The San Francisco call., 1896-03-10
Egan and Jaegling Of the Imperi-
ais Bring the Quarter Mark
Down to :20.
ACKERMAN WON THE HANDICAP
The Ten-Mile Race Captured by C. Bird.
sail for the California Cycling
Club in 25:57 Is.

There are some wonderful creations in
racing suits and blanket wraps seen at the
cycle show at the Mechanics Pavilion.
Time was in the history of racing when a
rider considered that pair of black tights
and black jersey were the only proper
articles of apparel to race in; but the taste
for color finally predominated and now
one sees the riders arrayed in suits repre-
senting all the varied hues of the rainbow
and many tints blended.
The different clubs have all adopted dis
tinctlve suits, which their racing men
wear, and this is found quite desirable for
the spectators and officials, as it enables
them to tell the club a man is riding for,
and answers the same purposes as the
numerous club emblems one sees ana
recognizes in the park and on the roads.
Most of these club racing suits are made
in two colors, being the shades adopted by
the various organizations. The Olympic
Club Wheelmen used red and white, the
Imperials white and purple, the Bay City
Wheelmen blue and white, the California
Cycling Club orange and olive green, the
Alameda Cyclers orange and black, the
Garden City Cyclers purple and gold, and
so on ad intinitum.
BUTT is in the selection of blanket wraps,
in which the men encase themselves while
awaiting their time TO appear on the track,
that the greatest and sometimes the most
startling tastes are displayed. For in
stance the pale, blue robe that Grlffiths,
the handsome Bay City flyer, comes forth
in is wonderful creation from Honolulu
with strange white design embroidered
in silk that some think is a butterfly,
others dragon, and which no one really
understands. T. S. Hall of the same club
has one in red which WAS evidently the
handiwork of some fair admirer. Ed
wards, the pride of the Olympic Club
Wheelmen, appears wrapped in long
white affair, which completely covers him.
Charley Bates than whom the Reliance
wheelmen think there is no better amateur
on the coast, wears one OF red and black
which is a wonder. And so it is with all
the men, for there is no limit to the colors,
styles and makeup.
The crowd at the races last night was
| fully as large and as interested as at any
of the previous meetings. The mile han
dicap race was splendid event, but it was
the five-m lie militaryrelay and the ten-mile
club race which attracted the people, and
| they stayed until the last event had been
| run.
Worlds records are being broken with
such regularity at the track now that it
| has ceased to create much wonderment
when one is lowered. Three went to
pieces last night before the game had been
going on fifteen minutes. Edwards OF the
| OIympics went out for the quarter-mile
| flying start unpaced record, and brought
| 1t down from 90 3-5 to :29 1-5. His time
| for the eighth was ID As.
| In the first neat OF the mile handicap
| Wells was given difficult undertaking,
| having to ride from scratch and overtake
men 100 yards ahead of him. He failed to
do it, but in the effort brought the mile
. door record down to 2:12 2-5, covering