The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-04
TURN OF TIE WHEEL
Hudson County Wheelmen
Increased Their Roll of
Members.
LOCAL YAcHTsMEN ARE BUSY
Arranging for Reception, Race and
Cruise-Ba and Oar Notes.

The Hudson County Wheelmen held 9
meeting last evening at their clubhouse Oh
Belmont avenue. There was a large attend
anee. In the absence of President Kerr,
Vice-President George Earle took the chair.
Four new members were elected, and three
applications were received. The member
who was expelled at the previous meeting
was present. He said he did not now be
was in arrears for dues to the limit. He set.
tied everything, and then resigned. The
club is planning a road race which will pro-
badly take place in the coming week.
The H. c.. w. will ave a club meet a,
West Side Driving Pork on August 25, and a
lantern parade in the evening.
The Greenville Wheelmen will nave a run
today, if it does not rain, to New Dorp,
Staten Island.
Catholic Club Cyclers nave a club run
scheduled for tomorrow. They will start
from the clubhouse at $50 A. NJ, and run to
Coney Island.
Castle Point Cyclers will have a trip to-
morrow to West Orange. They will start
from the clubhouse at nine A. M.
Bedford Cyclers will travel through this
city tomorrow. They will make a trip to
Railway.
The roads to Morristown are reported as
being in excellent shape.
Will Darmer and W. G. Roome of this
city are training for the meet at Asbury Park
next week. They meet such cracks as w.
T. Sims of Washington. r. P. McCurdy.
Philadelphia; c.. Church, Chester, Pa.
Lloyd Osborne, M~anasquan, and George
Herbert, Long Branch.
A. II. Barnett, winner of the %1rvington-
Milburn road race, has begun training for
fIa 4 csociafa1 Gua1inr CIrthci I hOr Dav
event. He expects to establish a new record
in the competition.
Up to date Charles II. Luscomb, the pres
emit Chief Consul of the New York State
Division, has not had much to say concern
ing his desire to succeed himself at the com
ing election.
Hereafter the National Cyclists Union of
England will recognize only those records
made In competition.
At Chicago yesterday in the mile race
without PAGERS Fred j. Titus of the Riverside
Wheelmen, New York, bore away the hon
ors with a mile in 2:l42-5, only three seconds
outside the worlds record made by Sanger
at Waltham last month. Maddox of Asbury
Pork was second in time with 2:15 to his
credit. Then came Cabanna of st. Louis,
2:19 2-5; A. B. Goehler of Buffalo. 2:19 As:
G.. H. Ellerthorpe, keachton. Ohio, and c.
L. Murphy. each 2:22 pa, Tom Cooper, De
troit, and F.. G.. Bald, Buffalo, 2:24. These
are the only smen that competed. Sanger,
the champion at this game, was sick, and
Bliss did not ride. The prize in the contest
was $500 in merchandise.
Harry Tyler did not ave his crack at the
mile record, flying start. at Waltham yester-
day. Tn track was wet and heavy.
A. A. Zimme- man and Harry Wheeler,
the American bicyclists, and the French,
German, Austrian and English professionals
will take part in the meeting.at Herne Hill
on August II.
Arrangements for the Good Roads Tour
nament at Asbury Park August 30, 81 and
September | are being pushed with vigor by
the promoters. Among the prizes for the
three days will be eight first-class bicycles,
the majority of them being donated by the
leading bicycle manufacturers. The cup for
the Metropolitan District Championship
will be the finest thing of it's kind ever
offered for local competition, and will be
made from a special design and will cost
over two hundred dollars, outside of the gold
medal that goes with it. Autographs and
pictures of the famous champions,
Sanger, johnson, Bliss, Tyler, etc,
will be posted all over the country
next week, and the three days races will. it
is hoped, provide a handsome sum for the
promotion of the good roads cause. A. B.
Goehler, the Buffalo rider who recently
broke the five mile competition record, will
be asked to try for the worlds five mile
record against time with pacemakers the first
day of the tournament, and, as he is now a
member of a travelling team and in perfect
condition, the chances are that the record
will he lowered. Letters from cities as far
as Denver inform the tournament secretary
that parties of cyclists will be ON hand to
help the good cause and see the champions
battle for supremacy Efforts will be made
to induce champion James Corbett to show
his PAGES on the wheel during the tourna-
ment. Corbett did some training with
Champion Zimmerman on the wheel while
preparing for his great encounter with
Charles Mitchell.