The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-12-07
The PEDAL PUSHERS
Why One Official Opposes
the Laying Of an Asphalt
Path on Grand Street.
JERSEY CITY CLUB BoWLERs
Divide Honors with the Crack Team
of the Columbia Club-CYclers
Play Billiards.

lay an asphalt strip on both sides OF
Grand street from the hill to the ferry.
This is to be lone without expense to the
city, and the path. of course, is not TO
be reserved wholly for wheelmen.
with this end in view / called upon the
city official in question n laid the plan
before him. That gentleman said ne saw
many obstacles to the scheme, the great
est one being that 1t would spoil the ap-
pearance of the street,"
That the wheelmen were dumfounded
is not to be wondered at. How anything
could spoil the appearance" of Grand
street is beyond the conception of the
most imaginative. The wheelmen are
pushing the project, confident that the
necessary permission win be secured from
the Board of Street and Water Commits
sioners.
New JERSEYS Good Roads.
Chief Consul Gentle, of the New Jersey
Division of the L. A. w, speaks gloomily
of the work accomplished by the ag1ta-
ton for good roads. He says that the
reports of the local %consuls, which are
now coming in, indicate that a great deal
has been done in the way of highway i'm
provement during the year, and that the
DrOSDGcIS IQf even 1uOTt tAtChSAtC I'LL
provement next year are very f1atterlng.
Potter ON Racing.
Chief Consul Potter, of the New York
Division, League Of American Wheeimen,
has come out in a long interview, IN
which he ~denounces L. A. ". control OF
racing in universal terms. In the course
of the interview he says
There are several hundred thousand cy
clists in the United States eligible to mem
bership n the I. A: W, ana aIier nft EEL
drawn Within its ranks a number vari-
ously estimated at from 2 to 5 per cent.
of the total. Has the league been adver-
Of copies Of newspapers every day an
nouuce the granting of sanctiones by
which the ma minority permits the
majority to hold race meets, the sus-
pending Of racers, the transfer Of com
petitors from Glass A to Class =, the
branding of new professionals, the con-
tentions, quarrels, threats and abusive
the corruption of riders by men engaged
in a selfish huckstering trade, and now
gravely announce that he Jealous and
fearless chairman OF our racing ooaTo
ssThis sort of advertising does the
league great harm. From my own expe-
rience I ann satisfied that it keeps from
our ranks thousands of wheelmen, bust
ness men and professional men, whose
influence would be of vast benefit TO the
On the other hand the rae.
increase in membership. The racer
gets no advantage as q g member
already enjoyed by every wheelman
who enters a cycling contest. LOOK over
the list Of cycling clubs that have re,
ceived sanctions from the racing board
in the last two years and you will ind
less than q per cent. of them TO be league
1--WE find the wheelmen want to join the
league because they want road BOOKS,
tour books, maps, good roads, guide
ments, protection in towns II cities.
park and suburban privileges and better
laws, and they know that all these things
can be had by unity Of action OIL, Ana n Is, 50,
as a sport, I am in favor of RELOCATING
This form Of athletics to the management
of an athletic organisation"
Chairman Gidaon's Axe.
The Racing Board of the 4. A.. ". made
week. Following is Chairman Gideon's
bufefin:ARecords Accepted-Half a mile,
CLASS A, tandem, unpaced, flying start,
against time, by e: s. Henshaw n os-
fat. Messrs, Henshaw and Hedstrom
also held the mile unpaced tandem record
of 2.06 3-5 from October 5 to October %.
races:-R. Davis and Ben Head,
GrindeH. Ia; Fred TerTaberry, Malcolm,
Ia; Henry Evans and E. Pearson. Hol-
dredge. Neb.; p: D, southwick., Alma,
Neb.; Ernest Carpenter, Bertrand, Neb.,
for sixty days from November q.
Declared Professionally. II. Knaus,
&c. Dolcater and Henry Metealf, Guthrie,
tie and Dan Deal, Warrensburg Ill. under
A., also suspended for six months
for false ENTRY, from November ~; e.. E.
White, T~aylorville, Ill under clause a,
peting at unsanctioned races, from No
vember q; Roy Peebles, C~arlinville, III,
under clause A. also suspended for six
undaa an fr asnu Ssp's na,ne; A e9a r4erp Reins
ecke and W. w. Davidson, Elkader, Ia;
under clause A, also suspended pending
settlement of charges q having ai1xed"
under clause A, also suspended pending
of charges of having fixed
a race; Roy Jewell, Strawberry Point,
ing settlement Of charges. Of having
liked, 4 race; Louis Haefner, Girafd,
Ia, under clause Al Arnold Oelke, Farm
ersburg, Ia under clause 4;
Arkley, Ed. Barker, Z. Downing, Lyman
Saunders and Bert G. Stuart, Lompoc.
Cal, and clause A.
Board, A. 3. D~iffenderfer, Birmingham.
acting under article ~, section 4 by
laws.
A.. G.. q. whist schedule.
Following is the schedule. arranged for
the whist tournament OF the Associated
Clubs of New Jersey
December 6~-Englewood VS.. Bloomfield.
December lS-Bioomfield VS.. Paterson.
f0-Belleviiie vs., Bloomfield.
january i7-Bloomf1eld VS. Montclair.
January A-Ridgefie1d vs.. Bloomfield.
January 21-Paterson VS.. Bloomfield.
February 7LMontclair VS.. Bloomfield.
FEBRUARY l-Bloomf1eld VS.. B~eileville.
February 21-Bloomfield VS.. Engieweod.
The remaining dates in the Associated
Cycling Clubs, pool tournament for the
daily Advertiser trophy are as follows:
Thursday. December 1H0boken VS..
Bloomfield.
Tuesday, December le-Blomfield VS..
Newark.
Thursday, December H-Newark VS.
Bloomfield.
Tuesday, December T--Bloofnfield VS..
MUntclair.
Thursday. December 1s-Paterson vs.
Bloomfield.
Thursday, january lBloomaeld VS..
Paterson.
Friday, January 1o-Bloomfeld vs..
Friday. january 17-Montclair vs..
Bloomfield.
Wednesday, February 5-Bloomfield VS..
East Drange.
friday, February H-Bellevi1le vs..
Bloomfield.
Spokes From the Wheel.
The Arcantam Wheelfherl will hold q
club run to Staten Island tomorrow after
Captain blair will meet the boys at
Seh tiotzan Pa rx at fwo osclork