The evening times., 1896-12-02

Secretary Abbot Bassctt has issued the
following bulletin concerning the member
ship OF the League:
New YORK, 20, ,I2s; PENNSYLVANIA, 10. SPA:
Massachusetts, 9,577; New Jersey, 1853;
Illinois, 3,lS7; Ohio, 2,227; Missouri, p
liz; Connecticut, 1896; total, ~, i6o.
Monte Scott, the road racer, who was
challenged yesterday for a race with Eddie
McDurfee, of Boston, tclegraphs that he
will meet McDuffee and viii be in New
York in a few days To cover the deposits
made by McDuffee.
PaceInakers viii be used by both riders
in this contest, and as the men are about
evenly matched ii Will doubtless attract
great attention. The place where the race
will occur has not yet been determined.
Though the foreigners now in New York
came to this country particularly To COM
pete in the Madison Square Garden aces
next week, they Will remain ON this side
during the winter and probably the greater
part of next season.
In the Garden events, Lumsden, Hale,
and Chapple will start in the six-day race,
and perhaps Tom Linton will also try for
the ST 500 first prize. Sam Linton md
Warburtun will compete in the short-dis-
tance races.
jules Dubois, the French distance rider,
who visited this country several years ago,
was to have come over on tho ST Paul. but
owing to delay on account uf business he
will not arrive until the end of this week.
In the bicycle race at Velodronc a Hivcn
November Is. in which Tom Butler took
third place. the French track followers had
Il good chance to get line on the Ameri-
cans riding. They sized him up as follows:
THE American starts superbly, and The:
public are satisfied with his riding and .n-
courIged him with their lively applause
But the limit man was little too far away
and rode SO Well that Ruinart. who joined
him. could not last, and had To let him go,
Butler good third
II has been stated that to every twenty
five Americans there is one who rides a
bicycle. while in France only one in each
$50 of population does so.
Atlantic City wheelmen are of the opinion
that there is very little prospect of the plo-
jected bicycle track across the meadows
being built for months to come md hav IN
stituted an investigation to discover the
whereabouts of Thomas White. the projec-
tor.
Mr.. White interested local capitalists in
theenterp-ise few months ago. n company
was formed, and fe W pilings We're sunk in
the meadows. Then work was discontI au"d
because of "a lack Of funds, and Mr.. White
went to Philadelphia to interest he wheel
ing has been heard of him since that time.
The officers of the company and many
others here who purchased the stock have
nothing to show for their investments and
are i'll an angry mood.
Charley Murphy, the well known Brook.
lyn professional, yesterday entered the
two open races for cash prize riders in the
meet to be held next Saturday night in
Madison Square Garden
Murphy was invincble on board floor
couple OF years ago, and expects to re-
tain his !onors in this line. Al weinig, the
big Bison, yesterday sent his entry from
Buffalo for the short distance event in the
Garden, and several more riders from that
city are likely to be present.
In letter received from Champion Bald,
Information is contained to the effect that
he Is holding his own with the fast con-
dnsent training at Saratoga.
Bald viii start from scratch in the half
mile handicap next Saturday night, and
VIII also ride an exhibition, paced by
tandem.
The racing rules of the League of Amer
lean Wheelmen need revising, the same as
certain regulations that COVER tue national
game OF baseball.
The idea is 10 give the public as much
satisfaction as possible, relieve the COM
will creep in in spite of everything the
race meet officials can do, and compel the
riders to conform to certainirestrictions
that will lessen the danger Of competi-
ton.
IL does not seem fair to put pacemakers
into race. Riders, one and all, are not
treated alike. and unless some me ans a re de-
vised whereby every ycompetitoIhast IS the same
privileges, the sport cannot and Will not be
clean and healthful.
Although but one fatal Academia recorded
as the result of cycle racing, many ofthef fast
speed kings today have scars running thu.
length of their bodies; spill OH a gravel
track. and the loss of several inches of skin
and flesh. This has nothing 10 do with the
pacemaker, and cannot be entirely obliter-
ated unless the most stringent methods are
used in Furnishing a rider whenever he is in
strumental in causing an accident.
James Michael has been matched to meet