San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-03-29
CYCLE NOTES.

Cyclometers are now sold in San
Antonio at So an ounce.
The famous Paris Bordeaux
road race will be held on June y
and %, this year.
George Rupert, of New York,
intends to race in the amateur
ranks this year.
Harvard will begin the racing
season by a big meet at Cam
bridge, ON June 3.
Mr.. Pred. Stone has commenced
riding a bicycle and says his health
and appetite is improving accord
ingly.
The New Jersey division intends
to redouble its efforts this year to
push highway improvement in
that state.
A six-day bicycle race will be
held at Madison Square Garden
next December. The dates selected
are December Z to u.
Corded and leather dress-gusrds
are subject to accidental breakage.
Fish-line will mend the former
and a leather shoe.lacing the lat
ter.
"Kid" Wheeler says Savannah
can't be beat as a training place
for racing men who desire to get
into condition early in the sea-
son.
The Springfield Bicycle club
has applied to the L. A. w. racing
board for sanction to hold their
annual meet on September l, 2,
and 3.
The "Gate" amounted to fl4,-
600 the day Zimmerman made
his first appearance on race
track in Australia. This was at
the Sydney meet.
F. J. Osmond, the English
champion of 1892, who was going
to beat Zimmerman, but didn't,
is achieving unusual success as
manufacturer. -
Mr.. Archibald G. VIII 'son, ex-
president of the League o. Amer
lean Wheelmen, has become iden-
titled with an eastern firm, and
will represent it in Maryland, with
headquarters at Baltimore.
Chef of Police Conlin, of New
York, in his annual report speaks
volumes for the utility of the BIZ
cyle in the police department,
and makes its more general use
by the blue coats of the metropolis
probably only matter Of a short
time.
The University of Pennsylvania
has the following candidates for
cycling honors now in training:
Fl. Coates, Jr,; NJ. Auerbach, J.
b. Corser, G. l.. Dukes, H. G.
Eagle, H. NJ. James, H. NJ.
Land, w. R. Oglesby, A. M.
Stackhouse, A. Smith, G. l..
Thorne and II. E. Williams.
The professional ranks in eye
ling will be augmented this sea-
son by Harry Wheeler, who de-
cided yesterday not to 60 aboard.
Within a fortnight Wheeler will
go to Savannah to train for the
early races. 1t was stated yester-
day on very good authority that
the great aim" would very likely
be seen on the path in this coun-
try during the coming season.
o. S. Bunnell intends to press
a suit against "Bob" Fitzsimmons,
the boxer, for breach Of contract.
Mr.. Bunnell engaged "Fitz" to
ride mile exhibition at bicycle
race meet, held at Tioga last sum-
mer, while Makers conquerer did
ride he failed to 60 the stipulated
distance, hence the suit. The pa
pers in the case will be served as
soon as Fitzsimmons appears in
Philadelphia.
The wheelmen of Louisville are
already making arrangements and
devising plans for the conducting
OF the National l.. A. w. meet to
be held in that city next August.
The members of the ways and
means committee will have full
charge of the meeting, and have
decided that not more than four
days races will be held The other
two days of the week being de-
voted to picnic or barbecue in the
woods and a mammoth run to
Frankfort or elsewhere.
Efforts are being made to make
a grand bicycle parade feature of
the Flower Battle.
The following premiums have
been offered: One fine sweater,
lsdy's, by w. E. Roach, and one
nickle-plated lantern, by France &
Thiele, for the best decorated lady's
bicycle; fine punching bag, by
Ernest Confines, for the best deco.
rated gentleman's wheel.
Any gentleman who desire to
to enter the parade can do so by
calling on Ernest Confines, at Vic
tor Confines ammunition store on