The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-13

track before long, however, and to hold
some good meets there.
The San Jose Road Club will hold the
seventh OF, series of tive-mile handicap
road races over the East San Jose course
tomorrow. The entrants and handicaps
are: T. E. Belloli. G. Navlet and g. Har-
denbrook. scratch; Y. A. Benson and j.
Harrington, SO Sec; NJ. J. O'Brien, G..
Dahlstrom and J. Wing, 80 Sec. Fred
Smith, l min. Is sec. The race is for sill
yer cup, which must be won three times to
become the personal property of a rider.
Navlet and Benson have each won the race
twice, w. Harris and Floyd Mcfarland
once. Mcfarland, the clubs crack rider,
has gone to Eureka, as exclusively an
nounced in The CALL last Wednesday. to-
gether with several other fast riders from
this part of the State, and they will race
there on July 20 and %.
The Royal Cycling Club of this City will
hold fve-mile road race on July 81, and
the members are now in active training
for the event. 1t will be a handicap race,
with liberal prizes for time and place.
The Mountain View Cyclers have elected
new set of officers, as follows: Phil w.
Clark, president; Fred Goodrich, vice
president; E. E. Brownell secretary; S.
Wilheimer, treasurer; W. A. Clark, cap
tain. The following are the new directors
r. w. Clark, E. E. Browpell, J. Williams,
George Taylor, A. Ehrhorn, S. Well
heimer and w. A. Clark. New quarters
have recently been secured AID the club is
progressing finely.
The Elite Cyclers is the name of a new
club of San jose For an emblem they
have adopted a Maltese cross. This is the
emblem of the Bay City Wheelmen, which
they adopted five years ago, being the first
cycling club on the coast to wear dis
tinctive uniform, the idea being suggested
by George 2. Wetmore, and it seems some
what poor taste on the part of the Elite
Cyclers to have taken the same design.
There are plenty of odd designs with wings
upon them that would make up well and
would at least bear the stamp of origi-
nality.
Charles S. Wells, the crack class B rider
of the coast, will leave in a few days for
the East, as exclusively announced in THE
CALL last Wednesday. He will race at Salt
Lake City on July 25 and at Denver on
August g. After attending a few smaller
meets in Colorado he will continue on East
and join the National racing circuit. His
wonderful performances on the coast re-
Gently lead to the belief that he will stand
an even chance with any of the crack East
erners.
Floyd Mcfarland, the San Jose Road
Clubs class A crack, will try for the
worlds mile record on his return from
Eureka on the three-lap track at San Jose.
He will be paced by tandems.
Captain John Kitchen Jr. and party OF
the Acme Club Wheelmen will start to-day
awheel for Lake Tahoe. They will be on
the road about two weeks. The Acme
Club will have a joint run with the San
Jose Road Club on Sunday. August 4,
probably to Alum Rock.
Walter f. Foster is going to take the
Rambler quadruplet out to the park to-
morrow to see how it goes upon the road.
He will have as his guests three promi-
nent Eastern wheelmen now on the coast,
James Joyce Jr., E. Ross Lozier and r. G.
Lenhie. AS Lozier and Lennie each weigh
over 200 pounds, the quad has con-
tract on its hands.
The Acme Club Wheelmen are actively
training for their ten-mile road race to be
run on July %. Burke, Castleman and
Nissen will ride from scratch, and it looks
as though the record was in danger.
P. @. Alexander, whose likeness is pre-
sented this week, is one of the most popu-
lar members of the California Cycling