Los Angeles herald., 1892-08-01
THE BICYCLING WORLD.
A Reporters Experience Cy-
cling Through New Mexico.
The Next Relay Race Will Take
Place in September.
A French Champions Whee1-How to
Prevent Loafing in Championshfp
Races-Squibs of Interest
to Wheelmen.

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The second relay bicycle race will not
take place until after the Riverside races
on September 10Th, as several of the
most active wheelmen do not want to
interfere with their training. The run
next time will be from San Diego to
Los Angeles. One OF the San Diego
county riders is Of the opinion that the
run from San Diego to Temecula can be
made in six hours.
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The boys have started in active train
ing for the Riverside races. In the
team race both the Los Angeles wheel.
men and the Los Angeles Athletic club
will send teams. The men have not
been selected. So many new men will
compete in the different events on Ad-
mission day that it will be no easy task
to select winners.
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Otto Praeger, reporter, Of San An
tonic, Tex, is wheeling through Mexico,
and has already had one experience
which he will try to avoid in the future.
While entering the Sierra Mojado noun
tains, fifty-two miles from the town of
Sierra Mojado, and while coasting steep
decline, his wheel struck boulder and
he was given serious fall. He lost con-
troll of his wheel, which went over a
cliff, smashing it almost beyond repair.
This left him many miles from any
habitation, with but limited supply of
water on hand, while his lunch of bread
and cheese had already given out. He
studied over the matter few minutes,
and then resolved to push on toward
Sierra Mojada. He gathered up his
wheel, adjusted the broken pieces as
best he could, and set out on his long
march, pushing the bicycle in front Of
him.
The sun was boiling hot and he suf-
fered intensely from the heat. His
water soon gave out, and there were no
along the road. Neither could he find
food to appease his hunger which, as
Night overlook him in the desolate re-
his only company being rattlesnakes
more dismal with their howls. 1t is
Mr.. Praeger's sleep was not sound
early hour on the morning of
A pril 90, he again resumed his journey
long the wagon road. His hunger and
he managed to bear up under the terri
Ia - Iot IN, aff
Just twenty-four hours from the time
teamster, who supplied his wants, thus
relieving his suffering.
Mr.. Praeger then continued his tire
some walk until able to send word
to San Antonio. from which point q
new safety was at once shipped him.
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Cycling Chips.
G. E. Muller is in Ensenada. He
should be able to show the natives
down there trick or two about bicycl-
ing.
A couple of B. & A. champion racers
have been received in this city.
Berger and McGarvin yesterday rode
to Riverside. They started out at 4
O'Clock and were met at South River
side by several of the Riverside wheel
men.
One in every thirty persons in Buffalo
rides a bicycle.
The relay race between st. Paul and
Chicago will occur in Auguet.
Spooner continues to grow stronger
with the lapse of every hour. BY this
time he 10 as he was before he started
his record breaking ride. He has vowed
never to attempt such performance
again.
Hoyland Smith will make another at
tempt to break the hour record at Asbury
park, on August 9th.
Tyler's mile from scratch in handi-
cap event at the Columbia Colt meet in
2 IA 4-5 must be numbered with the
other grand performances of the year,
even If he is not quite up to the mark.
The practice of loafng in the big BIZ
cycle races is causing considerable annoy
ance to the tournament managers, and
is injuring the attendance at bicycle
meets. At the late Hartford meeting q
number of exhibitions of loafng were
prese A good way to avoid this is
to offer special inducements in tie way
OF extra prizes for the fastest quarter,
half and three-quarter miles, and to
place time limit upon the same.
Despite the criticisms of Osmond's
supporters. the English sporting papers
uphold Zimmerman in his refusal to
compete with Osmond at the Herne
Hill races on Saturday, as he has only
recently been training for the fifty-mile
championship race, which would unfit
him for ten-mile race. The London
Star says that the British will not for
give Osmond for sulking all season,
while the American scooped all the
championships.
At Springfield, Mass, July llth,
William r. Murphy, mounted on solid
tired ordinary, rode mile in 2:22 l-5,
breaking Windle's record of 2:23 20.
Found,
At the drug store, a valuable package,