The San Francisco call., 1896-04-18

wheelmen during the past week the cap
tains of the various clubs have been alive
to the fact that the touring season is now
open, and the above list of club events for
tomorrow indicates this fact. The par
ticulars of all of the above runs were given
in THE CALL yesterday.
Chairman Stratton of the road-racing
committee of the Associated Clubs has
stated to the writer that no action could
be taken regarding the relay-cup dispute
until next week. He received the answer
of the Bay City Wheelmen to his letter
requesting the return of it, in which the
club refuses to deliver the cup without a
hearing. A special meeting of the associa-
tion will be called for some night next
week for this purpose. Meanwhile the
club has possession of the cup and it reposes
in safe deposit vault and none of the
club member seem to know who has the
key. 1t is quite evident that the Bay Citys
do not care much for the cup itself, though
they Will not give 1t up when they feel il
rightly belongs to them. Having won the
race on its merits a prominent mem Der
tells me they are satisfied, and if the
Garden City Cyclers want the cup so badly
as 10 take 1t under the existing conditions
Captain Plummer will call an immense
club run of all the Bay Citys and they will
with much assumed pomp and ceremony.
The agitation over the relay race is hav-
ing the effect of causing considerable BIT
teruess between the four big clubs-the
Acmes, Bay Citys. Garden Citys and
Olymplcs-and the ASSOCIATION will be the
loser by it.
It seems that the winning team of the
Bay City Wheelmen will not be permitted
to rest on its Iaurels. Harry Terrill has
organized another team in the same club
which he declares can beat the winners
The riders and their positions would be !:
I. l.. Day, +. g. Lacey, John Davidson. H
b. freeman, Robert L. Long, T. S. Hall.
Archie Reid, II. E. Mendell, Harry f. Ter
rill and Tom Cooper. Some of these men
are faster than two or three of those on the
winning team-take Lacey, Long, Hall
Reid, TerriIl and Cooper for instance-and
as team they feel sure of winning. The
challenge is being considered and NAV he
accepted. in which even Ulbricht and NC
Crea would come up from the south again.
as ii is specified that the team must be ex
actly as it was last Sunday.
The Olympic Cyciers will have a road
race over the San Carlos course Sunday
April 26, and a large number of the mem
bers are actively training for the event 1t
has been quite struggle for some of them
TO give up the pleasures OF life for two or
three weeks and go into the severe trainin o
necessitated in the preparation for bicvcle
race, but many are doing it for the spirit
OF tue thing, and the race promises to be a
great club event.
The San Francisco Y. H. c. A. Cycling
Club has reorganiZed under the name of
the Triangle Wheelmen, and the following
officers have been elected: c. F. Steuart,
president; Joseph Sims, yice-president; r.
;. Boyns, secretary-treasurer; Dr. J. A..
kuykendall, captain; B. w. Waterman,
hfst lieutenant; DR.. H. L. Dietz Jr, Sec
ond lieutenant
CAPTAIN Kuykendall is well known
among the wheelmen of this City as very
clever rider, and he should fit tie office TO
which he has been elected admirably.
There seems TO be dissension somewhere
among the makers of BICYCLES, for the idea
is quite prevalent in many places where
the manufacture of cycles is big indus
try that 1t should be the sentiment of the
makers not to employ racing teams. Some
OF Inc weli-knoWn concerns have taken
pans to SO declare themselves, aud there
is Likelihood of combination being
formed to work ultimately to this end. In
case such an agreement is reached. and
the general opinion of the Cycle Board of
Trade points to withdrawal from the
scheme OF controlling racing teams. it will
eifectually result in the abandonment of
the National circuit. There can be no cir
cuit OF this character under the eyistino
league rules without the support of the
manufacturers, many OF whom now believe