The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-04-20
BICYCLE NEWS OF THE STATE
SOME OF TIE RIDERS WHO Will DO
TRACK WORK THIS SEASON.

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Several Meets Arranged For-Probably
No Meets in New Haven Unless the Horse
Guards Hold One.
With the arrival of spring the wheel
men all over the state, both amateurs
and professional commence to train
and make plans for the coming season.
For the last few weeks these riders
have been getting in some good, hard
training. and now that the tracks are
getting serviceable they may be seen IN
large numbers taking daily spins. or
course there are some who have not
made up their minds whether or not
to ride, and others who cannot at pres
ent devote the time necessary to go in
training. OF this latter class many
may appear before the public later in
the season.
Since the laying of the asphalt on Or
ange street the different riders have
taken advantage of it and have ridden
there until Elm City park could be got
into a suitable condition for the sea-
son. Mr.. Hubinger has promised to
keep the track in good shape this year,
but it is thought that on account OF the
disbanding of the Rovers' Wheel club
there will not be many meets at the
park.
1t is hoped that the new cycle club
which has been recently organized by
some of the leading trackmen Of the
city viii give some meets, and that the
Horse Guards will repeat their success
full meet Of last year, in which many
crack riders competed.
There have been many improvements
in the different wheels this year, MAX
ing them lighter and more durable than
ever before. The greatest invention in
wheels this year is the wooden bicycle,
having the body all made Of hard-sea-
soned wood with brass connecting
joints and steel spokes and hubs
All the factories in the state say they
are pressed this year as never before
in their orders for the different wheels.
The New Haven Wheel company has
engaged Frank Hotchie, fancy rider
from New York, to give exhibitions in
all kinds Of hard feats on the wheel
this spring at the bicycle academy on
State street. One of his feats is riding
backwards in circle, stopping and go
ing in the opposite direction. Another
feat Is dropping down into the frame,
turning the wheel over, riding on the
pedals, getting down, turning the wheel
right side up and mounting it, doing all
without touching the ground. Still an
other feat is coming to a standstill with
one hand on the handle-bars and the
other on the front wheel, throwing the
right leg between the arms and around
the head Of the machine and dropping
face downward almost to the ground.
He holds himself in that position and
rides that way.
A number Of the large firms will not
put any men on the track this year,
most Of the riders buying their own
wheels.
The following cities will have repre-
sentatives on the track this year:
NEW HAVEN
Thatcher, Fitzgerald and the Collett
brothers, it is thought, will ride the
Liberty; Batchelder, Sullivan and Kirk,
the Stearns; Darton, the Warwick T.
Bowden, the Remington. Coleman, w.
Monroe Witty and 7. w. Ensign will
also ride the Liberty.
Fl. Bill will be seen on the track this
year.
Ruett and Bean have secured the
agency for the famous Thistle wheel,
which Mr. Bean, who is an excellent BIZ
cyclist, will ride. The Thistle team this
year will be composed of E. w, Bean,
A. Jackson, Ray Fudge, c. E. L. Bear
and o. Spencer, who made a name as a
rider three years ago. Mr.. Bear is an
excellent rider. He will ride in the
meets in this vicinity until the summer
vacation, when he will leave for west
ern New York, where he will spend his
time between studying law and racing.
He and Kirk are training steadily at
Elm City park. Kirk will ride in the
ten-nlile road race at the Waltham,
Mass, races, April 10, and will take in
all the meets in this part of the coun-
try. He has fine form of riding and
good chances of success.
Hausman and S. Williams will begin
to train soon at the Elm City park and
try to keep up their fine record of last
year.
E. HILL jr., captain Of the Yale bicy-
Gle team this year, recently received six
racing wheels and racing tandem
from Spaulding & Co., which the team
will ride.
Several Yale students are riding the
Columbia on the track this year. but
the Columbia will have no regular
team.
The Heating, Waverly and Outing
will not have a track team here but
may put some one on in the latter part
of the year. The Collect brothers will
ride tandem.
HARTFORD.
The Peerless seems to be the most
popular wheel here.
The Peerless track team will be COM
posed of r. M. Alexander and J. M
Omally who carried off so many hon
ors last year; J. Carter, C. W. Grady
A. B. Smith, L. S. Main and J. Jones OF
South Windsor. G. A Bragg will be
the trainer.
The members of the Germania club
who will ride the Peerless on the track
are Dick Frederickson, Jansen and Lu-
butye. R. B. Trachy a professional
will also likely ride the Peerless
Andy Welsh has bought the track al
Charter Oak park from Colonel Kenne-
dy for $4,000, and he says he intends
to make one of the best tracks in the
country out of it.
The track members of the Hartford