The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-07-30
PEN %PUNCTURES.
What the Recent Big Law.
National Meet at Asbury
Park Shows.
ORION AND C0NNEFF AGAIN
The N. ]. A, C. Arranges a Special
Race for the Crack Long Dis
lance Runners-Baseball.

In its comment of the recent L. A. w.
meet at Asbury Park h paterson
"Evening News" has the following to
say
The recent annual national meet OF
the League of American Wheelmen at
Asbury Park shows in a measure how
universal is the interest in cycling IN
all parts of this land. Nearly 10000 cy-
clists were present. from all over the
Union. 1t may serve TO show the Atlantlc
coast that all of good taste and hlg
style in apparel does not reside in the
east to recall that the club which obtain
ed the prize for being the best dressed
organization on the ground came from
Denver. It may also interest lady cy-
clers to recall that the woman who got
the prize a few weeks ago in Boston for
devising the best cycling dress yet in
vented for women is a colored girl, a
light mulatto, Miss Kitty Knox, hand
some and very graceful. She herself de-
vised her wheeling costume, bloom
ers," not too wide, coming to the knee,
leggings, blue outing waist, black tie
and cap.
1t is pleasant to recall, too, how well
the members of the league at the meet
behaved themselves. as a rule. Whether
the racers broke records or made any
startling runs. the public does not great
ly care. Those are the matters that con-
Germ the few professional riders and
their packers. But it is in the ordinary,
quiet. all round cycler who rides for fun
and for outdoor exercise that the public
is interested, because that is the kind of
riding tina the great public itself is doing
--o,x-rt1~o Tlor1 w MO in thh his
tory of this country an athletic move
ment SO widespread or so enthusiastic.
Almost everybody rides, because, like
Frances willard. almost everybody be-
lieves that the bicycle is the most re-
markable, ingenious and inspiring motor
ever yet devised upon this planet" The
league has now some 10000 members.
Even persons dyspeptic enough to
grumble at the eyelers must admit, that
in one respect at least these have bene,
a movement for good roads which VOL
be worth millions to property owners.
The l.. A. WI is fostering besides a
ship among its members of both sexes
that viii be even better than the good
road system it has i-naugurated. In
will there are peace and the assurance
of power for great achievement. The
league has already done much for its
members. 1t knows how to redress legal
wrongs against its members, on all their
Journeys through this big country they
will find sleague hotels" ready to vel
will find friends and brothers. The or
ganization is already powerful enough to
influence legislation"
will be held at Manhattan Beach on
august ! 3 10. II, "a n 81. The bicycle 1o
as aei faiilo NNsules sreth / Au Indiana, Pa; are +
Richfeld Springs. N. Y. /, Waenson, O.,
Cycle Club. National Circuit; 2, Millers-
oiasviilIe. Ky; 5. Hammondfon; 3. Con-
nellsville, Pa: 3, Toledo, O., National
IFaaIms meet; z Ror New we. York r, RdIverg Nas
tional Circuit meet; 5 and s.. Fort Worth.
Tex; Z, Mason City, Ia. I, New Lon
Don G3rc, Conn; Z South aad Bend ! 9. IND Ind NNstionsl
Franklin, Ind, Oswego, n. Y; s and
9, Meridian, Miss; 9 and 10. Worcester,
Mass, Division meet, 9 and u. Chicago
cult meet; 10, Paterson: 10, Allentown,
Pa; 10, Rivertown; 10, Waterloo, N. Y;
The third annual picnic of the Hill
side Wheelmen will be held tomorrow
evening at Pohlmann's Pavilion, and
peeted to desert their bikes for the nge time
time.
tional Circuit race meet of the Big
terday:-
one mile open, CLASS B-tlrst neat, IL
second; Tom Eddy. third; Coulter, fourth;
Davidson, fifth. Time, 2:2s.
Second heat, II starters-Gardiner won;
fourth; Rigby, fifth H'DTfi Time. 'a a:fS So. Scout
Final heat, 10 starters@Gardiner won:
Bliss, second; Bald, third: Eddy, fourth;
Callahan, fifth. Time, POI As.
one-haif mile, open, Glass B-Titus
won; Brown, second; Ziegler, third; Car
diner, fourth; Coulter, fifth. Time,
Los is.
Two-mile handicap, Glass B-L. c.
johnson, 70 yards, won; Murphy, 40 yards,
second; Rigby, 100 yards, third; Kisser,
100 yards, fourth. Time, Abs.