The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-11
justiciary of unfathonable wisdom
American Wheelman.

American Wheelman:.
A foreign exchange tells of an in
telligent policeman who, when cap
turing a rider after shutdown without
a lamp, marches the delinquent to a
neighboring store and obliges him to
buy ''glim' One Of LoZier'S travel
ing men ran into the arms of a big
cop in New Haven for having over
looked the trifling matter of providing
his wheel with a bell. 1t would have
been clear case of $40 and costs
had he been taken to headquarters,
SO he compromised with the officer by
pleading ignorance and pledging him.
self to put on bell at once. When
released he went to the Connecticut
Electric company and had Manager
Stearns put on an electrical burglar
alarm.
The National circuit will not mo-
nopolize the class B men of the
country as it did last year. There are
too many of them, and when they are
all riding together there is not
enough in it to make it attractive to
those who are riding for the diamonds
there are in it, as well as the glory.
This year there will be a great nSely
pot-hunters among the cracks, and
they will only ride in the curcuit
when there is something better there
than can be found anywhere else in
the country. All of the class B riders
are employed to win races on a par
ticular wheel and if more races can
be won by jumping the circuit and
taking in some other meet they will
probably not be slow to take ad-
vantage of it. Last year there we've
so many men on the circuit of about
equal speed that there wasn't a great
deal in it for any one of them. and
1t came to be to some extent a ques-
ton of trading, even towards the end
of the season. For this reason many
of the riders got into the habit of
skipping their entries at regular
meets and going off on side trips of
pot-hunting nature. There will be
no skipping of entries this season.
Chairman Gideon will watch any
thing of the sort very closely, but the
big fellows will get out of that by
SIMPLY refusing to enter at any meet
where there are not pretty good in
ducements
New York, June 1O.-Private A. Mat
tey, company, First artillery,
United States army, set out on a
bicycle ride from Fort Hamilton, Long
Island, to Fort Sheridan, Ill, at 6
o'clock this morning, bearing a dis
patch from Major-General n. A.
Miles to General u. S. Merritt COM
handing the department Of Missouri
Mattey rides in full uniform with blan-
kets, knapsack and canteen, the total
weight of man, bicycle and equipments
being 200 pounds. He expects to make
the trip in about twelve days, following
the route laid out by the l.. A. w. guide
books. He was accompanied as far as
kingSbridge by about twenty members
of the Prospect Bicycle club, of which he
is a member. His first stop will be at
Rochester, Buffalo, Erie and Cleveland,
are points on his route. He will camp
whenever night overtakes him, unless
years of age and has been in the army
two years. He volunteered for this trip
to General Miles, whose interest in the
use of the bicycle for military purposes
is well known.
lion, N. Y. June 1O.-The annual meet
ing of the Remington Cycling club was
held here today 1t was the third meet
in the New. York state circuit. Attend
ance $500. Summaries:
Glass B. half mole open-C. C. Coulter,
oae ea Sc 2eoo %9n r of{S F Fsg sXT
else, third Time-1:0i 2-5
=, Class a. half mile openc-W: E. Shaw.
W G,h Mass, won Iin ne I 70
Utica, 70 yards. won; F. H. Allen, Spring
field 50 yards, second; 2. J. Jenny, Utica,
20 yards, third. 1fme-2:i9.
Whitesboro. so yards, won. Time-2:13 2-5.
Glass 3. mile. open-C. II. Coulter, won;
A. J. Titus. second; ". F. Sims, Wash
ington, third. Time-2:19 2-5.
Glass A, mile open--W. E. Shaw won.
Time-2:22
Glass b, half mile handcap-F. J. Jenny
80 yards, won W. T. Slime. 10 yards, sec
ond; Il. G. johnson, Cleveland, 20 yards.
third. Time-1 .02 1-5.
Bridgeport. Conn. June 1O.-C. Ford
Seely, of this city did fourteen miles
on the Westport road race this af-
ternoon in SO minutes fiat, beating
the worlds record for the distance
Toronto. Ont, June 10.-The Tor
onto Ferry Bicycle Association offers
s., 900 for the first three races between
Johnson and Zimmerman, to take
place in Toronto on three different
days, each man to post $500 with
the Toronto Ferry company. The Of
fer is open for ten days.