The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-11


California, in fact on this Coast. and that
means good deal The Eastern men
are looking to the Coast for great things;
the riders realize that the men who can
keep in perfect trim the year around are
the ones who are going to make the
records.
There are no great events announced
for the immediate future, locally, but the
next four months are sure to bring some
big events and the local riders are keep
ing in touch with the Eastern events
awaiting developments.
The Syracuse people have established
themselves firmly in Los Angeles and
Mike" Dirnberger, their crack racing
man, will be out here shortly to show the
locals how to pedal. Mike" is a great
favorite. and his coming will enthuse the
local riders greatly.
Steve Spier OF the Rambler troupe is
down in Arizona. On February 22d, he
was at Phoenix and did himself and the
Rambler proud. Steve was always great
on tandem racing and the report of the
racing at Phoenix on Washington's Birth
day shows that he was unable to let the
day pass without demonstrating his
tandem baldheaded ability.
The last event was a tive-mile race be-
tween Sleator and Spier on tandem
and Kelly. Bowers, Warren and kibby.
Each of the latter did a relay of a mile
and quarter, while the tandem team
stuck to it for the entire five miles.
Sleator and Spier gaind two laps on their
adversaries in the course of the race.
winning easily in 12:0412, averaging 2:25
per mile The time by miles was 2:24Ia
2:231a, 2:24l9, 2:27 and 2:25.
Mrs. Spier has handsome nickel
plated drop-frame Rambler, which arrived
Wednesday at the Rambler store. The lit
Al II,
\. w. Cleaver. the Chicago rider, de-
parted for San Francisco Wednesday, He
will return by wheel the latter part of the
month.
ID. B. Stephenson, representing the
Central Cycle Manufacturing Company of
indianapolis. Ind, makers of the Ben Hur
bicycles, is in the city.
Leach & Larsen, 3Os W. Sixth street,
have put in line OF the Clipper wheels.
The Orange county wEeelmen have de-
cided to put in a new three-lap track III
the Palmer tract in the southern part
of Santa Ana.
The Riverside wheelmen have under
taken new thing. Remenyi. the violin
ist, appears at Riverside on Friday night
under their auspices, and the organization
expects to make a good sum by the enter
prise.
The Riverside wheelmen are going to
build three-mile track
The proposed twenty-five mile road race
of the California Associated Cycling clubs
was run on Sunday last over the San
Leandro triangle. Thirty men started
and eighteen finished The course was
not in the best OF condition and heavy
north wind retarded the riders. A.
Schwall of the San Jose road club, an
eight-minute man, captured first place.
Emil Ulbricht of Los Angeles and Walter
Foster of San Francisco were scratch men.
Ulbricht set the pace in the face OF the
heavy gale until the final squirt, when
Foster went to the front and won time,
breaking the coast road record for the
distance previously held by Faulkner of
the Acmes. Fosters time was :l2:55 As,
which is 6:0S l-5 better than that of
Faulkner.
The Stearns ladies wheel has arrived in
town and its graceful lines are being much
admired
The Fowler Cycle company will this
week have in few Wilhelm tandems.
The Los Angeles wheelmen have secured
a sanction for May 30th and will give a
big race meet at Athletic Park on that
day. 1t is thought several Eastern cracks
will be in attendance. AT any rate, it
will be the greatest one-day meet ever
held in California.
Extensive preparations are already
making for the Sana Monica road race on
July Fourth. The entries this year will
list will be such as to put everyone lin
for the money!
The one topic of conversation about the
club rooms OF San Francisco now is the
annual relay race which takes place on
April 9TH.
At present the teams are not made up,
and speculation as to their formation is
the foundation of all the talk. The race
is very open and the result would easily
be changed by accident. Some of the
teams are entirely made up of Class 4
men, while others will be altogether Glass
b. Coulter rides with the Olympic; Zieg-
Ter, San Jose Road Club Harbottle Re-
lance; Edwards, Garden City Cyclers.
Bald and Macdonald cannot ride unless
they were elected members of some asso-
citation prior to February LIST.
Z Barry Baldwin and j. Downey Harvey
have brought out their bicycles, after a
season of inactivity, says the Examiner,
and their friends may soon look for
delicate shade of tan on their features,
the result of exposure to the sun during
their trips down the Haywards road.
Douglas Writ II nc III fi1erald was the
purchaser OF the first Syracuse to arrive
in town.
E. c. Bald, Raymond Macdonald, w. F.
Sims and Asa Windle, their trainer, will
arrive i'll San Francisco today
They will be allowed to reach that city