The record-union., 1896-03-07

blowing down the homestretch is taken
into consideration, but does not alter
the fact that for two-thirds of a mile
the men Travelled at the rate of mile
in 1:27, a terrific rate of speed on an
oval track.
On returning to the hotel the storm
burst in all its fury, and as, in all prob
ability, the track would be flooded,
Manager Shafer deemed it advisable TO
disband the team.
The Capital City Wheelmen have
added one of the new indoor training
devices. 1t consists of two sets of roll
ers, on which the wheels of the bicycle
run. The rider is assisted until he
gets his wheel under motion, and then
he goes it alone The machine stays
right there, but the wheels reyolve on
the rollers just as if on the ground. 1t
is a great thing for training when the
roads and streets are too muddy for out
door work.
One thing can be said for this system
of riding-there is no danger of punctur-
ing the tires, but to the lover of nature
it is somewhat monotonous. A rider
may work hard enough and long enough
to have covered twenty miles of road,
but there is no fitting of landscapes,
and no change in the scenery.
Yesterday a member of the club COW
cred a mile-as shown by the cyclone
term two minutes thirteen seconds.
The new device is certain to be quite
a popular thing until the weather clears
up and outdoor riding becomes possible.
An average afternoon ride for a busi-
ness man who does not train regularly
is twenty miles, without much of stop
anywhere from the first to the twenti-
eth mile. An average ride for a woman
who probably never has taken much ex-
ercise is ten miles, with several dis
mounts, to walk up most hills and get
the variation on the muscles furnished
by a little walk. An average ride for
young man in school or college who
has been in pretty good condition for
some time, if not absolutely in training,
is from forty to fifty miles in an after
noon, without much stop. An average
ride for a girl of healthy outdoor life
and training-for there is always GER
tain amount of physical training in
outdoor life-is twenty miles in a day,
with several stops.
Here are four grades, so to speak,
which merely give us a basis to work
on. Now as to the time occupied. In
the first, the mans twenty mile ride, 1t
would be safe to say two hours should
be occupied in doing the ride. In the
second, or woman's ten-mile ride, about
an hour and half altogether would be
required. That is to say, she will wheel
at the rate of seven or eight miles an
hour to occupy a good fifteen minutes
in walking The third case, that of the
young man in training doing fifty miles,
ought to occupy under four hours, or,
at any rate not much more than four
hours.
A practical novelty, which really fills
a long-felt want, will be very much ap-
preciated, not only by every wheelman
who takes good care of his bicycle. but
it will soon be considered Indispensable
in every repair shop. One of the most
difficult operations in cleaning a wheel
is the taking out of the crank pins,
which fasten the pedal cranks to the
crank axle. These pins are ordinarily
wedged in very tightly and it is only
by using a peg and hammer that they
can be gotten at Now many of the
parts Immediately in touch with the
pin are of very hard steel, but brittle to
a certain extent Hammering will
therefore be liable to injure these very
delicate parts, and will certainly make
the pins useless in a very short time.
With the new appliance these crank
pins are driven out by great force, APP
piled gradually by means of a screw
vise which has been constructed for
this purpose.
Want of healthful exercise made the
women of the past what they were, a
bundle of nerves. pale, languid, inert
creatures, of very little benefit to them
selves and still less to the world in
which they lived. The wheel has revo-
lutionized all this. The dainty bloom
on the feminine cheek; the alert, bright
and sparkling eye; the firm step and
elaAtic gait; the good digestion that
would play waiting-maid to appetite,
all these come as fiounces, trimmings
and lace on the train of
feminine cycling. Ere long will
come a howl from the drug
gists and beauty specialists" that
their patent medicines and cosmetics
are a drug on the market. Judicious
exercise in the open air has been proven
to do far better work than quarts of
medicine, and as for the complexion, it
is certainly matchless.
The bicycle tournament and exhibi-
ton in San Francisco opened with a
great crowd. The track is superb, and