The San Francisco call., 1895-10-19


leave this afternoon for New Orleans, and
do not know when will be home. May go to
Denver. Yours, II. f. TERRILL.
The Garden City Cyclers of San Jose will
hold five-miIe handicap road race over
ing, the entries and handicaps for which
are as follows:
Tony Delmas, scratch Hardy Downing,
scratch; r. E. Daw, 20 Sec; E. A. Moody, 20
Sec; J. c. Smith, 30 Sec; al Hubbard, 40 sec.;
c. N. :Ravlin, SO Sec; ]. d. Lawrence, min;
min. 10 Sec; w. X. Jamison, 1 min. 20 sec;
Al Holloway, min. 20 Sec; Everett Davis, l
min. 70 sec; George seig, l min. 20 Sec; ";
Sec; Frank Holmes. min; t. Frank Smith
Jr:, min; Irving Ryder, 2 min.; N. Kooser, 2
min.; Max Whittlesey,2 min. 80 sec: Henry
Plate, min. 80 sec. j. B. Lamkin, 3 min.
There will be seven place prizes and one
for best time. After the race the club will
ride to Alum Rock, six miles, where lunch
will be served. 1t is expected that fully
$50 members will participate in the latter
feature of the days sport. Under the
regime of the new road officers great inter
est is being taken in the Sunday runs, and
they are largely attended. Captain Carey
is working hard for the good of the club and
as the support he receives from the men,
bers is his only encouragement he deserves
all credit for his untiring efforts in their
behalf.
Wilber J. Edwards may be unable to
race for some time to come owing to Sc
we're abrasion of his knee from hitting his
handle-bars while training.
r. M. Thompson captain of the Pilot
city yesterday and will return tomorrow.
While here he is the guest of the Bay City
WheeImen.
The Pacific Cycling Club will have run
to the beach and Presidio tomorrow,
starting from the corner of Eddy and
Devisadero streets at o'clock sharp.
The Liberty Cycling Club will have a
club run to Ingleside tomorrow, starting
from the clubhouse, 1886 Folsom street, at
half-past 9 clock. They have adopted
pin in the shape Of liberty bell, and the
club dance will come off on Friday even
ing, November s, at Mission Parlor Hail.
The Olympic Cyclers will have run to
Millbrae tomorrow, under Captain Butz,
leaving the clubhouse at $50 o clock sharp.
A fine lunch has been arranged for at the
hotel. Footraces and a two-mile bicycle
race will take place, and medals will be
given for each event.
Evidently Sterling Elliott has kept him.
self posted on the news articles relating to
the death of young man in Oakland,
supposed to have been caused by wheel
ing, which created so much comment
abont six weeks ago, for he now comes out
editorially in the League Bulletin with the
following:
The doctors in California have been disput-
ing as 70 whether certain young man died
from the effects of riding bicycle or from
some other cause.
There seems to have been much high priced
testimony brought out on both sides
Now without going into the merits of this
particular case let us admit, for the sake of the
argument, that he was, without the slightest
dnTht hinrnla oil in f1a
language OF the late Mr.. Tweed OF New York,
"what are you going to do about it?''
How about the 100000 riders who were
How about the thousands whose falling
health has actually been built up by the bi.
cycle?
How about the hundreds of thousands who
get more comfort and happiness cut of the BIZ
cycle than from any other poral agency?
OF course, people have been killed by the BIZ
cycle. SO have people been killed by railroads,
farm wagons, II ules and watermelons.
People have died in bed, and been choked
with fish bones.
Deaths have occurred from drinking water;
also from drinking other kinds of juice.
People have been smot othered in folding-beds,
and blown up by kerosene oil.
Too much gas taken into the lungs has led to
bad results, but we would call the attention of
the learned NJ. DIS TO the fact that escaping
gas cannot kill the bicycle
is too late to stay the progress of the ''steel
steedh with any but real objections
The people who insist upon the fatal results
that have been predicted, and who fail to see
them coming during the life of the present
generation, now tell us that the real effects of
the bicycle will be most apparent upon the
next generation. This argument has the ad-
vantage of not being easy to refute. 1t is tco
much like the fellow who has process of pre-
serving the roots Of fenceposts so they VIII
last e. hundred years. Many nervous persons
prefer to take his word for it rather than wait
and see.
1t would indeed be strange if occasionally
one of the vast army of bicycle-riders wasn't
killed. but the percentage is very much smaller
than OF people who are killed by railroads and
in many other ways.
So too, it must necessarily be that as fasci-
mating pastime as cycle riding sometimes in
duces its devotee to everexert, and the result
might even be DEATH but why is that
cycle is new yet, and must expect to come
under the eagle eye OF the professional pessi
mist. The great majority of physicians in.
dorse the life-giving safety. and only regret the
occasional misuse of it.
Those who have not yet tried it for them.
selves will soon become exceedingly unfash'
lonable.
Mr.. Elliott is considered one of the brain
lest cycling editors in the world, and his
comment will be read with interest and at
tention by all wheelmen.
Frank Byrne of the Imperial Club wants
the coast ten-miIe record of 25 As, now held
by George Nissen, and will try for it from
Fruitvale to Haywards this afternoon,
paced by four tandem teams. Three OF
these teams will be made up of Conger and
STANCE, Jaegling and Egan, Fuller and
Lennon, and the fourth will be decided
on to-day. Each will pace Byrne two and
half miles.
Tomorrow Emil Languetin of the Bay
City Wheelmen will try for the coast FIVE
mile record of IL: :S5, held by Hurley OF
Alameda, from San Leandro to Haywards,
paced by two tandems, manned by Grit
tiths and Andrews, Menne and Day
The California Cycling Clubs road race
has been postponed until November 3, and
all other immediate events have been put
off until next month, owing to the death
of Mr., Harvey last Sunday.
S. b. Vincent, the class A racer, was not
severely injured by his fall in the park
Thursday, and will be around again in a
few days.
1t will come as great surprise to the
wheelmen hereabouts to learn that STAN
Low q hoe rotirod