The Washington times., 1895-05-26
CYCLING NOTES.

Steps have been taken to form q woman's
cycling club III Englewood, n. j.
Decoration Day is now used for parades
of wheelmen when they have no track for
races.
The Asbury Park wheelmen have voted
down proposition to take into their clu b
associate. honorary, and nonresident men,
bers.
The Ladies' Pioneer Cycle Club OF Brook
lyn, headed by Mrs. e. McAdams, president.
viii take part in the Brooklyn bicycle
parade on June 10.
Cincinnati wheelmen are fighting
brake, bell, and lamp ordinance, recently
introduced by anover Jealous ssaloonkeeper,
member of the board of legislation.
The EDglishmen have worn out the ''side-
slip business and are now busy with re-
fniorcng- g-the-front-fork- rk-of-the-tandem craze,
Why don't they import some American ma
chimes?
Chief Consul Isaac B. Potter, of the
New York State Division of the L. A w,
has increased the mem bership i'll his division
TO greater degree than any of his pre-
decessors in office.
An auti-bicycle league has been organized
in New York city, which makes point of
causing the arrest of all bicyclists who ride
too rapidly or who ride at night without
lanterns.
renovated. The Lynn Athletic Association
has been organizedtorthis hispurpose, andevery
effort Will he made to promote good, clean
rivalry in almost every branch of sport.
assured thing, articles Of Incorporation of
the Red Jacket Cycling and Athletic Park
Association having been signed.
1t is reported that the 50-miIe road record
has been broken by L. Q. Wahl, OF Washing
ton, who rode from point four miles north
of Colorado Springs, TO Pueblo, in hours,
10 minutes, riding without pacemakers and
having to ford river en- route.
What relief to them it will be when the
Class B racers no more have to carry around
microscopes as q part Of the outfit, TO
test the diamonds before coming to the tape
for the start. Sanger has an apparatus
that might be the envy OF "a eweler.
NJ. F.. Carter, the Baltimore sprinter on
the Stearns team, has developed speed more
rapidly than last season! anHe is a very
daring rider in more senses than one, and
careful watching by the9keen Mr.. Gideon
may land the young man in France before
the season is over.
o. s. Bunnell is right in, it for profes-
sional races, and if he refuses the entries
of crooked ones it may be a go. Bunny
may surprise the QuakeTs some fine after
noon by presenting Houben at scratch.
That is Just the kind of ente rprising man
the prophet of professionalism is.
The bicycle committee OF the Mount Holly
Athletic Association has closed a contract
with Arthur Zimmerman, the champion
rider, rider OF The world, to give exhibitions OF his
when the association will hold a bicycle meet
for Class a rider RS only
The John P. Lowell Arms Company has
The gas is to be stored in the tubing of
the frame. a storage tank resting at the
crank shaft. The firm has successfully
applied the principle to a boat twenty five
feet long, which is equal to speed of
twenty miles an hour.
Baltimore is the "freest'' bicycle city
in the Union. There are but Two wheel
lawslamps and coasting. The L. A.
W. once took q hand in the city election
and illustrated to the city fathers that the
wheelmen, who answered to the call of
the Division. held the balance of power.
Since that time the respect felt for the
wheelmen by the average candidate pre-
cludes his offering any ordinance curtaii:.
ing the freedom of cyclists. The lamp and
coasting laws were made at the request of
the Division.
The Spring field, Mass, Bicycle Club is
receiving many communications in regard
to the use of its track for training, and the
season may fairly be said to have begun, as
Waltham opens the racing circuit on the
Goth Harry Tyler and +. B. Stowe, a
Conway flier, who has recently joined
the club, and Maxfield, of Amherst, who
il training for the intercollegiate races, are
already on hand. Tyler and his trainer,