The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-11
AMONG THE WHEELMBN
Events and Club Runs That
That Will Interest
Cyclists.
ATHLETIC CLUBS ACTIVE
Hudson A. A. Will Have a Novel
observation-disclosures Club
Competitions-BasebaI
Games Tomorrow.
lTHLETIC U ACTIVE

If the weather tomorrow continues hot
it will interfere considerably with the
club runs that have been scheduled. Few
will care TO venture forth or any pro-
longed ride with Old Sol's rays beating
down so solidly. The wheelmen have
many points of interest selected for their
rides, the prominent places being as fol-
lows
New York Clubs-Century W., Eliza
beth; Lenwood W., T~ottenville; Arch W.,
Lake Hopateong; Klondike W., Totem
vile; San Salvador W., Bergen Point; Ly-
ceum W., Freeport; Fleetwood W., City
Island; Double X Coterie w, Tottenville;
Ascension Club, Bergen Point; Prospect
W., Rockaway.
Brooklyn Clubs-Concord Cycle Club,
Bayside; Carroll Park w., College Point;
Red Hook W., Oyster Bay; Long Island
W., Yonkers; Bushwick W., Glen Cove;
Brooklyn B. c., Bath Beach; Greater
New York W.. Bath Beach, South Brook
Ign, Giffords.
New Jersey Clubs-Clio Wheelmen. to
Midland Beach; Ajax Cyclers, to secau-
Gus; Arcanum W., to T%ottenville; Acme
Cyclers, to New Brunswick; Mantle
Wheelmen, Staten Island.
The Hudson County Wheelmen will lave
their next race meet. the third of the sea-
son, at the West Side Driving Park on
Saturday, October 9. The list of contests
have not beeen decided on as yet, but will
be arranged at the mex meeting. One of
the features will be a special five mile
match race for a silver cup between r.
M. Alexander of Hartford and Adolph
Michels of the Mantle Wheelmen. The
majority of the other events will be for
Hudson county riders only.
The wheel clubs of this city that are
affiliated with the Associated Cyclers of
New Jersey are making preparations for
a melon party run to Milburn, where the
event will be held on Saturday of next
week.
The thrice postponed lantern parade by
the members of the North Hudson County
Cyclers and the Mantle Wheelmen will
be held on Thursday next in North Hud-
son.
A match game of baseball has been ar
ranged for mex Sunday between the Nj
antic Wheelmen and the Clos that will
create a lot of interest among the mem
bers of these popular organizations. Both
will nave out their best players and a
hot game should result.
Tomorrow the Ajax Cyclers will hold
their second outing, this time to Washing
ton Park, Secaucus, where a hot time will
be had in a match game of ball between
the married and single members. In a
game several weeks ago on Staten Island
the single men received a bad doing up.
There was a large attendance of local
wheelmen yesterday at the circuit meet
at the Waverly Fair. The event was of
great interest, the racing being of a high
order. The local riders that competed
were unable to get to the front in the
final heats, although Walter c. Roome
and William l.. Darmer qualified several
times in their preliminary trials. The at
tendance was one of the largest of the
season in New Jersey. Fast time was
made and the professional events proved
unusually exciting. The results were:-
Half mile handicap, amateur-Won by
F. S. Kramer, Riverside Wheelmen, New
York. 80 yards; Charles Schlee, Newark
Turn Verein, 20 yards, second; George
Reitz, Harlem Wheelmen, scratch, third.
Time, 1:02.
One mile open, Professionalism by
Major Taylor, Cambridgeport; Al New
house, Buffalo, second; F. A MCFARLAND
BuffalO, 1Ourtn. I1ne, l:Uo DO.
One mile open, amateur-Won by q.
Reitz, Harlem Wheelmen; c. M. Ertz,
Riverside Wheelmen, second; Ray Daw-
son, N. J. A. c., third, Time, 2:1s.
One mile professional race, handicap
Won by Oscar Hedstrom, Brooklyn, 1 l2Soo
Yards. second: Fl p. Mosher, Storm King,
n. ". 100 yards. third; c.. S. Davis, Buff
falo, fourth, Time, 2:03.
Handicap match-Won by Charles Bader
scratch; John Stickles, 100 yards, second.
Time, ZAP.
C. M. Ertz. scratch; Jack Jasper, Jersey
City, 80 yards, second; s.. Parrot Chat
ham, $50 yards. third. Time, ABB 3-5-
Five mile handicap. professional-Won
by F.. A. Mcfarland, scratch; Nat Butler,
Cambridge, Mass, scratch seeond; :. N.
Callahan. Buffalo, fourth. Time, u:29 AS.
One mile and a half tandem race, handi-
cap-Won by R. Weller and Bert Ripley,
GO yards; G.. M. Ertz and H. H. Bedell,
scratch, second; o. ". Babcock and Z. e.
Hovey, 90 yards, third. Time, S:ol 70.