The San Francisco call., 1895-07-20

| Alfred Meyer, 2 min.; George Rosenberg,
min.; Iva Posner, ~ min.; M. Harrl-
son, III min. Jules Getz, ~ min.; julius
| Posner, l min.; R. Fogel, 1 min.; }. =,
Friedman, 80 sec.; I. Silverstein, 30 sec.
II. Sternberg, scratch. There are dozen
| prizes offered for time and place and the
| race will be close at the finish. Stern berg
looks to be the most likely candidate for
time prize, although some of the others
| may make him work hard for 1T:
| The San Francisco Bicycle Track Asso-
| citation met last Thursday evening at the
| Olympic Club. Officers for the ensuing
term were elected as follows: Judge +. ID.
Kerrlgan, president; E. G. Douglass, vice
| president; Joseph Sims, secretary; J.. w.
| Mullen, treasurer. Some routine business
was transacted, and the proposition OF
| holding race meet was discussed. The
| association will meet again on August y, at
| the Young Mems Christian Association.
| The California cycling Club will be led
| on blind run round the City tomorrow
| by Captain Burk, leaving the clubhouse at
ga. NJ. The proposed run to Napa is post
poned.
The Golden City Wheelmen will have a
| run tomorrow to Palo Alto, where the
| members will be entertained by Mr. and
Mrs. Howse. An enjoyable run is antlci-
pated. Last Sunday two members OF the
made century around the bay:
The Y. M. G. A. Cycling Club OF this
| City will hold fve-mile road race in
August. Many of the members are now
away enjoying vacation. Samuel Nc
Knight is at Vallejo, William Eide is tour
ing the northern part OF the State, }. a.
Kuykendall is in Los Angeles, as is also A.
P. Chipron, who thinks of locating there.
Captain Joseph Sims is camping In Mill
Valley. The association will send team
Of three riders to Los Angeles to compete
in the championship races at the State
meet of the Y. M. G. A.
There is a proposition on foot to estab-
lish sort of country cycling clubhouse
somewhere in the vicinity OF San Mateo,
together with fine grounds and fast
three-lap cement track. The required
capital has been secured, and if it is
properly managed the scheme should
prove very profitable and a great boom for
cycling. The location talked of is this
side of San Mateo, and the project will De
backed with sufficient capital to insure
everything being first class. The pro-
moters are not yet ready to give full par
ticulars, but they will appear through The
CALLS columns shortly.
The Eintracht Cyclers have flve-m1le
road race scheduled for tomorrow over
the San Mateo course shortly after 2 P. NJ.
The Pacific Cycling Club will hold run
to Woodside tomorrow, starting from
Twentv-frst and Valencia streets at A. NJ.
SPALpING.
How Bicycles VIII Modify Fashions.
If the women who wheel did but know
it they would undoubtedly be Influenced
by the fact, patent to all men, that all the
compromise garments for bicycle wear are
hideous. says the editor Of the Philistine.
There is no beauty in and of any of them.
The more cut off they are the worse
There is only one element of grace about
drapery, and that is in it's flowing lines
The cutoff Russian blouses are no love1ier
than high hat or hydrant cover. By
and by, when PhilIstine good sense shall
have won dominion over the ladies who
bike, it will be discovered by them that
there is no essential impurity in dress.
The woman who does masculine things
should wear masculine covering. Why
not? Is it to be assumed that the pedal
branches of the human form divine are by
any natural law Hnder the ban2 Or is it
custom that makes the difference? If SO,
it will be deemed indecent one of these
days to dr6pe the arms now hidden in
balloons, in the tight sleeves Of our elder
sisters.
1t may be guessed at q venture, there
DelUS no SACcpb JHdb
tyranny that controls ali matters of femi-
nine custom, that the difficulty would be
met in some measure if the fair wheelers
did not have to get off the machine IN pub
lie view. Even man is apt to be embar-
rassed when he walks the pavement with
clamp around his neither drapery, both
looking and feeling as If he had been
through burdocks and come away loaded.
1t is of easy recollection how one feels on
the broad walk with clinging garments
that we've all right in the water moment
ago.
The ladies might be willing to wear
knickerbockers-and they ought to be told
that in nothing else would they look so
well-if by some contrivance a fall of
drapery sheltered the too-freely evidenced
pedestals of beauty when off the wheel.
What Felix will invent such curtain and
a way of keeping it out OF the way when
not wanted? Here is an opening for gen.
ius-and benefcent one, for by such de-
vices is civilization advanced.
On what ought to be very good authority
/ am told that if the women who wheel
adopt knickerbockers there will be more
care of the female infants of the next gene
ration. Some of the ladies who most
strongly object to the advanced and adj
vancing style are said to have good reasons
in the matter of physical conformation. I
know parents who are very careful not to
let their boy babies stand alone too early
fearing bowlegs. Perhaps the parents of
the future will be equally careful about
girls, in view of the changing fashion in
neither drapery.