The San Francisco call., 1897-03-10
AMONG THE WHEELMEN
Entries and Handicaps for the
Garden City Cyclers' Race
Meet.
The Match Races Between Ziegler and
kcF rland to Be Decided at San
Jose To-Day.

The following are the entries, handi-
caps and heats for the big race meet to be
held by the Garden City Cyclers at San
Jose to-day. All of the racing men are on
the ground, having gone down Sunday to
get the advantage OF q few days training,
as they have had little riding since the
meet at Santa Rosa, owing to the rain.
The entries follow:
One mile open, professional: First heat
Allen Jones, c. l.. Davis, Olympic; Charles S.
Wells, Bay City; Max Morris, Texas; Horace
Slater. Arizona.
Second neat-Fred ]. Loughead, Canada; o.
L. Stevens, Iowa; Hardy Downing, Garden
City; c. E. Dow, Seattle: Harry F. Terrill. H.
b ThiId 1lGenhe hest@w. 8 Z. Becker, Minneapolis;
George Boyee, Texas; Eddie Allen, w. A. Ter
rill, Bay City; d. E. Whitman. Los Angeles;
Match race professional three one-mile
heats between Otto Ziegler Jr. and Floyd A
Mcfarland, for purse of $500
First heat. E. Wing Olympic, scratch !;
George Tantau, olympic, 10 yards; w. g.
Bacon, Olympic Cyclers, 10 yards; c. D.
Garden City, 80 yards; D. D. Baker, Garden
City, 40 yards.
Second heat Percy R. Mott. Reliance,
scratch; Tony Delmas, Garden City, scratch; !;
H. W. SQuires, Acme, 10 yards; !. l.. Ryder,
Garden City, Is yards; R. R. Shearman, Gar
den City, 80 yards; D. Murphy, Garden City,
40 yards.
One-third of q mile scratch, amateur-First
heat-Percy r. Mott, Reliance; J. E. Wing,
Olympic; II. W. squires, Acme; l. L. Ryder Z.
D. Baker and R. R. Shearman, Garden City.
Second heat-Tony Delmas, Dan Murphy, r.
H. Hammond, Garden city; ". S. Bacon,
olympic Cyclers; George Tantau, Olympic; c.
D. Gooch, Rel ance.
The officials of the meet will be:
Referee, Al Col, 6. C. c. Judges-C. r.
Coulter, Olympic; George osen and Joseph B.
Carey, Garden City. Timers-H. D. Haden-
feldt, w. II. L. Geldert, olympic; r. E. Re-
walk, Acme; Charles P. Jarman and DR.. J. E.
Nash, Garden City. Scorers-Edgar Willistou
and Asa Marsh, Garden CITY. Clerk OF course,
John Hines and A. E. Moody, Garden City.
Starter-Robert C. Lennie of Chicago. An
nouncer-Wiiour +. Knapp of the World. Um-
pires-E. NJ. Lion and D. E. Whiting, Garden
City.
Opinion seems to be about evenly di-
vided as to the Zegler- Mcfarland match
in Jose. In this City q egler is favored,
and his record on the National circuit, as
compared with McFarand's, is brought
forward to show that he outclasses his Ian.
1t will be hotly contested match and
victory will mean much to the winner.
Chief Consul Kerrigan has called meet
ing of the board OF officers of the North
California Division, League of American
Wheelmen, Tor Saturday next, March 13,
at AL Golden Gate avenue.
The differences between the Velodrome
Company and the San Francisco Amuse-
ment Company have been satisfactorily
adjusted with reference to the proposed
indoor meet, and the latter received its
sanction from r. NJ. Welch of the racing
board yesterday to conduct three weeks
meet at the Pavilion, from March 20 TO
April 10. Manager Shafer has wired
all the prominent racing men to come
here for these races. and there will soon
be big influx of racing talent. Michael.
this week. AS be has habit of dropping
into places unawares, his exact coming is
uncertain.