The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-04-18
BUSY BICYCLISTS.
Local Pedal Pushers Pre-
pairing for an Active
Season New Clubs.
DICK y0sS' INDIANS SCALED
Ran Amuck in Newark and We're
Worsted--In the Roped
Arena.

The growth of cycling this season has
resulted in new clubs throughout the
city. The most prominent and success
full of the new organizations are the
Clio Wheelmen. This club has grown in
membership so rapidly that such old or
CARNATIONS as the Hudson County Wheel
men will nave to hustle to keep a COM
manding position in wheeling circles.
The latest in wheeling circles is the or
ganization of clubs which procure wheels
Ifor their members at reduced rates and
upon the installment system. The plan
is as follows
Glasses are formed of from forty to
fifty members who pay from $3.50 to 81
per week. Each week a drawing takes
place and one member receives a wheel,
and is then dropped from the roll and a
new name substituted. In this manner
wheels are furnished to the club members
pom the payment of a small sum. and
ley continue to pay an assessment each
eek until the wheels are paid for.
Frank P. Prial, the former official
Handicapped of the l.. A. w. has the
following to say regarding the present
racing SYSTEM
.sClass A is a farce. 1t is a class of
pure amateurs without purity. Glass B
is a mongrel class. 1t is a class of wage
earners-that is, professionals. Glass A
should be kept in a severely ~puritanical
State. Glass B men should-well, there
should be no class 3 men: they should
all be placed in the professional class.
IAN honest professional racing man is
y,as good as an honest A or B man. The
~'ustatus of a professional depends not
upon a class which should not carry with
IL a half mark of disgrace, but upon him
helf, upon his personality, upo his equip
rsnent- 1t should be once a gentleman,
sr and many others have proven that the
haroverb can be lived up to-.
IN, .'T ghser diflseu 1T tb is e F mana bs a az ela snls Of
genuinely honest sportsmen, the very ,ex-
tract of pure am~ateurism. To establish
honest is the question; But now we must
g 20 me stS e. h dgghsf wa me e must 5 STEP epea atea
IMPORTED. ~anEfaetmr or in any other
way suddenly thrust or superimposed
upon cycle racing. We want it deyeloped,
Knows what class B-ism IS. The public
accept B men as professionals, which
u declare the B men back in the anna
tteur class. They were taken out of that
eclass under certain conditions. Place
ans m al slaI 1af & a a%9Ing the RstsSiis and then ZEE,
trust classes. amateur and professional.
ect your racing policy In the height
~Lue year 1870, - LID u IA 81 AAt
the grafton in 1896.
"a compel all meet promoters of national
~otrcuit ace meets ITO provide at least
i Gso professional events. Get your anna
I vlr prizes down to the lowest intrinsic
slue, always keeping them entirely in
on trophy or class. Transfer
inspe the professional class any man who
,ina+ even the slightest direct or indirect
return out of cycle racing. The
lonSfessional class will be the best puri-
.onEr of the amateur class"
chairman Gideon of the Racing Board
teef the League of American Wheelmen
offers the following suggestions to race
omoting clubs:-"In class A prizes of
Observation-Disclosures TO the value
of $50 may he offered: this does not adj
NIT, however, of ridiculous prizes or
prizes calculated to injure the sport. Any
class A racing man employed in the
cycle trade may be transferred to class
B without further cause. Applications
for sanctions for meets must be accom-
panied by fees for sanction. No applica-
ton can be considered valid unless fees
are RENTED. No sanction may be grant
ed for an event to take place on Sunday
or in which women can participate. No
private record trials will be sanctioned
during the principal racing season, proba-
bly, from June l to October l. No ap-
peal from referees decision will be con-
sidered unless made within one week
of date of meet"
The regular monthly meeting of the
Metropolitan Association of Cycling Clubs
will be held on April 26.