The record-union., 1896-04-12

SACRAMENTO DALI,
wheelman in California at the present
| time.
The California dates so far decided
on for the National Circuit are as fol-
| lows: Oakland, May 1st; Santa Rosa,
| May I'd; San Jose, 9th; San Francisco,
| 18th; Santa Monica, 23d, and Los An
geles, Both:
1t is a cold day in Canada when Mr..
Fleming, the newly elected Mayor,
doesn't receive some good word from
wheelmen, and though all the rest Of the
world should give him the marble heart
he can rest assured that the bicyclists
will ever extend to him the glad hand.
And why shouldn't they? In his recent
inaugural he said:
I'm the construction of streets here
after the Council should pay especial
attention to the needs of those who ride
bicycles. A part Of each street should
be paved with the most suitable ma
| terial for them. In addition to this,
| strips on a large number of streets in
| different parts of the city, where as
| phalt or brick does not now exist,
should be put in first-class shape for
| bicycle riders. We must remember the
fact that the traffic upon the streets is
changing rapidly, both because of the
electric service and because of the in
PRODUCTION of bicycles, aud parts of the
streets hereafter should be graded and
paved with special reference to the COM
fort of those using wheels"
The desire to have Canada annexed
to this land of stars and stripes is al
ready very general, so it is said, and
every such Mayor as this will serve as
annex-tra inducement on the part of the
| wheelmen to bring aboutethat result
L. A. w Bulletin.
|
A drop-frame bicycle was made re-
| Gently that brought $3.50. 1t was sold to
an English gentleman, who wished it as
| a present for his wife. The frame and
| forks are richly overlaid with silver
| open work; the ivory handles are dec
| Grated with silver, and jade knobs at
| the ends. Parts of the equipment are a
solid silver cyclometer, a silver watch
| and bell, and solid silver lamp with
| cut crystal side lights. The mud guard
| is silver mounted and strung with the
| finest silk.
| Boston wheelmen have started a new
| fad in the way of dancing and racing
parties. During the early part of the
| evening trick riding, slow races and
other events were the features of the
entertainment, the whole concluding
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| this kind an obstacle race was intro
duced, which was declared to be the
best thing of the evening. 1t was a-two-
| third mile race, the course being OBJ
structed with chairs
On the first lap the riders were obliged
| to dismount, remove their coats and
| strap them to the handle bars, while
| in the second they were required to
| break and eat an egg. The third lap
found them crawling through the moose
| Of rope suspended from the ceiling
| dragging their machines behind them,
| and on the next circuit each carried a
| lighted candle, put on his coat, and
| finally carried an egg around the room
| in spoon.
Chairman Gideon of the L. A. w.
| Racing Board has accepted the record
made March 9th by w. w. Hamilton
at Coronado, one mile, paced, flying
start, 1:39 1-5.
Two professional events, consisting of
a mile scratch and two-mile handicap,
have been arranged by the committee in
charge of the bicycle races to take place
at the Fabiola fete to be held in Oak
land on May 1st. The prizes are to be:
First, $50; second, S25; third, SIS.
| The other day Harry D. Elks under
| official sanction, at Jacksonville, Fla,
broke the two-mile standing start ANA
teur unpaced record, going the distance
in 4 80 40.
The Bicycle Road Association, a cor
poration formed several months ago for
the purpose of constructing a bicycle
path to Santa Monica, has begun work
| in earnest
! Some doctors are prescribing long and
fast cycle riding for the cure Of obesity
In this case, it certainly is not haste
makes waist.
| Bauge, the French rider, who has not
been considered in the first rank, has re-
duced the fifty mile worlds record to
1861 80. He has also lowered the
fastest time for 100 miles.
With view to reducing expenses the
postoffice authorities are experiment.
ing with carrier cycles in the collection
of mail matter.
| "Jinks won the race in 1:42H.'
NO, sir Boggs won the race. Boggs
made it in l ~ 3-19S, 791."
| Rod and Gun.
There is just a ray Of hope that one of
these days the pestiferous carp that now
| swarm over the State wherever there is
| a stream, slough, or even a puddle Of
water. may be wiped out in the course
| Of time. This hope is based on the
favorable outlook for the propagation
of the big-mouthed black bass.
Last week two Deputy Commissioners
went to Cuyamaca Lake, near San
Diego, and in a few casts Of the seine
caught thirty-one large -mouthed black
| bass, weighing about two and one e-half
pounds each; sixteen weighing about
one and one-half pounds each; five
banded pickereI, about one and one-half
pounds each, and fifty yellow perch. The
fish were shipped to Anderson. on the
| Sacramento River, and liberated at diff
| ferent points.
Another lot will be placed in Clear
Lake, and if they thrive there will
doubtless find their way down the river