The San Francisco call., 1896-05-30
THE WHEELMEN.
Petalunna Wheelmen Preparing for
the League Meet In July.

CLUB RUNS TOMORROW.
Bay City WheeImen-To BlfthedaIe:
Camera Club CycIists-To sonoma.
Garden City Cyclers To Congress
Springs.
Imperial Cycling C1ub-Try-outs at
Central Park.
Liberty Cycling CIub-Blind run.
Olympic Club Whee1men-To Camp
Taylor.
San Francisco Road C1ub-To Camp
Taylor.
If there should be any sppreciable down
pour of rain to-day it would necessitate
the postponement Of the Alpha Cycling
Clubs race meet at Central Park this aft
ernoon and evening for week, and would
put off the many enjoyable club runs
which are scheduled above for tomorrow.
The Central Park track is banked all the
way around and an hours sunshine after
rain would leave it in as good shape as
ever. The races will therefore not be put
off If the weather is at all fair. In the aft
ernoou the events will be a one-third mile
amateur scratch, one-half mile profes-
sional scratch and a one-half mile anna
teur handicap. In the evening there will
be a one-mile professional handicap and a
one-1nile amateur scratch. The afternoon
programme is by far the best. The entries,
heats and handicaps for these races were
published in THE CALL yesterday.
Anent the departure of three represen-
tatives of local cycling houses for Aus
tralia Thursday to look after trade there,
the Monowai took down over 300 bicycles on
her last trip. The craze for the wheel is
growing in Australia and New Zealand,
and thousands of the machines go there
every month. Strange to say, al
though the freight and duty on them is
considerable, the best-knowh makes of
wheels are sold in Sydney and Melbourne
for from SIS to $2e apiece less than they
can be bought for here.
Harry Monahan will officiate as an
nouncer at the races at Central Park to-
day in place of Wilbur Knapp, who went
to the Antipodes.
A meeting of the board of officers of the
North California Division. League of
American Wheelmen, has been called for
Saturday evening, June 13. at the Reliance
Club, Oakland, by Chief Consul Kerrigan.
George Z. Dixon and Albert J. Menne,
OF the Bay City Wheelmen, have been
appointed committee on racing men"
by the directors of that club. Another
member, not yet named. is to be added to
the committee. Their duties will prob
ably be to assist new racers, encourage
old ones and look after the interests of the
speedy men of the club in general. 1t is
a good move. The committee Will un-
doubtedly retain the services of the club
trainer, King Rhys, than whom there is no
better on the coast, as his careful handling
of Champion Wells will testify.
The Petaluma wheelmen are hard at
work on the arrangements for their big
meet on July and 5, and it will unques-
tionably be great success. As it is the
annual league meet, the L. A. w, will
grant no sanctions to other clubs for a
meet on that day, so that there can be no
opposition to the Petaluma gathering.
There will be excursions, dance and
parade, and races for which valuable
prizes will be given. There is a splendid
track there now, but to further i'm prove it
the turns are being raised, and new seats
will be added to the grand stand. In ap-
purtenances it will rival the track at Cen
trail Park here, which is noted for its splen-
did management and many conveniences.
The members of the California Cycling
Club are in active training for their big
road race Sunday, June 81.
When George P. Wetmore entertains his
fellow-members of the Bay City Wheel
men be does 1t in truly royal style, and it
is this knowledge which induces the mem
bers to look forward with considerable
pleasant anticipation to their run to BIithe-
dale tomorrow, where they are to meet
him and be his guests for the day. Mr..
Wetmore arranged a similar outing last
year that was replete with enjoyment and
was voted one of the best runs OF the sea.
son.
R. NJ. Welch, member of the National
Racing Board in California, has issued his
bulletin. No. II, dated San Francisco, Nav
2S, 1896, as follows:
Sanctions granted-June 6, Boys Brigade
San Francisco; July 4. Capital City wheelmen
Sacramento.
Transferred to professional class-Gus f
Wallin, Pocatello. Idaho; H B. freeman, SaI
Francisco, Cal; James Tracey, San Lui
0bispo, Cal, under clause A Hardy Downing
Jose, Cal.
RM. WEIGH
Member National Racing Board.
Captain Joseph B. Carey has called
club run of the Garden City Cyclers t.
Congress Springs for tomorrow. An ex
cellent lunch will be served the riders a
the hotel there.
Riders should put their toeclips on cor
rectly. For some unknown reason they
are usually bolted TO the pedal, as though
the end of "a mans big toe was in the mid
die of his foot. Shoes used to be mad
that way, to the great profit OF chiropod
lists, but the modern article conforms t,
the shape of g mans foot and brings th
toe well toward the inside. So bolt you
toeclips well toward the inside of you
pedals. You will be surprised at the re
suit. 1t seems almost foolish to call at
tention to such little point, but it is S,
universally overlooked that | mention il
not for the particular benefit of the racin,
man, but for the great and increasing arm!
OF tourists that have discovered toeclips l,
be great comfort on rough roads ant
when riding hands off to rest ones self b,
change of position.
The San Francisco Road Club will jour
ney to Camp Taylor tomorrow. One de
tachment, under Captain PixIey, will tax
the A. NJ. Sausalito boat and ride the en-
tire distance from there. The second part,
will go by the 8 o'clock ferry and take th,
local train to San Anselmo, riding iron
that point, under the TWO lieutenants
Lewis and Gilmore
The ball bearings ordinarily used OF
bicycles should be SO adjusted that no sid,
''play' is perceptible, but not tight enough
10 bind" This is in answer to a mum Der O
queries as to whether the bearings shoul,
not be loose enough to allow the shaft t
move slightly sidewise. In the languag
of prominent bicycle manufacturer
bearings should be absolutely tight an,
yet perfectly loose" Aluhoul seemingl,
paradoxical, there is a point, and not
very narrow one either, where the bearing
may run perfectly free and yet be tig6