The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-07-10

the road race today, and will give odds
IL they cannot get even terms
1t is rumored that only one man has
tofexceed ten minutes handicap.
Harry Kimbal is expected to put up
good race.
Spectators should carry opera glasses
and field glasses.
Liday and Hazard viii probably start
together.
The movement to organize the proposed
ing VIII soon be held This organization
is not intended to supplant or in any
way interfere with any existing club.
Arrangements for the big meet on the
24th are going steadily on.
W. F. Sims. of the Columbia team. who
was recently suspended by the National
charge of accepting a cneck in lieu of
prizes, has been restored tu his Glass b
standing, the charges having been proven
to be without the slightest foundation.
His quick restoration TO the ranks of eli
gible amateurs, besides being a tribute
to his PERSONAL character, is a co---pli-
rides, for the Columbia racing team has
always Deen chosen with the greatest
care, so as to keep the Sport Tree from
any suspicion of infraction of ssD racing
rules.
E. c.. Bald, of the Columbia team,
again broke the New York state compe-
tition record, his own, on Saturday, June
18th, at the Kings County Wheelmen's
meet at Manhattan Beach. The new fig-
ureS are 2:02 Is.
The form of wood rim of the many
Withstanding the ravages OF time and
wear, is the Illuminated or the buITt up
wood. and. the joints being widely sep
arated from each otner. all contribute
their elements of strength, and the lam
mated rim, although expensive to con-
is, all things considered, the least eX-
pensive in the end because of superior
strength and wearing qualities
The success of American light weight
bicycles seems to be a thorn in the side
of the English manufactures. Time and
again we have been told by the English
cycling press that under no circum-
stances would wheels under twenty-six
or twenty-eight pounds stand up on
American roads, but the fact remains
twenty-one and a half pounds in weight,
have proved some of the most successful
for heavy road use. 1t has remained for
American ingenuity to demonstrate TO
cycles can be made strong as well as
light, and that weight does not in cycle
construction constitute the chief ele-
ment of strength. TIE inroads that
American cycles are daily making into
the European market are the most con-
Vincing evidence of their superiority.
Indianapolis, july s.-GeneraI Benja-
min Harrison denounces as spurious an
alleged interview, published in New
York in effect that he Opposed the use
of bicycles by women:
"My views" said the ex-president, ARE
not in accord with those expressed in
Only last week local bicycle firm
shipped two wheels TO Saratoga one for
Mrs. Mckee, General Harrisons
daughter, and the other for her son.
Emile Zola has been on the acute
point of total breakdown of mind
and body, and has suspended all work
for the present, under the perempdory
command of his physician. Hence
Rome" which was to have begun as
a serial publication in October, can
not possibly start before the end OF
the year. Zota himself has learned to
ride bicycle, and is out with it now
all day long Henri Rochefort is also
10 be seen every morning flying
around the Bios on a machine, and the
chronicle of other celebrities who have
Welded to the fascination of the wheel
is now a regular feature of the Paris
papers.