New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-10-11
IN THE CYCLING WORLD.
COMPETENT OFFICIAL TIMERS NEEDED
FOR RECORD TRIALS.

| CHIEF CONSUL POTTER AT wORK-LocAL RIDERS
CAN BREATHE EASY FOR ANOTHER WEEK AT
LEAST POLITICAL CANDIDATES IN
BROOKLYN LOOKING Foa THE suP-
PORT or wHEELMEN-oTHEn
NOTES AND COMMENTS
This is the time OF year when the speedy Class u
and professional riders begin their attacks on the
time records The record smashing will be con-
tinued right through the winter. the riders fleeing
before the frost first TO the South and later 10
California That the present system or timing THESE
trials IS wrong Is admitted by we.l-informeH wheel
men incompetent timers ofiiciate in many cases
The breaking of records has become a matter OF
business OF barter and sale The League OF Amer'
can Wheelmen should have regular official PAID
timers Then record trials would be accepted with
out comment The l.. A. W. need not go TO any
EXPENSE in the matter for those who want records
broken can we'll afford to pay for them
Isaac T. Potter is hard at work on l.. A. w mat
ters and it is his ambition to bring the MEMBERSHIP
In this State up 1900. and he believes ne WIZ
accomplish this result. Il am working now sau
the chief consul Ito get all the manufacturers 10
nrint the l. 4 W membership blank on their cata-
Iorues The trade is just as much interested IN the
question Of good roads as we are, ana the inAhe'S
should do all they can for us. There IS Tremendous
number of those catalogues issued every year anu
If there IS an l.. y. W. blank III every o''e - ~
do much good.
Il have heard a great deal of the bicycle race
said an observing member of local drygoods hrin
,.aefordav This alleged bicycle face may be a
fact and it may not. but what nave observer -
the bicycle foot. This is no myth Tor nave d
practical experience with 1t every DAY can 'e'
every one Of our employees who is Dlcycle rluei d"
they come in to work in the morning ms II pa,
ticularlv noticeable Monday mornings The wheel
tho medals and I'm consequence they put COW"
their feet with considerable more force thah o'ne'
men do When you man, In his norman Co"
Giton stamping around the floor digging MS 'o''
in you wager he Is wheeinidn' no"
studied the matter carefully and have won several
wagers."
George D Gdeon's weekly bulletin is again before
tho u,beslneu. and the riders hereabouts can
breathe easily for at least another week no Hien-
ION Is made Of the Cabanne. Murphy or TITUS cases
and none OF thu local Class men are called 20 az
count Some OF the fast amateurs hereaDou'S are
beginning 70 believe that the Racing Doa'u '',r,''
from Philadelphia was all a blum anyway. nv
axe" however has not dropped the matter "
any means.
?. 6. ,he -,,lo in most bicycle clubs that politics
shall not be- discussed in open meeting. but TINS
rule may be- dead letter durns Inr Uo, IN .erss,
r,ifu The wheelmen are exercising MOI III -
in their uolitical servants than they d1d leW ye.S
III '"eii iprookivn some Of the Aldermdnic ana ~
ssn,blv candidates are making disent h4uir re-
s eni be u"hacimen's vote This is particularly the
case in the BEDFORD district and in sop'h br29Kyn
Tier ire bicycle clubs in every ward ana tistr.0,
lts.J ,ici.ns who are the friends Of good roads
ard wheeling ought to do well this taII
II tell you that this bicycle business Is o big
chino said a member Of a downtown printing urn
vasterdav .'Our firm has been fortunate IN uolis
much Of the catalogue work one firm know W., Of
enen- s95 on its catalogue last year am HSui-
in,, nov, on me catalogue for next season
III ,fo,ronolltan Bicycle Club has arranged for
sundsv what ought To be an enjoyable cup run;
The party will leave Sixtieth-si an tne G h
a. S.iT a m II will 70 by train 20 Newark anu py
wheel to the Oranges. Dinner will be served al tng
park Hotel. Orange. The expense OIL t"e UP "''
be about 81 o.
Cvosts desiring 70 Join the League Of American
,t,haoi,nsr NAV obtain full printed Information ANA
bianks bv sening name and address TO the cycling
Editor New-YOrk Tribune