Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-16
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| One of the most pleasant uses of the BIZ
| cycle for those who ride for pleasure only
| is the fall trips to places around the
| city for the fruits of the forest. In the
| list may be mentioned hickory nuts, wal
| i.uts, wild grapes, persimmors, pawpaw
apples and berries that ripen with the first
touches of frost. There is no difficulty in
| finding some place where some of these
may be found. The crop this year, judging
by indications. appears to be as large as
ever, and no cyclist who goes out on the
| road in quest Of these needs return home
empty handed.
The chestnut runs are beginning to be
as popular the watermelon runs with
the riders. The only possible drawback
| that exists is the scarcity of trees in the
immediate locality. There are only lin
| tied number Of trees within radius of
ten or twelve miles. These are well
known to a good many wheelmen that the
fruit does not remain for any length Of
time. There are a good many trees in
Virginia between Rosslyn and Falls Church
and south of the river road, but unless one
| Is familiar with the land it is a rather diff
fcult matter to locate the trees. There are
also a number of trees in the woods sur
rounding the Dickey hosiery, but one as
not apt to find many nuts on the ground
owing to the fact that razorback hogs are
permitted to wander through the woods.
The hogs seem to have n special preference
to chestnuts ard manage to eat up in quick
order all the nuts that fall to the ground.
Out at>Ashton. Md, twenty miles distant
there Is. perhaps the hest lot of chestnuts
to be found. A grove of several acres is
located at this place, which is open to the
public. To those who desire to make the
trip bountiful supply of chestnuts can be
assured
The first bicycle meet given under the
auspices of the Athletic Association of
Georgetown University is now in progress
on the coll eye campus. the regular run
ming track around the base bail diamond
will be used for the meet. The track is
hfteen feet wide and is something like
seven yards over quarter of a mile in
length. The banking at the turn is very
slight, being not near high enough for
last cycle racing. On account of this fact
and also on account of its comparative mar
rownesS, 1t was decided to be dangerous
to attemp to start too large a field of rid
ers in any one race. No more than four
men Will be started at time. This has
the effect of dividing the race into a num-
Der OF heats, making the program much
longer than ut an ordinary race meet. In
the handicap events not over eight or ten
men will he started at time. By doing
this there Is less liability of collisions ami
Spills, making the sport more clean and in
terestinS. The meet is given in the hopes
of raising sufficient funds to erect a suit
able grand stand.
party of Washingtonians took pleas
ant ride through the Shenandoah region
during the week. making a short vacation
spin adapted to the lady riders in the party
Inc party consisted of Misses Florence and
Marion Oliver, Miss Mary MCGEE, Miss
Catherine Gait. Mrs. Henry Wells, Dr. L.
l.. Harlan, Messrs, John F. Waggaman, F.
X. Pakot ard Charles H. Townsend This
city was left Saturday by train and the
ride continued as far as Strasburg The
cycling trip was then commenced and Win
chester was reached Sunday, where din
ner was taken at the Hotel Evans. The
ride was continued to MartiEsburg from
which point the train was taken for home
An interesting question was raised dur
ing the week, growing out Of a conflict of
races in this city and In Baltimore At the
races at Georgetown University Schade and
Moran are entered for match events, while
wilson and Smith are also entered The
SANCTION for the event YVES secured some
Gays ago. 1t seems as though after the
sanction for the local meet was obtained
the Baltimore people applied for sane
tion Tor a race meet this afternoon de-
signing to run off the second of the series
OF lnter-cfty races, SO it was thought. As
all OF the members Of the local team were
entered In the races at Georgetown Uniyer-
sity they could not very well be In BaIti-
more on the same afternoon, and hence the
eoufiict. The management of GEORGETOWN
University wrote to Chairman Albert Mott
OF the racing board and asked him to with
hold the sanction for the Baltimore meet
but this could hardly be expected. The
mater has been arranged satisfac torily
since then. however. ard the meets will
come, but 1t is hardly likely that the inter
city races will be held