The morning call., 1892-02-21
The WHEELMEN.
Annual Business Meeting Of the Caiifor-
mia Division.

Annual Business Meeting OF the Caifor-
mia Division.
The annual business meeting Of the Cali
fornia Division L. A. w. will be held Oh
March Y at Friendship Hall, Odd Fellows
Building II will be decided at this meeting
where the next league meet will be held. as
San Jose, Alameda and possibly San Fran
cisco will each make bid for it.
Arrangements will also be made for hold
ing the annual league century run, which
Will take place rather earlier this year.
probably about the last Of March or first Of
April The route will be down this side Of
the bay to Glr0y and return as far as San
Jose, thus completing 100 miles. AT the
latter place q train will be in waiting TO
convey the cyclists back to the city. The
run will be under the command Of Thomas
H. Doane. chairman Of the l.. A. w. Tour
ing Board.
Preparations for the seven-day race at the
Mechanics Pavilion are about completed.
The men will ride eight hours a day, four in
the afternoon and four in the evening. The
track will be inside the posts ten laps to
the mile. Waller. the Flying Dutchman,"
Of Oakland, who won the time prize in May
in the twenty hve-mile TOad-race at San
LeandrO, has entered, and the knowing ones
say this will not be his debut as profess
sional. In conjunction with the main race
there will be several shorter ones between
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The Garden City cyclers Of San Jose, the
Oakland and Alameda bicycle clubs Will at
tend the opening night IN body.
The San Francisco Bicycle Club under a
rev board Of officers has taken another
lease Of life. Finding its present acc0mmO-
dations too meager for the Increased men,
bership, the club has rented rooms at the
corner of Polk street and GOLDEN Gate
avenue, which they will furnish in a Iirst
class manner. The opening OF the new
rooms will take place the latter part Of
March.
The Alameda Bicycle and Athletic Club
held its initial club-Tun for the new year on
Saturday, Some twenty of the cycling
members, with Senator Morgan and
Howell, of the Eastern combination, mus
tered at the Club-TOOms, where the usual
Photographic seance took place. The run
was to HayWards aud return. Work is
proceeding lively with the new Alameda
race-t track and when completed it will com
pare favOrably with any in the State. The
club expects to have an opening day on
May so.
The San Francisco Bicycle Club held a
run to Haywards on Sunday. At FTuitvale
the run divided into two divisions. The
"scOrchers" made the run down in fifty
minutes, while the more elderly members
with the ladies arrived about an hour later.
After a hearty dinner the racing members,
Messrs. Edwards. Mayors, Christ, Beckett
and UngeT, started for Frultyale, via Mount
Eden, under the pacing of s. j. Black, the
professional trick rider. The race was
won by John Beckett, T. Christ second and
Bert Edwards third. The time is reported
10 have been SO minutes, which is certainly
phenomenal time for that distance.
President George p, Wetmore and Charles
II. Bliss, b.. c. w, took a roundabout trip
on Sunday. Taking the Sausalito boat and
train to san Rafael, they wheeled to Peta-
luna arriving in time for dinner Then
Nicasio they reached Camp Taylor Valley
at San Geronimo, where they took the train
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