The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-09-12
CYCLING NOTES.
Something That Will Prove of Interest
to Wheelmen.

Ever since the days of Adam and Eve
the females have considered it right to
tirt. Put modern woman in the great
Sahara desert and she will find some one
to tlirt with, If she is so inclined.
The merry cycling girl has arranged the
following code Of signals which she will
use on the boulevards:
Three short, distinct rings, Eve would
be pleased to have you join u.s." This is
when the wheel is in motion. If this in
yitation Is given by lady cyclist, when
there are two or more gentlemen cyclists
in the vicinity, the gen tleman Immediately
responds with two short rings, which sig
nifes, "Is it II" The same signal in re-
turn is an affirmative; one long, followed
by one short ring, mo" -Four short
rings, 81 would like to make your ac-
quaintance;" one short ring, "All right"
fresh" Two short followed by one long,
"May l join your" One long followed by
two short, "Your boomers are disarrang-
ed. A continued ringing means to all
pedestrians to get out of the road and
climb the fence or tree, or take the
consequences.
They tell pretty good joke on one Of
the frequenters of the circuit racers. This
certain wheel house, and he constantly
carried with him a camera in a pretty
case with shoulder strap attachment.
The young man was painfully young, and
one day as he strolled around the hotel
waiting for the racers to go to the track
near-sighted Old gentleman, seeing his
camera box, seated himself on a chair
and called loudly to him. Here. sonny;
give me a good shine, quick, will you,.
To-. DO, sean, nt.k in
young man dropped his box and the crowd
of circuit chasers gave such hearty laugh
as might have been heard several books
away. The fussy old gentleman could
not see what the matter was and indig-
nantly reported TO the clerk the "incivil-
ity" of the hotel bootblack. The camera
has been sod.
"One of the funniest things that hap
rened while the American team was.
abroad" said a gentleman who knew, oc-
Cured once when we were travelling about
from one city to another. We used to.
send our advance man ahead and he work
ed up great ovation for us, He WOULD
have brass band and a reception CONF
mittee to meet us, and everything would
be done up in tip top manner. / was
i'm charge of the team, and one day L
got a telegram from our manager telling
us to come in the next day on certain
train. We primed ourselves up and
came in, but to our dismay not soul was
there to meet us. We managed to find
out where our manager was, and when he
saw us he came near fainting For
heaven sake, why did you ruin everything
by coming in todayT he asked. Your tel
egram said come today i replied, but he
refused to believe it uutil it was shown
to him, and then it was discovered to be
a mistake. Go back and come In tomor-
row. he tod wildly, and so. we went a
few miles out of town, rested over night
and came in the next day, when we got
was approached by a gentleman who re-
marked that he had seen me somewhere
before, and before he left he asked me IL
he had not been drinking with me the
night before. / remembered that he had,
but denied it to him, although it was
impossible to make him believe 1T, so L
finally let him on the joke and bound him
to secrecy. He was a newspaper reporter
but promised to say nothing about It to
any one. He kept his promise faithfully
for one week. l was later surprised to
see column about it i'm the London Sport
ing Life.
The most grossly misrepresented and
generally misunderstood man on the track
today is Waiter Sanger-"bluffy Sanger
a Louisville writer calls him. ''Wally,"
as his friends like to call him, Is really
one of the best hearted riders in. America.
He has the happy faculty of minding his
own business something that would en-
hamce the reputation of several we'll
known racers. Sanger is never heard to
blow or buster, but it is always TO the
front when needed. The big fellow Is
bluff. but be Is no buffer nor bragger.
He can. and usually does, what he says
he can do. The racing men particularly
have no reason to "kick." Sanger Is the
most liberal pacemaker that ever mouated
a wheel, and even though his good nature
is imposed upon and he is forced to set
all the pace he is never heard to murmur.
'Wally" Is all right to those who know
him, and those who do not should keep
1ilenf "A npricam Wheelman.