Los Angeles herald., 1892-06-20
THE BICYCLING WORLD.
GOSSIP or YNrEREsT TO BIDDERS
or xHE SILENT sTEHD.
Road Race--Kiverside Makes . Bid
for the Racing Men.

testants took ecorcher over the course
yesterday. The following is the com.
plete list Of the prizes offered:
Best time, gold medal, Tufts-Lyon
Arms company second best time, silver
medal, Los Angeles wheelmen; third
best time, pair pneumatic tires, Russell
4 Co. first place, gold medal, Los An
geles Athletic club; second, L., A. w.
pin, p. l.. Abel Cyclery company; third,
pair rat trap pedals, +. E. Olde; fourth,
silver cup, w. @. Furrey; fifth, silk
umbrella, Carter & Allen; seventh, pair
fine shoes, Gibson Il Tyler company;
eighth, Youman hat, Lowman, the Hat
ter; ninth, Dutch pipe and tobacco,
William Jenkins; tenth, ink. stand, Cass,
Smurr Stove company eleventh, travel
ing toilet case, of & Vaughn; twelfth,
card case and cards, Kan-Koo; thir-
teenth, five-pound box candy. G. w.
Smith; fourteenth, pound box
candy, Alexander Bros.
Special prizes: Best time on Victor,
silver cup, Overman Wheel company,
by s. g. Spier; first man on Columbia,
i. A. w. pin, by F. E. Olds; last man,
quart bottle ketchup, by S. g. Spier.
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The Bearings, weekly paper devoted
to cycling, and read by thousands OF
wheelmen all over the country, gives
Southern California this fine eend off in
the last issue:
"The roads in Southern California are
generally in fine condition the year
around, and many improvements are
made annually. The grandest Of road
improvements looked for by the wheel
men is the proposed boulevard from Los
Angeles to Santa Monica, an eighteen
mile run to the beach. It is fine road
now, but by the improvements it will
induce women riders to make long runs
there, and increase their number by
scores. The number of wheelwomen in
y Los Angeles at present is about forty.
There are number of other fine routes
from Los Angeles: To Riverside, 81
miles; to San Bernardino, TO-; to Santa
Barbara, 80; to Ventura, 58; to Long
Beach, "a TO Redondo Beach, 18, and
many grades for coasting. Los Angeles
is the center OF Southern California, and
the above cities lie north, east and
south. Everybody is in for good roads.
The riders there are lucky in having
some of the best natural roads in the
The following communication has
been received:
Los ANGELES, June 10, 1892.
SPoRTING EDTToR HERALD: At present
there is not little speculation as to
just who from Los Angeles will ride at
the races to be given at Riverside on our
next 4th OF July.
OF course the prizes given by the
Riverside people will be much to try
fer and little better than those to be
6 iven to the winners of our road race to
anita Monica, which will come off on
the eameday. A
WheeFmen must as general rule be
G. pnsidered somewhat of y mercenary lot,
q hd racing men more particularly; vet
We do not see why we should have to
IL ,rego all our plans for the success of
Il ais road race simply because some
o ther place outblds us.
This read race is an annual event and
b hs heretofore been always q success,
Al nd why should it not be the same this
tt mef These same men who will de-
81 Drt US this year will of course be the
OF aes to look for the most favors when
Of ar fall meet Is held, and they will,
" ithouta q doubt, receive them (that is,
II don't care what we say.
We hope that these men will recon
81 der and think over the matter, and,
b. .tter still, arrive at the conclusion that
* le success of home sports is more to be
80 ught after than prizes at outside
pl aces. Cucxasr.
"A special from London is as follows:
3 ngland's cycling world has sailed into
th 9 midst Of standing records Of ali sorts /,
an ID they ere falling on all sides. Fol-
10 wing Zimmerman's auarter-mile per-t
10 .manceat Herne Hill in 80. May24th
an d Stroud's half in 1 .O6 3 s on the same
de- v, B. J.. EIDE attempted to ride TWENTY
10, lr miles in the hour, and accomplished
% mikes 1920 yards, taking l 100 ri l.5
f0l the full distance. This is q worlds
re, sord, and all the previous worlds rec
or, Is from ffteen to twenty-four miles
We re beaten. Last July Osmond did 26O
yards lessdn the hour ON the same track.
On the present occasion there was very
little wind blowing.
On the road two successful attacks
lave been made during the week on the
Liverpool-to-London record. The dis
tance is 306 miles, and the existing rec
ofd was J. A. Benefits, is :65, made in
October, L69o. On May 21st G. Lucas
rode from Liverpool to London in Is :l3,
or l :42 inside record. Four days after,
T. A. Edge rode from London to Ldver-
pool in A:33:33 on New Howe''
safety weighing thirty pounds, aeared to
siKty-eight inches. Edge escaped an ad-
verse wind bat had thunder.storm for
the first fifty miles,.
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The principal event of the Century
Wheelmen's meet at Tioga track,
philadelphia, Saturday week, was the
quarter-mile open, which George G.
Smith of the Riverside Wheelmen, New |
York, won in 81 35 seconds, American
record, and only l SO seconds slower |
than Zimmerman'slworld e record, made |
At Herne Hill. London recently. Smith
won his race with comparative ease
rom J. III. Bilyeu Of the Park Avenue
Wheelmen, and J. A. Mesde, Quaker
Jity Wbeelmen. The latter started out |
1t rattaing clip and maintained the
cad until the stretch was reached,
Then Smith went by like whirlwind,
The building boom has caueed the re-
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