The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-10
AMONG THE CYCLERs.
Wheelmen Training for Their Annual
Road Race Next Week.


The fast riders of the Savannah Wheel
men are training for the annual road race
which will take place on the White Bluff
road d week from to-day. The road here
tolore has been straightway race not
exceeding two miles and has been run on
the ThmderbOlu road usually from the
top OF Cemetery Hill to the
Isle of Hope turn OFF This
year the race will be a 10-mile handicap,
starting from the 2-mile post on the
White Bluff road, just beyond the first
toll gate to the Emile post and return to
starting point. The entries will close
with Capt ". p. OFT by July, Is so that
the handicaps may be announced. The
entries must be on the ground at $3.50
o'clock on the day of the race,
so they may be in position to start at 6
O'Clock. Entries not ready at $50 O'Clock
Will be barred from the race.
y good deal of interest is being taken
IN the event, as it will determine the
Wearer of the club badges for the coming
year. The annual club dinner viii be
served at Mrs. Bannon's at Thunderbolt
after the road race.
In France they fine rider who takes
MS hands from the handle bar on the
track.
wish my beau was pneumatic, -
sald one girl TO another. ''Why?' well,
II ne was he might pop some time or
another; that's why"
1t may be of interest to note that bicy-
Gle passes through the hands of 60 me-
cnanlcs and inspectors before it is com
pietc
During the month of May -, 291 bicycles
We're counted as passing through Fair
mount Park, Philadelphia.
The Charleston News and Courier
IhlhkS young Conner, of Savannah, the
second winner in the boys race, at
Onarieston, July 4, is no snail on
wheel
me tourist in English-speaking coun-
ules travels four different miles-the or
ulIaly mile Of $3.50 feet the geographic
SdI on nautical mile of 6,0S5 feet, the
ocotch mile of 1928 feet and the Irish
niue OF B,S2O feet, all of which are III use
uI the present time.
Patti rides bicycle
Under the present rulingOf the n C. u,
no English rider will be allowed to com
Boye against Zimmerman even in Amer
Va. Inc union rules tnat any licensed
I'uCf who, in any other country, completes
H51IhSt any rider who has been refused q
Incense by the union, as Zim has, ron
90 80 lhe rider so competing guilty OF an
GfueuSe against the purity Of his amateur
iieeiu' ana he must suffer the loss of his
license IN consequence. As u result Of
, un'S attempt Of the union TO govern the
moGIio, even if an English, Irish Scotch
0' German team comes to America they
ii"HHot race In any race Zim starts in, and
~ Is sure thing he will start in all the
us mat are worth starting in. Here's
"HIEe zimmerman will get even.
sanger makes the fifth winner of the
~ T-''e flopon of English cycling-the N. c.
H. oH' mile championship--whO is not an
To-. ID Il recent twolve-hours' race in Eng
anu, ,'.0 d tompejitOrwas thrown, renounted,
b ,'t doJualiy rode tifty-thrce miles with u
''@tA ankle bone If ever there was
'",siaHen herOism this was it.
1Iugilsh advices are that Sanger rather
t."Aeu game with Harris on the pre-
fa,. 10 saturday to beating England'S best,
i WINE he trained with a 72-inch gear,
I,t que with 66-inch gear the week
biIJN' harris beat MIN, but replaced the
h. gear for the championship, which
WI MGh so decisivelY. The facility with
of IN u gear may be altered by the use
emplihed -'0N' 10
ref ne ,Cyclist sneeringly says that Zim's
Ia t TSaI 70 ride in England left him open
,1, ,uv suggestion, already made in many
ir IJi-.J,ers, that ne feared TO meet Sanger,
DIM dI ne was actually not altogether
dpba,.,,SSss at the fact of being practically
anu from doing 500 Question his
of Ia, eullsm as measured by red tape set
yybo"s II you WILL but the man don't live
ca o e1h truthfully say that he has any
am, 10 I4lnk Zimmerman afraid to ride
'"'l mat ever crossed q wheel.