The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-24
CYCLERS GETTING IN TRIM.
The May Week Meet Of the Savannah
League Club.

A Brilliant Programme of Racing
Events 81 900 in Handicap Prizes
offered-A Grand Fancy Dress Pa
rade to be Given-The First Georgia
Division League - Championship
Races Ridden.
The wheelmen are getting ready for the
May week meea to take place Tuesday
and Thursday, May and II, at the track
associations park; $1,000 in handicap
prizes will be awarded. Thirteen events
are scheduled for each day of the meet,
including quarter, half, one and two mile
League of American Wheelmen, Georgia
Georgia riders.
The races viii be run under the auspices
of the Savannah Wheelman L. A. w.
Club No. 469 One of the features of the
meet will be grand fancy dress parade
to be held Wednesday night of May week
in which three prizes $50, $50, and $50, will
be offered for the most original costumes.
William Hoefer. the champion rider of
America, will be here and give exhibi-
tions, one of which will be descending a
60foot ladder on a wagon wheel.
The races will bring into competition
the crack riders of Georgia. johnson, the
l: 80 mile record man now in training here
will ride. kid" WheelertiS also expected
and both the Bairds from Charleston.
A meeting of the Savannah wheelmen
was held night before last and committees
were appointed to arrange for the entries
and for the visiting wheelmen who will
be here May week.
Atlanta is interested in the long-dis-
lance ride of two newspaper men-Edward
M. Durant of the Constitution and Walter
Howard of the Journal-who will start
tomorrow in a competition ride to Chi
cago for a purse of S150. The winner will
get 800 and the loser $50. The two men
Will start one at l o'clock and the other
at 3 O'Clock, the time to be decided by
lot-the main object being to have their
start entirely separate, so that they will
not be thrown together at any time after
leaving Atlanta until they get to
Chicago. Of course the one who
starts last will be given the benefit
of an extra two hours in the final contest.
Neither is to let the other know his route
to Chicago, and it is to be a free go-as-
you-please between Atlanta and the
worlds fair city. Each has the privilege
of selecting his own route, and it will be
to the advantage of both to test their
generalship in selecting the shortest pos
sible route. 1t will be required of each to
secure certificates from the telegraph
operators in towns through which they
pass at intervals of not more than 100
miles apart. Their progress will be tele-
graphed to the Atlanta papers along the
line, so that the public may keep fully up
with their movements. Each party
solemnly obligates himself not to make
use of any other means of locomotion, I'M
less it be walking, throughout the whole
distance and if circumstances require
either of the two to desert his bicycle for
other methods of conveyance he is to tele-
graph the same to Atlanta and be ruled
out of the race. The other man, however
is to continue his trip until he reaches
Chicago, and under the terms the prize is
only to be awarded the condition that
one of the two makes the trip. They are
to report at given place in Chicago, to
be named later, and their arrival will be
immediately wired to Atlanta.
Plenty of people think that with favor
able conditions, and with the assistance
of good, clever pacemakers, Zimmerman
can go a mile inside of / 80. In fact. the
speed that lies in Zimmerman, Windle
and Taylor is unknown.
A pneumatic-tired bicycle was recently
purchased for the use of a Young man
who is patient in the Kirkbr insane
institution, and his doctors report that
his condition has greatly improved
through the exercise obtained by riding
the wheel.
An Elkhart Qnd. inventor has patented
and will begin the manufacture of what
is to be known as Aliens lazy mans
bicycle. 1t is to be propelled by a set of
springs which are wound up like those of
a clock and is guaranteed to run four
miles without stopping.
H G. Cornell of New York accom-
plished a wonderful feat the other day.
A carriage containing two ladies was
being rapidly drawn by a runaway horse
on the boulevard. when Mr. Cornell
mounted his wheel pursuing the animal
overlook him, while going at full speed,
and brought him to a standstill
AS pointer on the increasing popular
ity of the sport of cycling it might be
stated that in 1878, the year after the BIZ
cycle first made its appearance in Boston.
the sale of wheels reached a total of go
for the whole country Last year there
were in the neighborhood of 1872, 900 bicy-
cles sold in the United States.
A cyclist is called rolling devil'' in
Brazil. 1t is curious to note that wher-
ever the cycle goes for the first time its
rider is called some kind or other of devil.
East or west, desert or prairie, ''devilv is
the word applied to the first cyclist. The
only. difference is the particular kind of
devil he is said to be.
The track on which the international
races are to be run at Chicago will be