The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-30

inquiring as to the qualifications for mem
bership, and Otto a. Putzger, captain OF
the wheelmen in the Crescent Athletic
Club of Berkeley, also thinks of having his
club join the association, thereby deriving
its many benefits.
A match tandem race is proposed between
Stanley G. Scovern and an unknown of the
Olympic Club Wheelmen ard Victor A.
Hancock and an unknown of the Bay City
Wheelmen, to take place in three weeks.
Both have gone into training for the event,
which will be run over the park roads some
Sunday morning.
The Oakland Y. M. C. A. Cycling Club
has adopted new uniform, consisting OF
black sack coat with turn-down collar and
fancy braiding, black trousers, stockings
and shoes, orange sweaters with white
triangle (the club emblem). The cap is to
be similar to the Acme's, with white tri-
angle, base upward. Gold and royal purple
have been adopted as racing colors, while
the club colors are gold and black Mem
bership, entertainment and racing COM
mlttees have been appointed, and the club
/ will make a bid for members and will offer
advantages in the way of training, etc., for
racing men, which should bring 1t con-
| siderable new talent. Tonight a banquet
will be given by the members, and from
now on watch out for the white triangle at
all race meets.
! The Liberty Cycling Club has elected the
| following new officers: Charles Steiner,
president; Bert Burton, secretary-treas-
urer; Charles Mayer. captain; w. lrelan.
! lieutenant. New quarters have been Sc
cured at the Mission Turn Verein Hall on
Eighteenth street, near Valencia, and the
| club IS prospecting. The captain has called
run to San Mateo tomorrow.
After the races at San Jose on April 10
! and 20, the men will continue their train
/ ing, so as to be in condition for the races
to be run in Oakland on Mayday, in con-
nection with the benefit of the Fabiola
! Hospital, which are as follows: One-mile
handicap, Glass A; two-mile handicap,
mile scratch, Glass B; two-mile handicap,
Class B. The prizes will consist principally
| of unset diamonds.
| Walter c. Howe, Charles w. Conger and
Percy Douglass of the Imperial Cycling
| Club have taken the steamer for BIRTHS
Column bia, and from there will ri lie their
wheels down the coast to this city. An
account of their trip will appear in the
| Olympic from time to time.
The Oakland Cycling Club has gone out
OF existence. 1t was unable to keep the
pace set by the older and stronger clubs
across, the bay, and the membership
dWmdled away to practically nothing. The
members have Joined the other clubs-the
Reliance, Acme and Y. NJ. G. A.
A new system of prize-giving will be
adopted by the Scranton Pa.) Bicycle
Club this season at the suggestion of Fred
Titus, the well-known racer, which / am
sure would meet with popular favor
among the local racers. Instead of da-
monds, bicycles, traveling-bags and the
like, of which the average CLASSIC man has
a surfeit, the prizes will be nuggets of gold,
each bearing all actual valuation. This
| is an innovation which will be welcomed
! by the racing men, who have in the past
] been compelled to submit to gross over
! valuation of prizes at race meets.
| A. j. Davis and L. A. Larsen of the BAY
| City Wheelmen have just returned from a
business trip to Grass Valley, where they
spent week quite pleasantly.
| Captain Arthur G. Thornton of the
| Olym pic Club Wheelmen is now serving
his second term of Office, which is of itself
an evidence of his popularity. He is al
ways on the lookout for some novelty in
| the way of club runs for his men, and in
| variably leads them at a we'll measured
pace which all can follow. Personally, the
captain is 26 years of age, 5 feet inches in
height and weighs $50 pounds He has
never aspired to be racer, but as road
] rider he is never known to quit He sees a