The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-09

SOOo anu pdu III places, Dut average well
and are all ridable as far as Santa Cruz.
Mr.. Thompson made the journey both
ways on his wheel and was delighted with
his trip.
Morton and Andre of the Liberty Club
will start for weeks trip through Santa
Cruz and Monterey counties next Satur-
day.
The Olympic Club Wheelmen will give
bronze century" bars to all their mem
bers who ride 100 miles within one day of
fourteen hours during the coming season.
This is a practice quite prevalent in the
East, 1t being the custom there after man
has earned say five or ten bronze bars to
exchange them for one silver bar, and there
is considerable rivalry among the riders to
make as many centuries as possible during
the riding season. This practice keeps the
men interested in road-riding, and the
clubs are consequently greatly benefited.
Frank w. Fuller has recovered from the
severe fall he suffered while riding at the
Pavilion races last month. He has an
nounced that he will not give up wheeling,
although he has forsworn all track-racing,
and will hereafter be only an interested
spectator.
Next Tuesday evening the Liberty Cy-
cling Club will hold its first ladies' night.
The affair takes place at the clubrooms,
corner of Mission and Erie streets, and
should prove very enjoyable.
Interest in wheeling has again been re-
ylved in Petaluma, and a club is now in
existence there with a membership of over
100. Before long the Bay City Wheelmen
will make their regular annual pilgrimage
in that direction, and while there will be
the guests of the Petaluma Wheelmen,
whose emblem is a tortoise.
The first Of the California Cycling Clubs
ten-mile try-outs, to select their relay
riders, will take place tomorrow over the
course from Fruitvale to Haywards, the
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Fruitvale. A club run to witness the race,
composed of those riders who will not
participate, will go over on the A. NJ.
boat. The second try-out will be held
week from tomorrow.
Napa is coming to the fore as a cycling
town and club will soon be organized
there. Some five or six years ago the
Vineyard Valley Wheelmen were quite
prominent in that vicinity and a race meet
was held there on Thanksgiving day of
1889, which proved very successful. Since
then, however interest in the sport has
Jagged until recently. The wheelmen
there are now joining the League of
American Wheelmen and intend to again
be ''in the SWIM"
The Imperial Club will journey to Red
wood City tomorrow, under Captain
Egan, starting from the clubrooms on
Golden Gate avenue at A. NJ. The ten
mile roadrace of this club, which was to be
held tomorrow, has been postponed in
favor of this club run. The fact is the
riders of the club are not satisfied with the
acknowledgement course, and after
riding over the road to Redwood to-mOr-
row may decide to hold their roadrace on
the ten-mile stretch from San Mateo. to
Redwood City, which is said to be in SPLEEN
did condition. Messrs. Adams, Egan,
Millett, Burns and Earle, the racing com
mittee of the CLUB, will decide this.
The Imperials have been presented by
Frank a. McCarty with a bull pup, which
bids fair to rival the celebrated mascot of
the Bay City Wheelmen, mike" which it
greatly resembles.
The Santa Rosa Wheelmen have adopted
a new uniform, as follows: Boomers and
coat of gray, black stockings, white sweater
and black cap. The clubs emblem is a
white rose. Gray has been found the most
seryiceable for a cyclists use and it is
probable that the Garden City Cyclers of
San Jose will adopt this color.
The wheelroom at the Olympic Club is
being considerably enlarged, as it was
found insufficient in size to accommodate
the requirements of the wheelmen's in
creasing membership.
Emil Ulbricht, who made such good
showing against Foster in the 25-mile race
last Sunday, has returned to Los Angeles,
where his business interests are, but will
be back here in April and will ride in the
great 100miIe relay as member of the
Bay City Wheelmen's team. 1t is likely
that f. G. Lacey will also come up and ride
for the same club.
The Liberty Cycling Club has elected the
following new members: G. Payton, c.
Koch, S. Honigsberger, G. Steiner and o.
st. Denis. The regular weekly meetings
OF this club will be held on Tuesday even
ings hereafter instead of Thursday. To-
morrow the club viii have a run to the
Presidio. and roadrace over the San
Leandro course is contemplated for
April IA.
The next regular meeting of the Cali
fornia Associated Cycling Clubs will be
held at the rooms of the Olympic Club
Wheelmen Saturday evening, April 13.
Tomorrow the Reliance Club Wheel
men of Oakland will hold their postponed
five-mile handicap roadrace from Fruit
vale to San Leandro. Captain Bates says
there will be about twenty starters, and as
Harbottle, Bates and Dieckmann start
from scratch a pretty race should result.
Captain Kitchen of the Acme Club
Wheelmen of Oakland has called ten
mile run for tomorrow from High street,
Fruitvale,. to Haywards over the regular
Associated Clubs ten-mlle course. This is
more for the purpose of picking riders for
the relay team than it is in the nature of
road race, but the scratch men will try for
the ten-mile record nevertheless.
There Is much rejoicing among class A
racers. AT the recent meeting OF the League
OF American Wheelmen, held in New York,
the rule which limits class prizes to
medals, iewelry, plate, etc, was amended
owing to the impossibiity of enforcing it.
Now anything not exceeding $50 in value
may be given as prize. The class B rid
ers may race for prizes not exceeding in
value $3.50. The latter class of riders can
also race wherever they like practically,
while class A men must only ride within
radius of 200 miles of their homes.
Hereafter the dues OF the league will be
20 cents year. This does not include
the League Bulletin, subscription to which
is optional; it will hereafter be published
for 70 cents year. The league in this
State Is increasing in membership very
rapidly. Clubs are joining in bodies, and
many unattached riders are coming into
the fold, realizing that they get returns for
their dues greatly in excess of the amount
expended. 1t costs a club nothing to be
league club, the only requirement. being
that all its members shall belong to the
organization, and by being league club
preference is had over other clubs in the
matter OF sanctions for race meets, and
many other advantages are obtainable that
can only be had in that way.
The San Francisco Bicycle Track Asso-
citation held a meeting at the rooms of the
Imperial Cycling Club last Thursday even
ing, and delegates were present from all