The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-07-18
BlCYCLISTS PICNIC PARTY.
The First Was a Big Success-Interesting
Notes,

The First Was a Big Success-Interesting
Notes.
The picnic run is the latest innovation
for wheelmeu. The first in this ylcinity
was held on Sunday. aud the participants
were so well pleased that the picnic party
will be popular this season. The Castle
Point cyclers, who had as guests the
Catholic Club cyclers. Hillside Wheel
men and other local ~6icyclists, Joined the
Metropolis and the Queens County
jersey WAeelmsn met the Metropo-
lis wheelmen at Twesgy-thlrd
street and Eighth avenue. New
YORK and crossed the Tweaty-thtrd
street ferry to Long Island. where the
Queens county wheelmsn joined them
aud theysrode to Success lake, which, wa
reached half au heur before time. There
was an abundance OF refreshments and
the boys haa q happy time. All who
took part declared It to be the most en-
joyabie trip Of the year.
James and Emanuel Pyle started this
morning on a bicycle Trip tosBridge-
port.
Several Palma wheelmen will take a
trip to the Delaware Water Gap. !
The club runs of the Jersey City Ath7
letic Club are not popular asthsy barely
get out a corporal's guard. The wneel-
men 20 out, but they prefer taking trips
witp tive or three or four in the party.
The Newark whee1men will have a
moonlight run to Coney Island on
AUGUST l.
1t Is estimated that two thousand
wheslmen will compete in the races az
Chicago ncxt month.
II Is said that T. ,. Thurman OF the
Ramblers' Bicycle CLUB, has made APP
plfcation to the Executive COMMITTEES of
4ha Coah Drizo C.oanno for q lin0nao and
will make his first appearance as q pro-
at Troy IN Thursday.
The executive OF the Cash Prizs League
has revoked the licenses issued 70 w. w.
Taxis of Philadelphia, William f.
Murphy of Brooklyn. and c. w. Price
recent events held by the tLsRkue in this
vicinity.
Judge Lockwood of the Palma Club
has a wheel, but does not enthuse.
The two days meet of the Asbury Park
Whrelmen, which opens at AsbuEy Park
on Friday. promises to be theEreatest
aft air of the kin ever held in New Jer-
Hey. Among the contestants entered are
A. A. Zimmerman. Willie" WIndls, Ii.
g. Tyler. w. w. Taxjs. Carl Hess, G. w.
Murphy, w. w. Mulliken aud Marshall
Wells, the Canadian champion.
Riders all over the country are much
interested in the proposed great century
run the CuuQAy l0ltOWluR Lus 1uferHA-
fienal race meet in Chicago. The EIgiu-'
Aurora course, over which the race viii,
be run, is one of the best in America, and
It is said that more than a thousand
wheelEen will start. Mr.. Raymond of
the L. A. w. Racing Board THINKS it will
be the greatest race OF its kind ever cid
den in this or any other country.
Frank s. Beedleson, the oDe-legged
bicycle rider, who is wheeling from San
francisco to New York, arrived at Am
sterdam, N. Y, at nine o'clock last night,
having made the run from CanRst0ta,
10l miles. in twenty-four hourse. This
is the sixth day in which he mas made
ever one hundred miles. Sunday was
the sixty-second day on the road aad the
ffUy-second day of actual riding. He
left Amsterdam at half-past seven this
morning and will reach New York on
Thursday, twenty days ahead Of any
two-leggrd riders record.
Secretary Sturney of the N. c.. U. of
England says tuar Walter G. Sanger Of
MilwAukee, Wis. mus represent Great
Britain In the int rnational champion
ship races to be held in Chicago next
mouth. Sanger recently won the one
mile championship of England and broke
several English anu one werld's record.
Mr.. Sturney makes mis- claim on the fol-
lowing clause ia the international arti-
cles of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS in in-
ternational contests shall be the winners
of the national cham pionship of their re-
spective countries or may be selected by
the governing body of each country