The herald., 1894-05-21
IN THE BICYCLING WORLD.
Preparations for the Meet al
San Diego.
The Annual Field Day Of the Athletic
Club.
Teams Selected for tho Twenty-Fiva
Mile Race-Chat About the
Local Cyciers Now in
Training.

| Local Cyciers Now in
Training.
Great preparations are being made by
the wheelmen of Southern California for
the coming races at the National City
track, May 80, 81 and June l. The
cyclists are putting in much time in
training, Athletic park being the scene of
work in this section. The Riverside
wheelmen are doing some good riding on
their track. s. G. Spier, one of the
local swifts, has been training in the
orange center. Just why he betook him
self so far away from home is not known
perhaps some OF the boys can explain.
The probability that Bllss and Dsrn-
berger, the eastern cracks, will ride at
the San Diego meet will add new vigor
to the sport. 1t is to be hoped that the
expectation of their riding will prove
true.
The annual field day of the Los An.
Reles Athletic club. which will be held
on May 30th at Athletic park, ia at
tracing considerable attention among
the athletic fraternity. The boys are
training hard for the event. There
will be several wheeling contests, one
or two of which are calculated to bring
cut the new riders, of whom there are
not few in this city.
This season will only be repetition
of last yesr, unless all signs fail-the
new riders having handicaPs will pluck
the biggest plums. There ia certainly
too little care in handicspping now
adays. Jimmie Cowan. Tom McAleer,
| G. Msxeon Smith, Joe Long and Herb
McCrea are a few shining examples OF
new riders who came into prominence
last season. They bulged forth in all
their glory to the yell OF the urchin
on the bleachers and to the hand
cspping of the fairer spectators in the
grand stand. This season. promises
more such Understand they are all good
ones, too. and are already numbered
among the regular contestants.
THE TEAMS SELECTED.
The teams for the 25-mile race at the
San Diego meet have been selected as
follows:
Los Angeles wheelmen-Phil Kitchen,
Will Jenkins, Thomas McAlser. E. Uhl-
brecht.
East Side Cycling club-W. K.
Cowan, Charles Oowan, Fred Lacy,
Charles Parkee.
Los Angeles Athletic clubs. G..
Spier, Fay Stevenson, Fred Holbrook,
Joe Long.
Riverside wheelmen-Louis Fox, Jim
mie Cowan, Casey Csstleman. Carson
Shoemaker.
BICYCLE NOTES.
The proposed relay race between this
city and San Diego by way of Riverside
seems to have fallen through. The
Riverside wheelmen deserve credit in
the matter, however, as they were will
ing to take the relays from that town to
San Diego, more than half the distance.
The Riverside club is an enterprisinp
one and has at least half dozen as
swift cyclists as can be found south oil
San Francisco.
James Patterson, bank clerk at Per-
ris. is given the credit OF making the
best time on wheel between his town
and San Diego. The distance is 100
miles. He left home at :23 am. and
reached San Diego at 6 80 pm. He
made stops on the road which occupied
4 hours % minutes, lowering the riding
time to 8 hours 5 minutes.
Some of the local wheelmen are of the
opinion that the meet should have been
held in this city, instead of at San Diego,
but that would have been almost inn pos
eible in view of the fact that there is no
track here for such a meet. The Los
Angeles Athletic club will probably
bank the present track and repair it in
other ways. Ii they do not there will
be but few records smashed on i5 this
season.
Grant Bell. the swift San Francisco
rider, passed through the city the other
day for San Diego. Bell Was at one time
champion of the northwest.
II. E. Scott, a new rider of Riverside,
who won the 15-mile road race at FL
sinore last week, rode from Riverside to
this city last Friday in hours minutes,
breaking all previous records. Scott is
another Shoemaker.
Louis Fox is entitled to the coast rec
ord for two miles against time, which he
made ON December 10Th last in this city
ON the Los Angeles Athletic club quar-
ter-mile track, his time being :47A.
Two riders of Mansfield, o., A. T.
Reynolds and @. h. Coulter. have
started on q ride to San Francisco.
The mile handicap at Dixon, on May
day, resulted In victory for the limit
man, with the handicap at 225 yards.
Herbert McCres, the Los Angeles speedy
man, now located in Sacramento, rode
from scratch in 3 ~.
Sanger and Tyler will have a decided
advantage over the other eastern cracks
at the Denver meet, in August, from the
TACT that they are doing their training
there, and becoming accustomed to the
high altitude, which will undoubteeiy
affect those not used to it.
The rules requiring racing men to
register their col ,rs is not good one,
in the opinion of some. Unless the
colors are very different, and the ex-
PLANTATION printed In every race pro-
gramme, it will not be any better for
the spectators than before. The mum
bsr system could be improved by com
polling every rider to have his mum Der
sewed on his racing suit. 80 the corners
would not fly up and cover the figures.
1t takes all the arder out of the pretty
girl in the grand stand to think her
Willie mas won the race, and then dis
cover, after careful study of the pro.
grsmme, that it was some other girps
Harry.
The Denver whsslmen are still unGe.
cided as To the location OF the track Tor