The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-08
LOS ANGELES SPORTING.
Festival of the Turners-The Santa
Monica Road Race.

LOS ANGELES, CAL, j une 1.-The Kreis-
funniest to be held in this city under the
auspices of the local Turner's on June %
and four following days is attracting much
attention. It will be the most extensive of
the kind ever held in this part of the State.
Entries will close June Is and there are
already an immense number in the hands
of the secretary. The value of the prizes
for athletic sports and bicycle races is $1,000.
After the Kreisturnfest the next big event
in the cycling world of Southern California
will be the Santa Monica road race. From
the mum Der of applications already in there
will be not less than three hundred con-
testants, and as the prize list has already
reached over $1,000 worth of articles, some
good racing is looked for. The course is III
better condition this year than it was last
year and there are reasons to believe that
Ulbricht's time (57:0D will be notched
down very considerably. The distance is
seventeen miles.
Tom McAleer made gallant attempt to
lower the 100-mile record, but at the end
of fifty miles he saw it was useless to con-
tinue the effort. He intends having
another go at it before long.
Captain Hall of the Los Angeles Wheel
men has called run to Santa Monica for
Sunday next over the 17-mile road race
course.
Chairman Golden of the l.. A. w. is
likely to hear a good deal from Southern
California points if all the three-lap tracks
that have been projected are completed
this summer. 1t is possible that the
national circuit may be extended to Cali
tornia. So far only San Francisco, San
Jose and Los Angeles have asked for dates,
but when San Diego, Santa Ana, River.
side and Pasadena carry out their prom
Uses Southern California will be "strictly
in it."
Society, in its most elevated region, has
been struck by the cycling fever. A new
club has just been organized here to be
Club of Los Angeles, and, judging by the
names of those who have signified their in
tention of joining, it will be by all odds the
SWEETEST thing of the kind in this city. Ar
rangements have already been made for
town clubhouse and country rendezvous.
At the first regular meeting of the mem
bers, held few days ago, Sumner ?. Hunt
rell vice-president, M. Calender secretary
and treasurer and J. E. Cook captain. The
colors adopted were crimson, red and navy
blue.
The bicycle scheme known by the name
of the California Cycle Racing Circuit Con-
federation is fat failure. It was man
aged by Charles f. Gates, representing a
bicycle house. The whole business seems
to have been of very rambling character,
sort OF go-as-you-please concern that
went as it pleased and, naturally, went all
to pieces. Whether it was that Southern
California does not offer a sufficiently
large field for MIR. Gates large ideas, or
whether Mr.. Gates large ideas are alto
gether too large for this or any other
locality, has not yet been definitely deter
mined; but there is one fact about which
there remains no doubt-that the circuit
scheme with the big name is tasco
The Rambler men here say that the cir
cult was not paying expenses, and as there
was no one in sight to keep on putting up
the deficiencies, the thing just naturally
dropped out of sight.