The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-08-02
PROSPEROUS CLOS.
The Club Rapidly Taking
a Place in the Front
Rank of Cycling
Organizations.
ELLSWORTH CUP YACHT RACES
Second If the Series to Be Sailed
Tomorrow Afternoon-Base-
ball and Bowling.

sThae CAio WheelmelT are receiving
new members at such a rate that there
is no question but that in a few months
the club will not only be the leading ey-
cling organization of Hudson County,
but of the State as well. The members
at present are talking of nothing else
but the club races which will be held on
the Rayonne section of the Boulevard on
Saturday afternoon, August "a. The
events selected by the committee IN
charge are q half mile, W mile and
two mile handicap. On Sunday, Septem-
Der l the club will hold a century run, in
which all the clubs of the city Will be in
vited to participate.
The century run of the Select Few
Wheelmen of Newark on August IL Will
be open to all wheelmen. A valuable
prize will be awarded the club having
the greatest number of survivors.
The second of the series of joint meets
of the Riverside Wheelmen and the Ma
tional Cycle and Athletic Club will take
Mace at Manhattan Beach tomorrow.
TIL programme of events will be as FOL
qoys:-Class A. One mile novice, scratch;
five mile handicap and one mile handl-
cap. Professional events, quarter mile,
scratch. best two in three heats; one mile
handicap and five mile, scratch. paced.
THE purse in each of the professlonai
races will be 5000. There will also De d
one mile consolation race for the PROBES
SIGNALS for a purse of $50. The events
arranged for the meet to be held on
August IA are:-One mile scratch ana one
mile handicap for Class A riders; nVe
mile handicap for professional riders,
purse $50. and o~ne-quarter mile, hying
start. scratch. for professionals, purse
$3.50. TIL entries for the open events
close with Willis B. Troy, No. 1872 Broad
way. New York, on August I. A one
mile professional Invitation scratch race,
with a $500 purse, has been added to the
programme for tomorrow. Besides the
regular entries. those of W. c. sanger,
H. C. Tyler, A. W. Porter and H e.
Wheeler have been received. Wheeler IS
in much better form than when he last
appeared on the track, and a great race
may be expected when he locks horns
with the other cracks.
The four men who rode the quad which
made the worlds record at the recent
Asbury Park meet a not yet received
their prizes, and they have a little story
to tell in regard to it, says the Boston
Globe" The quad race was put on the
programme as a special event., and no
prizes were offered to them, but they
were told that, the winning team would
be treated well and have some decent
prizes. Believing that the management
intended to do the square thing by
them, the Boston squad manned by But
Ter. Haggerty, Callahan and Mcleod
rode the fastest mile and put a worlds
record on the track for them. They went
down that night to get their prizes and
were offered four $40 diamonds, one each.
They thought this was pretty mean
treatment fer the work they had done,
and they demanded four $50 diamonds.
The committee went into executive ses-
sion and offered four $40 stones. Then
the boys said they would take $35 dia-
monds or nothing. The committee said
it was nothing. and there the matter
stands.
The Century Cycling Club of Newark
will hold its annual 100 mile road race
on Saturday, September q. The entry
blanks VII be out in a few days.
A manufacturer of bicycles ays:-
MANY persons seem to think that our
business consists very largely of giving
away something for nothing. The appli-
cations we receive for free wheels would
2stound you, but they are as nothing
compared with the demand we have
from individuals who want agents
pElcGS. NllLil tNO ddyS L nave udQ -1Oul
men in my office who wanted to ride to
Chicago, California, or around the
world on our wheels. Each man re-
marked as he explained his business. I
an willing to entertain a proposition
from you.' What do you him of that
for nerve? I never knew of any other
business that was regarded in the same
light. If a man went into a tea store
and asked for a pound of free tea and
told the merchant that he would pay
him by drinking the tea and speaking
to his own friends about it. what do you
suppose the tea man would think? Or
or clothier and made the same offer they
made US, what would happen to. them!
The impression has gone abroad that the
bicycle makers are all soft because they
have been worked by the racing men and
because the industry is young and pros
porous. Next year the older houses VIII
be mighty shy of schemes and schemers:
I am not exaggerating when / say that
we dismiss eight or ten schemes every
day. Here is a letter from one man
who wants to ride from Boston to
He a v that he has been riding our
wheel for five or six years. You see
he starts out with a lie. for our wheel
has not been on the market that length
of time.
Fair rave accepted the proposal of John
s. Johnson to make a trial for the mile
under two minutes, paced by a quad
on August "a. On August % johnson
will try to ride two miles under 4:1Q.
Tom Eek has also made a contract with
the Buffalo Ramblers, Bicycle Club ioT
Sanger in the tournament to be held
in that city on Labor Day. There VIII
be a special professional race for Sl,OVo
mile and mile professional handicaDs,
Ave CLASS a races and a twenty-five
mile handicap road race.