New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-06-09

all the improvements have been perfected The
fact is that work on the new track should nave
been started about a month earlier than 1t was.
SUI the track will be in good shape and the
stands will be in readiness To- accommodate the
crowd. The absence of a little turf and other
beautfying effects Will not oe missed to any great
extent.
Among the many club runs arranged for to-day
are the following:
Club century run. Start from cycle-house. in West
at % m rbe ' route H0 and M mileage Viii
be a. follows: Weehawken ll2 mics; Av9ndale, ~
- Painfcid 55 Eliza beth Cdnner). IS: Orange. 81
Avondale ~ Weehawken, zoe, and cyclc-hQuse. 49,
leave 30. IA Eas! Eigh,y,,sixth,st. at 9 a, m.
Excelsior cycle club. to Valley Stream: leave
wss sSysSths AID ID T Fony2 at siacn island
leave No. Il West One-hunired-and-twenty -tourih-
Monarch Wheelmen, to MorristOwn. y. j.; leave
Ne s Ihrd5 jcyc at C ky ." To- ro,,enve Staten
Island; leave South Ferry at 10 a. m. o.,
Pequod Wheemen to Goney Island, leave No. 20
The Qulll club Wheelmen, to Touenyille, Staten
Island: leave SXtieth-st. and the Boulevard III
select cycle Club, 10 Tarrytown. y. Y. leave
Twenty-siXth-st. and MadiSOn-aVe. at a. m.
Yorkvle Wheeimen. to Yonkers' leave NO To-
Eas, Eighty -sevenh-st .5 At a. m ,,h,o,,o ,sso-
citation. to Long Island points; leave armory at >
Lcnox Wheelmen. to Rye Beach " y; leave No.
G. East Fity-ninth-st at a. m.
Bicycle section Of the 81 George Athletic Club, to
81, and Madison-ave. at 10 a. IN.
Colonial Wheelmen to peb5h Am'oy a. m 'e"'e
Gramercy Wheelmen. to Tarrytown' leave NO. -
Lincoln wheemen to Yonkers; leave No. IS
EdT At Wh 10 M to xewBrunswck " j.
leave No 40 West Twenty hfth-st at a M.
New-York Wheelmen. to Rosyn. Long lsian M
oX-dve. at $50 a. IN.
Nassau Wheelmsn t To- MGTrs'S|H j. leave
Pas,ime Athletic club Wheelmen u Tottenvi"e
staten Island; leave Sixtieth-st and Avenue at
Amphon wheelmen. to Yonkers leave No. lo2's
Bayonne Rowing Association Wheeimen' to Baby
lon Long Island: leave Bayonne ~ at so . a. m
leave No. 1901 Park-ave. Hoboken at s:Sl a. m.
cenSTy cycle Gpe to Icen' ew se AT No.
Clio Wheelmen TO Tarrytown; leave No. l5l Month
Fsson w SsssH my 10 Staten Island
leave 80 sl2 Manhattan-ave BrSSkiyn at a. sa
No i27s Bedford-ave., Brooklyn, a, 8 a. m.
Prospect Wheeimen to Nya'K' leave ioy' ana
Red iiank wheeimen, 70 Lakewood via Asbury
Kings County Wheelmen to Bath. Long Island
leave clubhouse al a: N. ,...o,. leland. lava
Rahway. =. j. at $50 a. m
East Orange g. j. Cyclers. to Greenwood Lake
30 Rovers cycle club to New-Rochere. \ Y
Cycling division 4 cyone Boat { IN 10 New-Hrnns-
wick. y. j. leave Elizabethport, y j., at $50 a IN.
The propretors Of the cycling academies looked
forward to the coming II summer with some fear,
and in several cases arrangements were made 70
cut down expenses and T. reduce the corps Of in
structors Sull the patronage continues to be
large, and the threatened falling off in attend
ance while felt has not been great. While not
quite so many beginners visit the schools as did
in April and May. still there are enough new cy-
clists 10 keep the instructors busy. Inc lica 81
turning the immense amphitheaue Of Madison
Square Garden into a cycle academy was looked
upon as a foOlhardy venture by the pess'nisis,
yet the venture has been success and the pro-
motors are entirely satisfied with il.
whether Zimmerman and Johnson will race
or not this year remains to be Each in
turn has been called a coward by the friends Of
the other. Each has made Il proposition which
the other will not accept and there you are
Zimmerman wants to for $1,000 "A side at
Asbury Park and johnson wants the stakes 10
be 81 900 q side, the not 10 be at Aasbury
Park Some people close to Zimmerman believe
that the champion is not particularly anxious
10 race this year. anyway. zimmerman mas
some money. he is newly married and his friends
believe that he would prefer 70 take life easy Tor
several months If the professional league ma
lures quickly Johnson will find plenty of worlds
10 conquer. but 1t looks now as II the League
would not be much in evidence uniil 1910
The meeting Of the trainers and racing men
at Albany last week extremely quiet and
decOrous and the sensational developments looked
for In some quarters dd not matcrialize. The
gauntlet was not thrown down either to the l.. ~
w or the Board Of Trade and it was the better
sense Of the meeting that the time was not yet
rpc for a strike. The only thing done was 10
appoInt a committee to confer with the Board
Of Trade to see Just what is 10 be done. mat
the two organizations understand each other
LpOn the racing question seems assured, ana
Il looks as If the kickers against the l.. A W.
rules and customs VIII not get much sympathy
from the Board of Trade. The only plan when
aDnears feasible Is for the racing men T. await
action by the L. A. w. The League ought 10
take up professional racing before next year.
and # will probably DO 50. Professional racing
under League of American Wheclmen jurisdic-
lion could be kept above reproach. ana IL l."
doubtful II such races could retain pubhC CON
fidence and support In any other way. When
this IL done let the League establish mead
quarters in several OF the l4rgc cities. ana pun
paid officials in charge and all VIII 90 well III
the racing world.
The trouble over the Irvingt ton Millburn
races shows again how careful one should be In
preparing his entry blank for either track or
road races. S. Standcven. who finished second
In the race has been disqualified. ana the COM
mittce Of the Metropolitan Association seems 10
be justified In going to such ap extreme. Stili II
does look as II the entry list should be scanned
thoroughly before a race. and II any irreguIar-
ties are found the protests would come WIN d