The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-21
GOSSIP FOR CYCLISTS.

gregating 800 she has carried off the rich~'
est stake In the person of the manager.
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The number Of machines exhibited at the
big cycle shows has always been a sources
Oh speculation among agents and manufact-
urers Invariably the number is Overesti-l
mated. The official figures for the four
largest shows held in this country this season
are as follows:
Chicago. New York. Boston. Phil
Singles .........1,001 1882 592 436
Tandems ....... 124 116 IS %
oTade '''''''' 3 z
sextuplets 800. 2 i
S SsPt@PIst' . ..., 81 17S Is Il .
Companion $500. 2 O
Frank P. Prial, the well-known cycling
critic of New York, says there is every indi-
still greater increase in the number OF
women riders. Women who began riding
last season are as enthusiastic to begin to-
ride again as they were when they stopped
late in the fall. The few remaining husbands
and fathers and big brothers who held to the
old-fashioned idea that cycling, for un-i
accountable reason, such the masculine
| brain delights in when women are concerned,
was unwomanly, have been besieged and be-
| set until in many cases they have captulatedi
| ana bought the desired bicycle probably
! consolng themselves for the outlay with the
thought that the money expended would be
saved in summer silks and laces 81
The appointment of Albert Mott to the i'm
! portant position of chairman of the racing
! board of the League of American Wheelmeni
/ gives general satisfaction. Mr.. Mott is not
| unknown in the cycling world having had
| much to do with the affairs of the league for
! years. Racing has always attracted Mr.. Mott
and next to Mr.. Gideon the retiring chair
man. he is probably of tht best informed
| men on the details of the sport in this coun-
| try Baltimore is Mr.. Motifs home, and thati
| city is regarded as a very good location for
! one holding the important position to whcihi
President Potter has seen fit to appoint him.
! Wheeling, of London, IN a recent issue,
| comments on the use of sheet stampings I'M
the construction of bicycles. The first werei
used in 1890 and from that time to this the
use of metal stampings has constantly in
creased until now it has become an impor-
tant manufacture employing a considerable
number of special trained tool makers. The
use of stampings is steadily increasing.
Adam Forepaugh, the noted circus propri-
4 etor and millionaire, Is having a portable 12-l
! lap board cycle track constructed by firm
in New Jersey for use in connection with the
famous Forepaugh circus. Instead of the
usual chariot and hippodrome races this
young man purposes running several bicycle
races as the closing feature at each perform
ance OF the circus. round dozen fast riders
will be secured to do the racing, local speed
merchants also being allowed to compete
for liberal cash prizes in every town visited
by the show this season.
1t would seem that the success of the local
cycle shows at Boston, Philadelphia, Pitts
burg, Cleveland, Detroit, Omaha and other
cities has shown that national exhibitions
! have outgrown their usefulness. The fact
having been proved that national shows are
not potent in securing retail agents fer manu-
facturers, great exhibitions like those at Chi
cago and New York take on a local aspect,
and are useful only in attracting the atten-
ton of the riders.
Charles Fourton the official handicapper
Of the league for Louisiana and chairman Of
! the Louisiana racing board, yesterday ten
dered his resignation from both Offices This
grows out of the action of the general
sembly of the league upon the local option
bill, and, as MIR. Fourton will be prominent
| in the formation of the racing association
I of bicycle track owners, he does not to
be longer identified with the League OF Ameri-
! can Wheelmen.
! Tom Eek, in speaking OF the condition OF q
! John 5. johnson, one of the great bicycle
! stars who was some weeks ago reported dy<
| ing, said: The boy is in fine shape. lie will
! be in condition to ride early in the season.
/ The doctor there said that it was just what
| he needed to clean his system out and that
! he will be all the better for it. That means
/ that Johnny will be more than ever a crack
! erjack on the track this year.
! The bicycle agents state that the demand
! for new wheels this year is very large. The
/ al-important question with the new rider
! is, what is the proper gear to ride? Up to
! last season riders were content with G8 or
! 70-inch gears but now riders TO think
/ that to use a 6S-inch gear is to be behind
/ the times, and demand high geared wheels.
| The Cycling Gazette of Cleveland, o., takes
/ occasion to sneer at Tom Eek in the follow
4 ing manner: Beat the tin Blow the
\ bazoo Tom Eek has job" AT man who
! has done more in the last twenty years to
| popularize bicycle riding than the Gazette
| could accomplish in that many centuries, the
! sheer is in-tmed.-Kansas City Times.
! A bill was recently introduced in the North
! Carolina legislature requiring the carrying
! Of BICYCLES as baggage, which was inspired
\ committee into whose hands It went reported
/ it back unfavorably, the chairman saying
! that 1.-The dudes who own bicycles can afford
| to pay express on them"
! Bicycle races will be promoted by all the
J leading colleges this year. Strong additions
have been made since last summer TO the BIZ
cycle ranks at Yale, Princeton Harvard ana
Columbia, and the contest for points at the
intercollegiate bicycle meeting this season
will be very close.
A Pennsylvania proposes that in each town.
ship in sections where bad roads abound
young people organize amateur theatrical
companies and give entertainments, the money
obtained at the gate" to be used 10 further
the cause Of road improvement in that par
ticuar locality
The National Cycle Track association Is re-
ported as making preparations to send 'Sen1
ator' Morgan to Europe for the purpose OF
bringing to this country string Of the FAST
est riders that can be secured to meet Cooper
and Bald
Detroit wheelmen want an appropriation OF
three-lap cement track on Belle Isle, De-
troit's magnificent island park, during the
present year. Pans are already drawn.
1t is reported that bicycle track was built
at Coolgardie Australia, last year at an exc
pense Of s., 300, and that the receipts OF the
first days meet amounted to $25 900.
The Associated Cycling clubs of Philadel-
phia have selected the first week in August
as the date for the national meet OF the l.. A.
w. No track has yet been built.
The origin OF the bicycle is now traced
back to the year OF 1871 in France, when
Sieur Maillard presented to the academy two
rolling chairs propelled by pedals.
w. W. Hamilton, the Denver crack, IS
confident that If he can secure competent
pacemakers this year he ride mile in
minute and 80 seconds.
1t is likely that there VIII be big race
meet held IN Detroit during the summer.
under the auspices Of the local cycle board
of trade.
Fred j. Titus will in all probability be a
member of the Spalding aggregation, undeR
the care of Tom Eek.
Palby Is anxious to ride a match with
NORM as soon as the Seine track at Paris
opens.
The Memphis track Is open.
Interurban Club Scores.