The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-23
CRACKS ALL ENTER
The Big Road Race on
Thanksgiving Day Will
Be Holly Contested.
NAPLES WIN THE RUBBER
The Terrapins Receive a Bad De-
feat-Record Of the League
Football.

sistant marshals are still to be selected,
and as soon as this is done the clubs
will be notified SO that they may know
to whom to report on the day of the
parade.
In the matter of prizes for the ten
mile handicap road race the Road Com
mittee desires to state that the third
prize will not be a cup, as advertised on
the entry blanks, but a solid silver to-
bacco box. The committee also announces
that the second time prize is a gold re-
ception chair and not a mahogany chair,
as advertised O the blanks. These an
nouncements are made because the dom
ors of the above prizes selected articles
different from what they first intended
to present, and in order that the matter
may be fully understood by the
riders this statement is made.
Although the entry blanks for the race
We're not sent out until Thursday the
Road Committee have already received
a large number of entries, among them
Blakeslee, Roome, Darmer, Rohlfs, Liv-
ingston and Seitz. The entries will not
close until Tuesday evening.
Arcapum Wbeeim.n's Run.
If the weather proves favorable to-
morrow the Arcanum Wheelmen will
hold the oft-postponed run to Snake Hill.
The start will be made from the head
quarters in Linden Hall promptly at
half past eight o'clock, and the route will
be via the Boulevard and the County
situations will be visited. Unattached
wheelmen are cordially invited to parti-
ipate in the run.
A Mile a Minute.
Charlie Murphy still retains the belief
that he can follow a locomotive, at a
m i1n q r1inr1tn poit and ic now nnncidar-
ing several propositions to make the at
tempt, 1t is possible he will try the feat
next spring. He will remain in Califor-
Pacific Railroad, which is building a
track at Santa Monica, is considering
the ~advisability of making the necessary
preparations for the trial. Murphy wants
a level stretch three miles long, as he
will require a mile start and a mile to
finish. He is confident of success If prop
err facilities can be had. A 120 gear will.
he accomplishes his object Murphy will
probably accept In offer to go On the
stage.
Racing Board Bulletin.
The weekly bulletin of Chairman Gid
con of the Racing Board, L. A. W., is
The resignation of William Taylor has
been accepted, and H. S. Crosby of To-
cancy.
Suspended, pending an investigation-R.
Parker Rich. Harrisburg; A, F; Diffen-
derger, Binghampton; F. r. Barnard,
Brockton, Mass.
suspensions-victor S. Reed and J. H.
Whelan, Youngstown, O.; S. C~ottingham,
Continental; Robert Wood. Oberlin; Geo.
H. Hale, East Liverpool; W. G. Ranhart,
and John NJ. Crawford, Massillon; P. ].
Mcintyre, Alfred Mcnamara and George
E. Meyers, Cleveland, under general rules
of the League for entering races of the
Central Ohio Fair Company, Orville, O.,
and failing to appear; Charles Stangle,
La Crosse, Wis, for sixty days from No
vember 16 for competing in unsanctioned
races.
Transfers to Glass B-Charles H. Wer-
lex, Buffalo, at his own request; c. B.
Wiese Hammer of Philadelphia BY unanl-
nous vote of the Racing Board; c. w.
Miller, Louisville; J. J.. Bezenek n Pat
rick Shelton of Chicago.
Declared PROFESSIONALS. E. Snyder,
Oklahoma; George A. Eisenhart, Mulber-
ry, Ind; B. F. Cramer. Shannon, III.
How TO Repair n Leaky Valve.
Practically speaking, no valve will in
definitely prevent air from escaping from
a tire. Given a good valve, in fact given
the best of valves, no tire can go with
out pumping until it has become inflated
through the accident of puncture or the
opening of the valve itself. Should a
perfectly sound tire need repumping once
each week or oftener, it is time to give
the valve an ov~erhauling. The majority
of slight but vexatious leakages are due
to the valve and not to the tire.
When you go into a valve investigation
remove the dust ear and touch the end
of the valve with saliva, watch then if
a bubble forms. If this fails, and the
leak continues, take out the air tube,
slightly initiate it and immense the entire
valve in water.
valve is to blame, first try. tightening up
the nuts and screws. If this fails, open
the valve and clean out carefully any
grit that may possibly have found its
Wau into the dnn9rtmnuf of tho intartor
If rubber is used there, renew it. Be
careful in screwing up the nuts not to
edges exist use only to fingers for tight
ening purposes.
Timely Tips.
If you needs must leave your wheel
over night IL a wet and muddy state,
sprinkle sawdust over it, n it will alb
sorb the moisture, and the mud will drop
off with the sawdust.
A monkey wrench is an Essential part
of a wheelynan's equipment, but to mon
key with a wrench Is the worst possible
the wrench now and then to try whether
the various nuts are tight. as they
good thing is not to be sought after.
Too frequent tightening is r~uination to
nuts and boltheads, say nothing of
threads and the wrench itself. Use a
wrench carefully and nationally or else
not at all.
Sometimes the canvas backing Of the
outer cover becomes in need Of repair.
When this is the case it is best that
the repairing canvas should be large
enough to reach from side to side, or
from wire to wire, if the tire is wired
on. The advantage Of this is that the
air pressure cannot then blow the patch
out-a thing not unusual where a small
patch is put over a large-sized cut in a
tire-besides which it helps to keep the
outer cover in its proper shape. A tire
repaired as above will never look lumpy
and bulgy as some tires do after one or
two repairs.
If you had a valuable watch and it
failed to run right, would you intrust
its REPAYMENT to the first shop over
whose door was a sign Watches mend
ed here? Not unless you were a fool
you would not. Why then take a wheel,
upon whose soundness and perfect run
ming often your life depends, and rand
it over to a "repairer" regarding whose
ability and integrity you know nothing?
There are more incompetent cycle re-
| pairers than there are watchmakers, yet
you trust your life with the former,
where you are chary of intrusting your
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