The sun., 1898-06-18
CYCLING.

The winner OF the Llnton-Iaylore rac'
today will be matched to race Jimm,
Michael, The Great on July 9th for th'
middle distance championship OF tn,
world The contest will take place Al
Manhattan Beach.
Fred Titus, who has the scalp of Linto1
dangling from his belt, will 90 after tht
record for five-eighth's of mile in New
York today.
The success of cycle racing depends
largely, in all but open even events, or
the manner in which the men are hand
capped.
Thursday afternoon the PHILADELPHIA
favorites, Church and Starbuck, finished
their training at Willow Grove for to.
days big match race against McDuffee
and Butler at the race meet OF the South
End Wheelmen.
McDuffee OF Boston, has been matched
to ride a fifteen-mile paced race against
Henry Cissac at Woodside Park on We'd
nesday night. During the Bostonian's
stay here he will likely make an effort
to lower the present worlds one-mile
record of 1.35 2-5, held jointly by Platt
Belts and himself.
Joe Vernier, the crack middle distance
rider OF Philadelphia, was yesterday
matched to meet Fred Titus, of New
York, in a tifteen-mile paced race at Will
low Grove on the night of July I. The
men will race by electric light, having
thirty-two of the fastest pacemakers in
the country.
A three-mile tandem race will be one
of the features of the Philadelphia
Century Wheeimen's meet on the 25th
at Tioga, in which such combinations as
Cavalley and Boulay, Robertson and
johnson, Church and McCurdy and Tur-
vile brothers will compete.
Edouard Taylore, the crack French
middle distance rider, by strange CO.
incidence, will meet "Tom" Linton, of
England, in thirty mile paced race at
Manhatten Beach on his eighteenth
birthday, Taylore having been born in
Paris on June Is, 1880. His first nota-
BILE competition was on August 27, 1896,
when he finished first in the Paris
Cabourg road race, the distance being
225 kilometers, which the youngster cov-
cred in nine hours.
A match race has been arranged be-
tween eddie" McDutfie and Fred
Hoyt, to take place at Bridgeport, on
July 4. The contest will be five mile
pursuit race.
Eddie Bald picks Jaap Eden as the
winner over Major Taylor in their match
race at Manhattan Beach today. Bald
regards Eden as tie greatest rider now
riding in America. "Eden," said Bald,
SIS rider who possesses rare burst of
speed and good judgment. He is fine
Judge of pace, and his victories abroad
over Linton and other notables show
that he is a rider of the first magnitude.
| believe that Taylor will make it inter-
esting enough for a while, but Eden's
superior riding ability will tell in the
end and he will win."
The greatest cycling whopper comes
from New Zealand: "a cyclist in that
country was struck by a train, thrown
thirty feet in the air, made several revo-
lutions and came down clinging to the
saddle. The pneumatic tire softened the
fall, and the man was none the worse"
1t is evident that the man who told this
story is an old angler turned cyclist.
One of the best methods of cleaning a
bicycle chain is to boil it in solution
composed of common washing soda and
water Let it boil flor several minutes
and then take it out and dry thoroughly.
If convenient, it should be placed in an
oven to dry. Then oil it thoroughly and
it will be as clean as when it came from
the factory