The San Francisco call., 1897-07-27
NOW OREGON
is IN line
Will Affiliate With the
California Associated
Cyclists.
Eighty Applications for Mem
berShip Forwarded by Sec
retary Merrill.
A Division to Be Formed and Race
Meets Held = 9. Michener
Seriously III.

President A. P. Swain of the California
Associated Cycling Clubs received another
telegram from Portland yesterday, stat
ing that +. T. Merrill had forwarded
eighty applications for mem bership IN the
association. The organization OF the
Oregon division of the association will be
formulated tonight there.
Arrangements are already on foot for
two-day race meet at Portland on Satur-
day and Sunday, August ID and 15.
Among the California professional riders
who have already 81 n6ed their inten-
tions of attending are Otto Z!egler Jr.,
Hardy Downing, Arthur NJ. Boyden,
Allan n. JoEes, B. II. Eford, Dan E..
Whitman, Clarence L. Davis and Herbert
E. McCrea. McCrea will continue on
north after the Portland meet; his OBJ
jective point being the Alaskan gold
fields. 1t is said that McCrea has the
'Klondy yci tis" to an alarming extent.
Ernest R. Taylor and Will A. Talbert
members of the South Side Cycling Club
OF Los Angeles, arrived here yesterday
awheel. L ey are on their way around
the world, and started from Los Angeles
July Is without baggage or money and
must return in eighteen months. They
must make their expenses honestly while
on the way. not being permitted to borrow,
beg or steal.
Such are the terms OF the wager under
which they are travelling. From here
they will go East over the central route.
Not much interest is taken in their trip
by the wheelmen here. The dead broke"
around-t E. orId cyclist has been here so
often that the game is about played out.
Few of them ever get outside the United
States, though tn ey nearly all start from
them, and such tourists are very hurt
full to the sport or pastime Of cycle tour
ing, as they give the people OF the coun-
try wrong ideas about wheelmen in gem
eral.
The many friends of c. Michener, the
popular ex- president OF the California Cy-
cling Club, and who was very prominent
in cycling circles as the secre ary OF the
highway i'm provement committee of the
League of American Wheelmep, will learn
with surprise and regret of his serious Ill
ness. Mr.. Michener suffered a stroke of
paralysis last Friday night, ami doubt is
expressed as to his recovery. Besides his
active business duties in the practice of
law, Mr.. Michener has given great deal
of attention to the goodroads work re-
Gently taken up by the California Asso-
ciated Cycling Clubs when it assumed the
functions of The League of American
Wheelmen in this State. He was an
earnest advocate of "home rule" as pro-
mulgated by the new association. His
present illness is attributed to overwork
He has the b st of medical attention, and
his friends have not yet given up hopes of
his ultimate recovery.
George H. Stratton and Frank w. Fuller
returned yesterday from their Two weeks
vacation trip into the wllds of Lake and
Mendocino counties.
President Adams and Secretary Scott
have called an I'm mportant Meeting of the
Olympic Club WheeImen for this even
ing. Captain Hadenfeldt is busy with his
arrangements for the clubs joint run with
the Acmes of Oakland, which takes place
next Sunday.