Los Angeles herald., 1891-06-14
THE BICYCLISTS.
The Great Road Race on the
Fourth.
Los Angeles Wheelmen Show
Signs of Activity.
A Handicap Race From Los Angeles
to Santa Monica.
The Members of the Los Angeles Wheel
mountaineering Notes for Riders
of the Silent Steed.

OF the silent Steed.
The handicap road race to be held OF
the Fourth OF July from Los Angeles tt
Santa Monica will mark the opening o
the bicycle season in Southern Califor
MIA. The Los Angeles wheelmen pro
pose to make this the greatest cycling
event ever held in Southern California
A list OF the prizes to be given viii
shortly be published in the HERALD
Intending competitors should not fail tc
enter on or before July 1st, at the Tufts
Lyons Arms company, or with d. G.
McGarvin, the captain of the Los An
geles wheelmen. 1t is confidently ex.
pected that there will be from fifteen tc
twenty competitors. The Tufts-Lyons
Arms company will give handsome
gold medal to the bicyclist making the
fastest time. No time limit has been
agreed upon, the handicapping being
left to the discretion of special handi-
Gaping committee.
A gentlemen interested in wheeling
the following information:
The reorganization of the Los Angeles
wheelmen took place on the 18th of last
GERS were chosen for the ensuing six
months: President, DIR. H. Bert Ellis
vice-president, r. G. Woodwork; Sec
retary-treasurer, E. w. Stuart; first
lieutenant, w. A. Tufts; second-lieu-
tenant, w. j. Allen; bugler, w. M.
jenkins; executive committee, H. G. F.
Smith, ]. L. Kapus and j. Phil Perci-
VAL membership committee, w. E.
Tyler, f. E. Olds and Phil HI. Lyon.
The following cyclists comprise the
Los Angeles wheelmen: H. @. F. Smith,
]. Phil Percival, R. G. Woodworth, DR..
H. Bert Ellis, d. G. McGarvin, G.
Guillo, ]. Korn, J. L. Kapus. w. M.
Jenkins, d. L. Burk, Phil H. Lyon,
William A. Tufts, H. E. Bundy, w. J.
Allen, E. E. Russell, Jay Sweazea, F. E.
Olds, E. w. Stuart, L. d. Sale, H. f.
Schofeld, j. S. Perry, John w. A. Off,
A. w. Herwig, G. A. Won Brands,
Walter E. Tyler, Frank Fl. Pfafinger,
Frank 0. Meyer, Fred A. Healey, H. B.
Cromwell, Fred S. Thomas, All Brooks,
Will Noble, F. G. Watson and last, but
not least, our six-foot-two-Charles E.
Gale.
The club has a good start, and bids
fair to become club of 100 members
within the next year. A good reason
for this is that it will be league. club
AS there are no doubt number oi
people that do not know what league
club means it will not be amiss to give a
few facts in regard to it. The League
of American Wheelmen was founded al
Newport, r. L., in the year 1880, its OBJ
jects being to promote the general in.
terests of cycling; to ascertain, defend
and protect the rights of wheelmen
to encourage and facilitate touring; tc
promote the building and preservation
of good roads, and to regulate and
govern all amateur sports connected
with the use of the wheel. The League
of American Wheelmen has the largest
membership of any amateur athletic
association in the United States, it hav-
ing a membership of20, 900, and steadily
growing at the rate OF (the last few
years. 1000 per year.
The California division of the League
of American Wheelmen has a member
ship of $50, which figure is rather
small when taking into consider
alton the number of wheelmen in the
state. The cause of this is that the ma
iority of the wheelmen are in the north
ern part of the state. consequently the
north gets all of the officers and all oi
the money. To illustrate how the wheel.
men of Northern California get all OF
the money, it is only necessary to read
circular from the chief consul of the
California division, dated May 1, 1890
This circular says: ga century run CLOG
miles) is hereby called for May |, 1890
etc. An L. A. w. special train will
leave Hollister at our convenience, and
it will cost members OF the division
nothing to return on it," That was
very nice indeed for members living in
the northern part of the state, but
of course it is practically i'm
possible for any member in the
southern part of the state to travel ovel
450 miles to 60 on century rum" and
ride back free on the special train-bacl
to San Francisco, of course. 1t is pain
fully evident who got the benefit of the
'sfree special" But every dog has his
day, and the members in the south have
sent petition to the president of the
league praying that California be divided
into two divisions, which they are likely
to get, as E. w. Stuart, the local consu
for Los Angeles, has letter from Presi
dent Dunn saying that "the matter has
been brought before the executive com
mittee in favorable light, and that b,
has the best interests of Southern Cali
fornia (the counties of San Diego, Or
ange, San Bernardino, Los Angeles
Santa Barbara, Kern, Ventura and SaI
Luis Obispo) at heart and will do all il
his power to give us the division. Will
Southern California division, witt
headquarters in Los Angeles, wheeling
in this part of the state would take al
immense boom.