The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-05-05
CYCLING.

Arthur Gardiner the Western sprinte
and Karl kaser, the Swiss, got to scrap
E'ng at their training quarters at Cheste
Park, Cincinnati. 1t was all over trivia
matter, but resulted disastrously fol
Gardiner. Kaiser is almost twice as biz
as Gardiner, who quit the fight with
pair of badly discolored eyes.
The owners of the Paris cycle tracks
intend to force interest in the sport this
year. On May 10Th and 30th the govern
ing cycle body of France will hold its
grand prize meeting. The star attraction
will have $1,000 purse, of which one.
half will go the winner
The difference in L. A. w. member
ship between New York and Pennsyl-
vania continues to grow less each week.
Secretary Bassett's report of the num-
Der of applications received last week
shows that less than 200 separates the
two states During the week New York
sent 81; Pennsylvania, 81; Massachusetts
lO6; New Jersey, AZ: Ohio, %; Illinois,
%; Rhode Island, "a; Michigan, IS; Con
necticut, Is; Indiana, Is; Wisconsin, -;
Missouri, s, and Maryland, ). The total
membership of the League is now 95, S73
OF which 25,045 is in New York and
24.O7' in Pennsylvania. For the cor
responding month of last year the Penn
sylvania membership was 1859.
An agreement has been entered into
for match race between Henri Cissac.
one of the French members of the Ma
tional Cycledrome team, and Charles
Church OF Philadelphia. The race is to
be twenty miles, paced by fifteen men
for each contestant, no machines larger
than triplcts to be allowed. Neither
contestant is to have more than three
teams OF pacemakers at any one time.
The race is to be for purse Of 81 900
and is to be run at the opening of the
Coliseum, Baltimore.
Jimmy Michael is the lightest known
cyclist of ability in the cycle-racing
game. In condition he weighs GS
pounds, one. half Of which is muscular
tissue, for Michael is as strong as any
man who rides wheel, having the
strength of a Sandow with the frame of
an 1l-year-old schoolboy. Joe Grimes
is the heaviest known cycIist that may
be rated as Il practical cycle rider Like
Michael Grimes makes his living riding
a wheel. Grimes is noted also as a very |
strong man, his flesh being hard and |
not flabby, as is the case with so many
men of his size. Grimes weighs 54l |
pounds, or five and one-half times as
much as Michael.
Tom Eck's aggregation OF foreign and
American crack racing men has been fur
Their reinforced by the addition to the
team OF Rudolph Item, of Basel, Switzer-
land, who has come to this country on
5he suggestion Of his countryman and
cam mate, Karl kaser, and will this
year be seen on the same team with the
after, who is also 4 member of the Eek
Morgan string Of fyers ten is clean
tut, smart looking young Swiss, and al
hough he is but Is years of age, he is so
yell-developed that anybody might take
lin for IA young athlete of %. He is )
eet s. inches tall, has Il chest measure
II 36i inches and weighs $50 pounds, be-
ng thus built on very fine lines for the
modern racing man.
Fred Titus and Major Taylor, who
ave been doing some preliminary train
ng at the Manhattan Beach track for the {
asst week were yesterday joined by 5
lanager Kennedy and corps of pace /;
iakers.