The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-13

Sec; C. Meyer, 40 Sec; C. T. Roach, A.
| W. Shields and E. BelIman, scratch.
The Imperial Cycling Club has had a
committee at work for the past week
| formulating plan for the incorporation of
| the club. a report will be made at the
meeting next Monday night. The club
has Just received 100 of the elegant gold
buttons recently ordered for members, the
design being a royal crown of gold, the
center set with pearl enamel, on which ap-
pears in white letters, Imperial q. Z.
| Tomorrow the Imperial Club will have
club run TO Camp Taylor, led by Captain
! Egan. They Will start on the 9 A. NJ. Sau-
| salito ferry and take the train 10 San An
selma, and will wheel from there to Camp
| Taylor and return, distance OF twelve
miles each way. Frank NJ. Byrne, the
well-known class A racer of this club, goes
to San Jose this morning to commence ac-
tive training for the great races there next
| Friday and Saturday.
The Olympic Club Wheelmen will hold a
club run to-day to Petaluma. They will
| take the A. NJ. Tiburon ferry and local
train to San Rafael, riding from that point
| The distance each way is about twenty-five
| miles.
The Olympic Club Wheelmen propose to
! have banquet among themselves and
| Messrs. Thornton, Stratton and Hunter
have been appointed committee to ar
range time ana place. II 1t is on par
with their smoker" last January it will
certainly be very Jolly gathering.
W. c. LOWE of Redwood City, a very fast
rider, rode the third relay for the Caiifor-
mia Cycling Club last Sunday and met with
an accident. His namesake, Lou W. Lovey
of this city, well-known wheelman has
since been receiving innumerable letters
from his friends offering sympathy and
asking as to his condition. Mr.. LOWE of
u Adj hoe, hort frnr1l
the collision and consequent fall he suf-
fered.
Racing men will do well to keep their
eyes on the Santa Rosa rose carnival, to be
| to be held May s, and 10. Bicycle races
will be run every day in conjunction with
| the general programme, and as the prizes
will be up to the standard good many of
the local riders will doubtless compete. A
good chance for a "pot-hunting" expedi-
ton for some crack class B man here pre-
sents itself
Captain Peppin, the newly elected road
officer of the San Jose Road Club, has
called a run to-day for Palo Alto, stopping
at Santa Clara to witness the five-mile road
race for the Santa Clara championship, to
start at 8 A. NJ. Next Tuesday evening
there will be an entertainment and ball at
the Road Club Hail. G. E. High won the
medal offered by the club to the man
attending the most runs, he having at
tended them all. w. Harris, who was
injured badly in the relay race, is slowly
improving, but will not be out for some
time. A committee has been appointed to
secure if possible the use of the Central
Park track in this city on which to hold a
race meet, there being no track available for
| the clubs use in San Jose. The club has
| some good men entered in the races to be
| held at San Jose next week including
Ziegler, Mcfarland, Schwall, Larder, Nav
let, and Carroll, Benson, Peppin and
| Belloh in the novice.
The Sonoma Bicycle Club has recently
been organized with the following officers
E. r. Perkins, president; Fred Batto, vice.
president; George w. Reed, captain; Ben
jamIn Weed, secretary; H. II. Granice,
treasurer.
E. p. Lewis is actively engaged in organ
izing bicycle club in Ukiah, that thriving
! town now having great many wheelmen.
The Acme Club Wheelmen of Oakland
will hold run tomorrow to Oak Grove,
on the road to San Pablo, where lunch
will be spread and the riders will be joined
! by the trampers' annex of the club.
a large party of ladies rode up from San
Jose last Saturday afternoon to lend the
| encouragement of their presence to the
| Garden City Cyclers in the great relay race
| Sunday. After the race, in which their
club finished an easy third, they rode back
| to San Jose on the Oakland side of the bay,
much discouraged, and with half an inten-
| ton of joining the Associated Clubs them
selves and entering team in next years
event. The riders were all members of
the Ladies Cycling Club of San Jose, an
organization with a large membership OF
| enthusiastic wheelwomen.
R. Harry KaYanagh, NJ. Mitchell Shields
and party of four other wheelmen rode
to San Jose last Sunday. 1t was their first
trip for such distance, but they arrived
in good shape, though very tired. Shields
was an old-time member of the Bay City
! Wheelmen and one OF the best ordinary
riders on the coast. SPALDING.