The record-union., 1897-09-03

event or events shall be sanctioned or
recognized by the Amateur Athletic
Union or by any of its associations In
any case where a sanction for such eye
ling event or events shall have been or
shall be withheld or refused by the
League Of American Wheelmen, and in
all cases where such athletic games.
meetings, benefits or entertainments
shall have been or shall be inadvertent-
ly sanctioned or recognized, the sane
ton or recognition thereof shall be
forthwith Cancelled and annuned. No
cycling event which is included or run
in connection with any programme of
athletic games. meetings, benefits or en-
tertainments shall be sanctioned or rec
ogniZed by the League of American
Wheelmen in any case where sanction
or recognition of such games, meet
ings, benefits, or entertainments shall
have been or shall be withheld or re-
fused by the Amateur Athletic Union
or by any of it's associations, and in
every case where such cycling event or
events shall have been or shall be in
adyertently sanctioned or recognized
by the League of American Wheelmen,
such sanction shall be forthwith cam
celed and annulled
4. The League of American Wheel
men shall annually, or at such time and
for such periods as it may deem advis-
able. appoint a delegates, who shall
act with and constitute one of the
Board of Governors of the Amateur
Athletic Union, and shall have a vote
upon all questions coming before the
said board, and a right to sit upon COM
mittees and take part in all the actions
thereof, as fully as members of said
board elected from the several associa-
tions of the Amateur Athletic Union.
.. The Amateur Athletic Union shall
designate a representative to the
League of American Wheelmen, who
shall become a member of the National
Assembly of the League of American
Wheelmen, and who shall be appointed
as an advisory member of the Racing
Board of the League of American
Wheelmen, and to whom all matters
appertaining to Amateur Athletic
Union cyclists shall be referred before
action is taken by the League Of Amer
lean Wheelmen.
6. The League of American Wheel
AAACA CCo lIldl ALI IGSlSleTSd
Athletic Union cyclists shall be granted
the privilege of competing more than
100 miles from their homes or resi-
dences, and the rules of the Amateur
Athletic Union regarding expenses shall
apply to said cyclists; providing, how
ever. that in all cases cyclists shall ex-
hibit a registration card of the Anna
teur Athletic Union as proof of their
right to these privileges.
Z. Each party to this alliance shall
respect and enforce all penalties of sus-
pension or disqualification inflicted by
the other party.
.. In case of disagreement between
the League of American Wheelmen and
the Amateur Athletic Union upon any
point covered by these articles. the
same shall be submitted to three arbi-
traitors. one to be selected by the Anna
teur Athletic Union, one by the League
of American Wheelmen and the two so
selected shall select the third, the de-
cision of the arbitrators to be accept
ed as final by the League of American
Wheelmen and the Amateur Athletic
Union.
y. These articles of alliance shall be
termfnable by either party upon thirty
days written notice TO the other
10. These articles of alliance shall
take effect when ratified by the repre-
sentative Governing Boards of the or
ganizations party thereto and duly
signed by the President of the Amateur
Athletic Union and the League Of
American Wheelmen.
DUEL ON CYCLES.
A special Kind of Providence seems
to have watched over a Lyons cyclist
named Garaud. plumber, who wa
gered he would ride round the coping of
house in course Of construction. and
did so without meeting with any mis-
hap. The coping stone was barely two
feet wide, and had he slipped he would
have fallen fifty feet
Of an entirely different nature, and
with an entirely different object. was
the feat of two young French students
in Paris some months ago. large
party had been oilt cycling all day. and
were returning home in a hilarious
mood, when two Of the party quar-
reied They decided that a duel with
swords should settle their difference
and, with their national love for he
sensational, decided further that ii
should be fought on their bicycles in
the Boulevard Ney, Paris.
The seconds placed the combatants
fifty yards apart and ordered them
TO charge which they did in furious
fashion with swords cleaning in the
moonlight. Passing each other, so
swift was the pace, they wheeled about
and faced, and again made straight at
one another. They met with terrific
force and both were thrown, while the
seconds. who were also following on
bicycles, sweIled the mass of struggling
humanity and steel, and were more in
jured than the principals, neither of
whom had been touched by the others
sword, although one of them in fall
ing had run his own sword into his
leg. But blood had been spilled, and
honor was declared satisfied.
STORIES OF EUROPEAN CYCLISTS.
One of the most famous long-dis-
tance cycle rides which ever took place
was that undertaken by the French
professional cyclist Charles Terront.
says The Cycle" an English paper,
IN a series of articles on noted riders.
1t became celebrated not so much on
account of the distance covered, but by
reason of its constituting a sterling rec
ord. This was a ride against time from
st. Petersburg to Paris. The ride was
undertaken in October, 1893, Just at
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