The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-13


race to be held on Sunday, June q. The
list of entries is already large A new
course has been selected, starting on the
backstretch of the triangle, near San
Leandro, following the triangle course to
the junction of Haywards road and finish
ing in Haywards. While not official, the
course is fast, as the roads are good and
the turns safe. A club smoker is one of
the events of the near future planned by
the CALIFORNIA;.
What promises to be one of the prettiest
races of the year will be that scheduled TO
take place at Manhattan Beach track July
25, between Walter Sanger, Eddie Bald
and Tom Cooper, three of the fastest men
on the American track. The match was
arranged by Dan Smith, representing the
New York Herald, and the occasion will
be the annual Herald meet for the benefit
of its free-ice fund. Otto Ziegler. Cali
fornia's star, and w. W. Hamilton OF
Denver have also been invited 10 compete
The prizes will be $500, $3.50 and 500. The
race will be paced throughout.
The Liberty Cycling Club will have
run tomorrow under Captain Beattie to
Camp Taylor, taking the A. NJ. Sausalito
boat and train to San Anselmo.
Walter O'Brien, first lieutenant of the
Garden City Cyclers of San Jose, has been
promoted to the captaincy, made vacant
by the resignation of Joseph B. Carey.
CnarleS Will take " DTlSn
former office of lieutenant.
Dan E. Whitman, the speedy Los Ange-
les rider, is in the City, and will ride at
the league meet at Petaluma on July 4.
He is in good shape and is riding faster
than ever before.
Captain Argent has arranged picnic
run of the Camera Club Cyclists for to-
morrow to the vicinity of Camp Taylor.
The party will leave on the A. NJ. Sau-
nd fol bo troi for
San Anselmo. Those not desiring to ride
the entire distance from there can proceed
by train to San Geronimo and there await
those who start from San Anselmo, thus
avoiding that bugbear of the Camp Taylor
trip, Whites Hill, which is not such q
hard climb after all, once you have reached
the top of it. A picturesque place will be
chosen on the Lagunitas Creek for lunch
ing. The entire distance round trip is but
% miles from San Anselmo or II miles
from San Geronimo, and 1t is such easy
pleasant riding it is expected great many
of the ladies of the club will make the
trip.
The Golden Gate Cycling Club will give
party next Tuesday evening at its new
clubrooms, Howard and Seventeenth
streets. In about fortnight the club will
hold a tryout over the San Mateo-San
Carlos course to select a team for the
twenty-mile Associated Clubs race next
month.
There seems to be some misunderstand-
ing among those interested in cycle-racing
here as to the exact whereabouts of
Charley Wells, and the report was current
yesterday that he had returned TO this
City. AS stated in THE CALL last Satur
day, Wells was taken i'll in Los Angeles
and the circuit-chasers went East without
him, but he has since followed on and is
now at Galveston, Tex, and has no idea
of returning to the coast at present.
R. P. Aylward, ZiegIer's trainer, writes
me from Galveston that Ziegler would file
charges with the National racing board
against Tom Cooper and George Grant for
an alleged foul during the one-mile pro-
fesslonal race at Chester Park, Cincinnati,
May 16. The matter is creating an i'm
mense amount OF talk In Eastern wheeling
circles where it has become known, as
Cooper and Grant would undoubtedly be
suspended ii Ziegler's claims of crooked
work on their part were proven, and he
is said to have a strong case. Awkward
says that Ziegler paced the first lap OF the
race and then dropped back, waiting for
some one else 10 come to the front, but no
one would and he had to keep the pace.
On the last lap he was leading on the pole
and heard Grant yell to Cooper, Come on,
Tom, I'll pull you through" Then. Zieg-
Ter alleges, Grant deliberately crowded him
off the track on TO the grass and
kept him off for some distance and
when Ziegler got back on the track he
was fully twenty yards behind, with
Grant, Allen and Cooper setting a
hot clip for the tape. Ziegler, however,
kept right after them and managed to
land in third place, with Cooper first, Al
len second and Grant fourth. ZiegIer
protested to Referee Croninger, who
promptly disqualified Grant for the next
event. Zlegler and Grant had heated
discussion at the training quarters after
the race, and Grant later apologized to
Negler for his alleged act. From the
grand stand it was plainly visible that
Ziegler was forced off the track, but how it
occurred could not be seen.
1t is quite likely that Cooper and Grant
may be indefinitely suspended for this
piece Of crooked work. The two have been
working together on some "pot- hunting
trips and twice rode against Ziegler, who
com peted, though out OF condition, at the
request Of the meet promoters, as he is a
great drawing card. Cooper and Grant
have thus far not ridden on the National
circuit, and they would not dare to try
such tricks there. One can imagine them
trying to crowd off Wells or Terrill, Bald,
Sanger or Coulter, all 200-pounders. They
would never know what struck them.
The Olympic Club Wheelmen of this
City and the Reliance Club WheeImen OF
OShiohb W Ii JOlllI CiuD run
row to Woodside, San Mateo County, via
Redwood City. Both clubs expect to turn
out IN large mum bers and the trip should
be pleasant one.
The defeat of John g. Johnson abroad
by three foreign riders has been the sub
ject of considerable comment. That this
rider, who has proved himself a prize
winner and champion on this side of the
water, should be SO numerically trounced
by men who would not stand ghost of q
show against at least four American
riders, is naturally a matter that has
proved irritable to the sensitive natures oil
Americans who look upon successful con-
quests in Europe as a matter of course
But it must be understood that racing in
| France is much different from the way il
| is conducted in this country. Over there
champion cyclist is the envied of the
/ envied. He is feted and treated like q
/ lord while his star is in the ascendency
but let him fall and the sympathies of the
! people fly to his conqueror. Naturally
an intrepid race, the Frenchmen make
| the most of their nerve, particularly in
cycle racing, where there are so MANY
! competitors, and where it is hard matter
! to remain on top very long. The tracks