The San Francisco call., 1896-06-24
A Remarkable Performance by a
Trio of Fair Cyclists of
the Mission.
A NEW LEAGUE ROAD BOOK,
Yeoman of the Reliance Club Made
the FASTEST Time of Last
Sundays Races.

Misses Mollie Mahony, Rita Mahony
and Lena Egeberg of this City, members
of the Alpha QadiesO Cycling Club, made
a remarkable wheeling trip last Sunday,
riding century" which is the cycular
term for 100 miles, around the bay. They
made the trip in a little over eleven hours,
including stops aggregating two hours,
and their net riding time would be credit
to any wheelman who might undertake
the journey.
These young ladies are ardent wheel
women and have from time to time taken
many long trips into the country and re-
turn of Sunday, sometimes riding fifty
or sixty miles in a day. But they were
not satisfied with this; fifty-mile jaunts
were too easy; they sighed for trip
around the bay, century" which so
many men have started upon and failed 10
accomplish.
And so they finally agreed to make the
trial, and last Sunday was the date SET
Would they ride paced or unpaced, how
ever, was the question? 1t was easier to be
paced, they concluded, so two of their gen.
tlemen friends were invited to do the pac-
ing on their tandem, Robert Duncan and
H. L. Mayo of the California Cycling Club,
and they readily assented. They decided
to follow the accepted 100-mile course of
the California Associated Cycling Clubs,
over which the annual relay race is run,
and the party therefore net Sunday morn
ing at 4:30 o'clock at Tenth and Market
streets for the start. 1t was a little too
early to get any of the official judges or
timers of the associated clubs there to Off
cially start them, but Mr.. Mayo agreed to
do the timing and act as judge, referee,
starter and scorer, and promptly at the
hour set for the start they set out, the tan
dem leading a lively pace down Ninth
street to Potrero avenue, and over the San
Bruno road.
All went well until they reached the
other side of the Six mile hill, when the
tandem broke down, and the ladies' hopes
OF pacing for the trip vanished. They de-
cided to push on unpaced, and the tandem
team agreed to return to the City, get an
other machine ana meet them on the
l Oakland side as far down as possible
| This was done, the ladies riding to San
Mateo, where they had breakfast and then
continued on to San Jose for an early
lunch. After an hours rest they left the
Garden City to return on the Oakland side
pedaling against strong head wind for
the last forty miles of the Journey They
made short stop at Centerville. expect
ing to meet the tandem riders, but thew
were not there. "We'll meet them on the
road soon," Miss Egeberg said, and with
this hope in view they rode on to Alva-
rado-no tandem. Then the thought
dawned upon them that the California
Cycling Club had roadrace at Haywards
that afternoon and probably their escorts
had stopped there. And SO it proved, but
they met them at Mount Eden and paced
them through to the finish of the course
on Central avenue, Alameda rather tired
it is true, but delighted to think they had
covered the famous associated clubs course
and had ridden century under twelve
hours.
The Imperial Cycling Club will give
ladies' night Friday evening of this week
The California Cycling Club will give
gold century bars to their mem bers who
ride 100 miles in ten hours or less, and sill
yer if the performance is made in less than
twelve hours.
The entries for the annual league meet
at Petaluma on July will close at Peta-
luna next Friday, and none will be ac-
cepted which arrive later than that day.
Z. X. Melrose, George III. Strong and J.
}. b. Argent have been appointed spe-
cial committee by the North California
Division, League of American Wheelman
TO get out at once new roadbook for the
division. The supply of roadbooks is now
entirely exhausted, and the new book will
contain many additional and valuable
features.
The growth of the divisions mem bership
has warranted the appointment of several
new representatives at large, and Chief
Consul Kerrigan announces the following
appointments, to serve until Decembe 1,
1896: W. f. Griffith, Reliance Club Wheel
men; J. w. Harvey, California Cycling
Club; Leavitt H. Cox, Olympic Club
Wheelmen; John 6. Egan, Imperial
Cycling Club. The Alpha (ladiesO Cycling
Club has elected Miss Dorothy Pendergast
as representative from the club to the di-
vision board of officers.
1t has been found that there was an
error in the timing of the Reliance Club
Wheelmen's road race last Sunday, and
the corrected table gives the credit for the
best performance of the day to William
Yeoman OF that club who rode the five
miles in 1880, four seconds faster than
the time made by P. G. Alexander of the
California Club. Yeoman rode unpaced
the entire distance and his ride was very
creditable. The positions of the riders at
the finish were unchanged.