The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-27
THE WHEELMEN.
Entries and Handicaps for the
Acme Wheelmen's Road Race.


CLUB EVENTS TOMORROW.
Acme Club Wheelmen Road race
Fruitvale- Haywards.
Bay City WheeIm en-Run to Petaluma.
Camera Club CycIists-Run to Center
VILE.
Crescent Whee1men-Runt to Haywards.
Crescent Road CIub-Run to Camp
Taylor.
Garden City CycIers-Run to Alviso.
Golden Gate Cycling Club-Blind run.
Liberty Cycling Club-Run to Oakland
foothills.
Outing ROAD CIub-Run to park.
Olympic Club Wheelmen-Run to Hay
wards with Merton Duxbury.
Pacific Cycling CIub-Run to Laundry
Farm.
Royal Cycling CIub-Run to park.
San Francisco Road CIub-Blind run.
San Jose Road Club-Run to AlViso.
There will be a big road race over the
ten-mile course from Fruitvale to Hay
wards tomorrow afternoon at o'clock
between the members of tina Acme Club
Wheelmen. This club is noted for its fast
road-riders, and to-morrows event will be
exciting and closely contested, as the men
are all we'll trained and will ride their best.
The following are the entries and handi-
caps: W. A. Burke, c. NJ. Castleman and
G. A. Nissen, scratch; O. L. Pickard, ]. H.
Otey, II. Hutchinson, 81 min; H. w.
Phillips, B. Z. Elford, a. H. Agnew, Will
liam Greavs, George Brouillet, 81 min;
J. E. Scott, E. A. Rogers, s.. c. Hewlett, 4
min; George Humphrey, B. j. Sears, L.
w. Sherman, 3 min.; J. A Chyner, S.
Archer, C. Lautfin, j. L. Wetmore, 81
min T. c. McKinstry NJ E. Laubratich,
min.
With twenty-three such good men in
road race it should be well worth witness
ing. Burke is said not to be very we'll and
may not show up as well as his record
warrants. The others are all right and the
pace will be hot from start to finish.
The Crescent Athletic Club Wheelmen
of Berkeley will hold a one mile track race
for club members at the Oakland Trotting
Park on Sunday, August 4. The club
should be warned not to give any prizes
for this event, as it would be violation of
a rule which the League of American
Wheelmen is strict in enforcing and would
result in all the riders being suspended for
thirty or sixty days. Tomorrow the club
will have a run to Haywards to see the
Acme road race.
Next in importance to the Acme race
comes the big Joint club run of the Bay
City Wheelmen and Imperial Cycling Club
tomorrow to Petaluma under Captains
Dodge and Johnson. The men will take
the O'Clock Tiburon ferry and train to
San Rafael, riding from there to their des-
tination, some twenty-five miles away,
over a rolling country and good roads.
The Bay Citys Will turn out fifty men
easily and the Imperials as many more.
What the effect will be on quiet Petaluma
when these hundred noisy cyclists reach
there is not hard to imagine. Some of the
men will ride home after lunch and others
VIII take the train.
r. NJ. Welch of the Racing Board will
undoubtedly suspend F. G. Heineman and
e. c. Barley from the l.. a. w. for one
year for racing against each other last Sun
day when he had expressly advised them
not to do so. Several of the papers have
taken this up as though it was a matter of
great concern. Had.the riders in question
been crackerjacks it might have been a
loss to the sport; but they are only ordi-
nary class A handicap riders at best, with
minor regulations for speed. 1t is we'll
that the racing board can use them as
terrible example" to the racer who dares
disobey its mandates. Chairman WEIGH
has proved himself by long odds the most
efficient representative of the Racing Board
we have ever had out here, and his de-
cisions are much admired for their impair
TALLY and fairness.
The Crescent Road Club will hold run
to Camp Taylor to- morrow. The start
will be made from the cIGbrooms, 81 Oc-
tavia street. at 7:30 A. NJ, taking the 8
O'Clock Sausalito boat and train to San
Anselmo. This is one of the prettiest
trips near San Francisco, and the ride is
very easy.
Under the guidance of Captain F. w.
Paulson the Pacific Cycling Club will ride
to Laundry Farm tomorrow, starting on
the 9 o'clock broad-gauge boat.
Merton DuXbury will start on his long
return trip across the continent tomorrow
morning, leaving from Seventh and Mar
ket streets at 8 A. NJ. A large number of
wheelmen will be there to see him off, and
he will be escorted a short distance by the
Olympic Club Wheelmen. There is no
truth in the rumor that Duxbury is to re-
turn here next spring to ride In the
Olymplcs relay team. Duxbury will take
the $3.50 boat tomorrow morning, and
wheel via Livermore to Stockton, where he
is to meet I. r. Lille, the holder of the
present transcontinental record, which
Duxbury IS going to try to break. Then
he VIII ride to Sacramento, and from there
follow the Central Pacific Railroad tracks
10 Ogden From this point his route is not
positively mapped out. The record he will
try to beat is fifty-nine days from San
Francisco to New York, and Duxbury
thinks he can bring it down to fifty-four
days.
There will be an important meeting of
the Olympic Club WheeImen Tuesday
@Vening, July 80. The question of holding