New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-02
IN THE CYCLING WORLD:
RELATION OF BICYCLE RIDING AND
HEALTH.


NEWS AND COMMENTS.
That violent exercise is dangerous to any one
not in sood health is recognized by the athletic
and medical authorities the world over. Mod
crate exercise. taken within the prescribed rules
of common-sense is food and health for ooth
mind and body. The wondrous popularity or the
wheel has given some people. who PROBABLY know
as little about the laws Of health as they do
about riding a bicycle, an opportunity to discuss
IN public subject Of which they know little or
nothing Editorials have appeared all over the
country on the dangers of cycling. In most cases
they come from the same people who yell muir
der every time baseball player meets with an
accident, football man wrenches tendon. or
a sparrer is temporarily disabled with a swift
uppercut. The sudden death OF John Clokey In
this city last week is case In point the cry
went up at once that he was killed by the bicycle.
Meeting a man yesterday who has passed three
score years and ten the writer asked him what
he thought Of cycling for the health. 1t has
certainly been a boon to me-" said he. and
am firmly convinced that II has added ten years
10 my life. l am of the opinion that those in
fiicted with organic troubles should be careful
how they indulge in all exercises. Since have
been riding wheel regularly / have not had
touch Of INDIGESTION an old trouble Of mine for
many years. and have never before enjoyed such
robust health and good appetite. l did not know
what exercise meant until bought wheel, and
ever since 1 learned to ride have been regret
ting the years of happiness I had lost" John
Frick veteran rider and one of the Executive
Committee of the Associated Cycling Clubs or
New-York in speaking Of the death of Clokey.
said last night: Il take strong exception 10
Deputy Coroner Donlin's expressed opinion that
Mr.. C!okey's death was due to bicycle riding !
have had the pleasure of the acquaintance Oh
Mr. Clokey for several years and met MIN ire
quently on our way downtown in the morning: III
fact met him the day before his sad death; !
conversed with him frequently on the supJeCt
Of riding a wheel He assured me that ne oiu
not ride more than few miles at time Al
though he looked to be in good heaIth; ne com,
plained of not feeling we'll at times, although he
always ascribed his indisposition to indigestion
He said that he always felt better after a rae
on his wheel He was no scorcher: hlil cllIioeI
or centurion. and his riding was OF the mhdest
kind Ii is always best for any one feellng un-
we'll to consult a physician. but no one in good
health need feel any alarm about rang a d.
cycle"
Many club runs have been arranged Tor TO
day. and with fair weather the suburban ROADS
will be thronged. Some of the more important
runs are as follows
Quill Club Wheelmen-Down the Merrick ROAD;
starting at the Brooklyn end of the Bridge at ~
AIcanum wheelmen. of Hoboken-To Tena1y'
'>NewSYork Athletic Club wheelmen-To Travers
Island starting at 10 a. m. from Fifty-sixth-st.'
Ridge Wheeimen-To Tottenve. starting at
Kniclerbocker Athletic Club Wheelmen-To Coney
Island starting at 10 a. m. from Forty-sixtn-st'
and Madison-aVe
Lincoln Wheeimen-To Elm Park. starting at
.. IN from No. 22S East Broadway. s,o
Pioneer Cycle Club-To Freeport, starring at ooo
:" fleetwood Wheeirnen-To Woodlands, starting at
a. m. from clubhouse r,,-..u po,,+ starting
ct 2 a. m. from Twenty-sixth-st and Madison.ave'
Bedford Club Wheemen-To Bensonhurst' start
Double X Coierie Wheemen-To- Bath Beach,
starting at $50 a. m from No. 200 West f'f'y-se'
Me,royolitan Bicycle Cub-To seabright. start
ing s4 a m from foot OF est aottinr ~
a m from West Fourteenth-st
Royal Arcanum Wheelmen-To Roslyn. starting ring
sixty-seventh-st and Western B0ulevard ...r,.
ing at s a. m. from No l52 East One-hundred-and-
q n: 70 Hackensack, starting at 1880 a m: 10
Ridge wood starting at ?. m. from seventy-frs'-
& G peta WhssmsnTo Freepsr, starting at
at . a. M from Sixty sixth-st: and Boulevard
Riverside W Fno Wa.f Tw Af9H[y faFk
"New-York Bicycle Club-To Bergen Point. start
NJ Transi, Wheelmen-To Coney Island. starting at
Beileville Park Wheelmen-To Valley stream.
starting at $50 a. from clubhouse;
Harlem Whee,men-To Long Branch starring al
7:55 a. m. from No q West One Hundred-and-
Huggenot Wheelmen-To Yonkers, starting at 9
a A n rita Wheeimen-To New-Dorp. starting al
YYoI I ' Wheeimen-To Tarrytown. starting at
a. M from No rs East hty-ssventh-st: r.rs
at V a. m from No IA East Eighty seventh.st .,
Morris Wheelmen-To Tarrytown, starting al $50
80 s e East c'S rhan srs .
Amorita Wheelmen-To Valley Stream, starting
q BushWick Whee. nen-'o Yonkcrs starting at
SINH 50 r5 NP soSh jamaica
go rom a Nd 'G Fs KSckawa syToo stfFn
' Fresh Air wheeimencTo coney Island starring
O.. 70 d. NJ. from Court and Schernerhorn SITS,
Greater New-York wheelmen-To Bergen Point,
starting at q m. from Ross.st 5, Brookyn
port starting az $50 a. m. from Safest. Brook
Dacotah wheemcn-To Bayside starting at $50
q. m from clubhouse: Brook yn. .,
Cent from me csbhonee Brd ddsfR2'
waverly Bicycle clab~To Hugpenot. starting at
Central Wheelrneno cSney Island starting at
ego M from No 2 o 1S1a sroo sfgranr at
Williamsburg Wheelmen-To City Island start
.ng at a. m. from No. Z'3 Lofimer-st' Williams
defender Bicycle Club-To Freeport. starting at
$50 a. m from clubhouse. Brooklyn
Alpine Cyclers-To Plainhed, starting at a. M
from Brooklyn Bridge ,...o, .,a-t.
ing az 10 m. from Bedford-aye. BROOKLYN a
Castle A. C. Whcemen-To Roslyn, starting at 3
Red Hook Wheemen-To TOttenville. starting at
Sylvania Wheeimen~;ro Riverside Drive. starting
at a. m. from Broadway and Ewen-st. brooklyn
The Foresters Of America Wheelmen-To Staten
Island starting at $50 a. m. from Bedford-aVe ana
Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn.
Union County ROadsters-To Hudson County
Boulevard, starting at a. IN. from Runway
East Orange Cycle Club-To Nyack. starting at
$50 a. m. from East Orange.
ATLANTA Whoelmen-To Yonkers and Nyack,
starting at 8 o. m. from IIalsey-st, Newark
Hackensack Wheelmcn-To the Oranges. starting
az 9:20 a. m. from Hackensack :,
Castle Point Cyclers-To suffern. starting at s
q m from No. 1905 Park-ave.. Ioboken
Montclair Whecimcn-To Pompton starting al
$50 a. m. from MOntclair. +,
Jersey City club Wheelmen-To Ridgewood va
Fackensack. starting at 8 a. m from Jersey CITY
Heights, Jersey City.
p. Anthony Brock did much to organize the
Associated Cycling Clubs Of this city and bring
together the different associations Of this dis
Irict In bo coming IrVinctOn-