cup, they having announced that
cushion pneumatic tires will not be al
lowed to compete.
Another ladies' club, the Pathfinder,
has been formed in Rochester with the
folio wing officers: President, Miss Min
ME Weed; Vice-President, Miss Mary
Tiler; Secretary, Miss I. G. O'Shea;
Treasurer, Miss Ella Cross.
The half-mile record made by Arthur
Lumsden at Hartford, September ?, will
not stand, as Arthur A. Zimmerman, of
the New Jersey Athletic Club, rode a
half in 1913 at Syracuse on the same day.
which is the record.
A. w. Barr, of Westboro, Mass, ar
rived at Chicago on September 0, hav-
ing travelled on bicycle from New En-
gland. He is visiting friends in the city
and proposes continuing his trip by
wheel to San Francisco. He Is young
man, rather below the medium height.
Captain George NJ. Nesbett, of the
New York Bicycle Club, is gathering
material for the construction of a new
L. A. w. road book for New York State
A new book is sorely needed, as a mum.
Der Of the roads are in q deplorable con-
dition since the book at present in use
was issued
Another bicycle club has been organ
lied in Milwaukee. This one is the
Cream City Cycling Club, and the officers
are: Chas. Cruel, President; A. j. Kill,
ian, Secretary; Chas. Lambrocht, Treas
ureri Fred Hasten, Captain. Address
all correspondence to A. J. Kilian, 200.
Fond du Lao avenue.
B. F. Mcdaniel, Pennsylvania Bicycle
and Wilmington Wheel clubs, who Won
second place in the 100 miles road race
at Buffalo, has run second in no less
being at Buffalo and one in Philadelphia
the latter being the Sporting Life event
two years ago.
Hendee, the well-known road rider
who now holds the twenty-five mile
record, has entered for the twenty-ont
mile road race at Reading on Septembe
20. as we'll rs Murphy, the New Yorl
crack, and Van Wagner, West, Hazel
ton and Taxis, of our local riders, are
among the names mentioned from Phil
adelphia.
The Harlem Wheelmen will hold thei
first road race on October 4, when tn
club will run a two and ten mile roat
race. On November 4 a ten mile roat
race will be run for handsome silve
cup offered by Mr.. Boise. 1t will b
necessary to win the cup three times t.
become the permanent property of thu
winner.
SOME RESImrS