The evening times., 1896-02-18

George Rupert of the New York Ath-
letic Club and q. b. underhin OF the Man
| haitian Athletic Club viii ride tandem
during the summer.
A bicycle which was sold for $3.50. the
mostly ccusily wheel ever made. is on its
way from New York TO England. and is
To be used by the wife OF a man with a
well-known title.
o. S. Bunnell of Philadelphia. who pro-
NOTED number of professional bicycle
races last season, is planning to bring a
number of foreign professionals TO this
country this summer and hold a series OF
night race merits.
About $1,000 per year is drawn from the
League of American Wheelmen by Abbot
Bassett and his relatives. A neat penny for
the organization to pay for the small re-
urn it gets.
With ciaSs A men racing for $50 prizes
and keeping within 100 miles of their
home, there is not likely to be any great
rush of old class b men into the pure
amateur ranks.
The treatment received by Toledo is
such that is merited by all traitors. The
delegation sold its birthright for mess OF
pottage and then got euchred out OF the
pottage. Ohio had been pledged for Will
lisOn, but on promise of ten votes for
Toledo 1t swung around to Elliott. Then
the latter's cohorts went out and got sew
enteen votes for Louisville.
The Bearings of ChicaR go has been brought
out in the size and shape of q monthly niaga
zine. 1t is a handy size, much more con-
venient than the usual cumbersome cycling
journal.
The interview bet ween ex xPresident Will.
son and Sterling Elliott was more vigorous
than polite, while that bet tween Pop Brew VS.
ter and W. C. F. Reichenbach of Topeka,
Kas., was peach.
Abbott Bassett is serving his last year az
secretary OF the League Of American Wheel
men. He can't help dabbling in league poll
tics, and a movement has been started to
bounce him. He can't be fired too soon.
POttcr's racing scheme was knocked out
at the first clip. The chief consul Of New
York, however, succeeded In keeping the real
object OF his scheme hidden from sight, and
few IL any know yet what he was driving at.
The action of the convention in killing
class Is should certainly be cheerful read
ing for F rank Eagan and O. S. Bunncll. They
We're the earliest and most consistent kick
ers against the infamous abortion.
New York papers claim that the delega-
ton from that State is responsible for the
defeat of class b. There Is no truth in the
assertion, as all the credit for be death of
that unpopular division of the racers be-
longs to George D. Gideon.
Even in killing class b the league could
not help doing something childish. They
give the old paid racers their choice of 60
ing into either class A or the professional
ranks. just fancy some OF those Old Cir
cult chasers racing as anna teurs.
Chairman George Gideon of the national
board of the L. A. W. has disaIlowed the
claim for the worlds unpaced mile record
made by William Hamilton at Colorado,
2-5. Walter c. Sanger gets the decision,
which gives him the record. He made the
mile in just the same time. 1t trauspired
shortly after Mr.. Hamilion's record was
made. ard announced that he had been
paced to the tape by Il quad, which dropped
him at that point. This explained the ex-
tremely fast third, which was something
phenomenal and which was not under
stood by wheeimen. Mr.. Sanger, on the con-
trary, was not paced, even In his start, and
made the entire mile actually uupaced.