Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-06
so ME CYCLE CHAT

TIE Parisians have taken to the wheel a.
no other people in the world. They utilize
it for all sorts of purposes, and everybody
rides, from the soldiers to the artists cir
models. The latest fad in the gay capital
says Leslies Weekly, is 10 utilize the whee
for advertising purposes. and one frequently
sees young and rather pretty women whirl
ing along the bouIevards and through tn.
Bots, dressed in the extreme of bloCmers
and wearing a whhe canvas jacket with
large black letters painted on it, advertis.
ing some patent medicine or soap, or cos
metic. Her hat band also has the lettering
Thc French women lean over their handle
bars, and the lettering seems all the more
conspicuous for this reason. Ina CINE a
young woman riding along 9TH avenue with
Wnltc jacket reading, in glazing letters
Good me- rning. HIVE you used IS
soap! Paris also has cyelist lamp lighters
VINO so their rounds carrying poles on their
right shoulders and holding the handle bars
OF the wheel with the left hand. On arriv-
ing at lamp the lighter slackens his pace
ana, placing enc foot to steady his wheel,
lights the lamp in an instant and then
whiris away.
John Duck. an old Indian, objected to a
bicycle on the historic Cariboo stase road
acre IS tee mountains, mistaking ii for a
Gevilish continuance As the rider was fit
ting down the graded mountain side he
shot at him with rife, bringing him down.
rut not killing him outright. Duck mas
been sentenced 20 ten years In the peui-
tehlafy Tor his criminal Ignorance
Billy Ccrcoran, the Duke of Cambridge -
tells good story of Jimmy Michael Mr.
Sorcoran happened to re in New York Just
LeIore one OF Mich2el's big matches He
entered a restaurant In an out-of-the-way
pace, and was surprised to see Jimmy
walk in alone. order his dinner and eat II
as tnoush ne was one of the ordinary res
Jimmy that this was a regular -custom
ne little Welshman is nothing if not silent
~ roxy, and for as many days befor.. a
r,atcn race as he thinks necessary he
on.a, eats some where else than at the
hotei at which he may be staying In a
match involving thousands of dollars. to
say nothing Of the honor of defea tins
hichaei, there might be a TEMPTATION tn
utpe the little rider; against such an
Unfortunate occurrence he guards in his
own peculiar way. Michael knows that there
dre walters Who for a few dollars would
put paregcric, or even choral. into his
sCup, which possibly he checkmates with
an inccgnito. WIN
II transpires that Stocks did not MAKO
ms record OF thirty-two miles l OSf; Yards
nea-iiia motor pace, and therefore Michael's
record at Philadelphia on the 9TH ,,iti,,n
stands only as an American marx Withiu
the hour he did thirty-two miles G,p yards
anu at that time it was understood that
STOCKS mad made his wonderful record with
h t,looi pacihs, which the L. A w. racing
pod-Io would not officially recognize Last
week information came from England
showing that Stocks was aided only nv the
usual methods. his team, in fact beine
those III the employ of the Dunlop Tire
Company. -
III is a peculiar fact that most of the
prominent men of the racing path TODAY
eVoiNed from the road races of past sea
road work early in his career Cooner wa 6
the NEST prominent road rider around De-
troit, kiser was very prominent in DAYTON
ana al over Ohio in road work McFar-
!dhd hrst reputation was made on the
roads in California and Gardiner also gain
ed his reputation liz road work.
A young couple made century run one
recsnt saturday from PHILADELPHIA on a
tandem, and were married in New York's
city nall by an alderman at O'Clock the
bridegroom thereby winning wager of
500 that he would have made the double
Tun,t0 the marriage altar and to New
fork-before sunset. The bride was Miss
Anna NJ Gilbert, noted soprano of a
Philadelphia church, and the bridegroom
James b. Juvenal, crack single sculler of
the Schuylkili navy. She, twenty-five,
white and pink, with auburn hair under a
derby, in brown skirt and jacket; he, TWEEN
three. tall, strong, dark, in blue -knicker-
bockers and knit wooden shirt, both radiat-
ing happiness.
John S. johnson. the professional. has
been before the public for nearly six years,
yet during that time nobody ever knew him
TO he accused of foul riding or to enter a
protest against Il competitor. Such rec
ora has made the young Swede one of the
most popular riders in this country. At
present Johnson is on Tom Eck's team.
with kiser and Mertens. He is rounding
into good form. and before long ought to
Inquire as a winner on the national circuit.
Having been formed in 1870, the Pickwick
Bicycling Club of London is probably the
oldest organization of its kind III the world.
\ curious and novel custom of the club is
that each member takes the name of some
character. in the Pickwick Papers, and is
referred to at club meetings under his
Pickwickian title. The membership at pres
ent numbers about 40. George r. Sims,
the author and playwright, is one of the
leading spirits of the club. The oldest
wheeling club in this country is the Boston
Bicycle Club, which was organized in 1878.
After many experiments really interest
irg and practical game to be played by
men and women mounted on bicycles has
been evolved 1t is called Royal, and
meets with great favor at all cycling CEN
tiers. The game requires two teams OF
tdSb tHO CtsiCutTs, Two JOoSeS,
a timekeeper. a scGrekeeper and referee.
The field or court upon which 1t is played
is divided into right and left field. Rid
ing courses are cnalked out indicating the
field. The cables form two upright sides.
An alleyway constructed of cables extends
from the upper to the lower field on the
division line, between the right and left
field. The cables form two upright sides,
between which the play wheel rolls. and
is driven backward or forward by the rid
ers in passing at rny point between the
lower and upper field. This play wheel is
a single twenty-eight-inch bicycle rim.
having a four-and-a-hah-inch pneumatic
tire. The idea of the game is to drive this
play-yneel from the center field through
attack of opponents to a goal ahead rid
ers using special made sticks In strikin;
or driving the wheel. The ends Of the al
ieyways are the goals for the respective
teams. Players ride in single file ami al
Ways circle to the left. Then the two
teams are constantly meeting and passing
each other in opposite directions on ODD