The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-18
THE CENTURY RUN TO-DAY
Zic-Zag Bicycle Club Will Start Ont To-
Day to Run One Hundred Niles.
Fast Time to Cambridge City-Talk of Join
ing the Western Circuit-NOtes and Com.
ments About Riders-0ther Matters.

The Zig-zag Cycling Club will 90 out on
che largest Century run of the season to-
day. and the only one. as q club. held dur
ing the season. The Century Club, which
~isanational or ganization. requires of its
members that they ride one hundred miles
in sixteen hours or less several times a sea-
son. and to be able to wear q Cent
ury badge is 10 at once mark
ats owner as q man who is
no tender-foot. The run will
bs a sort of q please, the men
starting when they like and going on their
own hook. The cracks will start at 5
o'clock, and they are going to do some rid
ing. Last year Tom Hay and Gene Minor
covered the road to Cambria &c City and re-
rurn, 106 miles, in nine hours and twenty
eight minutes. actual riding time. 1t has
stood as the Zig-zag record ever since. and
the gentlemen bave q standing offer of q
box of cigars TO the man
who Will beat it. Every man
in the club is after those smokers to-day,
and 1t - predicted that, with the fine
roads. some of them will pedal" 10 Cam
bridge and return in about seven hours.
The Zig-zag Club has a heat sum Of
money as the result of their racing meet,
more than 1t ever had before. and il goes
around jingling it in Its pocket with a
way To spend it. The members
want n new clubhouse. The one
At IA East New York street has grown
TOO small for the rapidly increasing roster,
and. as one OF the members said. lit is so
close TO several private residences that our
ghost dances and victory celebrations are
great annoyance TO the nsighborhood.v
A committee has the matter IN charge. aud
Is looking at several desirable sites.
The absorbing question among wheel
men now, after the success of the recent
race meet, is: what are we going I'd do
next yearP' Indianapolis is, as yet. in no
racing circuit, and there is a divided
opinion as TO whether she ongbt to go into
one. Those who oppose IL hold up as All mr.
gument that while all of the crack riders
went TO Columbus al the same time the
races were on here. yet the time made at
the local track was equal 10 that made by
the Columbus flyers and that being
so it Is needless TO enter n high-priced cir
euit, while the fellows ON the other side of
the fence claim that the differences will all
be made back, the larger entries of fast
men from all parts OF the country ORA wing
larger crowds. While the Zig-zag Club is
debating the matter as a whole. u number
OF local fast riders viii Individually join
the Western circuit and ride ont the sea-
son with lt.
Horse-fesh is being fast relegsted TO the
rear " TUG eISbW Qil6 ueSDleeu bicycle
when It comes to time. The worlds won
der, zimmerman. with o dying start. went
O mile In 2:O6 tiat, not long since, and Fri
day. at SPRINGFIELD. Mass. Harry Tyler. q
Yale man, mads q mile in 2:0o 45 from a
stationary start. Horses are dong some
phenomenal record breaking this year, but
the bicycle has eclipsed them.
Cycling NOTES.
L. J. Keck. OF II. T. Hearsey & Co.. and
l. NJ. WainwrIght are at Springfield, Mass,
attending the races.
Fred Gale, who for a long time was book
keeper at Hay ~ Alliets 9, has entered the
commissioD-house OF Jordan Bros.
w. w. Tenny. lieutenant OF the Zig-zae
Club. ana bride returned from Chicago
last week. The club hung out it's best ban
ner, made ITS best bow, and waited for the
cigars 10 come rouDd
The Zig-zag Club loses it's fastest rider
this week. Walter MermOn goes East &c
attend the Boston School of Poly technics.
and as that institution Is athletically In
'clfGed. ho will ride with IT'S cracks"
The Lincoln Cycling Club of Chicago
mas . band which II mounts on wheels tC
head parades. The Zig-zagians him OF
Initiating. and it is rumOred that Ed Eads
practices IN his trombone and wheel
jointly. o. nights IN his back yard until
the yOwls of q belated band OF felInes is as
sweet music in the ears of u long-suffering
neigh borbood.
Next week Louisville will introduce an in.
novation in cycle racing. The meet of the
Western circuit TO be held there at that
time will be run in the evening by the Iigh,
OF electric lamps. IL il proves feasible II
Will doubtless make q great reformation al
over the country. as It IS much pleasanter
10 pedal n fast mile IN q cool evening than
In the heat of the day.
The bicy Gle thief has not lost hi
bsndicraft. Charley Malpas bought a
new pneumatic-tircd Victor b machine
about two weeks ago. Friday night
be lett it IN front of the clubhouse while
be went inside TO transact "a little business
he came out IN about ten minutes ami II
was gone. nor has be sren 10 since. 4 kind
Providence ought TO forgive him for Jht
mean things be said about the thief. for II
was a righteous anger that prompted them
Dame Fashion. having got done with
bathing suits. lawn apparel and che like
ana nnding it q little early to begin or
winter wardrobes, has turned her attention
To the devotees of the wheel. It is tine
trousers she Is after. Before they have
been of :he close-ftting kind, with q predi
lection To rip with straIning. which caused
embarrassment. but now she says they
must DO loose, bag at the knees, and bs
tnrned under like those of the land Of
turkey. Tom Hay was the first man tC
don a pair. and he did IL only once. The
street ganiDs have waited In vain for an
other chance tn guy" HIM.