The herald., 1896-12-28
THE WHEEL

THE WHEEL
In response to the request of Ken
lucky friend who asks, What position
should a gentleman take when riding in
company with two ladies'" the Good
Roads Bulletin offers the following:
First-When meeting team keep
yourself on the ladies' left hand side, so
that you are between the tee - and the
ladies.
Second-keep yourself in the back
ground, where you are in a better posi-
ton to act in case of emergency.
Third-When passing through a crowd
the gentleman always leads the way.
Fourth--In the case of a balky or
frightened horse. quietly bid the ladies
dismount and walk past the horse, as it
will save many accidents.
Fifth-In. passing a team keep we'll in
front, on the ladies' right, then take your
place in the rear. My reason for put
ting the gentleman in the rear is that he
generally sets too hot q pace when in
front.
There is now every probability that the
Mcfarland Ziegler match will take
place, says the San Francisco Chronicle
AS the challenge was worded the match
was to be contested at the first San Jose
meet, but that portion has of necessity
been changed. The principals desired
the Garden City cyclers to offer purse
for the event or to allow them two thirds
of the net proceeds of the meet The
San Jose club refused to consider either
proposition. but offered so per cent of the
net proceeds. They are now making
arrangements for the race to take place
at the Velodrome. The date selected
for the meet at which the match is to
figure as the leading feature is Wash
ington's birthday Upon this day oc-
ours the annual twenty-five mile road
race of the C. A. c. c., but the latter be-
ing run off in the morning. ample time
is given the many wheelmen who an
nually witness this big event to return
to this city in time to view the Velo-
drome races in the afternoon.
The fight for the presidency Of the
League of American Wheelmen is wax
ing very warm in the east, and almost
every day sees new candidate in the
field. Sterling Elliott of Massachusetts,
the incumbent, and Isaac B. Potter, chief
consul of the New York division. arc the
chief favorites. with Cossum of New
York showing up strong as dark horse.
The wheelmen of Tacoma have erect
ed monument to their energy and en-
terprise. 1t is the only exclusive bicycle
bridge in the world. and since it's erection
it is estimated that wheeling has in
creased fully SO per cent in that city. The
feet and height III feet. BY the erection
of this structure the wheelmen are now
enabled to make a round trip of fifty
miles without single dismount for
hills or bad roads.
The capital invested in cycle manu-
factures in the United States is esti-
mated to be over sl25, 900, 900 and the
number of people employed in the manu-
facture and sale of wheels as over $780,.
600. The output in 1896 was about 100O,-
600 wheels, worth $60,OOO0O0. The ex-
ports of 1896 for the first half of the wear
reached 1854 ,201 and the expectation is
that $4,000 American wheels will be sold
in England alone in 1897. Three million
wheels are in use in the United States,
proportion of one to every twenty-four
of the population. In France the propor-
tiOn is only one in $50.
Sunday cycling racing in it's various
moods and lenses will give the national
assembly of the League of American
Wheelmen some matter for cogitation at
the meeting which will take place on Feb
ruary 20 at Albany. N. Y, says the New
York Sporting Life. 1t Is certain that
the Missouri delegation will go there
prlmed for debate on the question. That
Missouri and most of the Cis-A -Allegheney
states will make strong fight for the
legislation of racing on Sundays is an
understood fact. While some of the
Missouri delegation may personally be
opposed to cycle racing on Sundays, they
recognize that large majority of the
people that they represent want it, and
that they must vote that way to properly
represent them. The local dealers, who
are very powerful, want Sunday racing
to man. They think that 1t would help
their business more than anything that
could be sprung at this time Very
many of the officers of the Associated
Cycling clubs are opposed to that or
ganization giving Sunday meets, even
If the sanction of the l.. A. w. was
granted them. But they do think that
Sunday meets are something that larse
majority of the people of ST. Louis want,
and they will help to get them.
THE RING
Champion Jim Corbett has been going
against the old-tmers Jem Mace and
Mike Donovan. He was surprised at
the form shown by the venerable 'pugs,"
and gives his observations to the New
York Journal in the following language:
They are both great men, and in their
time must have been wonderful pugil
lists. Donovan was the first of the two
1 met. 1t was on last Thursday morn
ing that the Journal representative
brought him to Woods gymnasium. l
have boxed Prof. Donovan on several oc-
caSlOnS previously, anu l. never Hdu any
doubts as to his ability as a boxer.
We spared three fast rounds of two
minutes each. and I will bet that the
fifty odd spectators who saw the bout
will vote it great contest. Donovan
Is a great boxer and the highest tribute
l can offer in praise of his science and
ring generalship is to say that he was
born twenty years too soon. If old Mike
was but thirty today he would beat any
of the middle weights and be champion.
He is as up -to-date as l or any other Of
the foremost pugilists. He knows all
the blows and hooks, can use his legs in
side stepping and in-and-out work to
perfection. Donovan is a teacher and
has kept pace with the pugilistic times.
Donovans wind is good, he is one of
the best judges of distance I ever saw,
and altogether he is wonderful fellow.
He landed his glove on me hard and
often, and it is no disgrace for me to ad-
nit that he forced me on more than one
occasion by his left-hand feints for the
face that made me duck into hook on
the jaw.
Mace came to me yesterday afternoon
and. after renewing an acquaintance
made in London, the famous old cham
pion stripped to the buff, after which we
donned the gloves, posed for few pic
lures and then shook hands for short
spar. We boxed two two-minute rounds,
and the old fellow really surprised me.
I discovered quite early that Mace and
Donovan were of two entirely different
schools. Mace is of the old English
style, while Donovan is thoroughly
American. which includes all the shifts