The San Francisco call., 1896-08-08

journey. The Kentuckians are o hos
pitable people and the visitors will b.
well looked after. The racing features
promise to be the very best ever given at {
National meet. A large crowd of enthu
siasts will go down from New York anC
the East, and arrangements are being
made to run special trains by more thar
one of the roads. Visitors TO the NEE
should not leave Kentucky without frs
visiting Mammoth Cave, one of the won
ders of the country. Excursions will bt
run from Louisville to the cave at reduced
rates for L. A. w. members.
Never lend your bicycle to anybody
Better by lar to go down into your pocket
ana hand over to your friend the price tc
hire wheel. It is difficult matter to gel
wheel adjusted to a person and when
you once get 1t fixed to suit you it is better
to keep it that way. If you loan it the
borrower is sure to change something.
Those who purchase a new bicycle every
year will readily agree with the above.
The latest bulletin of the racing board
is as follows:
Bulletin FL August z, 1896.
Sanctions granted-August 6, G. G. Holzell.
Mountain Home, Idaho; August IL, Rivers ide
Wheelmen, Riverside, CAL
Transferred to professional class-Day
Parker. Medford, Or; NJ. Collinson Jr.,- Salt
Lake l City, Utah; W. r; Fowler. Ogden, Utah
Suspended under NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Thompson, Pendleton, Or; Robin Fletcher,
Pendleton, Or.
Suspended until September 1-For compet-
ing in unsanctioned races at Grants Pass, Or,
July 4: William Lempke and Frank Longley.
Grants Pass; Alfred Clark, Glendale, Or. For
competing in unsanctioned races near Oregon
City July 16: John Hurth and Miles Brayton,
Oregon City.
Suspensions terminated-L W. Beirdnau,
Baker City, Or; Archie Piper, Cottage Grove.
Or. R. NJ. WEIGH,
Member National Racing Board.
On Sunday, August 16, the Olympic
Club Wheelmen will hold five-miie road
race, for which there will be a large field
of entrants and numerous valuable prizes.
On the following Saturday night they will
go by boat to Stockton and have a run TO
Lodi the following day.
French manufacturers are apprehensive
over the anticipated invasion of American
bicycles, and from the feverish haste with
which the Chamber of Deputies has been
asked for protection it is inferred that the
foreign makers fear a comparison of their
wheels with those OF this country. This
season has seen exports of thousands OF
American wheels for foreign ports, but
they are nothing to the number that will
follow next year. There is craze spread
ing for American bicycles that has taken
the form of stampede.
The members of the San Francisco Road
Club will go to Stockton tonight on the
o'clock boat. under Captain Pixley, and
attend the watermelon run there to-mor-
row. George Hamlin, the crack racer OF
the club, will ride in the transcontinental
relay race on the Oath on the stretch from
San Leandro to Hay wards, and will try TO
lower the worlds five mile record held by
himself at that time. Hamlin is also
going to try for the worlds ten-mile
record before long.
The Alpha Qadies') Cycling Club will
have run to San Jose tomorrow. taking
the IA. NJ. boat, led by Captain Mahony.
Twenty-one new members joined the
North Carolina division of the League OF
American Wheelmen last week, bringing
the total membership up to 1902. The
membership is increasing steadily at the
rate of about twenty-five per week. Appli-
cation blanks and information can be had
by addressing the cycling editor of The
CALL.