The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-02
WILL NOT DISBAND
The Greenville Wheelmen
Declare That Their
Organization Is as
Prosperous as
Ever.
LATEST NEWS FROM THE cYCLERs
The Hudson County's Race Meet
Will Be a Big Affair
Football and Athletic
Notes.
LATEST NEWS FROM THE CYCLERS

The rumor that the Gfeenslls NHe
men are about to disband is absolotely
without foundation. At least TINS Is
what Mr.. William Kreiser and President
Ingersoll. two of the most prominent
members. said last evening. The runlor
resulted from a slight d~issension whien
the club experienced a short time g o
but which has since blown over me
dissension was caused by the annual
club championship races. The races
were first scheduled for Saturday, Au-
gust II, the date of the first series OF
road races given by the Clio Wheelrnen,
but as Cap Livingstone and George
Seitz. the clubs best riders, had entered
in the Clio races the club event was
postponed until the. following Saturday
In the Clio races, however, Livingstone
fell and received painful injuries. Be
ing unable to compete on the following
Saturday. he requested the club to again
postpone its race. The club saw mt to
ignore the request and Livingstone old
not compete. Seitz did, however, ana
won all the championship events. Llv-
ingstone has beaten Seitz on several oc-
~casions, and rather than acknowledge as
champion of a club, in which ne held
membership, he resigned. Following close
upon his resignation came the rumor
that the club would shortly disband.
When The Jersey City News reporter
called at the club rooms last evening
President Ingersoll and a number of his
eliminates were engaged in a friendly
game of pool. Mr.. Kreiser stopped long
enough to deny the rumor. mo. sir, we
will not disband,'' said he with empha-
sis. II know that a rumor to that ef-
feet has been going the rounds, but there
is absolutely nc truth in it.. We just
concluded an interesting meeting, and
had you beer present you would have
seen that our club is in a prosperous
condition, n that there is but little
danger that we will disband-"
Walter Roome is training for the meet
to be held at White Plains Fair Grounds,
New York. on Saturday. under the aus
pieces of the Westchester Cycle League,
and which promises to be the biggest
ever held in the county. He has entered
in the one-half mile. one mile and W
mile races and viii start from scratch
in all. He is confident that he will
land first in at least one event. Over one
hundred and fifty entries ave been re-
ceived. riders coming from New York,
Brooklyn. Hackensack, Greenwich, Conn,
Sing Sing, Peekskill and other nearby
places. George Seitzb of the Green
Vie Wheelmen. will compete in the one
lie novice race. Seitz is riding in good
form and should capture a place.
Walter Roome yesterday received the
prizes won by him IN the ten mile roaa
run under the auspices of the Brook
lyn Citizen at Brooklyn last Thurs
day. For the third time prize Roome re-
ceived a valuable silver cup, and for
finishing in eighteenth place received d
pair of tires
The one mile race for the Champion
ship Of Hudson County, which will be
the star attraction of the Hudson County
Wheelmen race meet at Gutenberg race
track on Saturday. October l9, will be
worth going miles to see. All the fast
men in the county have sent in their en-
tries, and every section from Bergen
Point to Gutenberg will be represented.
leron. of G~reenville.. O'Halleron, while
not looking for first honors, is confident
that ne will be somewhere at the front
In the finish. Unless an accident pre-
vents it, Walter Roome will win the
championship. Roome is unquestionably
the speediest man in the county today.
are other good riders in Darmer and
Welsh. and they may push Roome hard,
Cecil Hasbrouck, of the Castle Point
Cyclers. is heralded as the coming cham
pion and although he has never perform
ed any feat on the race track specially
worthy of mention. his eliminates are
Hasbrouck is still, an unknown guam
tity" and his Hoboken friends declare
that he will show a greater speed than
many think he is capable of producing.
This event will be paced by a tandem
and an exciting contest may be looked
for.
DIR. Parkhurst learned to ride the bicy-
Gle when abroad. This is what he has to
say about bicycles:-'It has come to-stay
] am eonvinced: It t. is IS an excellent
tisans use wheels as a matter of bust
ness and economy. The craze may die
out somewhat, but riding is now an es-
II nhichnd rna1nC of Fra vel I rNdl a TnrInH
the Swiss lakes a great deal. The roads
there are level and smooth. In the other
is such a thing as the bicycle face. 1t
is not a myth. You rider Then you
know what it is. You always see the
are going more than eight or ten miles
an hour. You don't see them laughing.
! believe in bicycling for women; /
she can see if she likes it. The trouble
is that young girls, accustomed to ex-
ercise. work the wheel. for four or five
hour a day. and then break down; That
is why the doctors-or some of them
talk against it; but If women will use
the machine i~nteligently and take the
exercise moderately, l believe In their
learning to ride"
aCoIumns upon columns have been
written upon gears and gearing, until the
poor novice who has waded through
some of these columns of advice usually
gives the whole question up in disgust,
trusts to luck and buys a wheel on the
Ittl-OI-nlloS D14ilOlRiCs ~
high or how low the machine is .geared,y
says the 1.-THE Wheel" "Excellent as
such methods may be, there stIll exists
an intelligent one, which is not only bet
ter, but much more likely TO- give to
factory results which is often lacking in
the hit-or-miss method.
1.-THE reverse of the hit-or-nfss idea IS
of course. an intelligent decision based
upon a fair knowledge of the difference
between high and low gears. which is
thistle propel the machine a given
distance within a given time your feet
must press harder upon the pedals of
a wheel with a high gear than upon one
with a lower gear, but your feet are nor
required. to make 50 many revolutions
1T is the customary, thing for cycling
authorities to advise the adoption Of a
happens that. this is not the best advice.
Low gears unquestionably have the ria I'D
against the wind, through mud. or .wher-
ever there Is much resistance to DC
mav nrefarah ln whenever the conditions