The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-04-15
WHEELISG.
College and School Riders Must Not Com.
pete In Unsanctionod Events.

College and School Riders Must Not Com
pete in Unsanctionod Events.
Last season bicycle riders in the leading coll
leges and schools frequently competed In un-
sanctioned races, and as q result were sus-
pended by the l.. A. w. They pleaded igno-
rance Of the rules, SO the Racing Board has
Issued the following warning for this year:
Race meet promoters and managers of school and
college track teams will note the following: Every
year about this time the various colleges and schools
begin to develop racing men to represent them at the
intercollegiate and intcrscholastio outdoor games It
Is customary to run OF one or more trials TO pick out
n team. Racing throughout the United States Is gov.
erncd by the l.. A. w, and that organization requires
that every track race be sanctioned. A man compel
ing in an unsanctioncd event IL liable 10 suspension.
NOW your men n particular may not care whethe.
s sori az the Sna al meet nosi I from ans sS@ ARE o sSes e 20 Iess
VINO does care and viii not allow them to ride Il under
little caution !. can be prevented. hSmearin S"eH hat
SANCTIONED. II You ARE are 10 have any trials niSi send for . q 3
sanct.2n every time; For open races a Zee 10 charged,
but in oil cases send for a sanction and save your
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In points at championship meetings.
The question of pacemakinG in races and the
hnbit OF riders to loaf until the homestretch Is
meters his year; William W,enzel. the phile-
VIII. prevent loafng. His scheme. which will
likely receive u trial this spring. is as follows:
In all scratch races, at the option Of the meet pro-
moter. q prize be placed for each quarter or third, &C.
cordinS, 10 the track. 70 be given TO the nrst man
70 be set, say nfty TO seventy-fve yards In u mile at
the most. A man winning a lap prize must be within
that distance OF the winner at the finish. otherwise
he loses the prize. the winner taking II instead. as
well as frst prize. In this way the riders will start
out pretty, lively for lap prizes, and at the same
time IL Will make them 20 the full distance to win q
lap prize. instead. of dropping out aud being con.
tented with what they have won. Then again. all tho
men Will have to ride fast II one or two start out In
red hot style. because they will learn TINT the two
riders, or more, may get the lap prizes and keep on so
fast that unless the crowd Keeps up 4 Will not be
OF possibilities and lots OF chances for q man To use
his head and fool the crowd.
The prize for each lap would not have to be OF
much. value: that 4, they would be ordinary sun.
dries" ami such things, and would not give to the
race promoter much extra exp nse. The reduction
OF SD in value OF prizes this year would more than
paw for these prizes. FOR amateurs. The pros. OF
course, would not want sundries. but cash.
The Crescent Wheclmen OF Plainfeld will
hold the following races at the meeting on May
30: Quarter of a mile. scratch. professional:
one mile. handicap, professional; one mile,
novice; five miles, handicap; two-mile relay
race: one mile, tandem.