The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-03
THE wHEELMEN's ROAD RACE
II Promises TO be the Best the Club
Has Ever Had.

las Ever A1au-
The ten mile road race of She savannah
wheeimeu, % take place july a.. win Doe
of more than ordinary interest. owing 20
the fact that 20 is a handicap race and viii
be run where il can be seen 20 better ad-
vantage than the clubs former races have
been. The race win start 40 the two mile
post on the White Bluff road, and viii be
run 20 the seven mile post and return to
starting point. The entries viii close on
July Is, so that the handicaps can be
made
After the race the club will make its
annual run 10 ThunderbOlt where the
anniversary dinner viii be served at Mrs.
Bannous.
The Sultan of Morocco is having a Fi-
gautic machine constructed with a kind
of throne in the center upon which his
highness will sit and beneath which a
number of slaves will do the pedaliug
Some day the sultan will find new kind
of thrown resulting from that wheel, and
he will be humbled TO the dust in cOnse-
quence
The number of cycle inventions is with
out end 1t is considered somewhat re
markable that 25l patents for pneumatic
tires have been granted since 1883. Many
have been granted this year, and the
record, which is IS, made in 1891, may be
surpassed before Dec. 81.
They have sanctified cycling in France.
The first Sunday in June has been set
apart in the cycling calendar as "St. We
los day"
In the inventors prospectus the latest
electric cycle weighs 100 pounds and runs
at a sixty-hve mile per nour gait.
An authority gives Philadelphia 40
600 bicycles.
Over As, 900 men earn their living build
ing bicycles in England.
1t has been alleged by people in Eng
land that the action of the n. G. Y.
against Zimmerman was only following
out a custom which prevents a foreigner
from twice winning the British cham
pionships.
English papers comment on how easy
Sanger seemed to take the honor of shak-
ing hands with the King of Belgium.
They do not understand that an I'M
crowned American sovereign considers
himself the equal of any king that ever
sat upon a gilt throne and looked wise or
otherwise.
+, j. Osmond comes of racing stock
His father, 81 years of age, recently chal-
leuged a rider who doubted his pluck and
speed to ride him two races, ore of five
and one of a single mile, and the chal-
lenged one dared not accept for fear of
being defeated With such a parent il is
no wonder OsmOnd was a racer.
The Irish Cyclist says the teeth lost by
Zimmerman in his accident were a source
of much interest to every one, no less
than three persons being seen down on
the the track next morning hunting for
the missing articles. One man found one
in the dressing and is going 10 have
/ 4apT tod an a a4sf in nc to
of the race
Here is an Irish newspapers impress
ions of Zimmerman Zimmerman is a
tall, thin, long-legged, young fellow who
carries himself with modest, unassum-
ing air His complexion is very dark, and
his expression is like that of an over
trained man. 1t is easy to see that he has
great confidence in his power, for both of
his efforts were made a the same spot
about half lap from the finish. The
rapidity with which his lanky legs dance
up and down on the pedals when he is put
ting on a squirt, can only be equaled by
the movement of the fingers Of a clever
pianist when executing series of embel-
lishments"
Zlm would have lost his life instead of
his teeth in that fall he took in Ireland
had he not landed against the head of an
Irish lad, who had stuck his own think
case out between the palings to see the
great Zim finish, and had the honor of
knocking out the champions teeth in con-
sequence.
Sanger has reached the top. Town
Topics has honored him with an editorial
note, the first mention that journal has
ever made of a wheelman.
Michael de Bernof, who wheeled into
fame by making the distance from ST
Petersburg to Paris on bicycle, is study
ing English, preparatory to a cycling
tour through this country.
The New York Times takes the follow
ing view of Wheeler's manliness: Mr.
H. w Wheeler, who has been under in
vestigation by the racing board, has
made a very manly statement to it that
he intends riding for the National Cycling
Association on July 3, and that he would
do everything that it might consider
right in leaving the amateur race path.
He will therefore resign from the League
of American Wheelmen and not take part
in any of the championships that may oc-
cur previous to his leaving. Owing to
this honest declaration on his part no ac-
tion will be taken against him, as the
racing board hOnors his frankness and
wishes him well, and would prefer to see
all the racing men that feel they should
ride for cash prizes leave in the same
honest way
ANOTHER 100 HIBERNIANs.