The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-07
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RODE IN ENGLAND.
Jerseys Crack CYclist Won
at the Birmingham
Meeting.
MANY STATE BICYCLE MEETS
All Growing Over That Puritan
Pacific Game-Gun and Oar
Notes.
MANY STATE BICYCLE MEETS

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city took a run last night to Snake Hill and
visited the various institutions. This club
consists of a number of young people resid-
ing in the vicinity of Hamilton Park and
admits to its association all persons of both
sexes owning a wheel, regardless of age. 1t
now has a membership of twenty-seven, OF
which several are under fifteen years Of age.
They meet at No. 6 West Hamilton place.
The quarter mile trial race for wheelmen
at Birmingham, Eng, yesterday, was won
by A. A. Zimmerman. His time was
o:2S 2-5.
The contest consisted of a series of quarter
miles against time, with flying starts. Zlm-
mernan's time was the best. Banker was
second, in 0:29 rs, and Wheeler third, in
0:29 As.
h cyclers CARRYING the Presidents mes
sage to Governor Waite will probably
smash the schedule time all to pieces, as the
Georgetown Cycle Club man., who carried
the message into hagerstown. Md, arrived
there at $40 yesterday afternoon, two hours
ind twenty minutes ahead of the schedule,
Notwithstanding q severe accident and con-
sequent delay to one of the riders. +. W.
Moore was waiting at the top OF Catochln
Mountain, eight miles east OF FREDERICK
Nd, and when the message was handed to
AAlAt AO 0la1 wa SN AA~
rifle rate for his relay of three miles. When
half way down, while on a curve, the strap
holding the bag in which was the message
caught in the rear wheel OF his machine,
stopping it short ana throwing HIM very
heavily on the hard pike. Although badly
hurt. he managed to send word to the Fred
erick man, who was still resting at the top
of the mountain and who carried the mes
sage over Moore's route. The distance from
Washington to Hagerstown is seventy-seven
miles, and the speed of the riders a tribe I'M
der fifteen miles an hour.
James S. Holmes, Jr., Chief Consul of the
League of American Hheelmen, has decid-
ed not to be a candidate for reelection next
December. when his term expires. He says
that his business now equlre SO much OF
his time that he cannot discharge properly
all the duties which deyolye upon the Chief
Consul of the State. He said his decision
was final. and would not be changed under
any circumstances. This is Mr.. Holmes
first term as Chief Consul of the State, but
he filled the Office with marked ability. A
meeting of prominent cyclists will be held
in Newark this week to consider the most
available person to succeed Mr.. Holmes.
The Good Roads tournament at Asbury
Park on August 80, 81 and September | has
caused a widespread interest in the cycling
world. Inorder to have the track fast, the
Asbury Park Athletic Association decided
at a recent meeting TO widen the corners
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that the fast m~en-Johnson, Tyler, Sanger.
Bliss, and ethers-4wiil have an opportunity
of lowering the records and of fighting out
the championship on a fair basis. The differ
emit manufacturers and people interested in
good roads are providing a costly and suit
able lot of prizes, and the three days will,
undoubtedly, rank ahead of any given on the
circuit this season. The entries for the no.
vice race, the winner of which gets the fine
gold medal presented by the New York
Times. are coming in fast, indicating that
the field in this event VIII be the largest OF
the meeting.
The Crescent Wheelmen of Plainfield will
hold their third race meet on Saturday, Aug
ust 1S. Seven events will comprise the pro-
gramme. and the winners will divide among
themselves over $500 in prizes. c. E. Teel of
Plainfeld will supply entry blanks on appli-
cation by letter.
The Boonton Athletic Club announces that
diamonds will be given as prizes in every
race at its meet on Labor Day. They have
a fine track, well banked, and predict high
class sport. Entries close on August 20, with
John W. Myers, Boonton.
Bicycl;sts Oxbarow and SAMSON are re-
ported to nave covered a mile on the road,
with hying start, on a tandem, in l 5:3 3-5,
near London on FRIDAY.
Thu ninth race meet of the Union County
Roadsters will be held at the Railway track
ON Labor Day. The organization has made
6lhUOA Y tAtAOA' y AN SFSass CA4
have engaged a first class band. The races
will start at three o'clock, and only simon
pure New Jersey amateurs of the class A
division will be allowed to compete. Elegant
prizes, diamonds, etc will be given to the
winners. The list of events:-One mile
novice. threequarter mile handicap, one
mile u. CIR, club championship, half-mile
handicap and one mile handicap. The en-
trance fee of each event is fifty cents.
Entries Close IN August q with A. H.
chamberlain, Lock Box SIS. Rayway, N. j..
The Elizabeth Wheelmen will have a club
~1andicap race on Saturday, August 20, over
the Morris avenue course from Elizabeth to
Sprinfield and return, a distance of ten
miles, Valuable prizes will be given the
winners. The club will have a club run on
next Thursday evening.
The members of the Alcyone Cyclers who
are to participate in the clubs flfty-mile
handicap race on Labor Day are doing some
vigorous training nightly for the event.
The Owl Club Cyclists of Elizabeth start
ed yesterday for O run to Ellenville, NY,
where they will have a series of races this
week.
Six thousand spectators witnessed the
races at Milwaukee,, Wis, despite the efforts
of the Milwaukee Wheelmen, who are op-
posing the Association of Cycling Clubs, to
make the meet a failure. Il was Sanger's
first appearance at his home this season, who
won the mile and the half-mile open events
for Glass B riders. The track was in bad
condition and no records were broken.
Several thousand entry blanks have been
sent out by the Racing Board of the Mercer
County Wheelmen, and the returns indicate
that the meet scheduled for the Interstate
Fair Grounds on August % will be a big
affair. The meet is held under the sanction
of the League Of American Wheelnen Rae
ing Board. and the rules of that body will
govern all the events, which are limited to
Glass A men exclusively. Prominent among
fine Glass A men who are expected to be
present are e. l.. Blauvelt of Elizabeth, q.
Fred Royce of Paterson, who holds the
quarter mile championship of the world:
Ray Dawson. Kings County Wheelmen,
New York: James Willis of Elizabeth, Mar
riott Meade, Dampman and others from
Philadelphia, besides the best local men.
There will be nine events, as follows:-One-
mile novice, open; one-mile. 2:40; one-mile
handicap, open; half-mile handicap, open;
one-mile scratch. open; two-fnile handicap,
open: hal mile scratch, open; one-mile club
championship. The prizes in the first eight
events will consist of medals, diamonds,
watches, jewellery and sundry other articles.
The Racing Board will receive entries until
August 10, when handicaps will be ar
ranged.
The Burlington County Agricultural So
ciety has concluded to add bicycle racing as
one of its principal attractions IN the future,
and to that end a grand meet IS being ar
ranged for the afternoons Of Tuesday. Wed
nesday and Thursday, October 2, 3 and 4,
1894. in which will participate many crack
riders in classes A and B, for prizes valued
at S700. These include diamonds, bicycles,
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