The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-04
h, G. ". RACE MEET
All the Crack Riders Of.
Hudson County Will
Compete for Campion-
ship Hoaors.
N. j. A. c. FOOTBALL TEAM READY
Will open the Season at Bergen
Point Tomorrow Afternoon
New Jersey Trapshooters.
N. j. A. C. FOOTBALL TEAM READY

If the annual meet of the Hudson
County Wheelmen at the Gutenberg
race track on Saturday, October ls, is
not a bic success. it will not be because
V. Y. Mersereau, r. ESobcke and q. H.
Blakslee, who coanpose the road com
mittee. have not exerted every effort TO
max it such. The during the
past few weeks rave been busy visiting
the local clubs to boom the affair. All
the clubs in the county have been visited
and they will all enter their best men
to compete for the valuable prizes. Ihe
Clio Wheelmen, who possess the three
fastest men in the county, RooTne, Oar
mer and Rohlfs. hope to carry off the
honors in the three events. The Castle
Point Cyclers, .of Hoboken, claim that
they nave a lark horse in Cecil Has
brouck and have entered him. TIL Cas-
tie Points are confident that Hasbrouck
will capture the one-mile Hudson County
championship, but as the event will be
from scratch he will have to improve
wonderfully to defeat Roome. The one
mile county championship will be the
race of the day and it will be worth
going miles to see. The other two open
events are a two-mile handicap and a
fye-mile scratch. The three events open
only to member of the Hudson County
Wheelmen area half-mile scratch, a
one-mile handicap, and a fve-mile club
championship. The meet has been sane
toned by the League of American
Wneelmen and the L. A. w. rules will
govern the events. Handsome gold med
ais will be awarded to the first men and
appropriate prizes to the second and
third in each event. The three open
events are for Hudson County riders
only. so the event will be a purely local
affair and those interested in the sport
can easily determine who the best men
in the county are. The committee prom
Uses TO have the track put in first-class
condition for the races, so that fast
time can be made. The entry fee is
fifty cents for each event. Entries close
on october is. with Van ". Mersereau,
OF No n Aston place.
The work on the new County Road
between the Newark and New York
Railroad bridge and the Morris Canal
is progressing at a rapid rate and there
is every Indication that in another month
this section will be completed. Down in
Greenvihe where the macadam is com
pIeted, workmen are now busy building
the speedway.
The Boulevard Wheelmen will meet
AttlS eNSAiL8 dL luG HedQQudTleTS III LII
den Hall to consider the ACCESSIBILITY of
changing the meeting night and to ar
range for the club run on Sunday. Cap
tain Barr has selected Paterson as the
objective point for the run, but a num-
Der of the members will request him to
change the trip and make Long Branch
the destination instead.
The fine weather yesterday brought
out the wheelnen in large numbers
the cyclers, and in the evening the
lighted lamps shone everywhere. The
ladies turned out in large numbers dur
Another big increase in the member
ship of the League of American Wheel
men occurred last week. Three hundred
and ninety names were added to the
roll, making the total membership in
the organization 35,455. For the first time
in months the New York division has
plications in any one week. North Car
DINA is credited with 100 new names, an
unprecedented number for a small div
ison. as even with this number added
the total division membership is but $50.
The Empire State division. however,
came out ahead of her nearest rivals,
having gained seventy-three new names,
making the total division membership
1888, which is ninety-three more than
one-fourth Of the e MtT IIaa1 Isl peT OF
poorly, adding only three new members.
The Iowa division received thfrty-eight
new members making the division total ia
NO. VIC L 49,
Missouri division was brought up to
1926 by thirty-fouT new names. The
new membership was distributed to the
other divisions as follows, the large or
last number being the total, with the
new names added
Arkansas, 10-l25; Colorado. LAO; Con-
necticut, 1-91S; District of Columbia, i
Is: Illinois, 10L1,509 Indiana. E232; North
Dakota. III; Ohio. 3d. so; oklahema'
fornia. POI: Virginia, 1S-100; West Vir-
einia. 2S35; Wisconsin, 2-9S1; Kansas, b
100: Kentucky, 445s:: Maine. SIS; Mass
nesota, @2#: New Hampshire, 1-247;
New Jersey, 1880. Four new league
cl,1bs are also added to the list.
An English cycle insurance company
has a reference department which should
chasers of a secondhand wheel. If the
machine has been insured in the com
panv th7 would-be buyer, upon the
Davmen of a fee of twenty-five cents,
will be given all the particulars of the
age make and original price of the ma
chine, and whether any or what acct
dents the company has been called to
nav upon it while it was insured with
them. BY this means the purchase IS
h11ying a stolen or misrepresented wheel,
. projection we'll worth more than the
twenty-five cents it costs him to gain,
Al distinct feature of the crowd attend
wheelman. 1t has been observed that
when the fire engine, hose carts ana
ladder trucks begin to race toward tires
nowadays the wfheelmen and wheelwom-
en- who happen to be IN the vtGlnies en-
the firemen distancing them often, IN the
race. In the crowds outside the fre
lines there are always a nuInoer OF
wheels, and as a rule their owners pelng
early on the scene. occupy the points OF
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