The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-09-27
WHEELING.
Moonlight Rides Are Now in Order
Notes Of Interest from All
Quarters.
QUARTERS.

! taking every advantage of the moonlight
nights Not night passes. that dozen
or more Of the boys, attired in the CLUB
uniform, assemble at the big clubhouse
| on Belmont avenue and 90 Tor run of
! ten or fifteen miles. The Newar k Plank
road suits the boys on a cool night and
| frequently some Of them spin out to the
Oranges, Woodssde or Belleyille. The
roads in Newark are more enticing to the
boys than the ones iii the immediate
vicinity Of the clubhouse. Brooklyn Is
rapidly becoming fayorite resort
of the heavy riders. They board
the annex boats, and after a half hours
pleasant sail around the Battery spin up
to Prospect Park. where numberiess
Brooklyn wheelmen eau be found prae-
ticising The III. G. w. uniform is well
known by the members of clubs within
radius of one hundred miles OF Jersey
City, and as result many little mile
races occur through the Park The Hud-
son County boys always hold their own,
and frequently best their opponents
Ladies', too, OF the Heights, are taxing
great interest in cycling, and every
week Treasurer EveIand, of the Hudson
County Wheelmen, escorts half dozen
or more of them, sometimes TO Bergen
Point, Central Park, Prospect Park,
Orange and Passaic. The ladies ride we'll
and keep up good road pace. Mr.; Eve
land is favorite among the lady riders.
Mrs. Eveland always accompanies her
husband on his short runs.
The Hudson County Wheelmen have
received an invitation to attend stag
entertainment of the Columbia Cyclers,
OF Philadelphia, on October ..
The Boston Athletic Club have liked
October 8 as their day for their great
TWENTY-FIVE mile mile road race.
The Elizabeth Wheelmen had long
list of professional riders in their entries
for the races yesterday. The meet was
we'll attended. Several n. q w. We're
present, but did not participatein any of
the contests. Handsome prizes were
awarded the winners.
A, G. Banker is In training to break
records on October at the meet of the
Riverside Wheelmen.
The racing team of the wheeling diyi-
sion of the Senator Club, of New York,
consists OF Messrs. Weiner, Goldsmith,
Heyfnan and Rosenbaum. All are expert
riders.
The Riverside Wheelmen have applied
TO the Racing Board of the League OF
American Wheelmen TO run mixed
race at their meet on October g. II
granted ordinaries and safeties will be
entered
The prospects are that ali the big road
races in the future will be held on the
Englewood track. This course is rapidly
growing in popularity among Eastern
clubs.
Great interest is being made manifest
in the big meet of the Associated Cycling
Clubs of New Jersey on October B. a
number of Hudson county boys have en-
tered the race.
II. Howell, the English champion bicy-
Gle rider, recently covered one mile In
England IN 2 minutes and 10 seconds.
The bicycle Is now only six and one-half
seconds behind the time of Maud S. BIZ
cycles are crawling up.
Fhs UHion County Rosasters will attend
the Meet of the Riverside WheeIman on
October 3.
The williamsburg Wheelmen recently
| joined the Williamsburg Athletic Asso-
citation ia body.
Somehow the women who ride bicycles
in Jersey City and neighboring cities
feel that their indulgence in the sport has
not been well received generally. They
believe that there is a disposition on the
part of the general public to guy them.
and they feel timid as result about ven
turing into public places, especially one
woman alone. Some say that such crit
icisms as have been made are due to the
bad taste of few riders, and are not
merisea by the majority. They say that
a woman has no more right to ride u
bicycle In street costume than they have
to ride a horse in the same dress. II all
women wore neat. comfortable, appropri-
ate costumes, with subdued colors, they
think that there would be no criticism.
Furthermore, they think that the average
woman ought not to ride in public I'M
attended.
Iu order 10 remove these Objectionable
features. aud restore the sport to the af-
fections of the world, number of ladies
in New York have organized CLUB. The
ladies have already adopted a costume
| That consists of tightfitting waist, and
simple, unadorned skirt, cut in walking
length and lined with flannel. and a
round top cap having a visor. The mates
rial is serge, and the color dark blue,
The ladies intend hiring an instructor
to accompany ~them on all their trips.
The lady riders of this city should follow
the example set them by their neighbors.
The Passaic Wheelmen entertained a
number of Gotham Wheelmen last Sun
day. and a number OF the Hudson County
bows.
upon the wheel. The old five-mile record
of 10 mimi 40 LIS seconds was lowered
BY him at Peoria. ILL.,, to IL minutes SO As
seconds.
Another new record has been accom-
plished. IL was done by A. c. Banker,
one Of the Manhattan Club crack riders
He travelled 201z miles in one hour aud II
seconds.
A movement is on foot to arrange a
series of match games between the win
ners of the Wheelmen's Bowling League
aud the Chicago League, which was re-
Gently organized
The Hudson County Wheelmen have
ad innovation in a three-minute club.
Only those members who have covered
mile In less than three minutes are adj
mitted
W. f. Murphy andW. A. Ztmmermann
broke the mile tandem record at the
Peoria meet. reducing the minutes "a
seconds TO 2 minutes "a is seconds.
There is still doubt as TO whether the
Hudson County Wheelmeu will enter a
bowling team in the bowling league this
season.
Crack New York wheelmen captured
prizes at the Elizabeth meet on Saturday.
There was big meet of wheelmen at
Wilmington yesterday. Several Kings
county men captured prizes
G. Hoppe carried off the prize of the
Williamsburg cyciers at their meeting
on Saturday. Hoppe ran away from ali
of his opponents.
The HUDSON County Wheelmen were
entertained last Sunday at Mllburn by
the KDfckerbocker Wheelmen-
The Rockland County Wheelmen held
their annual races on Septem Der 49,
Elizabeth, Brooklyn and New York riders
entered and captured all Of the priz es.
At the Peoria meet four new worlds
records We're created. Arthur thinner
mann of the New York Athletic Club
lowered the three. four and five mile
safety records His times were minutes
40 2-5 seconds, 10 minutes ~ seconds, IL
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