The San Francisco call., 1895-05-18

at II. NOW, to complete the thing, II the
other member would go into the trade
"Billy" Stinson-but it is unlikely.
The San Jose Road Club will hold a race
meet on Saturday June 1, at the Garden
City Cyclers' track. The following COM
mittee have charge of the affair: j. T.
Bailey, R. D. Mcfarland. G. E. Warren,
G. G. Chapman, c. J. Belloli, G. Fischer
A. Schweitzer and al Louis. The events
and prizes will be as follows:
One mile novice, gold and silver medals;
two-mile handicap class A, gold stopwatch
suit of clothes, silver water service: one-mile
scratch, class A, $50 unset diamond, $25 clock,
$15 piano-lamp; two-mile handicap, class B.
500 diamond stud, $50 gold stopwatch, $25
oyercoat
The entries will close at San Jose with
the last mail delivery on Saturday, May
25.
G. Hardenbrook of the San Jose Road
Club lowered the record from there to Gill
roy by 19 minutes last Sunday, part of the
way unpaced. His time was 1 hour and
80 minutes for the thirty miles.
The Road Club will hold another tive-mile
road race for the silver cup tomorrow,
over the East San Jose course. The start
ers will be: T. K. Belloli and f. A. McFar-
land, scratch; Navlet, 10 seconds; Har-
denbrook, 25 seconds; TremoureauX, As
seconds; Benson, so seconds; Harrington,
so seconds; Grant Bell, so seconds; OBrien,
Hammonds and Carroll, minute; D. E.
O'Brien and C. E. Warren, 1 minute 15
seconds. An additional trophy will be
given if the record for the course of 13
minutes 48 seconds is lowered.
Thomas S. Hall, whose picture is pre-
sented herewith, is one of the Bay City
Wheelmen's fast class B men. He is
hardly 20 years of age, but developed into
a good rider about eighteen months ago,
and having the advantage of training with
I'M Roy, lnrf foar ch ,aI h 10
be possessed of considerable speed He is
heavily built and an all-round athlete, and
with another year upon the track should
be up in front with the other class B men.
He rode the seventh relay for his club in
29:07 As. Hall has had happy faculty of
winning handicap races, but of late the
official Handicapped has shortened his
limit, which shows he was cognizant that
Hall was fast enough to be brought nearer
the scratch men.
The Garden City Cyclers will be active
from now on in the way of SUNDAY runs,
Captain Delmas having arranged some
trip for every week. On the 26th inst the
club will ride to Gilroy to witness the finish
of the San Jose -Gilroy road race between
principal stores of San Jose. AS these
establishments have in their employ some
fine riders, the race should be scorch
from start to finish. Then on the morn
ing of May so Decoration day. the club
will ride to this City to attend the race
meeting of the Bay City Wheelmen. On
June Captain Delmas announces picnic
run to Llagas. On Sunday, June 9, Joint
run is talked of with the Pajaro Valley
Wheelmen, but, as this is the day set for
the annual picnic run of the California As
sociated Cycling Clubs to Niles Canyon, this
date should be changed. On Wednesday,
June IL, the cyclers will attend the Santa
Cruz water carnival. So it goes-something
on the card every week. No wonder they
have membership of over 800. Some OF
the local captains might copy from Mr..
Delmas to advantage, and they would cease
to wonder why interest in the club was
lacking and the members failed to come
around.
Captain Kitchen will lead the Acme
0iu6 Wheelmen tomorrow on run to
Birds Valley, where they will be Joined
by the Trampers' annex of the club.
1t is not likely that L. w. Fox, the pop
ular Los Angeles racer, will be seen on the
track here this summer, as he has too
many engagements down south. Fox is
representing one of the most popular
wheels on the market-the Fow wler-which
Davis Bros. are handling here. Its ap-
pearance and the evident care taken in its
manufacture commend it to all wheemen
as splendid road or track wheel.
Il. G. Whal of Colorado Springs rode
fifty miles last Friday without pace
makers in exactly two hours. He made
the first four miles in s minutes, and
forded the Fountain River, which is 100
yards wide. The previous world record
for the distance was held by Linton. of
Herne Hill, England, 2 hours 27H min.
the best previous American record was held
by Kemnler of Asbury Park, hours 80
min. 40 sec. Whal's time is simply won
derful. Think of it, Twenty-Five miles
an hour for two hours on the road. Think
you could do that?
There will be 50-mile relay road race
next Saturday over the San Leandro tri-
angle between six riders each from the
Oakland and San jose high schools The
San Francisco scholars intended to COM
pete, but examinations for Stanford and
Berkeley will prevent their entering or
training. Each of the six men will ride
once around the triangle, 8 1-3 miles, The
Oakland team will be: Gooch, Childs, Ma
honey, Baker, Ora and Colby. The San
Jose team has not yet been selected.
Ii you are racing man, don't forget
that the entries for the Bay City Wheel
mems great race meeting on May 30 will
close at the clubhouse, AL Golden Gate
avenue, with the last mail delivery on
Thursday, May "a, for handicap events,
SPALDING.
IHCIC w dS IcStC cACllcIueIlC LII Tie rear
of the Palace Hotel last Wednesday even
ing, when Andrew Coleman, the pawn
broker, attempted to spread himself on a
bicycle. "Hold me up, Joe, EASY there.
Dave, ""Look out don't let me fall on
you," ETC., he cried to his hired men, Joe
Breckman and Dave Cook, who were
straining themselves on each side of che
wheel in vain endeavor to propel the 327
pounds OF humanity comprising Coleman s
elephantine form
The wheel moved little, when there
was sudden creaking sound, followed by
crank. The two helpers jumped from
the sides of the bike just as the wheel
broke in the middle. and the would-be
rider landed with smothered sound on
the bituminous pavement and settled into
a huge impression caused thereby.
The shock shook the Palace and
neighboring houses, and cries of earth
quake were heard, followed by a hasty
exit from some of.the tenements. The
truth was soon learned, and some of the
neighbors with long and strong pull ex-
tracted the rider from the damaged pave
ment. The wheel, past repair, was sent to
a iunE-ShOn and If ic na.u bo