The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-25
Bicycle Notes.

w. B. Smock and Charles Ripley will ride
Crescent wheels in the Memorial day road
race.
The souvenir run of the Outing Club to
NoblesVille will occur Decoration day.
Ladies are invited to join the crowd.
The Western wheel works, manufacturers
of the Crescent bicycle, has presented Mr..
and Mrs. Hearsy with Crescent tandem.
Amos Edgerton, eighty years old. is en-
tered for the Crown Point road race, to
occur on Memorial day. He has a thirty
minute handicap and expects to be first
over the ffteen-mile course.
Miss Jessie Smith, one of the teachers
at School No. II. was injured by a scorch-
er Friday. She was crossing the street and
was struck by rider going at a rapid
rate. She sustained severe injuries and is
still confined to her home
The board of directors of the National
Board of Trade of Cycle Manufacturers has
decided that no national or local cycle ex-
hibitions shall be held or sanctioned be-
tween June l, 1897, and June /, 1898. 1t
has also designated Feb % as a general
opening day throughout the country
Eddie Bald the bicycle racer who defeat
ed Owen Kimble at Louisville a week ago,
was beaten at Manhattan beach Saturday
by Earl Kiser He lost two events to the
Ohio boy, the half-mile handicap and the
mile one. In the handicap both men were
scratch men. In the mile race Bald was
fifth.
The prize money in the jubilee handicap
First prize, 500; second, $50; third, $780,
The race will not be run unless there are
fifty entries at $40 each The list closes
June 10. American riders will be allowed
to compete.
Some miscreant placed a number of
tacks, stuck through small pieces of paste
board, on the roadway of Massachusetts
avenue. and several punctures were the re-
suit One of the cards bore the address
lab Massachusetts, avenue The police are
investigating, and the offender will be pun
ished if caught.
The L. 4. w. racing board has put it's
foot down on league match races between
prominent riders. The board will grant
permits for the same when 1t has the as
surance that the races are on the square
ard that the purse named is not a fictitious
one Unless satisfied on this score match
races will not be allowed.
A party of Cincinnati ladies who at
tended the May festival We're entertained
Sunday by Mr.. Arthur Mckee. During the
afternoon all the party mounted Crawford
wheels and rode about over the streets Of
the CITY The ladies' were delighted with
the condition of the streets and pronounced
them the best they had even seen.
II. II. Hearsey Frank Staley and George
Werbe took In the Maxinkuckee excursion
Sunday. They hired a boat paid 25 cents
a dozen for minnows and put in the after
noon fishing. When they returned to the
city Mr.. Hearsay had long string of one
fish. Mr.. Werbe and Mr.. Staley We're with
him during his entire stay at the lake and
they swear that he caught nothing but two
sheepsheads and a one-eighth-pound carp.
owen Kimbe Tommie David and w. L.
Becker, of the Outing racing team accom-
panied by Trainer Chas. A. ward, will
leave to-day for Dowagiae, Mich. where
the Michigan racing circuit begins next
Thursday and Friday. 1t was the intention
OF the team TO have left yesterday after
noon but owing to the nonarrival OF Kim