Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-11-28

shown by the refusal Of o visiting club of slavs
to sit for photograph in the same
group with the Gratz men. who were
Germans. The locals we're also Slavs, but
had declared for mo nationality in the
fraternity of the wheel" and to atone for the
puerile discourtesy Of their Slav visitors made
their demonstrations Of fraternal feeling the
greater for the Grazers, and Grazer and
Agramer locked arm in arm embracing and
kissing was a common scene. We stole away
from the festivities at late hour in the night,
leaving them still protesting and reiterating
their undying love for each other as sports
collegen, whatever might be their differences
otherwise.
HURRAH FOR THE AMERICANS.
On an early visit to the exposition grounds
fair hands had draped us in the national colors,
and by the following afternoon when, with other
wheelmen, some eighty or ninety altogether,
we paraded through the CITY to the race track
where the first Agrnm bicycle races were to be
held, we were known to probably every person
in the crowd that lined the streets and were
received with cries of 1.-TWO Amerikani !''
lhurrah for the AmericansI. We have indeed
reason to remember our visit to Agram as one
OF the most pleasant incidents of the tour; for
not only were the wheelmen extremely kind,
but others, both ladies and gentlemen, perfect
strangers, frequently approached us to pass a
few friendly words and shake us warmly BY the
hand. Americans who go abroad SO generally
confine themselves to the beaten track of west
ern Europe. leaving neglected other rs inter-
est1ng localities as are both Styria and Croatia.
that a known American seemed to be rarity
there.
CRoATIAN BICYCLE RACES.
The Croatian wheelmen not uncommonly
adorn themselves with gay sashes, and in
racing toys many of them combine all possible
colors. One racer, and he was q pretty good
rider, too, adorned himself for the track with
q nj and inhf lnn ta,l 10. Il ral
silk shirt, light blue brooches, pink stockings
and white gloves. He was beauty. On the
dress cap OF the Agram Bicycle Club, which is
dark blue, round and visorless. a style COM
mon with American wheelmeR. is worn a tri-
color rosette and an eagles feather, which
with the sash gives them a decidedly wild In
dian appearance in spite of the sober, dark
blue uniforms
TOWARD THE BOSNIAN FRONTIER.
Below Agram we fell in with the first really
hot weather. Petrinja is a small town below
Agram. but it has seven bicyclsts, among them
several good riders and, as after being their
guests for a half day. we waved the last adieu
10 the escort of three of the seven, standing at
tine top of a long hill, as at last we disappeared
from their sight around bend at the bottom,
we felt that we should not again in our tour
lind such good friends or receive such cordial
treatment as We have found among the
wheelmen of Austro-Hungary. Below Pc
TRINA bicyciists are rarely seen, and in
the dusk of the evening, as we scudded
through village after village toward the
BOSNIAN frontier, and glanced back over our
shoulders 20 note the effect tho road. was white
with the specter-like figures of the natives,
who had rushed from their houses to look after
u.s. Then just az we were saying to ourselves.
1T is about time Kosta jnica were turning up
the town lay before us in the moonlight. a streak
Of silver representing the Una river, which
separated us from our first insight INTO things
Turkish beyond. Down from the heights into
this last stepping stone to the east was but the
work of u moment, and here We are. L. L. S.