The San Francisco call., 1896-04-25
CHRIS F. EcKLoN. CRACK SACRAMENTO RIDER.

Rambler cup, which was handed to Presi-
dent Kerrigan, who proudly carried it
away. 1t was Just midnight when the
meeting adjourned, and every one was
heartily glad that the question had been
so thoroughly sifted down and settled, and
that the Lucky Bay Citys" have dis
proved the charges against them, which
none OF their friends believed them guilty
of.
The spring racing season will open the
end of next week with the events at Santa
Rosa during the annual rose festival on
Saturday, May 2, and at the Fabiola floral
fete, Oakland, the day previous as far as
the bicycle racing concerns these two fetes
both are National circuit dates and should
attract the best riders and be of particular
interest. After these meets the circuit
will go to San Jose on May 8 and will be IN
this City the following Saturday, the 10Th.
Then 1t will go south and east, possibly
ending here late in the fall as it did last
year.
1t is hard to say who of the coast riders
that have lately been or soon will be made
professionals will follow the circuit, as few
OF them are under contract to manufac-
turers and therefore their plans are unset
tieo. More will be known in this connec-
ton next week.
K. M. WEIGH, the California member of
the National racing board, has issued his
bulletin s, dated April "a, 1895, as follows:
Sanctions granted-April 25, Oakland High
School, Oakland, Cal; Nav 27, Riverside
Amateur Athletic Club Spokane, Wash July
4, Bakersfield Cycling Club, Bakersfield Cal
July 4, Eureka Road Club, Eureka, Cal.
transferred 10 the professional class-Clinton
X Coulter, Walter +. Foster, Robert L. Long
san Franelseo, at their own request Herbert
Z; McCrea, Los Angeles, under clause A.
The present position of the L. A. w toward
road racing is the same that has been main
tanned Tor nine years past. The resolutions
quoted IN recent dispatches as forming part of
the new rules were adopted in October 1887,
and have appeared in every edition of the
racing rules issued since.
General and track rules as revised appear in
the l.. A. w. bulletin of the 17tn inst. and
will soon be ready for distribution in pam
phlet form. The attention of race-meet promot-
ers is called to the provision to official ref
erees. Entry forms are declared 10 constitute
an agreement between the promoter and the
entrant that the former will furnish prizes as
stipulated and that the latter viii ride in the
events fer which he enters. The mutual obli-
cations OF promoters and entrants are further
oehned IN every detail. In competition a
start from standstIl only will be allowed. In
trleis against time only records from flying
start will be considered. The track rules are
greatly amplifed, and race-meet officials
should study Them carefully What consti-
tutes unfair riding is clearly defined
and the acts which will oisqualify are com
mended to the attention of competitors and
on professionals. r. NJ WFICH
Member National Racing Board.
The professional events to be run at the
Fablola Flower Fete at Oakland on Nav
day VIII be two-mle handicap and a
one-mile scratch and not two handicap
races, as has been announced. The one
mile scratch will bring forth such men as
Wells, Coulter, Terrill, Staver, Osen.
Foster, Mcfarland Jones and other crack
riders, and should be well worth witness
ing;
The five-mile road race OF the OLYMPIC
Cyclers. scheduled for tomorrow over the