The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-24
Bicycle Notes.

The worst class of opponents cyclists
have TO deal with are the ignorant and
Observation-Disclosures drivers of vehicles
who look upon Wheelmen as enemies who
are TO be worried and crushed, and who
take a demoniac delight in doing their
worst TO injure them Happily the tribe
is fast dying out, but there are enough
left to make the cyclists experience a
dangerous one occasionally.
Mobile wheelmen are protesting against
q city ordinance recently passed which
forbids them riding on the sidewalks.
The hearing which was accorded the
bicycle riders of Springfield by the city
government Saturday night on the ques-
ton of requiring the use of brakes, Ian
terms and bells for their machines and
limiting speed resulted in a decision in
favor of bells and an eight-mile-an-hour
limit inside mile radius ofcity hall.
Two Australian wheelmen riding at
night upon the railroad tracks were
caught by a fast train on high embank-
ment and before they could escape were
ground to pieces.
Attitude is everything" Out of nine
bicyclists who ran together down fash
ionable road in Boston recently but one
rode gracefully, and this was a pretty
girl with a new white sailor hat. All the
others-men-sat cramped over the
handles like monkeys astride a goat.
Cabs with spokes of steel and rubber
tires together with carriages running on
fiat rubber tires, are to be seen quite fire.
Quently about the streets of London.
The 58-inch cab wheels, which weigh
considerable, will in the near future be
exchanged for pneumatic wheels of about
half that diameter. The luXuriOusly APP
pointed Omnibuses of the Electrical Car
riage company will be fitted with pneu-
matte wheels, which are peculiarly suita-
BILE for heavy as well as light vehicles
driven over ordinary roads. In fact it is
even thought likely that the air wheel
will ultimately supersede the use of all
horse car lines abroad
An Alameda man sought refuge from
the noise and smoke of the Fourth by go
ing for a two days wheel tour into the
country. AS he lay upon the grass, rest
ing by the roadside, he moved his toes in
the mere wantonness of exuberance, and
a hunter, taking them for the ears of a
rabbit, filed them full of shot, and now
he is drawing S25 per week from an acct
dent company, while he sheds leaden pei
lets every step he takes.
George Meirstein, aged 10 years, ar
rived in Chicago last week. He had rid
den from Sioux City, Ia. 900 miles, in six
days and four hours, riding time. He
by rain He had no pacemakers and
found his own way through strange
country. A large part of the distance he
followed railroad tracks. The little fell
low will remain in Chicago a week and
then wheel home. Heis confident he can
beat his record by day.
THERE'S no question that the anti-bi-
cyclist feeling is still strong in many To-
calities and the wheelmen are response
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Every time a wheelman rides without a
bell, lacks a light at night, or rides on a
forbidden sidewalk, he not only breaks
the law, but commits an Offense against
his fellow wheel men by increasing public
sentiment against bicycles and their
riders.
Experienced wheelmen contend that in
large fields of starters there should be a
maximum limit ofnot more than $50 yards
to all handicaps in mile races, and any
rider who needs more than that should
stay off the track until the necessity for a
longer start no longer exists. For in
stance, in the race at Rockville, Ct. Zim-
norman was at the almost hopeless task
OF Oyerhauling a man with 275 wards start
and failed to catch him.
The men who have won over 500 in N.
{. A. races rank in the following order.
Wheeler, Berlo, Dorntge. Kluge. New
house, Weixell, Rich, Croker, Ashinger
and Appel
The officials and members of the New
Jersey division of the League of Ameri-
can Wheelmen at recent meeting voted
10 pass resolutions protesting against the
League Of American Wheelmen sanction
ing races on Sundays.
Sanger posing as the representative of
England III the international champion
SNIP IN Chicago, is enough to make any
but an Engllshman smile.
Records against time were not at
tempted in this country prior to 1884.
The Wheeler handicap in Chicago is
worth 4yr $4,000 to the man who wins it,
Unfortunately the man must ride horse,
ana not bicycle, in this race.
Chief Consul Gerould thinks that be-
tween l,500 and 1000 entries will be re-
celVed for the international meet at Chi
cago,
, Two French riders recently raced from
Iarls TO Madrid. When they arrived at
Sue latter city, though it was midnight
4V,OuO people welcomed them, and the
Erehch ambassador and a band escorted
Oheh TO their hotel.
The Irish Cyclist says: 'When Tim
tinz,l was racing at Asbury Park last
year Two deacons belonging to the cham
"iSuouJ some serious scruples, as they
To I@o never been to a race meeting before
~ ~ me scratch race there was a close fin
i9n between Zimmerman, Taxis and Tay-
u Ct, ana the good deacons got terribly ex-
leu Ihey jumped on the seats, and as
zimmerman got on terms with his oppo-
tI5i one OF them cried out in loud tones,
.SIIIory De to God, he is comingp while
lue oIher, as Zimmerman shot past the
PosO Arst, answered amen, amenp"
New Orleans is planning a midwinter
race meet.
me bicycle of 1893 will be built on very
Ill uch Jhe same lines as the safety of 1898
-. e.! with two small wheels very nearly
~ d size, says writer in the Scranton
Jun Jun Ihiswas the plan of the first ma
e.e me punt IN 1917, and now after a lapse
u u Seventy-six years we have come back to
the original design.
n Connert has entered the races of the
SSdplIaI cycle Club at Atlanta on Wednes-
oay Inc Bairds of Charleston are also
S.,iesIu' The races are: One mile novice;
C duarter mile open, (tirst heat one mile
open half mile boys race: quarter mile
SpGu second heat); two mile handicap;
tl mile open; one mile handicap; quar-
t Yer Ille open Clast heat) one mile bows
NalluIcap; ten mile handicap
C, Am Dlguous. ~ The Fiance-I overheard
y 80 Murray SAYING that you do not wear
SV g1 own hair. Tell me, is it trueg
uj H. nc Rance dndignantly)-It's false.-Tid-