The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-27
WHEEL NOTES.

The Social Wheel club is endeavoring
to raise the ban from the Hot Springs
track and hold d fall meet. Should
they succeed they will try and have
the professional cracks of the country
stop off here on their way to the Pa
cific coast. Such men as Cooper, But
Ter, Bald, Zeigler, should draw an i'm
mense crowd to the track.
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Wheel VS.. horse is becoming quite the
proper thing these days. and some
owner of trotting horse would have
no trouble in getting a large bet on
with local wheelman.
Jimmy Michael, the champion rider OF
England, is only 19 years old, weighs
but 9S pounds and rides a 92-gear.
He is now in the United States and we
predict that he will make our cracks
ride to defeat him. He has ridden over
thirty miles an hour, or a mile every
two minutes.
Sunday racing in California, contrary
to prediction, has been a decided sue
cess. Butte will also hold races today.
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Eddie Bald and Johnnie Johnson seem
to be joining the ranks of the has
beens." The latter has lately been
given a handicap while men without
national reputation have been placed on
the scratch.
The two "Tommys." Butler and Coop
er, seem to be having it all their own
way on the national circuit. A match
race between them would be an inter-
esting sight.
Tom Cooper has challenged Johnnie
Johnson to race for $1,000. Tom will
have a lead pipe cinch on that $1,000 if
Johnson accepts.
c. n. Butler, chief consul of the Utah
division of the L. A. W., is visiting Cal
ifornia for his health, and w. D. Brown
is acting chief consul during his alb
sence.
The old Continental market is now
fitted up as a bicycle store. The riding
school is the largest west of Chicago
and many ladies and gentlemen are
learning to ride the silent steed.
Walter Sanger, the unpaced king, or
wooden Shoes as he is termed, has
left the circuit and gone to Denver to
go for unpaced records.
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A match race between Jensen, Fen
ton, Emory and Drabble at Beck's Hot
Springs track for twenty-five miles,
would be what local wheelmen would
like to see, since it would settle the
championship for that distance in Utah.
Each one of the above gentlemen have
many friends and it would be drawing
| card for a race meet.
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Ii Hung Chang was presented with a
bicycle while in this country. He claim
ed that bicycles were invented by the
Chinese about 1000 years B. c. He
didn't say whether the Chinese lost the
hair on the front part of their head by
breaking records or not, although he
said the Chinese ladies' small feet We're
caused originally by the bicycle, since
it was used by the ladies to such an
extent that their husbands adopted a
method of bandaging their feet to keep
them at home.
The leading manufacturers have an
nounced that high grade wheels would
list for $500 in 1897.
How about that cycle path that was
to be built at Liberty park? Wheel
men are wondering why the city does
not utilize the gang of vags and prison
ers in constructing a good path.
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Large manufacturers are experiment.
ing on chainless wheels, but SO far they
haven't succeeded in making one which
possesses any advantages over those
with chains.
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Detective Franks is applying so many
contrivances on his wheel to make it
run without pedaling, keep from falling
off when one has been imbibing of min
eral water, ETC., that it will require
Pinkerton's entire force to keep track
of the numerous devices if he gets them
oil ma tented