The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-30
THE WHEEL.
Course of the Great Relay Road Raoe-Local
News.

est IS MANIFESTED IN THIS event ABOUT lnlS
time every year than in any other race
during the whole season. One might sup
pose that where club entered ten of its
very best riders, ten trailers and a score of
judges, clerks and timers, and where seven
or eight clubs did this, that some prize of
enormous value was to be contested for.
But this is not the case, for while Mr..
Varney's cup is quite a valuable trophy, it
is more the spirit of rivalry and club en-
thusiasm that works the men up to that
pitch where they will train as never be-
fore, and on the day of the race will ride
as though their lives depended on it. This
Is true craftsmanship, and Mr.. Varney
knew it and encouraged it when he in
augurated the first relay race few years
ago.
At the present time the riders for the
Glowing teams have been made public:
Olympic Club Wheelmen, Acme Club
Wheelmen, Garden City Cyclers, San Jose
7 Dad Club and California Cycling Club.
OF course the Ba Y City Wheelmen, who
with the Acmes are pioneers in relay rid
ing on this coast, will enter a team, and
Captain Dodge and Messrs. Sheldon and
Walters, who have in hand the selection of
the men, announce that it will be the fast
est team ever brought together on this
coast Emil Ulbricht, one OF the members
now in Los Angeles, viii ride for the club,
and being so far away from the scene of
battle President Kerrigan feared he
might not be training strictly, so he adj
dressed him a letter inquiring as to his
condition. The reply came back: II rode
five miles yesterday in 1901, -. and the
president asserts that can be used as cri-
terion of what all the Bay City men will
do. 1t might be added in an explanatory
WI Of bat ha CT fi1ra
miles is 3:4S.
The Reliance Club Wheelmen of Oakland
have yet to announce their riders and Cap
tain Bates will doubtless wait until the
last day, which is Wednesday, April 3, be-
fore he sends in their names With such
a basis as Harbottle, the three Dieckmann
boys, Bates, Balm and Gritfiths, there
should be little difficulty in making up
crack team.
The Garden City Cyclers' team has been
somewhat weakened owing to the with
drawal of Allan Jones but the vacancy has
fortunately been easily filled by another
good rider IN the person OF Roma Dow,
who is in splendid shape and will ride ten
miles about as fast as Jones. Dow, it will
be remembered, was the winner of two
events at the matinee races at San Jose
last Sunday and rides an Ariel"
The Acme Club Wheelmen's relay team
may be protested If they carry out the in
tention OF allowing George a. Nissen to
ride. A rider must be member of the
club he rides for sixty days previous to the
relay. On February %, at the Pavilion
tournament, Nissen a member of the Bay
City Wheelmen, though a resident of Ala
media County, rode in the Alameda County
championship and was protested by the
Acme Club Wheelmen, because they
claimed he did not belong to any club in
that county. Nissen admitted this, but
said he thought he had a right to ride as
ha Tba
allo wed and Nissen who had won the race
was disqualified and the first prize given to
Decker. Therefore on their own showing
Nissen was not member of the Acme Club
prior to February D. which is less than the
required sixty days previous to the relay
date, April z, consequently if he rides for
them the entire team will be protested.
Since the personnel of the Acme Clubs
q team has been made public, the other
clubs have realized how remarkably strong
its makeup is. In San Jose, where Casey
Castleman is now training, it has been
rumored that he is to ride the last relay
for the Acme Club. There may be some
foundation for this, as Castleman is a
member of the Acme Club, having Joined
some time before he became member of
the olympic S, together with W. A. Burke.
Furthermore, Castleman has been invited
to ride in the Acme team, while not a
word has been said to him about riding in
the Olympic's relay. Chapman of Napa,
who rides for the Olympic wheelmen went
to San Jose Thursday to train on the new
track there.
The relay cup was won last wear by the
Garden City Cyclers of San Jose, who have it
securely suspended in their parlors by rib
bons representing the clubs colors, and
they say it viii he such bother to take it
down, they're going to keep it there, which
means they propose to win the race if pos
sible And / am forced to admit that lust
of a c oh thary l,a1 Az
strongest team IN the field and ought to
win. But then, ''the race is not ALWAYS to
the swift" etc.
Attention is called to the rule that riders
of the first, sixth and tenth relays must
not ride with bare legs or Shorts" as
these relays are in the cities of San Fran
cisco, San Jose and Oakland. This is under
rule IA, and disqualification of club is
the penalty.
Timers must time their watches by
Southern Pacific Railroad time which can
be obtained at any railroad station. Judges
must pace off 100 yards on either side of
relay and place red flags in plain view. 1t
is only within this 100 yards that the relay
package shall be exchanged from rider TO
rider.
Probably the most meritorious century
performance of the year up to the present
time was made last Tuesday, March 49, by
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry f. Wynne. Mr..
Wynne is well known to the wheelmen of
this city as the president of the Associated
Clubs and secretary of the California Cy-
cling Club. His wife often accompanies
him on long trips into the country, and
Tuesday they rode together to San Jose
and return on this side of the bay, total
distance of 103 miles, in Is hours and 80
minutes, their actual riding time after de-
Quoting stops being s hours So minutes.
II. Bunker of the Bay City Wheelmen ac-
companied them so miles of the distance,
when Mr.. Wynne's Cleveland wheel broke
and they exchanged mounts, Mr.. Bunker
taking the broken wheel and the train for
home. Mrs. Wynne rode a 17-pound
wheel and was dressed in boomers and
light cloth leggins.
Several of the clubs who are not entered
In the relay race next Sunday will hold
club runs to-day, but those who are in this
.sce could not get a corporals guard TO
ss1rn out on a run until after the relay, as