The evening times., 1896-05-01
on THE WHEEL
Lillian Boyd Riding Around This
Country to Win $1,000.
IDA ALE's GOOD RECORD
Has Covered $4,000 Miles Awheei.
Well Known Riders at the Fountain
Ferry yTrack-FredTitus Having His
Share of TrOubie-CIaim That u
Scotchman Invented the Bicycle.

Miss Lillian E. Boyd is the name OF a
Young woman who is now ON her way
around this country awheei. She is eight
cen years of age, halls from New orleans
and is said to be a true sample OF the nuch
praised Southern beauty. Miss Boyd ls
not making her bicycling trip for her heaitl'
nor for the fun there Is IN 10, but Is riding
from her home TO Philadeipha W earn
bet of 81 900.
10 win the bet the fair cyclist was COM
PEELED TO leave Houston, Tex, penniless
and return to her home with SoOO. she
Is now IN st. Louis, and IN the fifty-two
days that she has spent in riding from
Houston she has earned the 500 from the
sale OF photographs OF herself.
Miss Boyd Will leave st. Louis tomorrow
morning Ior Chicago, where sne will rest
u few days before starting Tor New YORK.
She wears bloomers that are correct in
style, and has already been offered a large
saiary 10 ride a certain make OF wheel the
remainder of the journey.
Probably no lady cychst can equal the
/. ng distance record OF MISS Ida Hfeeiey
Mss Alc is a school teacher or Trenton
She is aiso secretary and treasurer OF the
la'al ciuD and has recently been made
local consul lor the l.. A. W, and she now
has the distinction of being the 1irst wo-
man consul OF New Jersey.
Miss Aic i S devoted to sports of all
legitimate kinds, and advocates them
warmly with tongue and pen. She has
probably written more about woman and
ner bike than any other lad y in the land
and she writes well. This young lady is
also a veiltable pillar OF inuepe ndence in
character and dress and is one of the
original 6loOmer girls of Trenton. AS
whcelwoman she Is expert ana tireless,
ana can set lively pace even for male
scorchcr.
A dispatch from Louisville says: Things
are Lively at Fountain Ferry track nowa-
days. Eddie Bald arrived from Buffalo
Sunday and at once began work. Other
weli-known riders now at the track are
otto Ziegler, from San Jose, Cal, with his
trainer, K. 7. AlywarG OF San Francisco:
Brown. of Springfield, Mass; Tom cooper
of Detroit: Fred Allen of Syracuse; Or
lando stephens of Sioux City, Iowa: g. ID.
Grant of Detroit; and Arthur Gardiner and
Homer Fairmon Of Chicago.
Trouble certainly comes by the wagon
load. Poor Fred Titus, the racer is having
his own share of it. Recently the L. A. w
suspended him from all races over which il
has jurisdiction. ON top OF his suspension.
Fred fell IN love and was married. Now
comes the news that the Metropolitan Asso-
ciation of Cycling Clubs have refused to
accept his entry to the Irvineton-Milburn
road race.
James Johnson, d director of the Glasgow
Cycling Club, has declared that the honor of
iDyenting the bicycle belongs TO Macmillan,
clever Scottish blacksmith, and not TO
MichauN, To whom the French will erect a
monument as the inventor. Johnson brings
forth much tO prove this assertion While
people are erecting monuments, the in
ventor of the pneumatic tire should not be
omitted.
new bicycle, something on the plan
or an Irish jaunting car, has made its ap-
pearance in New York. The wheel can
be adjusted so that persons OF different
weights kppn tho machine n
1t is known as a 'sociable'' wheel.
Gov. Hastings has received q letter from
club of wheelmen in New York asking
whether he will sign a bill making bicycles
baggage If passed by the Pennsylvania legis-
lature. He will think over il.