The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-14
KNIGHTS OF THE SILENT sTEEo.
FhiIo-cycle Tells What the wheelmen
Are Doing.

FhiIo-cycIe Tells What the wheelmen
Are Doing.
The racing board in session at Cleveland
decided to abolish the rule of accepting
records made only in competition, and
In future the board will pass on al rec
oryis, whether made in competition or
against time. District championships have
been abolished, and are replaced by division
championships.
Cyclists generally are dumfounded at
the offer OF II. G. Cornell 20 race any man
in the world for S., 900 side for series of
three races of quarter, half and full
mile. 1t was not supposed that Cornell
had any idea of becoming professional,
and as his best time recorded for mile is
2:52 it would seem that scores of men, pro-
fessional and amateur, are able to defeat
him.
The National L. A. ". championships
viii consist of quarter, half and mile
ordinary, the same distances for safeties
and mile tandem. This arrangement
does away with long distance champion
ship events. Each division will have en-
tire charge of all matters relating to cham
pionships in its own territory.
The Staten Island Athletic clubs spring
games were expected to disclose the rela-
tive values of pneumatics and solids, and,
as the result showed, this was most effect
ually demonstrated. The opinion of every
man, contestant or spectator, was that the
days of the solid tires are numbered.
The much discussed opposition TO the
Irvington-Milburn race seems more i'm
aginary than apparent. w. A. Drabble,
president of the Atalanta wheelmen, has
interviewed the board OF freeholders of
Essex county and q number of prominent
residents, who unanimously stated that no
opposition was projected Mr.. Drabble
was advised to confer with the constabu-
under police protection.
n. II. Van Sicklen, of Chicago, scorched
over the Pullman course in fifty-seven
minutes, mounted on a pneumatic. The
time is good for the distance-some six
teen miles-but owing to penalty attaching
to air wheels the performance must be
rated at about sixty-one minutes.
The Travis Island track, belonging TO the
New York Athletic club, has been banked
some eighteen inches. and has also been
scraped and the surface hardened. 1t is
expected TO furnish first class training
ground.
According 60 a Boston paper Willie
Windle believes that 2:20 can be made on
solid tire, and proportionately better time
on the pneumatic. Windle's best times up
to the present are 81 4 seconds for the quar-
ter, i'm 10 4-5s. for half and Pm. 2Ss. for
q mile.
The two mile safety race Of the Harvard
Athletic association furnished something
of surprise, inasnuch as G. r. Taylor
the favorite, was defeated by f. S. Pratt
who has not hitherto been considered a
strictly first form rider. 1t is only fair to
note that Taylor made his own pace all the
way, and was only beaten in the4fnal squirt.
1t may be sadly noted by cyclists work
ing for road improvement that the Eighth
avenue and Boulevard, New York, lately
paved with asphalt, is becoming deeply in
dented with cart wheel ruts and threatens
to break up fast. This is entirely due to
the fact that its good surface attracts the
heaviest trucking in the city. If other
avenues were similarly cared for the traffic
would be distributed.
George d. Mitchell and z. E. Stevens
have started on their earthly circuit ride"
They left by steamer Teutonic, and will
mount at Queenstown. They carry a
change of underclothing, Kodak apiece,
revolvers, knives, conpasses, medicine and
guide books. PHILo-CYCLE.