The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-21
SAFE FOR TERRE HAUTE
THE WABASH CITY WILL GET THE
INDIANA l.. A. w. MEET.
Meeting of the Board of Officers to BE
Held TO-Night-Jap Glenn
ens's Road Race.

Tonight will occur the meeting of the
board of officers of the Indiana division of
the League of American Wheelmen and it
is probable that the place for holding the
division meet will be decided upon AS
things look now Terre Haute will have no
opposition and will get the meet by a unani-
nous vote. 1t was thought for a while that
this city might come in as a competitor
through the incipient Associated Cycling
Clubs but that does not look probable now
The leaders in this movement have been I'M
able to get together and there are business
reasons which will preclude such a thing
now for some time.
Terre Haute, however has earned the
meet. Chief Consul Sherwood was over
there Wednesday and found everything en-
thusiastic for 1t. He attended the meeting
OF the Wabash Cycling Club and heard the
history Of the situation regarding the meet.
Previous to the proposition to secure the
meet, the Wabash Cycling Club entered into
an agreement with the Vigo County Fair
Association to take charge of one day of
the latter's race meeting in September. BIZ
cycle races are TO be run in connection with
the horse races. The Wabash Cycling Club
is strong organization and when it enters
into anything of this kind there is suffi-
cient strength and the right kind of spirit
to carry 1t through successfully. This was
the spirit in which the members of the club
entered INTO the agreement with the Vigo
county Fair Association.
Then came up the division meet PROPOSE
ton and the members were equally enthus-
lastic over getting it. But there was a diff
hculty. The division meet comes in August
ana Will probably oVershadoW the race meet
in connection with the county fair. The
Wabash Cycling Club felt that it could not
work
ing out the division meet and act fairly with
the Vigo County Fair Association. But
low-enthusiasts, most of whom are mem
bers of the club, saw a way out of the
thing. Thirty of them got together and
formed an organization which they have
not named but which has only in view the
division meet. There are thirty members of
the organization and each is pledged to in
sure the cost of the meet, if there be any
to the extent of 500.
These men went to work and doomed the
bers and earned the meet. Now again came
the desire of the Wabash Cycling Club to
control the meet Being the leading wheel
ing organization there it was thought right
that it should have something to do with
the meet. Mr.. Sherwood found this situation
when he reached Terre Haute. He advised
tnat owing TO the agreement with the Vigo
county Fair Association, 1t might not be
wise for the club to take any part as an
mendedi that the meet club be transformed
into an l.. A. W. club and then the taking
care of the meet would be in even more
appropriate hands than if it were controlled
by the Wabash Cycling Club
This idea was agreeable to the Terre
Haute men and they will probably have a
healthy L. A. w. club soon. Mr.. Sherwood
suggested that the club might be organ
lied solely for the purpose of holding the
meet and that there would be no objection
or no reproach to its disbanding after the
meet, nor to its turning over to the treas
ury Of the Wabash Cycling Club any profits
there might be from the meet. Under any
1ln will
take the right kind of care of the division
meet and cyclists throughout the State may
congratulate themselves on the meet going
to a city so well known for its hospitality