The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-10
CYCLERS IN A TANGLE.
Action of the Credentials
Committee Is Generally
Condemned.
PARADE OF THE WHEELMEN,
The Denver Contingent Takes First
Prize Both for Numbers and
Appearance.

ASBURY PARK, n. J., July 9.-The
second day of the National League of
American Wheelmen meet here proved
most enjoyable. The weather could not
have been fairer or the roads in better con-
dition. Hundreds of cyclers from every
section of the Union, Canada and even Eu-
rope arrived with wheels and gay badges
on every train; bands played marches and
the register of visitors at the clubhouse of
the Asbury Park Wheelmen fairly buIged
out with its host of entries, while the
seemingly inexhaustible supply of creden-
tial buttons waxed lower and lower in the
committeeman desks.
Following close upon the Denver, Pitts
burg and Harrisburg contingents, which
arrived yesterday, came large delegations
of the Chicago Cycle Club, Pennsylvania
Wheelmen, Time Wheelmen, Century
Wheelmen and Press Cycle Club ri Phila-
delphia.
The only Arthur Augustus Zimmerman,
looking like typical Jersey farmer, and
his side partner, Harry Wheeler, took the
Denver men in tow last night and prone
naded them about town and over the beach
until the travel-sore hearts of the Rocky
Mountain men were faint and their shoes
were full of sand, but with no disccuraging
effect upon their irrepressible lungs and
wild Western yells.
To-day the only excitements have been
the run to Long Branch, through the Inter
laken and Elberon, by the famous Surf
road, the great parade and the discussion
of Miss Kittie Knox's case. She is an ex-
tremely comely colored girl from Boston,
who recently won the first prize in the
Maiden cycle parade for wearing the most
tasteful and artistic woman's wheeling
garb. When Miss Knox, whose appearance
and dress had been objects of admiration
all day, walked into the committee-room
at the local clubhouse and presented her
league card for credential badge the gen.
tleman in charge refused to recognize the
card, and the young woman withdrew very
quietly.
Then the discussion commenced. Ninety
nine out of every hundred members inter
viewed express the heartiest sympathy for
her and condemnation OF the hasty action
OF the badge committee. The first vice
president of the i. A. W., G. A. Perkins of
Boston, said to-day that he considered the
refusal entirely unwarranted.
The great parade was reviewed at the
league headquarters in the Ocean Hotel by
Vice President Perkins, Secretary and
Treasurer Van Mort of the Pennsylvania
division, Frederick Gerlach, George K.
Barrett, w. Montague Perrett and F. J..
Wagner of Chicago, E. G. Bode of Cleve-
land, Andry o. McGarritt of Boston, G. A.
Limon of Philadeinhia and Chief Counsel
Gentle of the New Jersey division, who
acts as one of the judges to award prizes
for the Clubs parading the largest delega-
ton and the organization making the
finest appearance.
The principal thoroughfares were lined
with citizens, visitors and excursionists,
beauty. The Denver Wheel Club carried
first prize for both numbers and appear
ance, parading fifty-four men and women,
all attired in spotless white linen suits and
yachting caps. The second prize went to
the keystone Wheelmen of Philadelphia
and the third to the Mercer Wheelmen
Club of Trenton. The clubs prominent in
the line were the Pennsylvania Bicycle
Club, Time Wheelmen, Quaker City Wheel
men and Pennsylvania Wheelmen of Phil
adelphia, the Harrisburg Wheel Club, Nc
Keesport Wheelmen and the Portsmouth
(Va.l Wheel Club.
The ladies division, led by Mrs. Bough-
ton of New York, showed fifty-seven
women, thirty-three of whom wore the
bloomer costume, ten short skirts and the
remainder the conventional habit.