The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-08-15
TURN OF THE WHEEL.
Hudson County wheelmen Will lave q
Road Race.

Road Race.
The Hudson County Wheelmen Will
hold a half mile road race over the Eliza.
BETH Crawford course on September 5. II
will be a club event.
Tue Catholic Club Cvclers Will meet
this evening.
The International championship meet
off ciais expected. The LA. w. will lose
nothing, MS the bicycle manufacturers
guaranteed the League against loss.
Sanger's Injuries are 80 serious that it
is feared he will never race again. Tne
Hudson County Wheelmsn aud the New
York Tourist Wheelmeu will nave II
joint run next month. The date has not
Deen named, but It will be early in the
month. The Time Wnselmen of Phfla-
de1phia will have a century u from
Newark to the Quaker City.
N. H. Van Sicklen, the Chicago racing
man, has decided TO give up track racing
and devote his attention exclusively to
road riding. He will compete In all the
big road races next season.
H. Bruder. the champion long distance
bfcsc Gle rider of the South, will make an
attempt to lower the Brooklyn road rec
ord on the 25th inst. Bruder is now q
member of the New York Cycle Club.
The members of the Brooklyn Stenog-
raphers' Association have formed q bl-
cycle club aud intend to hold weekly
Stub runs to Qarious points Of interest In
the vicinity OF New York. Brooklyn and
New Jersey.
Harry Tyler seems to lave developed
the knack Of making a good squirt ia the
last one hundred yards OF a race. His
wonderful sprInting 10 the races vt Chi
cago enabled him TO win many prizes
and surprised everybody.
Jack Prince went dow in the two
mile open race at st. Louis on Monday
aud threw C, w. Price Of Milwaukee and
C, w. Dorntgs of Buffalo, Ohio. Prince
and Price are badly hurt and will not b
able to ride for some time.
The Brooklyn Ramblers have entered
strong team In the big road races to be
held in Brooklyn on Saturday. The team
consists of w. McMauus. f. N. Brooks,
\. NJ. Wilson, Thomas Gates n Charles
w. Hewlett.
George w. Coffin, Harry Hawthorne
and Charles H. Coffin will constitute the
| team OF The Roseyiile Athletic Club in
| the three mile team race to be held under
! the auspices of the Riverside Athletic
Club cyclers at Wavsrly on the 26th
instant,
AT the Hamilton (Ont.) bicycle races
yesterday. in the first heat OF the qnartsr
mile race. with q flying start, w. Nichols,
of Hamilton, reduced the Canadian re-
| cord from So to 81 rs seconds. aud in the
second heaJ L. D.. Robertson, of Toronto },
clipped off another second.
A party of wheelmen from Reading.
Pa. will start on September z on q Dt.
cycle trip to the Worlds Fair aud
return. They will 60 by way of Harris
burg. Erie. Cleveland and Toledo.
returning through Detroit, Canada
| Niagara Falls and Rochester. Tue party
wsli be composed OF Harry G. johnson,
| John Beyerle. NJ. L. Kilmer, John
Sisman and w. L. Fulmer. They expect
to be three or four weeks on the trip.
What promises to be the largest race
meet ever held In the East 10 that of the
Associated Cycling Clubs OF Waltham,
! Mass. scheduled to take place Septem.
Der 2. Ali of the amateur racing stars
are entered, the incentive being 5000 In
prizes. The programme Of events in.
cluGes a one mile worlds championship
race, one mile safety race for novlces.
scratch; one mile safety race, $40 class;
one mile safety RAGS. handicap; one-third
mile safety race, open, and two-thirdi
mile safety race, Open.