The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-07

Wheelmen. The club has got the football
fever and there is talk about organizing.
team. In several practice games already
held the enthusiasts have been Messrs.
Hall, Hawks, MEME, Nutter, Reid, Kos
burg, Roach, Brode, Toepke and Rhys.
The Terrill brothers and Charley wells,
all three weighing about 200 pounds each,
can be counted on when they come back to
the City. The club is figuring on putting
into the field eleven men who will average
that weight per man.
There is something strange in the fact
that athletes, and particularly cycle-rlders,
are exceedingly susceptible to typhoid
fever. Some of the best trainers fear this
disease worse than ANYTHING else, and
sooner or later, despite all precautions, the
best men fall victims to the dread disease.
The latest victim is the popular Eastern
racer. Arthur Gardiner, now at Louisville,
where his illness has taken a violent form.
Dirnberger of Buffalo was travelling as fast
as any rider in the country when he was
taken down with it, and he has never been
as speedy since.
After Murphy's suspension from the
track for life as told in THE CALL, he and
Trainer Young at once left for the East.
Before leaving Los Angeles Young 1ndited
the following letter to the Bay City Wheel
men, of which club he and Murphy are
members:
Ny Dear Old Chums-Charley and l are going
home to New York City tomorrow. We would
like to have you forward any mail for us
to our house, 31S Broadway, n Y We want
to thank you for the hospitality shown US and
shall always be proud to tell our Eastern
friends we are B. C. WIS. If Charley is rein
stated your colors will go on to victory again
Yours fraternally, w. B. Young,
for C. NJ. MURPHY.
Wheeling is popular in Philadelphia.
Recently there was held in the Quaker
City lantern parade wherein seventy diff
ferent clubs were in line, forming grand
pageant. A Chicago cycling writer told
me recently: "You think you arc over
worked because you have to cover some
| times two or three road races on a Sunday.
FL admit it is hard work, but what would
you do in Chicago, where there are always
from ten to twenty every Sunday, all at
different points within radius of twenty
| miles?" | told him l would ask for as
sistance from the city editor. He said the
Chicago daiies invariably had four or five
men detailed to cover bicycle road racing
every Sunday in good weather.
The latest arrival from the East is popu-
lar Dan Canary, who was at one time the
foremost trick rider in the world. He is
now on the read selling wheels and ath-
letic goods. Canary was in this City 1891
and 1892, and had riding-school at the
Pavilion in conjunction with Wilbur
Knapp, the announcer OF all our olCycle
meets At the time the skating rink was
in the Pavilion, flight of steps was baiit
at the Polk-street end, from the gallery to
the main floor. Canary rode down these
steps, first on safety bicycle with hard
tires, and later on the big wheel of an
ordinary bicycle. He made both attempts
successfully, and it was truly marvellous
performance. At the Bay City Wheel
mems clubrooms one night he.rode around
the edge of q billiard table on one wheel
of an ordinary He always had host of
good stories 70 relate or could mystify you
with innumerable clever card tricks. He
has travelled extensively, is we'll educated,
and is one OF the most popular statesmen
on the road SPALDING.