The record-union., 1896-03-07
CYCLE NOTES.
Last Weeks Wonderful Record Breaking
at Coronado.
The Indoor Training Wheel-Instruct-
i've Points for Those With Linn
tied Experience.

The s'Record- Unions" special corre-
spondent, writing from Coronado under
date of the 9TH, thus graphically de-
scribes the wonderful record breaking
by Hamilton, the Denver crack, last
week:
The Syracuse record breaking team
is now a thing of the past, and Manager
Shafer will return to the East with
thirteen worlds and two coast records
while the after effects of his trip are
seen in the presence of T. Ed. Spooner
in Coronado. the object of his visit be-
ing to secure the mile track for the
Stearns team, Notwithstanding the
claim on the part of the manager of the
team that records made upon mile
track were worthless
A funereal feeling seems to pervade
the atmosphere of the hotel, as the
California pacemakers have taken their
departure, and the Eastern men wander
about with a dazed expression. as
though they hAd lost part of themselves.
The pretty waiter girls look at the
empty chairs and sigh as they think of
the handsome young athletes who,
through their gentlemanly conduct,
made friends everywhere they went.
small rolf and told him to take the
boys over to town and give them a
good time The rain was coming down
In sheets and the wind was blowing a
hurricane, but the boys, who had been
under training rules for the last two
months, were overjoyed at their re-
lease from restraint, and when they
struck San Diego the hurricane sank
cstnn inc
took on a lurid tinge, and the Syca-
more yell of the happy record-break-
ers sent two old maids rushing into the
arms of a stalwart San Diego police
man for protection.
The boys kept within the bounds of
decency, however, and as they were
none of them drinkers returned to Cor
onado on the last boat, tired out and
so hoarse that when they attempted
to give a parting yell they could only
give a triumphant gurgle.
The stay of the party at Coronado
has been marred by very few accidents,
and Shafer's oft-repeated assertion
that a fall from one of the larger pac-
ing machines would be attended by no
more serious results than from the
tandem or quad has been verified by
the recent accident 10 the SeAlup1Gl,
which, through a defect in the tires,
went down while travelling at a speed
of forty miles an hour. Some of the men
were riding the next day and with the
exception of Swanbrough, whose ankle
was cut, they have all nearly recov-
cred from their injuries, which consisted
mainly of slight bruises.
The effects of the fall were seen in
the riding, for the boys, through fright,
were unable for some time to attain
any great speed upon the sextuplet, as
they were in constant fear of recur-
renee of the accident. In order to allay
their fears, Shafer put them on the
quad and quint, which were fitted with
other tires.
On the Doth of February Manager
Shafer sent the quad for a quarter
and the quint for half mile, in order
to ascertain what chance they would
have for the mile, which was the mark
he desired most. The try-outs came up
to his expectations, for the quad cut
the quarter in 0:23 Is and the quint
the half in 0:49 2-5 seconds. The entire
mile could have been cut under record