The San Francisco call., 1896-02-22

cling Clubs, to be held over the San Lean
dro triangle this morning, will attract
most of the wheelmen from this City, Ala
media and Santa Clara counties. Large
delegations are also coming down from
Santa Rosa and Petaluma to witness the
event, as there are several men from those
places entered in it.
The race is scheduled to start at $50
o'clock, so that the scratch men may get
away promptly at TO- Riders and specta-
tors from this City will therefore have to
take the o'clock broadgauge boat and
local train to Frultvale. There is good
road from there TO San Leandro, a ride of
about five miles, and the electric-cars are
available for those without wheels.
The entrants and their handicaps have
already appeared in tae papers, and the
list OF officials was published exclusively in
THE CALL yesterday The prize list, par
tlcularly valuable one for a road race, is as
follows:
For first time, gold Swiss spnt-second watch;
second time, unset diamond.
The place prizes are: First, gold watch; sec
ond, unset diamond third, overcoat; fourth,
diamond stud; fifth, diamond locket: sixth, sew
enth and eighth, pair of tires each; ninth, one
dozen Paris panels; tenth, bicyle lamp; elev-
enth, hat; twelfth sweater; thirteenth, racing
suit; fourteen III, pair bicycle shoes; fifteenth,
years membership in the League of American
Wheelmen; sixteenth and seventeenth, cy
clometers. There is also a special club trophy
donated by the Olympic and conditional
prize of 500 gold prick II the winner rides
certain make of tires.
Those inevitable adjuncts to the prize
list of a road race-sweater, racing suit,
pair bicycle shoes and cyclometer, without
which no race would be complete-are not
missing. Altogether the arrangements
for the event are perfect. and much credit
attaches to the road racing and records
committee of the association, which is
composed of George H. Stratton, o. G. W..
chairman; Henry f. Wynne, G. c. c., and
John S. Egan, /. G. c.
Charles S. Wells and Harry +. Terril of
the Bay City Wheelmen arrived here by
steamer from San Diego yesterday morn
ing. Wells has been trying for records at
Coronado, but when the league abolished
class B he gave it up, as he did not want to
be put in the professional class, which
would have been the result Terriil has
been travelling through the East for pleas
ure, and came home via San Diego to visit
his brother, w. A. Terrill, who is Wells
team mate. The latter remained there,
but will not ride for the present until he
decides what class he wants to enter. In
fact all riding is stopped at that point, as
the men want TO know what the Eastern
flyers viii do, and do not want to impair
their amateur standings. Harry Terrill
raced at New Orleans and the Atlanta Ex-
position while away, and Won every event
q
nent figure on the path in this State dur
ing the coming season.
The wonderful Fowler sextuplet will
race the Empire State express in New York
State on April % next. This machine is
wonderful contrivance and can be briefly
described as follows: Length over all, 156
inches; wheel base, 125 inches; weight
1917 pounds; diameter of wheels 80
incnes; diameter of tires Largest ever
made), "a inches; there are four driving
sprockets of %. %, IA and teeth; to cal.
culate the gear multiply the product (641
OF the two large sprockets by diameter of
wheel go lnches), result, 1920; divide
this by product (l26) of two smaller sprock-
cts, which gives the gear, 153. 1t is the
largest wheel in the world
The wheel upon which Champion Zim-
norman raced while in Australia will be
exhibited al the Pavilion cycle show next
month, Mr. Zimmerman having kindly
left it here for that purpose.
Charles A. Wlkidel, manager of the in
door tournament to be held at the Me-
chanics' Pavilion next month, had new
entry blanks printed last Wednesday to
conform to the various changes made in
the racing rules at the annual meeting of
the League of American Wheelmen, as
stated in THE CALL upon that day, and
they have been sent out to the various
clubs. 1t seems now, however, that they
will have to be revised again, as the latest
adyices from the East indicate that the
league Will not sanction Sunday racing
under any circumstances. Riders IN hill
ing out the blanks Will therefore not enter
their names for anV of the events sched-
uled for Sunday, March g. The entries
close Saturday, February %. There will
be no professional events at all, the meet
being purely amateur. All class A and