New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-16
m THE CYCLING WORLD.
.rc PRIZES OFFERED AT CHICAGO
LONG DISTANCE RACES.
NETWORK ATHLETIC CLUB MEN STILL RIDING IN
THE DAILY CoMpEr1TIoN-A NEW ENG
Ilsr CHAIN Observation-Disclosures

IJSrI CHAIN Observation-Disclosures
OF BROOKLYN wHEELMEN.
neow will be found the list of prizes which will be
sven at the 142 hours bicycle race TO be held In
rs,tersalrs Chicago. from February q TO q. No
,ns or expense will be spared to make this the
eatest event of its kind that has taken place
a. America. The will be run under the L. A. w.
.,,,es Each contestant will be required to excel
.,bert Shocks old record Of 1900 miles in order TO
..cure prze First prize $1,000; second prize, $500:
,hird prize $500; fourth prize 5000; fifth prize. $780,
sxth prize SIPS: seventh prize. 500; eighth prize
s-s. ninth prize $50 total $500 The special prizes
are as follows III rs: no the srfdsps
record of 1910 miles and laps by 100 miles the he
Of @ @ Best es %s
xss. best fve-mile record II broken. $685. best ten
T ms TeiGrs Broken oss c BEST 0ft
broken SEQ; best lco-mile record. II broken, s2oo
hes, hour record IL broken. s25 best forty
eight-hour record II broken $3.50; best seventy-two
hour record II broken. $3.50.
The survival of the-fittest contest In the New
York Athletic Club for the medal for the member
riding the most days in the year found at the end
Of the twelve months four men who had pushed
their wheels at least the required five miles every
day in the year. 1t was decided that the battle
must go on until the fttest one survived. One Of
the ouartette was withdrawn the other day through
home influence. 1t now looks though death
nj
durnal pedallers persist in pushing their wheels
through every kind of weather nature provides.
them but cid not deter them. In the early days of
the high wheel. runs through the snow were
popular form Of winter sport for wheelmen. Even
now. in the suburban towns around New-York 1t is
not an unusual thing to see the indomitable cycst
riding over the snow and ice.
One Of the novelties of interest at the National
Show In London the Hartford chain. the in
venton of Havelock Hartford, of South Shields a
wel-known rider and mechanic. The inventor
says: Il claim dispense with the fractional con-
wheel and the block of the chain. / overcome
this by making the extreme diameter Of the tooth
wheel the pitch line. thus causing the. chain and
the chan-wheel metals to run to time with ea ,S
with the dummy link, i can run, the two chain
a chn This
by the chain having a clear dip in the cavity and
he thas Save aSoshed side friction claim
70 do with the th BURSTING or Sbsn we
This is accomplished by the driving portion Of the
IF the wSe no
S he the sG be sm Of to se ess
The leaders in the mileage contest Of the Brook
Ign Bicycle Club as follows Allart, s,ol2 miles;
Hudson % EGser r w. w R sermgeoST
Delehanty 2ss5 sailer 2$64 lynch SSS; tmilep
si5s Balmanno 2oSs Alling. 1875; Geddes 1871
i is.' and t' Van poren, 1854.
The Hudson County Wheelmen have arranged
to have a club entertainment once each month.
The January affair will be euchre party at the the
next month the club will have dinner on Feb
ruary 10.
Cooper. who ran Bald so closely for the profess
sional championship last season, says that If Bald
goes 10 England. he Cooper will go there Also
Cooper says he is determined to settle his dl1er-
ences with Bald no matter who wins lie won
actly thirty. Cooper's net winnings In purses rise
cago cycle shows and if Bald does not go to
Europe he will so to San Francisco about Mafcn
viii follow it through Texas and up into the Cen,
a States qn,eSs ike wba It was last
The South Brooklyn Wheelmen have been con-
graduated on every hand for the excellent manner
in which the arrangements for the meet at me me
club is steadily increasing in membership, and
there is talk Of building new clubhouse; At a
take 81 900 worth of bonds for the purpose of start
ms the new clubhouse
The Harlem Wbeelnen held their ninth annual re-
oepton at Lenox Lyceum. Fifty-ninth-st and Madi-
son-ave. last night large number OF cyclists was
present and the BALL as usual was Of tbe winter
Teddy Goodman is doing excellent work In
doors He is Of the best men IN the country |
level board floor
The Cycle Club Of Brooklyn will give an enter
talnment at the old 18th Regiment Armory to- |
night
Cyclists desiring to join the League Of American |
Wheelmen may obtain full printed information |
and membership blanks by sending names ana ao- |
dresses 10 the Cycling Editor. Tribune
TOURNA MENT A GREAT StCCESS.
NOT A VACANT SEAT IN MADISON SQUARE