The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-07
AMONG THE wHEELMEN.
KNIGHTS OF TIRE SILENT STEFD
ARE ANXIOUS.
The Ladies Have the Fever-The
New Track AssOcir.tion-With the
Des Iers ard Racing Men.

The ladies have caught the wheel
fever as bad as the men. Nearly
twenty-five are taking lessons under
Professor Liday at NJ. R. Evans
school. Professor Liday says eff you
think it's a snap to be instructor, just
take trial at running around with
about ten OF the fair sex for one hour"
The Western Hardware folks have
their hands full these days teaching
the new riders.
Miss Lucinda Evans, the charming
daughter of NJ. R. Evans. attends to
the ladies' who take riding lessons at
the school and encourages them to be
patient and persevering whilst wrest-
ding with the wheel.
Mr.. c. e. Emise has been appointed
chairman of the racing board for this
season for the Utah division. Charley
Is evidently the right man in the right
place IS he has held the position
several times and thoroughly under
from his recent illness and will take q.
run with the club to Pennington to-
day.
Mr.. C. n. Butler has kindly furnished
copy of the bylaws Of the L.. A. U.
for 1895. They are pretty well dis
tributed among the. wheelmen.
George D. Gideon writes c. E. Emise
that Salt Lake has date on the
national circuit. The exact day has
not been decided upon as yet but that
IS a small matter. This will give Salt
Lake people the privilege of seeing the
fastest riders in America on racers.
Fred OdeH, c. Lawrence and Porter
rode up to Ogden last week in four
and one-half hours. The roads were
they encountered a snow storm which
made pretty tough riding forS them.
Cummings and Cotton went up on the
train, met them, and took in the town
with them.
The subscribers to the new tracN
met Wednesday last and organized.
Beck's Hot Springs Cycle Track asso-
citation. The officers are w D. Ken
dal, president; George Westerfeldt.
yice-president; W. ID. Rishel, secre-
tary; Hyrum Beck, treasurer. The di-
rectors are: e. c. Coffin, ]. S. Jensen,
IA. R. Evans, a. w. Game, A E.
Beverage, Mr.. Brocl1bank, c. A.
-@hidoCs - - 1oU4'tJil, JOlln bCCA, simon
Baunberger, II. Pembroke and R. L.
Connolly.
Here is a record for some of the
racers to emulate, that OF F. C. Bar
nett, of Lincoln, Neb. He is % years
old and was born on a farm. He en-
tered his first race at Lincoln, Neb,
last year, a ten mile road race, which
he won in 29:15, taking first prize and
time prize. IN the three months that
he has ridden he has won twenty-one
fil'sts, four time prizes. three seconds,
one third getting prizes that aggre-
gate about $1,000 in value. He now
puts in all his time training under an
experienced trainer and will IN
dOubtedly be heard from this year
among the foremost riders Of the
west. His wife has just presented him
with a pair of girl babies.
Frank Teasdel had quite a novelty
IN his Show window Saturday night.
He had placed right in the center Of
the window a home trainer and all of
Evans racing team took turn about
at showing the great crowd of confer
ence visitors how they could push
pedals, to the great delight of all.
The renting business has assumed
enormous proportions. All the livery
departments OF the cycle companies
are being we'll patronized.
The Intermolmtain Wheel Co. has
added a riding school to their estab-