The San Francisco call., 1896-04-11
THE WHEELMEN.
Great Hundred dMile Relay Race te
Pa Run To- Morrow.

starting here, riding around the Day via
San Jose ard finishing in Alameda, Will
be contested tomorrow by ten teams OF
ten men each from San Francisco, San
Jose and Alameda County clubs. The
start will be made promptly at o'clock
from in front of Varney's Biclorama,
Market and Tenth streets, and the finish
will be at Central avenue and Grand
street. Alameda, probably q few minutes
before . o'clock. Persons from this City
wishing to see the finish should cross the
bay not later than 1890 o'clock on the
broad gauge boat, taking the train to Ala
meaa and getting off at Grand-street
station, from which point the nnlsh is put
two blocks distant.
The roads will be found somewhat
heavy all along the relay course, particu-
larly the first twenty miles out OF this
CITY; but the race would be run off if the
roads were knee-deep in mud gust the
same and at this time of the year they are
not expected to be at their best. Last
wear dry spell for two weeks prior to the
race made the riding perfect and fast time
was made, but II is not expected that last
wears time of hours 56 minutes AZ Sec
onds will be equaled.
The teams and officials were all pub
lished in The CALL yesterday. The relay
COm Oh Tie dSSOCldtco CluDS Will
have its headquarters in Alameda during
the race, at the rooms of the Alameda
Cyclers, near the finish, where reports
will be constantly received of the progress
of the race and displayed upon bulletins.
1t would naturally seem that this would
be a great gathering place for the wheel
men, but the fact is, so many of them will
be actually employed in the race in some
capacity on the ten different relays that
there will be few at the finish. 1t will re-
Quire between 700 and 1000 men to prop
erly conduct this race-at least, seventy
from each of the clubs, and as many more
as they can suppJy-and as they will be
spread out at all the different stations and
Will probably not get home until late to-
morrow night it will remain for the citi-
zers and unattached riders to see the finish
and cheer the victor.
A great deal of money will change
hands on the race-a fact which the asso-
citation deplores, but which it is powerless
TO remedy. The Bay City Wheelmen are
slight favorites in the betting, Olympic Club
Wheelmen second, Acme Club Wheelmen
third and Garden City Cyclers fourth.
That is the order in which the sporting
fraternity evidently think they will finish.
There is considerable money up that the
San Francisco Road Club will beat the I'm
perial Cycling Club, and on the face it
looks like good bet. There is no growing
realize that hard race and the greatest
wheeling event of the year is before them,
and the riders are training carefully and
waiting patiently for the hour of the race
TO come. All the riders. trailers and Off
cials Will be at their respective stations to-
night-they must be--and the clubhouses
here will consequently be deserted.
W. c. Brode of the Bay City Wheelmen
has gone to his home in Los Angeles on a
visit.
Arrangements have been made by the
league officials with the Haywards Hotel,
by which L. A. W. members will be fur
nlshed with Sunday lunches at 80 cents
apiece upon showing their membership
cards. The rate to all other wheelmen is
70 cents. This is the big hotel on the hill,
and the officers consider that such en-
couragement from a GOtel which has al
ways stood aloof from making any reduc-
lions whatever should not only be fully
appreciated by the league members, but
should serve as a great lnducement to
others to join the organization.
r. NJ. Welch of the National Racing
Board has issued his bulletin No. 6, dated
April 8, 1896, as follows:
Sanctions granted-Healdsburg Wheelmen,
Healdsburg, May Z, 8; Citrus Wheelmen Los
Angeles, May so; Citrus Wheelmen, Santa
Monica, July 4.
Transferred to the professional class-L. V.
Raymond Coronado at his own request.
CARROLL +. hQgneS, 20 sherlock DullOlng,
Portland. Or, Is appointed representative of
the National Racing Board in Oregon.
The National circuit of 1896 VIII be opened
al Oakland, Cal, in connection with the
Fabiola Fete, May l. Following dates will be
the Santa Rosa Carnival, May 2, San Jose Car
nival, May 9. The week ending May 16 will
be devoted to southern California From there
the circuit will proceed TO Denver, Colo. for
May 23. Applications for other dates in Cali
fornia than above must be made imme-
diately.
Race nromotars mav obtain the form M .ba
regulation entry blank prescribed by the rae
ing board on application 10 the undersigned or
TO any representative OF the board.
Race prom tiers warned that compliance
with the rule requiring programmes to show the
description and value OF the prizes for each
event and the residence of each contestant will
be rgidIy exacted this season. Failure to
comply Herewith will result in suspension
from sanction privileges.
The one mile championship of the North
California division Will be contested at the
annual division meet. Petaluma, July 4.
R. NJ WEIGH.
Member National Racing Board and chairman
NoIth California Division Racing Board
The craze for collecting lapel buttons
advertising certain makes of bicycles has
increased 10 an alarming extent. During
cycle show at Syracuse, New York re.
Gently 10000 cycle buttons We're given
away in four days.
A physician says that the prevailing
idea that spin before breakfast is bene-
IL w IL
ing ride, if it be ever so short, do noe
neglect to first eat something. This is ad-
vice i will not be hard to follow.
Frank X. Lippitt, epresentative-at-
large of the League OF American Wheel
men at Petaluma, has issued a road book
of Sonoma and Marin counties, which is
most valuable work for wheelmen and
Others using the roads in that section. 1t
covers the territory completely, and is the
result of great deal of labor and careful
measurements of distances. Used in con-
nection with the league road book,
wheelman touring in or through these
counties would have the best guide possi-
BILE. together with information as to dis
tances and the character of the roads to be
traversed.
Manager Shafer is trying hard to match
W. w. Hamilton, the Denver fiier, against
somebody for a professional race for a
purse of $1,000. He challenged John S.
Johnson, after he was safe on his wav to
Europe; now he is after Walter C. Sanger.
but the big Milwaukeean has refused,
rightly saying that he is entirely out OF
condition, having been off the wheel all
the winter, while Hamilton has been in
constant training at Coronado. Shafer
will now try for Bald or Zimmerman. 1t