The San Francisco call., 1897-07-17

completed, is directly over the City
Morgue, and many and gTuesome are the
tales the me m bers tell OF their experiences
at night. There is never last man" at
the club now. Somehow they nearly all
leave about the same time when going
home time comes around.
The Terminal City Wheelmen of Stock.
ton are making arrangements for their
second annual watermelon run and picnic,
to be held Sunday, August 3. The COM
mittee in charge OF the affair consists oi
Carl Steinhart, chairman; Vine cent Hop
kins secretary; Fred Sievers, Will Davis
and Walter Hanse.
This annual run at Stockton is big
affair with the wheelmen there, and ii
has been suggested that the Associated
Climbs hold it's regular monthly meeting
for August there the night before. A
large nun ber of wheelmen from this City
will go up anyway on the Saturday night
boat to attend the run the next day, and
1t would afford an excellent opportunity
for the association officers to mingle with
the Stockton wheelmen with view OF
securing their hearty cooperation in the
associations work. The Terminal City
Wheelmen have but just joined the q. A.
c. c., and few of the members have joined
individually, so that there is quite field
for the membership committees endeay-
: ors there.
There has been another change in the
Olympic staff. G.. n. Ravlin retires and
&. r. Coulter, the celebrated professional
rider, will take the editorial chair. Mr..
Ravlin and J. Gensler will shortly start 9
new cycling paper here. to be called
Wheel Chat. In size and style it will be
something like Bearings OF Chicago, and
it should prove very acceptable.
Another three-cornered match has been
arranged between Bald, Klser and Cooper
to take place at the Michigan division
meet on July %. The accounts of the re.
guilt will be awaited with interest here.
Jimmy Michael, the Welsh champion
and Lucien Lesna of France, who passed
through here on his way from Australia
recently, have been matched 10 ride for q
big purse, the date to be in about q
month, as soon as Lesna can get into
shape. The distance will be thirty-three
miles, in order that the riders may, il
they can, break the worlds hour record.
The match will be ridden in Boston.
Michael is being handled by Shafer, the
mism anager of the indoor meet here last
spring, and his cunning should bring vic
tory to his man, as Lesna is neither
familiar with the game here nor the Ian
guage of the country.
The following from Bearings regarding
Mcfarland, the California profess ional
ilOh 16S1hb o6 aAhos tho ASoobeAA IL u ANS &c
interesting:
Mcfarland, the lanky Californian, is gain
ing the name OF being the cleverest player OF
handicap races in the country. He stands the
hard work of circuit-chasing like a warhorse,
and wins out in handicaps along the New
York State circuit more times than the aver
age rider At Syracuse Saturday he worked
up through a. field of dozen men after the
bell on the haif-miie track. and led into the
stretch with a sprint that landed him a win
ner. The man has done this so many times
now that the riders in The handicap races tear
him. In the open race at Syracuse Mcfarland
had the contest won and would have beaten
Bald had it not been for an unlucky step
when he let Bald up on him in the good going.
Mike" the celebrated bulldog mascot
of the Bay City Wheelmen, is missing.
The mem bers are not expressing much
worriment over this fact however, as
Mike" generally celebrates every big
victory of his CLUB by not showing up
around his usual hauuts for about week
after, and he has not been seen since the
club won the big twenty mile road race
last Sunday.
The Oakland and San Francisco cycle
annexes 10 the Young Mems Christian
Association held joint run to the park
and beach last night by moonlight.
r. M. WEIGH, as chairman of the track
racing committee OF the Associated Clubs,
has issued his weekly bulletin No. s, as
follows:
SAN FRANCISCO, July 16, 1897.
Sanctions granted-August 1, Salinas City