The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-09
GEORGIA'S LEAGUE MEN.
waEELMEN PRsPAR-
ING FOR THE COLUMBUS MEET.

| A State Division to Be Organized and
Two Days of Races on the Pro-
gramme- Savannah to Send Big
Delegation to Participate in the
League Organization and in the
Track Evsnts-The Opening of the
Fall Cycling Season an Auspioious
One The Movement for a Local
Track Meeting With Success.
Savannah wheslmen are taking an active
interest in the first annual meeting Of the
State Division League Of American Wheel
| men at Columbus, Oct IS and 20, at which
time the division will be fully organized.
Aside from the meeting and organization
Of the division. the races will be feature
of the meet. They will OCCUPY two days.
with sixteen events, eight each day. The
prizes are liberal and it is expected will at
tract wheelmen from all over the state.
The only change that will occur In the
| programme already announced is the omis-
sion OF the league championship races, which
cannot take place except under the auspices
of league club. AS the Columbus Cycle
| Club ts not yet league club, that feature
OF the programme had to be changed.
| A large delegation of Savannah wheel
men will go up to the meet and number
will participate in the races. In the
delegation will be President Rich-
mond OF the Savannah wheelmen, Secretary
R. H. Polk, and Messrs. Wenzel, Waring,
Gross, Williams and others. Chief Consul
| Whiteslde, the representative OF the League
| of American Wheelmen in Georgia, will
also be there. There are now sixty-fve
members Of the League OF American Wheel
| men in the state, and strong effort will be
| made to increase the number to 100 before
\ the Columbus meet SO that the division may
| be organized at once and without any diff
| fculty.
The regular meeting of the Savannah
| wheelmen will be held Tuesday night when
| arrangements will be made for attending
the state meet. An effort will be made to
send as large delegation as possible from
| Savannah, since this city ia the leading
wheel city OF Georgia and the south. The
meet will take place during the Columbus
| exposition, and low rates are In effect on the
railroads. A special car will probably be
| run to carry the Savannah men.
The opening of the fall season promises
very auspiciously for cycling in Savannah.
The movement to build racing track has
| started with even more favor than IL was
| expected it would. Very nearly 81, 900 have
already been subscribed in stock in the
! Wheelmens Track Association. The mat
ter will be pushed right ahead, and as soon
as sufficient amount has been subscribed a
| charter will be applied for and an organiza-
ton OF the association will be perfected.
With track and suitable club quarters, the
future OF cycling IN Savannah is assured.
Chief Consul Whiteside has appointed
local consuls in four cities of the state, and
others will be appointed soon. The league
| organization as it exists at present In Geor-
| 4 follows. obf cf
consul; G. NJ. Rushing, secretary-treasurer
| w. E. Grady, local consul for Savannah
| J. II. Polhill, local consul for Columbus; J.
| 7. Dill, local consul for Augusta; J. A.
Lawes, local consul for Atlanta.
| A correspondent from Austin, Tex,
| writes as follows: II am using q lamp
that may interest cyclists, and that is two
candle power electric lamp operated by a
pocket storage battery. The lamp has a
conclave reflector behind IL, which is
| fastened to button on my coat This light
is much stronger and steadier than the cycle
! lamps in general use, and is attended by
| none OF the unpleasant features of an oil
| lantern. The cost of running is almost NIL
The New York Journal Of Sept. 16 pub
fishes the following paragraph: 1.-The bicv-
Gle girl is the fashion. She has succeeded
the summer girl, and is TO be seen on all
|
Brooklyn. She ia an attractive figure and
always creates more or less attention. She
wears a divided skirt, which shows about
an inch OF stocking and trim ankle, dark
yachting cap and a smile, which indicates
her perfect health. Physicians say that
while bicycling is good for women it devel-
ops the lower limbs to the neglect Of the
rest Of the body"
In his article on Tho Betterment Of Our
Highways" in the October number Of the
atlantic Monthly, Prof. N. 8. Shaler
speaks as follows of the influence of bicy-
cling In the matter: The sudden access of
interest In the construction of highways
which characteriZes our time Is in good part
due to the invention of the bicycle. The
wheel carriage propelled by foot power is a
relatively old continuance, but until the last
quarter of century the machine adheared
to the old type of the wheeled vehicle. 1t
required the hardy spirit of our time to lead
the inventor to the conjecture that a man
might ride on but two wheels. In its social
Importance the bicycle deserves to rank
next to the railway and the telegraph
among the inventions of our waning
century. The use of these in
struments. the number Of which
| is probably now TO be reckoned
by the million, affords to those who employ
them constant object lessons as to the condi-
ton Of our highways. Where a man is
| drawn by horse he needs to have a very
keen sympathy with his beast in order TO
perceive how apparently slight differences
in the condition of the roadway may greatly
vary the amount OF strain which is put
upon the propelling agent When, how
| ever, his own thews are employed, every
little accident of the way makes distinct
impress on bis body. Thus every cyclist
becomes a critic of the highways he trav-
erses; and as these people are scattered far
and wide over the land and are of station
to make themselves efficient developers Of
public opinion. we have through their art
gained a very stimulating Influence in favor
of better roads"
A good many people compl ain about
wheelmen running into pedestrians. The
trouble about the matter Is just this. Peo~
pie do not observe the law OF the road. The
law of the forty-four states of the union is,
"go to the right" No matter if 1t be a
pedestrian on a side walk vessel on the
river, canalboat upon a canal. horse
back rider or driver of anything that
goes on wheels, or a railroad locomotive, or
a street car, the rule is identical and inex-
orable. All people born in this country grow
up under this law, and ought to be familiar
with it. IL is the exact opposite Of the rule
10 every European country Except on the