The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-25
bicycle Notes.

The Zigzag Club is hunting new quarters.
spoonful OF salt thrown into the oil
of your bicycle lamp will make it burn
brighter.
The suspension of Jap Parrish was raised
Friday. The suspension of E. c. Pfeffer is
also removed.
Amateurs do not require a special permit
to travel outside of the hundred-mile limit
to compete in the national championships
at Philadelphia, Wilkesbarre, Newark and
Springfield.
The membership of the League of Amer
lean Wheelmen continues to increase, and
the prediction made by President Potter
that it will reach 1000 before the end of
the year may be verified.
The first bicycle ever seen in Morocco is
now astonishing the natives. The pioneer
CycliSt is an EngllShman, who is obliged to
use an especially strong machine, the
roads in Morocco are very bad.
The original plans for seats for the Will
low Grove track have been Somewhat al
tered, and it has been decided to provide
seating accommodations for thirty thou
sand spectators at the national champion
ship races on Aug. and T.
The California secessionists from the L.
a. w. have been making strenuous efforts
to induce the leading professionals to join
the outlaw circuit Almost every prominent
professional has been approached, but the
efforts of the secessionists have not been
crowned with success.
Do not wash un-burned skin after a day
out in the open air or on the water. Rub
cold cream into the skin and wipe it off
gently. If the sun burning seems likely TO
prove painful work more cream into the
face and hands in the morning, wipe off
and cover with the kind Of powder sold for
infants use.
A race across the continent from Prov
idence to San Francisco between a bicycle
start on Monday, Aug g. from the City
Hall, Providence. John w. Glenn, of Brook
lyn, will ride the bicycle. and Bert Mills
and William Kay of Providence. will
mount the tandem.
Tom David, w. L. Becker. Alexander
Craig and Jap Parrish all of the late Out
ing team, will go to springield. O.. Tues
Saturday night they will compete in the
races by electric light at Baltimore. Then
they will joint the National Circuit and will
appear at the national meet at Philadelphia
Aug. and I.
Miss Frances Willard has another good
word TO say TO the ladies anent the bicycle
She has found high moral use for it and
can recommend it as teacher without pull
pit or creed She who succeeds" she
says. 'in gaining the mastery of such a
OF life, and by exactly the same methods
and characteristics.
The cyclst who does Europe awheel can
ship his luggage from pJfnt to point al
small cost. The postal systems abroad un-
like ours, do an express business, so fan as
the size of the mail carried is concerned
Nalises are carried as well as letters and
one is sure to find the luggage ahead Of one
at the destination. AS a matter of fact lit
tie luggage need be carried. for the bicy-
Gle costume is seen all over Europe now.
and attracts no attention at the hotels
galleries or other public places.
A singular thing in connection with wheel
ing is the fact that one seldom hears of a
bicycle rider becoming overcome by heat
Cases of exhaustion consequent on hard and
long riding arse now and then, generally
superinduced by heart trouble or some 9TH
er weakness or the part of the rider but as
far as being Frustrated by the heat goes,
wheelmen seem very rarely subject to it.
II is all the more strange that this should
be so. in view of the craze for ng-distance
riding that now obtains, double centuries
being quite the fashion-but facts are facts.