The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-06
KINSEY CHALLENGED BY MAYO
THE FLORIDIAN WANTS TO WIN OR
LOSE 500 ON 5-MILE RACE.

Help 1t Along.
Match races are strictly the thing now.
Hardly day passes but some match race
or other between teams or individual rid
ers are heard of. True. some Of them do
not materialize, but the challenging goes
to show that there is intense rivalry be-
tween riders as to who is champion or
champions.
One of the most interesting bits of cy-
cling news that Savannah cycledom has
had for some time is the announcement
that match race between 1. U. Kinsey of
Savannah and B. F. Mayo of Jacksonville
is a probability in the near future
The following challenge was received
by the Morning News yesterday:
AT the bicycle races on Aug q at
Jacksonville, Fla, entered a profes.
sional race of two miles with ].
U. Kinsey of Savannah and
won second prize. now wish
to challenge him through the columns of
the Morning News for a five-miled. paced,
match race, to be run in four weeks from
date for purse of 500. The Clark Cycle
Club of Jacksonville will put up $50, and
kinsey's side to put up the other $50. /
have right to challenge him, and I will
appreciate it very much if the News will
so state for me- b. F. Mayo"
There Is hardly doubt that Kinsey will
fairly jump at the challenge. He is just
lying for such good things and he will be
only too glad to give the Jacksonville boy
a chance. A friend of Kinsey's said last
night that the challenge will be accepted.
Kinsey has hackers who will put up any
amount of money for him and there will
be no trouble on that score.
kinsey has been in Valdosta for the past
two months, but will return to Savannah
this week, and re-enter the bicycle bust
ness. Mayo will doubtless hear from his
challenge in a day or two.
The race in Jacksonville in which Kinsey
beat Mayo was a two mile professional.
Kinsey had an easy thing and won five
out of six heats.
Mayo, however, is a fast rider and has
powerful wind. He can stand a good long
race, which is probably his reason for
challenging Kinsey to race five miles Kin
sey may not have as good wind as Mayo,
but he is much better sprinter.
Several prominent northern wheelmen
are trying to make arrangements to run
southern bicycle circuit next month, to
take up the time elapsing between the
closing of the northern circuit and the
opening of the California circuit. 1t is
proposed to open the circuit at Charlotte,
N. c., Oct 1, following to Savannah, jack
sonville, Atlanta, Birmingham, Montgom-
to Arizona and California.
The plan is to bring the fast push
down and have them race at these meets
| just as they do on the northern circuit.
1t is proposed that the party travel to-
gether in private car and the list of
crack-a-jacks will include Bald, Cooper,
Gardner, Zeigler, VIII and Tom Coburn,
Butler, Cabanne, Sanger and others.
The date set for the Savannah meet is
| Oct. 3. There are many difficulties to
| overcome before a meet can be held in
| Savannah, but the wheelmen sincerely
hope that the obstacles will be removed
and that Savannah will once more have
| the big guns in its midst.
Since the Electric railway stopped run
| ming to Thunderbolt, it is impossible to
| reach the track except by bicycle or con-
| veyance. Unless some means can be con-
| trived to carry the crowds out of course
| it will be impossible to have the meet
| 1t has been suggested that a line of
| buses or herdics be run from the Cathe-
| dral cemetery, connecting with the Coast
| Line railroad, and running to the track.
| If arrangements can be made on this line
it ought to work well enough
| The northern men are taking bad time
/ Of the year for a southern circuit. Octo-
| Der and November are two of the busiest
months of the year in the south. Just
| then cotton is moving rapidly and all in
| dustries are working at their heaviest.
| People don't have the time to attend to
| bicycle meets that they do at other times
of the year, and consequently the circuit
would not be as much of a success as 1T
would if held in the spring.
The early spring is undoubtedly the
most opportune time for a southern cir
cult. Then the heavy business of the win
ter is Stacking down, the south is clothed
in all its beauty, the roses are beginning
to bloom and the weather could not be
improved upon
1t is not meant to discourage the cir
cult. If the gentlemen, both here and
north, who are working 1t up, succeed, 1t
is to be hoped that it will pan out we'll.
Charlie Coburn and "Tug" Kinsey will
be a popular tandem team this winter.
They will ride together and will make the
fast teams around town get move on.
The trans-continental relay race from
San Francisco to New York is attracting
much attention all over the country. The
packet which is being carried by the rid
ers over mountain and plain is now be-
tween Chicago and New York, and the
race will probably end tomorrow. A grand
bicycle parade will be held in New York
on the arrival of the packet
At Oldensburg, ILL.,, on the Bluff Line
railroad e. E. Anderson will to-day make
another attempt to ride a mile in sixty
seconds or less, paced by locomotive.
Anderson made a trial about month ago
and rode the mile in the phenomenal time
of one minute and three seconds. Ander-
son is confident that he can make the mile
in a minute. He will ride wheel geared
to 100.
w. w. Hamilton. who holds most of the
unpaced records, will ride three one-mile
heats against Joe Patchen, the champion
pacing stallion, in Rochester, N. Y, Sept.
10. Best two out of three heats to count.
The Spalding-Napoleon match road race
IS still in an unsettled state, and It looks
now as II the race will not be run. A meet
ing was held last week to try and come to
an understanding, but the teams could not
agree. The main points of disagreement
are these. The Spalding team challenged
for three men 10 ride while the Napoleon
team wants to race FIVE men to a team.
There the matter rests.
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