The herald., 1894-10-14
THE COMING BICYCLE HANDICAP.
1t Will Be the North Against
the South.
Ziegler and His Swift Chums Will
ALI Be Here.
Cycling News in Southern California.
CastIeman's New Record The
Owl Clubs Now Raoe
Track.

The most important thing in cycling
now being discussed ia the s. g. Spier
os-n,iIe hanaiaas> -.i.ieh- win ha a,-
the 9th inst, at Agricultural park.
Never before in the history of the west
was there ever such an important single
event.
The contest will be one of the north
against the south, and the N N.U.B will send
down Ziegler, Wells, Foster. Upson, Ed
wards, Long, Terrili and others. South.
ern California will endesvor to meet
them with McAleer, Castleman, Shoe
maker. Uhlbricht, Jenkins. Burke.
Cowan, Fox. Long, Hoibrook, Wash.
burn and other fast long distance men.
With this coterie of cyclists. the race
will certainly be worth going long way
to see.
The prizes are such that all riders Of
any note can compete. There will be
over $500 worth OF prizes, the list being
headed by 5000 piano. Mr., Spier has
taken the entire management in his
hands and will no doubt give a first class
race in all respects. He is ap all-round
sport, and especially q bicycle enthusi-
asst. He has medals won in nearly every
state in the union, and several years
ago rode from New York to San Fran
cisco in "a days. the record for an ordi-
nary wheel. Everybody knows the gem
ial S. g., and on him they bestow the
credit for giving the first OF series OF
annual 25-mile races in this city. The
prizes will be distributed to the winners
at the Burbank theater the evening OF
the race, and the lucky ones will occupy
box seats. Excuraions will be run TO
thie city the day Of the race.
Already 38 riders have sent in their
entries, and it Is likely that at least 70
will enter. though start OF only about
so is expected. The riders are requested
to have fancy costumes. and the hRndi-
cap men to wear white caps, SO that 40
mietake will be made in checking their
miles.
A brief mention OF the records OF the
northern riders will suffice to show the
quality of the race. Everybody in the
west knows OF Zsigler, the little San
Jose boy, who knocked off the American
two-mie record at the Denver meet by
making the distance in 4:2l So. Zsig-
ler's first race was in 1892, when he low
cred the coast record for five mles.
Ever since then he has been riding. aud
his wonderful feats are known to a!l. He
is 10 years OF age and weighs l45 pounds,
neither smokes nor chews. and is dill
gent law student.
Wells alao distinguished himself at
Denver by winning the half mile handi-
cap and the mile western cham pionship.
v ella haa ridden In many races in the
state and has always proven himself q
remarkable rider. Walter Foster and
Upson are too we'll known to need any
comment, while Long. Edwards and
Terrill have about same position IN the
north as McAleer and C4stleman do
here.
Last Thursday at Sacramento the
northern boys started in TO break come
records, and succeeded in fully realizing
their ambition. According to the dls-
patches the wheel perioI mances at Sac
ramento OF several of the crack cham
pion riders who are gathering az the
capital city to break records are Upeon,
Long, Wells, Zsigler and Hall.
Two records we're broken, that for a
quarter mile, flying start. and the tan
dom record for the 'same distance. The
first record WAS lowered from % / 5
seconds to 27 3-5 seconds by l.. s. Up
son OF Sacramento. The tandem rec
ord OF 2S 3.5 eeconis was lowered to
"a 3-5 second by r.. S. Long and L. Del
mas OF San Joss. The records broken
Friday and yesterday have already been
published.
WHAT THE CYCLISTS ARE DOING,
Below will be fennd q short review