The record-union., 1896-05-29
THE TROPHY FESTIVITIES.
Capital City Wheelmen Receive the
Trophy Cup.
Refreshments and Speeches-M Nor
Wheelways Recreation Grounds
in Prospective.

in Prospective.
The Capital City Whelemen had a
rousing time last night in celebration
OF the winning Of the first trophy cup
in California offered for wheel club
! competition. The club rooms were
packed by enthusiastic members. The
Committee of Entertainment, L. s. Up
son, c. j. Atwater and F. NJ. Woodson
had prepared ample refreshments, which
were spread in the wheel room and
served by the committee and assistants
to those seated in the assembly room.
| On the center table stood the trophy
cup inclosed in fine case, three sides
OF which are glass. Behind this table
President Ennis sat, and at half-past
8 called to order and introduced Harry
Thorpe, who represented Weinstock,
Lubin & Co., the donors of the cup.
| He said that he regretted the absence
of Mr.. Weinstock, who could have so
felicitously presented the cup. At short
notice the speaker had been designated
| to represent the firm and make the
| presentation. He did not propose to
dwell extendedly upon the benefits and
the marvellous growth of wheeling in
| terests. They had become national,
universal, worldwide. The bicycle af
| forded means of rational health-giv-
ing and developing recreation superior
to any other device of the age. He be-
| lieved that more people are to-day
III Sacramento availing of this means
than had ever accepted and adopted
any other vehicle or means for exer-
else and for pra ctica1 use
He did not think that the people even
yet fully realized what a blessing the
| wheel is to humanity and what the
| full measure of good to the whole coun-
try is that is to grow out of it. What the
| club had already done in introducing
the wheel and furthering the movement
| for improved economic means Of commu-
nication and transportation entitled it
| and the men who had devoted their
| energies to the opening of the new
.wheelways to the thanks and COM
| mendatiOn Of all the community. He
| referred to the construction of the
| wheelway to Folsom, the first built in
| the center and north, to the wheelway
| of the club now nearly completed to
| Elk Grove, and to the one proposed to
| run to the foothills Auburnward. and
| concerning which the Wheelmen to the
| east and north are to meet the club in
| consultation at Rocklin on the 7th of
| June.
While the club members fully appre-
| ciate the benefits. of these paths, there
| were hundreds availing of them who
| are not of the club, but realize how
much it has done for them in providing
| these health giving means of outdoor
| exercise. The club, he knew had only
| the kindest feelings for the vanQuished
wheelmen Of the Terminal City Club,
| but the members felt deeply the debt
| they owe to the racing men who had
| won the trophy for the Capital City
| Wheelmen. In the name of the donors
Of the cup he presented the trophy.
| In the midst Of the applause that
| followed President Ennis rose to re-
ply. He said that the club commits
| stoned him to say to Mr.. Thorpe that he
should bear it's thanks to the donors
and express to them the full sense of
gratitude the members feel for the
beautiful gift. It was the first grand
wheel trophy won in the State, and the
club was proud of it's possession.
| The racing section of the club had long
worked just as hard for less valuable
and lasting prizes. The need had been
felt for something of higher value and
| more artistic character for which the
boys" might compete, feeling that
| they were laboring for something for
the club that would forever remain to it
a source of pride. In the midst of that
need Messrs. Weinstock, Lubin & Co.
had come to the front with the offer of
this rich. chaste and costly trophy It
had been won fairly and by honest eff
fort, and with feelings of pride and
gratitude he accepted the cup in be-
half of the club, with the hope that
| when it is contested for again next
year the Capital City Wheelmen will
again win it, and again, and thus retain
i. for all time as an emblem of honest
victory.
The President then called up Messrs
George Readman (Captain), Leslie
Young, w. A. Hubert, Thomas Welch,
Robert Smith, Edwin Pope and Louis
Payen, and presented to each of them
a neatly engrossed letter of acknowl-
/ edgment on behalf of the club for their
victory as the relay riders. The letter
read as follows:
Dear Sir: The Capital City Wheel
men have commissioned the under
signed on their behalf to address you
this letter of acknowledgment for your
manly and splendid services on the
10th day of May 1896, as relay rider
Fir the 1OOmile relay race with the
Terminal City Wheelmen of Stockton.
Through your exertions, self-sacrifice
and courage the club is winner and
possessor of a beautiful trophy cup.
So long as it holds this cup, or should
it lose it, the Capital City Wheelmeh
will hold you in proud and kindly re-
membrance. 1t owes you more than
thanks, and can but feebly in this way
express to you the full sense of it's graf
itude. 1T trusts that in all the years
of your life this small tribute NAV
serve to remind you of the kind consid-
Grafton and the high esteem of the
club for you. Very sincerely yours,
l.. S. UPSON,
| G. H. LAVENSON.
f. M. WOODSON,
Committee
By order of the club
SCOTT /. ENNIS, President.
John T. Sheehan, Secretary.
When the applause that followed
these presentations had subsided J. r.
Spickett sang effectively two, senti-