San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-03
THE CYCLING WORLD.

An expensive cup has been given
by the King of Italy TO the winner of
big amateur road race.
1t is said that Tom Linton, the pro-
fessional rider. has earned between
So, 200 and $4,000 during the past
three seasons.
Almost all the cycle dealers of Mad
rid, Spain, are on strike and have
closed their shops owing to a heavy
special tax imposed on bicycles by the
government.
1t is predicted that the 1896 increase
in tandem riding will be doubled in
1897. and the tandem exhibits ut the
coming cycle shows, it is expected,
will be particularly fine
A stock company with a capital of
$4,000 will be organized in Salem,
o.. for the manufacture of wooden
framed bicycle.
A Logging or high shoe that is tight
about the ankle interferes with cor
rect cycling. and should be discarded
for an ankle covering loose enough
to admit of easy movements.
High grade juvenile wheels for 1897
are now occupying the attention of
many makers, Certainly there is room
for much improvement in children's
wheels, many of which are wretchedly
built
1t is as good as settled that Tom
Linton and James Michael. the Welsh
champion. will decide on the Panama
track at Jacksonville. Fla. in January
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lance in an hour. The race will be
unpaced. the men starting from OppO-
site sides of the track.
At the Stanley bicycle show in Eng
land the gears were verv generally
higher than last year. Racing ma
chimes We're. as n rule. from sc TO %.
tandems from SO to 100. triplets from
100 TO 40 and bankruptcies from 40
to 100.
DR.. Abbott. secretary of the Massa-
chusetts board of health. maintains
that the use of the bicycle is in great
measure responsible for the decrease
of consumption among women. DIR.
Abbott points ont that the decrease
in the death rate from pulmonary dis
eases began years ago. the time of
theft rst general popularity of the BIZ
cycle, and has continued since. The
rapid respiration incident TO cycling
strengthens the lungs and assists to
throw off foreign substance.
The color line. which has caused
many a fight in the l.. A. W.. will
again be discussed at the coming ma
tional assembly, when another effort
will be made on the part of colored
wheelmen to obtain recognition from
the league. Among the qualifications
for membership in the league is the
that the applicant must be
white, For the past ten days several
well known colored politicians, one of
them from Washington, have been in
Albany agitating the question. They
say that the leading colOred wheel
men will attend the convention to de-
mand recognition and to be placed on
an equal footing with the white wheel
men. They will be represented by the
ablest attorneys in the United States.
Recent official reports from Austria
enumerate nearly twenty cycle manu-
featuring concerns in that empire, the
largest of which in 1895 produced
about 5000 machines and this year
has probably doubled this output.
The mere assemblers are not includ-
ed under the term of manufacturers.
During 1895 Austria exported 1,SOO
machines and imported 2,309; in 1894
khe import was 1916; nearly One-hah |
of the imports Of 1895 came from Eng |
land and a similar number from Ger
many, leaving a small number OF J