Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-08-30
BIG CYCLING rounNAMRsr

To be Held I'm Hartford September
and 2-Craek Riders Will Race
Large Delegations From the New
Haven CIubs-Cyeling Notes.
The tournament of the Hartford Wheel
club which is to be held at Charter Oak
park Monday and Tuesday, September l
and 2, will undoubtedly be the most inter
esting cycling event of the year.
The Hartford club has arranged an espe-
cially attractive list of races and offer
prizes unequalled in value heretofore in
any previous affair of the kind ever held
in the country. The total entries for the
various races foot up to about three hun
dred and include nearly all the notable
American racers, as well as the English
flyers now on this side of the water. On
the list of racers are the names of Laurie
and Willis, the English crack riders; Rich,
Campbell and Banker of New York, all
very fast men; Berlo of Boston, thought
to be the coming safety rider:
Windle, the L. A. w. champion;
Lumsden, Tuttle, Van Sicklen and Win
Bedford racer, whose work last year sur
prised everybody; Kluge and Ives, the
veteran pedalers, and many others of ma
tional fame. The state championship
will be contested by Arnold, Ives, Sage
and Wood, all of whom are well known to
cyclists hereabouts. The safety races equal
the ordinary in numbers, and will be es-
pecially interesting. The invention of the
safety, in fact, has caused the tournament
to appeal to the interest of thousands of
persons for whom it formerly offered no
especial attraction, and the safety races
will be a main feature of the coming
events.
The tournament will gather a great
number of wheelmen and their friends
from all sections of the country. The
majority of the clubs in the southern part
of the state have decided to adopt the plan
of riding to Hartford on their wheels on
Sunday, September 1. Most of the New
Haven delegation have decided upon this
| course. The Elm City and Rovers' clubs,
accompanied by the Brooklyn Bicycle
club, will go to Hartford in this way
They will leave New Haven early on Sun
day morning, taking their course through
Cheshire to Meriden, where they will take
| dinner, and after being Joined by the
wheelmen of Meriden they will proceed in
| a body to Hartford.
The track at Charter Oak park is I'M
queStlouhDlN the IaStest cycling pain IN
the county, and if weather conditions
prove favorable the park will be the scene
of rare sport. The annual council of the
Connecticut L. A. w. will be held at Hart
| ford on the day of the tournament
The New Haven Bicycle club will send a
| delegation to Hartford, about forty strong,
| one-half of whom will ride on their wheels,
| accompanied by delegations from Bridge
port and Ansonia. The Bridgeport clut
will send up about ten members and
the Ansonia club about fifteen. Among
others the following members of the New
| Haven Bicycle club Nave signified their in
tention of going: Messrs Frank Thompson.
| w. F. Perkins, Vorhiss, Bright, Clark,
otell, Andrews, Bailey, Bennett, Kelsey,
| Palmer, Leland, Norman, Smith, Perkins,
Bishop, Beers, Lyons, Keeney, Booth
Cobb, Morse, Isbell and Bartlett. Thi.
| club is entertaining as visitors, for a few
days, w. G. Hasen and III. C. Schmedes OF
Jersey City.
RovERs' CLUB.
Twenty-three members of the Rovers
| club went on a run to Weddings farm,
Hamden, Thursday evening and enjoyed
all the melons they could eat. About
forty members of the club will leave the
club rooms at O'Clock, Sunday morn
ing for the run to Hartford. Several
others will leave on the train Monday
morning and all are anticipating a very
| pleasant time.