The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-07-18
WAKE FOREST CYCLISTS
PROPS. BREWER, P0TEAT AND CARLYLE
ARE WHEELMEN.
A Wheelmen's Road League to Be Organized
intercollegiate Bicycle Races a
Possibility Next Year.

| Cycling at Wake Forest has increased
greatly during the past year. About
| twenty-five students bring their wheels
to college with them, and they find the
| bike a source of great pleasure and
benefit to them.
| There is no cycle club in the college or
| town, nor has any good roads movement
struck the place as yet. However, there
are strong advocates of good roads
! among our students and professors. Pro-
badly the most interested member of the
faculty is Prof Brewer, who is
ever quick to see the good in any move
| ment.
In the faculty cycling is not unpopular,
but it has gained only light hold. Sew
eral years ago, President Taylor was an
enthusiast, and he became quite ia
| miliar figure among those spinning about
| the campus. Prof. Brewer and Prof.
Poteat have had the bike craze" and
now Prof Carlyle is showing the people
of the village that he too knows a thing
! or two about the wheel.
The roads radiating from Wake Forest
are good at present, but late in the fall
| they begin their annual pilgrimage to
the toughest conditions imaginable The
road to Raleigh is very good, and remains
| in splendid condition during the greater
part of the year. Often students make
| the trip to Raleigh on their wheels, quite
| frequently being able to spend Sunday
| with friends in the city. The road to
| Henderson, Franklinton and Louisburg
| is almost as good as the Raleigh road,
but cycling trips in that direction are
not quite so frequent. The Seaboard Air
Line road bed is kept in such splen-
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| for the more expert riders to take trips
down the railroad, riding sometimes be-
| tween the tracks and sometimes in the
foot-path by the side of the cross-ties.
The walks in the campus are sandy
in many places, but in the main the
ground is hard and smooth, and the stu
dent cyclists are continually chasing
| figures on the campus, gliding about
among the crowd. Next year there will
be several new riders here among the
students, and it is said club will be
organized, and some effort made to build
a track that will give Wake Forest stu
dents the advantages in this sport that
are afforded the students of the largest
| colleges in America. If this is done I'M
doubtedly there will be races here. and
| it is possible that the idea suggested by
| some Raleigh enthusiasts that the col
leges have cycle racing teams, may be
encouraged by the students Of this col
lege; il so. the races will either take
place during the State Fairs or early in
the spring.
| Athletics have improved greatly, and
although Wake Forest College was de.
feated by the Trinity and University
baseball teams, we will enter the ball
| twirling arena next year to carry of
| the State Collegiate championship. The
cyclists of Wake Forest are all enthu-
| siastic riders, and it is possible that next
year they will organize and begin the
but very few lady riders here, and they
are not as enthusiastic over the wheel as
are the college students.
Wake Forest, n. c., July II, 1897.