The sun., 1898-10-24
CYCLING.

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CYCLING.
The total receipts of the worlds bicycle
championship meet at Vienna were less
5000.
Five hundred thousand dollars is the
capital of new motOr.car COMPANY in
Luttich which was recently organized.
In addition to the six.day bicycle
grind at Madison Square Garden the New
Workers. are going to have a revival of
the old-time torture OF a six.day walking
match.
M. Dudley las placed the Irish So
miles-against-time record at 1890,
lowering all intermediate records from
the twenty-eighth mile inclusive.
Eddie McDuffee announces that he in
tends to ride under L. A. W. racing con-
troll, and will not join the independent
organization.
The leading manufacturers Of bicycle
tires, composing the Rubber Tire Asso-
citation, have decided to maintain guar
antee on tires for next season.
Boston has gained strong point in
favor Of getting the 1899 L. A. W. meet
by getting the assurance of the New Eng.
land railroads that if Boston is awarded
the meet they will carry bicycles free for
L. A. W. members to and from said
meet.
Freeman says there will be no more
racing of the outlaws until the winter in
door season. He says that Stevens has
gone home to Ottumwa, Cooper to De-
troit, Mcfarland to the factory of the
Black Manufacturing Company, and
from there will go home to California.
Daily advice for those who need it.
Don't attempt to try your speed with a
horseman in the Brandywine Park. The
animal may be faster and have greater
endurance powers than yourself, and be-
sides the driver may happen to know
the Park guard who holds you up"
After his theatrical season ends, Eddie
Bald, has announced that he will go
abroad and race. Then he contemplates
paying his fine, and asking for reinstate-
ment BY the Law. Racing Association,
for he knows we'll that unless he does
such. he will not be permitted to ride
abroad under the rules of any of the for
eign association.
Mike Dirnberger, at one time one OF
Americas best riders, has entered Cor.
nell College, and will play on the scrub
football team OF the college this fall and
enter in the intercollegiate champion.
ships in the spring, later emerging into
the open in professional racing, should
his old-Ime speed return.
President Potter takes a calm, matter
of-fact view of the situation existing be.
tween the outlaw racing men and the
Il ague. Concerning the application OF
some OF them to be returned to good
standing he says that it is only what was
to be expected.
Cordag's next match will probably be
with Tom Linton in Paris. Linton is to
be electrically paced, while the Dutch
man will have his old helpers, the
Palace team. The match is to take
place in Paris, and will probably be over
a 50-kilometre course.
Howard B. Freeman, the circuit chaser,
who has done 50 much good work this
season, is now permanently engaged. He
is in the art department ofthe New York
Journal According to Freeman, this is
much easier than following the outlaw
circuit.
According to report of the royal
police authorities in Berlin, there were,
in 1896, 20, l29 cards issued to bicycists
in that city and 27,422 more in 1897.
The law requires every bicycle rider to
have a card, but as many people ride
without one the police authorities esti-
mate the actual number Of bicyclists at
10000 in 1897.
c., Ward, trainer and manager of
Major" Taylor, left Rochester Saturday
night on his way to Boston, where he
went to gather together pacemaking
team to pace Taylor III record-breaking
attempts at Philadelphia. The Major"
vii; now race under L. A. W. jurisdic-
ton, his $3.50 fine imposed by Chairman
Mott for joining the revolt having been
paid Yesterday, and Taylor's suspension
lifted. All the record attempts will be
made on Willow Grove track, Philadel.
phia.
Electric bicl Gle lanterns are becoming
m IRE and more popular, and their bril-
liant lights may be often seen on any
frequented cycle path. They are being
made in such manner now that they
cause no trouble, and, as there is no
odor, heat or dirt connected with them,
they are preferable to the older styles.
Bicycle firms are just now considering
the advisabiIit! Of going in strongly for
motor-car building. Before doing SO
they should study for few months the
French productions in order to avoid
the many elementary troubles which
usually occur, and then come home and
improv. on the machines heretofore
made.
Tom Linton, the English long-distance
rider. who spent last summer in this
country, speaks in high terms OF the