The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-27
WHIRS OF WHEELMEN.

Niagara Falls is the next candidate in
the race for the national meet in 1896
Ground was broken on Monday for the
club house of the Asbury Park Wheel
men.
Sanger is considering proposition to
try the one hour record and the interme-
dlate marks above four miles,
At the two hundred race meets held in
this country during the past season the
prizes offered aggregate 100000 in value.
The allotment of spaces for the first ma
tlonal exhibit of cycles, accessories and
SundrieS, to be held in Madison Square ga T.
den, January 18th to26th, have been made,
Already eighty-four firms have made ap-
plication.
The Californian, Wells, who recently
broke Johnson's half mile world record at
Sacramento, doing the distance in O:523-5.
weighs 100 pounds in training, and 20S
When out of form. He is the biggest fast
man on the path.
The foreign professional bicycle riders
VINO viii come to this country next month
with zimmerman are Lucien Louvet, Ar
thur Linton and NJ Huret, French cham
pions; a. C. Edwards Englands best
rider, and A. Verhegen, German champion.
j. Wade MCGOWAN, the Pittsburg candi-
date Tor vice-consul of the PENNSYLVANIA
division, League of American Wheelmen,
anu tit pltStHl lIe IOnOTeu occupant of
that position, is receiving encouragement
from every part of the state on his can
didacy.
The announced withdrawal from the
racing board of the League of American
Wheelmen of its chairman, Howard E.
raymond, is regretted by the wheelmen of
the country. Mr.. Raymond has become a
partner in cycle mandatory. and in n
letter TO the members of the league he
explains his withdrawal
George w. Wolfe, who claims to have
broken the Chicago-New York record
recently, is alleged to have ridden on a
TRAIN between Valparaiso and Fort Wayne
on the evening of October /. w. S.
Daniels, of Plymouth, Ind, claims to have
seen Wolfe on the train, and says he stands
ready to prove his statement
Wheelmen who are endeavoring to de-
feat j. w. McGowin of Pittsburg, for the
Nice-consulship of the PENNSYLVANIA div
ision, have executed a sharp move by
mailing to all members of the division
copies of ballot which is apparently the
official ticket, but which contains the
name of Thomas Keenan, in place of j.
w. McGowin.
Italy. They have made plans to sail for
home from Genoa on November l. on the
Augusta Victoria. Manager Troy. who
sailed for France on Saturday to make
arrangements Tor the appearance of the
foreign cracks at the Thanksgiving week
cycling carnival in Madison Square gar
den may return with them.
An enthusiast with a strong liking for
figures has calculated that Sanger's per-
centage for the season, reckoned on the
basis Of races won and lost, Is GS3 which
places him at the head of the list, John
son coming next with 565. Cabanne ranks
third with ,4j7, and then in the order of
T1pr ri DRn pn1l rHr3tlN Am
Charles Murphy with 400, Titus with .S77,
and Tyler with .3iS.
w. j. Goodwin, a Coventry rider who
has been but little heard of, has taken the
good slice of twenty-four minutes Off the
birmingham to London and back record
The distance is 20S miles, and the course is
very hilly throughout. At no part can the
surface be called fast, either. Yet Good
wir accomplished the double journey in
12:39:OO, He broke the Midland twelve
hour record 093 miles, by four miles dur
ing the course of his jaunt.