The San Francisco call., 1896-04-20
LIBERTY CYCLERS' RACE,
C. II. Parks Won Their Five.
Mile Event and Fl. Wahnig
Made Best Time.
Special Meeting of the Association to
Be Held This Week to Settle
the Relay Trouble.

The Liberty Cycling Club held five.
mile handicap road race yesterday over
the course from San Mateo to San Carlos.
head wind the first two miles before a
turn southwardly is made prevented very
fast time.
There were twelve contestants, and C. H.
Parks, one-armed rider, won. with min
ute 40 seconds handicap. The fastest
time was Is :57 made by II. WANING, who
finished second from scratch. F. R.
Haley, the other scratch man, came in
third, one second behind Wahnig. He
fell crossing railroad track, but was un-
hurt and remounted. A large number of
the club members rode down to see the
finish of the race, led by Captain Beattie.
Harry F. Terrill of the Bay City Wheel
men went to Santa Rosa yesterday to train
on the new track there for the race on May
2. He will be followed later in the week
by G. s. Wells. 7. S. Hall, f. l.. Day and
others of the same club, and several of the
Olympic Wheelmen will also go.
A great many wheelmen went to the
Park yesterday, while several of the clubs
had runs to the country. The Camera
MAS to Tocolomo, San Franciscos to Lake
Pilarcitos Imperials to Santa Rosa and
Reliance to Point Bonita. The mem bers
of the Olympic Cyclers were out training
for their road race next Sunday, in which
there will be fully thirty contestants.
| B. d. Blakeslee. the transcontinental
record breaker, who rode in the relay race
for the Imperial Club, returned to Chicago
day before yesterday.
E. Ross Lozier left for the East last nigh
on business trip.
The dispute over the relay cup seems
| likely to be settled this week. President
White of the Associated Clubs has decided
to call special meeting of the association
for either Thursday or Friday evening Of
this week. when both sides of the trouble
will be presented and an adjustment of the
difficulty may be reached.
The Bay City Wheelmen will have 6
strong case when they go before the asso
citation, and are rapidly gaining sympa
thizers. President Kerrigans long letter
to the road-racing committee, published
exclusively in THE CALL Saturday, was {
clear, concise statement of their side of th,
case, ana shows the matter in different
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fore.
/ 1t is now generally understood that tn,
Acme man, Squires, and not Foster, the
Olympian, was to blame for the collision
near the finish. This does not reliev,
the doubt, though, as to whether Fostel
could have beaten Wells across the tape
barring the accident.
President White of the association ha.
received several letters asking which cIut
officially won the race, that several bets or
the result may be settled. AS the associa,
ton does not recognize betting and dis
courages it as much as possible he ha,
replied that the Bay City Wheelmen fin
lshed first. but have since been disqualified
and the cup awarded to the Garden CITY
cyclers, and the bettors must settle i
among themselves. Such wagers as were
made between individual members of the
Bay Citys and O.ympics have been paid
by the latter, it being generally conced ed
that the Bay Citys won.