The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-03-21
BICYCLE NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Join the Reds.

Join the Reds.
There is a bicycle club composed entire
ly or Master Masons at hamilton. Ont.
The cannon BALI knows good thing
when ne sees 1t. .ook out for Eddie and
his White Flyer"
c. NJ. Price, OF the Scranton Bicycle club,
has been re-appointed on the racing board
OF the League Of American Wheelmen.
There has been White Flyer boom all
over the country the past few weeks since
Eddie Bald signed to ride a Barnes white
Flyer"
Charles Bone has received his 81; Peer
less Blue Bird. It's beauty. But Char
lie is blue. because this sloppy weather
does not permit him to ride.
IL Is rumOred that Il match race for q big
purse Is being, arranged between Bald ana
Sanger. Bald would not deny or affirm
1t while al Syracuse last Wednesday.
Eddie Coon. the new addition to the
no doubt become favorite with the
cranks Eddie Is a very unassuming and
gentlemanly young man.
Charles Carr. captain of the Green
Ridge Wheelmen. Is most enthusiastic
wheelman Charles has a long string of
Century" bars and intends to add a. few
more to the string this season.
In 1896 there will be manufactured at
least 1,25O, 900 bicycles of which about one
half will be women's. The estimated
value of the output will be about $50. OoO,
900. showing an average decline in price.
Pop" Foote is coming back to Scran-
all winter to take care of Chick" Cole
man. Pop" handled Chick to good adj
vantage last season They will bagin their
work as soon as the weather permits.
Joseph L. Yost, Of the Yost Manufa =
turing company. returned from an ex-
tended trip through the west. having
stopped ut Denver Salt Lake City. San
Francisco. Portland and many other
cities. He reports that the outlook for
Gold Crank Falcons in the west is mos.
fiattering.
Consul Samuel Boylt of the League of
American Wheelmen, has not announced
his committees as yet, but 1t has been un-
officially given out that A. Il. Dunning,
jr. of this city, will be the chairman OF
the committee on highway Improvement.
which Is one of the most important com.
mittees in connection with the League Of
American Wheelmen work.
w. w. Hamilton. who recently made
the new unpaced mile record In l.59 10. has
challenged the old reliable. Walter San
ger, who disputed the record. HamlltOn's
manger wants to put up side bet OF 81 900
on his man. Sanger has already placed a
forfeit of 500 with the Syracuse stand
ard, and the outlook for a match race
between these cracks Is very bright.
Harry Chapman. late of the Royal Cycle
works, has accepted a position with the
Fenton Metallic Manufacturing company
of jamestown, y. Y. He will have charge.
department. Mr.. Chapman is Well quail
fled to fill the responsible position. The
Fenton Is one of Americas leading wheels,
and will be more popular than ever this
year, If such n thing is possible.
This season Will be great one for match
races for cash. Glass B having been abol-
ished. the flyers are no longer subject 10
the strict rules heretofer laid down to
them, and can easily settle their differ-
ences by match races for cash and side
bets. Hamilton, the new record breaker,
has started the music by challenging
Walter Sanger. The new order of things
ss lahI In IN l1
ter.
This weeks bulletin of League of Amer
lean Wheelmen racing board Will an
nounce the suspension of T.. G. Bald. last
years champion rider, pending an in
vestigation concerning his amateur sta
tus. The charge. is made that at one of
tee meets on the circuit last falUhe won
a bicycle. which he sold for $50 to local
rider before leaving the track. If the
charge Is proven and he Is tranferred to
the professional ranks, the result will be
a severe blow to Bald. for 1t is not likely
that rider of his ability would be willing
to continue his racing to a radius of a
hundred miles from his place of resi-
dence and compete for prizes valued at
not over $35. as Is now required by the re-
vised racing rules
Frank Mayo the Bostonian, who with
Saunders composed the fast tandem team
that helped pull Tyler, johnson and Berlo
on to record victories last year, Is back
American. has been cutting wide swaths
at the Olympic in London, where, with
Skellinger. an old-time Chicago sprint rum
ner, he has been winning tandem events.
Mayo got homesick and Is home to try
to induce Billy Saunders. his old tandem
mate. to go back with him, as Chappy
Warburton has arranged a series of tan
dem matches between Mayo and Saunders
and the Farman brothers, to be held in
the veloce Buffalo in Paris. Mayo says
the Olympic has u nine-lap wooden track,
banked very high. and that Barden is the
crack of all. winning handicaps from the
70-yard mark. on scratch even, and several
seconds and thirds. He and Skellinger
won five out of six combination tandem
events, and rode o mile in 2.02 in com.
petition on the nine-lap track, which Mayo
thinks world nhsss MANY an American
rider.