The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-05-25
THE WHEEL

tered for the team race at the Citrus
wheelmen's meet on May 80. Riverside
wheelmen enter Cox, Shoemaker and
Scott; the East Side club, Ulbricht,
Cromwell and Lacy; the Los Angeles
Athletic club, J. w. Cowan, -Holbrook
and Whitman.
The first team race for 25-mile chal-
lenge cup was run at Agricultural park
October 3, 1898. at the regular division
meet. There were three teams of six
men each. Riverside, Fox, Castleman,
Shoemaker, Noble, McCrea and j. w.
Cowan; East Side club VIII Cowan
Houston. Cromwell, kitchin, McLaugh-
lin and Burke; Los Angeles Wheelmen,
McAleer, Stephenson. Spier. Holbrook.
Jenkins and Gatensbury. The start was
a good one and McCrea was the first
over the tape in the first mile, making
tho fastest mile of the race in 2:391ar
The race was fast from start to finish
The twenty miles was made in 81 min
utes and II seconds; the twenty-five
miles and race in hour ~ minutes and
441h seconds. The race was scored by
points, each rider scoring according TO
his position at the tape
Riverside won the race with 2048
points. Los Angeles wheelmen second
with 1882 points and the East Side club
third with 1862.
ion meet at San Diego June l, 1894. Four
teams of four men each were entered:
Riverside, Fox, Shoemaker, Castleman
and J. w. Cowan; East Side, win Cow
an, G. Parkes, c. Cowan and Lacy; Los
Angeles wheelmen, kitchin, Jenkins,
Athletic club. Stephenson, Holbrook,
Spier and Long.
The race was exciting las the teams
We're well matched, but owing to spill
caused by the trainer of the Riverside
men getting in the way of the riders the
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of their men being disabled. Fox, the
only man left, finished fourth.
Tho race was won by the Los Angeles
wheelmen. Kitchin. Jenkins and Nc
Aleer finishing in the order named. Fox
$50 yards back and the bunch at the
head of the stretch.
OF the men entered this year Shoe
maker has ridden twice for Riverside,
Cromwell once for the East Side, Hol-
brook for the Los Angeles wheelmen
and Athletic club, Ulbricht for Los An
geles wheelmen once J. w. Cowan twice
for Riverside and Lacy was on the East
Side team last year.
The race this year promises to be a
hot one. Points will be counted at the
end of each mile the first man crossing
the tape counting three, the second man
two and the third one point.
Robert M. Welch of the national rae
ing beard has issued the following bull
letin for the benefit of Pacific coast rid
ers and race-meet promoters:
Sanctions granted-May 23d, Portland
high school, Portland, Or; May 23d,
Kern county high school, Bakersfield,
Call May 2Sd San Francisco Cycle Rae
ing association, San Francisco; May
30th, r. w. Simpson, Pocatello. Idaho;
May 30th, Grass Valley Athletic club,
Grass Valley. Cal; May 30th, San Fran
Francisco; June 8th, San Francisco
Racing association, San Francisco.
National circuit dates-May 23d. San
Ia Monica, Cal, cancelled and San Fran
cisco substituted; May 3Oth, Phoenix.
A. r., Cancelled and Los Angeles, CAL,
June I'd; Ell Paso, Tex, June Sd, can
celed San Antonio, Tex, changed to
June 5th.
Transferred to professional class
Charles Hill of Fresno, Cal, at his own
request Suspension of H. Il. Terrill ter
minated.
For permitting it's track to be used
geles Athletic club is suspended from
sanction privileges for sixty days, from
May 9th.
ALLOW NEW RECORDS.
The following road records have been
allowed by the Century Road club Of
America:
A. j. Rosentreter, Syracuse Utica,
Z.0J, CyTdcuSe-O llCd dHu return, O.S3,
August 9th.
S. w. Warns, Baltimore Philadelphia,
$50, December list.
M. Il. Clifford, Cleveland, S727 miles
during 1896; Ohio individual mileage
record.
G. S. Wells, twenty-five miles,
1:10;30 20, February ed; California rec
ord. s a c
A provision covering interclub or
team racing has been adopted and in
corporated in the rules for conduct OF
road races. 1t reads as follows:
In an interclub team road race each
rider, to be eligible to compete, must
have been an active or a resident men,
Der of the club he desires to represent
for at least two months Immediately
prior to the date of the race, and have
paid into the treasury of said club full
dues during such period.
With the active start of the century
season riders are expected to resume
their record trials.
The first number of the Daily Amer
lean Wheelman saw the light yesterday.
This is the only daily devoted to cycling
published In the English language.
There ID to be a Paris office under the
charge of Mons. Victor Breyer, the best
known authority on cycling in Europe
From advance sheets the publication
promises to be Of lively interest to cy-
clists. The following paragraphs are
clipped:
Ii the scorcher must ride. let It be donc
In q patrol wagon.