The herald., 1896-10-19


entirely covered with cork or other grip
material would speedily become soiled
and make sorry looking object in COM
parison with the bright nickeled BAR
American Cyclist.
Otto Ziegler, jr., and his trainer, r. p.
Aylward, are expected back from the
east next week. Ziegler broke his arm a
fortnight ago in a race. and will -ot be
able to ride for couple Of months.
The Century Road club of America
makes no distinction between paced,
unpaced or competitive performances on
the road, or whether a course be
straightaway or not, but. it is exeptced
a provision will shortly be made for
such difference, In which event H. A:
Goddard's ride of 1918 unpaced will
stand as the coast record. This is the
gist of letter just received from Will
L. Kriestenstein, chairman of the road
records committee He also states that
the only California records on the road
are Hamlin's five miles, It'll 2-5,
Byrne's ten miles, 24:27, and Wells
twenty-five miles, 1:10:30 2-5. There is
no coast record for Is, 20, so, 100 or 200
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oversight on the part of sombody, as
Kraft's twenty mile record and Soren-
sens 100 and 200 mile rides should have
bbeen registered long ago.
The Garden City cyclers of San Jose
will hold race meet ON their three-lap
cement track Saturday afternoon, Octo-
ber 81. Wells and Mcfarland, the CAL
ifornians who have been following the
eastern circuit will have returned by
that time and will probably compete. H.
4. McCrea of Los Angeles has returned
from his Alaskan trip and is in training
now for this meet and those to be held
at the Velodrome.
There is a rumor in the air that A. A.
Zimmerman will return to the track.
The old war horse" claims he is in no
"has been," and refuses to be classed
with that aggregation. He was a Won
derful rider in his day and the only dis
tinct champion America ever had. But
it must be remembered that Zimmerman
| had not the best of competitors in his
day, that now characterizes the compe-
tition of the three riders who are strug-
Cling for the supremacy. Should Zim-
norman return to the path his advent
will be marked by a rousing reception
from the public, for Zimmerman is pop
ular; he was once the champion.
L. D. Cabanne, who was recently re-
instated by the L. A. w. racing board,
has left the circuit and returned to his
home in st. Louis. He was asked re-
Gently whether the sport had changed
since he rode in class B in '95. Cabanne
said it had. He stated that the riders
were now riding with their fists as well
as their hands. He was in miX-up hir,-
self and saw things which escaped the
eye of the referee. Cabanne says that
Sanger Is faster than any of them, but
! cannot win because he canot get away
quick enough.
of fashion. The short skirt and golf
stockings, and pretty ones they are, too,
are now the vogue among the fair sex.
To be sure the bloomer Is a garment that
will be worn by many riders no matter
what the real thing is, because the short
| skirt is not adapted to diamond frame
| wheel, but many of the swell New York
| girls have decided upon the short skirt
and will stick to it until something new
comes out next season.
Willis B. Troy, who took the Stearns
| team of racing men to Europe, has re-
| turned to this country. Mr.. Troy does
not underrate the ability of the French
| racing men. He admits that France has
| champions Of her own, and the race meet
| promoters now do not lavish so much at
| tention on the American bicycle riders
| as they did in Zimmerman's time. The
blue ribbon events of the year were won
| by the foreign cracks in spite of the fact
| that American riders were competitors
| Troy says that he saw twelve of them
! timed in 220 yard trials, and not one o1
| them did worse than IL AS. This shows
the French cracks to be pretty warm.
The absence of all double, triple and
| four seated machines for pace making
| purposes, and the success that has at
| tended the efforts of race meet promoters
in putting in single pace-makers. has
in putting in sinble pace-makers, has
demonstrated that the latter is the best
method yet adopted to get speed out OF
the riders, give the public good race
and at the same time bestow u fail
chance on every competitor to win the
event. Last year it was an easy matter
| for a rider to cling to a quadruplet and
| be pulled into the stretch, where he made
an easy winning. There was champion
then, for the champion usually usurpec
| the position behind the big machine an6
| shot out from behind 1t to victory. This
| year no one can claim the supremacy
| There are three among whom our honors
are divided. Single pace making has
| been the cause of this and it is single
! making that Is making the sport o1
| cycle racing successful.
| THE HORSE.
Some miscreant opened the stable
| door al the Los Angeles track, on Sat
| urday night and turned out Challenger