The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-10
IN THE CYCLING WORLD.
An UNPRECEDENTED DEMAND FOR
BICYCLES THIS SEASON.
Dealers Cannot Get Enough to FIJI
Their Orders-E. C. Stearns' Views
on the Question of Narrow or
wide Tread-Nevvsy Notes OF Local
ana General Interest.


on the Question of Narrow or
Wide Tread-Newsy Notes OF Local
and General Interest.
From being first a luxury. thing for |
diversion, the bicycle has become in a |
great measure a necessity II you 90 not
ride one this year, to use the Vernacular
of the street. You won't be in it," The
whole town is affected with the wheel
fever. The small boy in the street talks
wheel" whilst the workingman and man
OF business realize its value as time
saver and an excellent means Of loco
motion
To say that this year will be hummer
for bicycle racing would be to put it
mildly. and to publish all the names OF
new riders who intend TO enter the races
this year would take half a column tor
Salt Lake alone. Already quite a num-
Der of new men have commenced to ger
into form. Some Of them no doubt VIII
soon IND out they are out OF their ele.
ment. Others Will probably enter one or
two races and get more than enough,
finding that success neceSsltates more
hard work than they will be able to
are being talked of and will be organized
ere long, This Will be form of the
sport that VIII become Instantly popular
here as it has in other places, and as
utility cannot be estimated too highly.
The cry of the dealers in general is
tSiYe US more wheels. we cannot get
them fast enough from the factory to
supply our trade"
The Western Book and Stationery Co.
Will handle the Niagara, Globe and
of all of them in q few days. The Globe
is the wheel upon Which Leonert made
his famous mile in LBS. The Western
company have wisely decided not to go
into the racing business. realizing It's
pitfalls for the dealer.
Miss Leighe, Miss Kingsley and Wright
stock company, are enthusiastic sup
porters of the wheel and can be seen al
most any day taking a spin on their
F'oWlers. which they all ride.
Harry Jennings will ride this year IN
the races, if he keeps in his present state
OF mind, and viii take a fifteen mile spin
every Day as starter towards racing
ranks this year, he rode well last with
out doing any training. He will ride
Rambler Racer.
Jake Held talks of entering tho ranks
Of the racers this season. Go it Jake.
Dr. and Mrs. HeWett are ardent lovers
of the wheel. whilst their son Ned, as he
Social Wheel club. Mrs. Rewett has
purchased a TWENTY-FIVE pound Syracuse
from Morris f. Evans
The Jensen boys are training diligent-
" and are taking. gymnasium exercise
every day and getting into fine condition
for the track.
Papa Jensen's cry is t.T cannot eet
wheels enough to supply my trade"
Robbins. Royle. Tfsdale. Gum, Lang
ton, Hyde and a number of last years
racers are buchling on their training
clothes and will be heard from the first
race meet.
Quite a number of the local wheelmen
visited the track on Wednesday last.
All are enthusiastic over its curves.
Harry .Kimban will try his hand at
racing this summer. Harry ought to
make a good racer.
Willard Weihe viii ride a Columbia
this season.
Fred oden. ex-captain Of the football
team, will be amongst the list of racers
on the track this season.
An airbrahe for BICYCLES is the latest,
The l., a. w lost 10000 members last
year. The present membership is about
The new Manhattan Athletic club will
be represented by strong cycling team
next season
Billy Murphy says he has retired from
the track and will never participate in
another race.
An attempt viii be made to throw the
League of American Wheelnen open to
colored riders,
The Grand Priz of Paris, won last
year by George Banker the American
Wheelman, will be an annual event worth
$1,000.
Secretary Abbott Bassett Of the League
| Of American Wheelmen says he will re-
sign If his salary is reduced to $1,000.
His salary is now 5000;
! It is reported that Arthur A. thinner
| man and Harry c. Wheeler are greatly
! dissatisfied with professional racing and
| are anxious to secure reinstatement to
| class B.
| Walter c. Sanger is the heaviest rider
! of any prominence on the path, weighing
when out Of training about 200 pounds,
although he generally tips the scales at
! 1S5 pounds when riding.
It was mentioned some time ago in
| our wheel column that something would
"drap'' in the ranks of the class Az
men when the, National Racing board
met It has, 'drapped-" All riders who
have hitherto rode in class GA" who
| been transferred to class "B." This
viii place Weller, Jensen, Evans, Conf
| bear ct al. in class B. instead of class
| "A" as formerly.
The only riders who Will be strictly
class a riders. are those who own Their
| own wheels. pay for their training and
ride for sport and not for any particular
dealer or maker Of wheels. This regula-
ton viii meet with the general approval
of all lovers Of square sport whether on
the track or elsewhere.
Salt Lake has fled its application for q
date on the National racing circuit, AS
no action can be taken until all applicd-
tons are in. il Will be some time before
we hear from it.
Better attend to the following little re-
! minder from Chairman Gideon in the
nneantime-"Your attention is called tc
the fact that at the meeting Of the Ma
| tional racing assembly in New York
February 70. an amendment was passed
! requiring that q fee of so accompany al
applications for National circuit dates .
NO detail Of construction Of the bicycle
is causing so much discussion as the
question of narrow or wide tread. In al
interview E. c. Stearns. the head of the
great factories OF z. c. Stearns s. Co
and the Syracuse Bicycle company says
Il am free to admit that when [ first be
gan to study the subject of narrow tread
was at loss to see the fun measure
shared the popular view Of the matter
namely. that II was not important Now