The sun., 1898-10-10
CYCLING.

The Alpha WheelmeD, colored or
ganization, will hold race meet at
Riverview on October IL. Come out and
see the Major Taylor's fly.
There is every prospect that 3O-inch
wheels may be vastly more popular ne xt
season than ever before.
A. Cobner has established an unpaced
century record for Wales, riding the dis
tance in 10000.
Some experts are of opinion that the
rigid type of front fork will have a Sc
we're shaking and possibly be eliminated.
Jones and Rawson have reduced the
British amateur standing unpaced tan
dem record for quarter-mile to 2o 30
seconds.
Bonheurs recently had an easy time
disposing of Bauge, Bourotte, Digeon.
Fossier and Frederick in l00-kilometre
contest.
At Toronto tax of 81 year is i'm
posed upon cyclists, and the full amonnt
derived therefrom is devoted to street
improvement. The tax is cheerfully
paid.
In an interview prominent Austral-
ian athlete says that an English or
American cyclist, to show real form in
Australia, requires at least six months to
become acclimated.
A noted maker of Paris manufactured
a luxurious motor carriage with a view
of presenting the same to President
Faure's daughter, but the offer was de-
clined much to the enterprising builders s
grief and disappointment.
A photograph of the recent 72-hour
cycle race in paris shows that many of
the riders had their machines fitted with
compound handlebars-th is, bars with
four grips, two giving a raised position
and two dropped position.
The French sculptor, Decorn, has been
touring through France on a Phebus
motor cycle with a voiturette attached
and loaded up to six hundredweight.
The vehicle under these circumstances
climbed hills with the greatest ease.
A movement is now on foot to prevent
the intended siX-days race at Madison
Square Garden. A society has been or
ganized whose object shall be the pre-
vention of this race, and in short time
they will announce the names of those
associated with them.
Many cyclists neglect to oil their
pedal bearings, thinking it unnecessary.
These bearings should have the same
attention that is given other running
parts. Hard.running pedals contrib
ute toward making the whole thing run
hard.
The Cub Cycliste OF Castelnau is organ
izing a motor-car and motorcycle race
from Bordeaux to Castelnau and back,
about 100 kilometres. The event, a purely
amateur one, will in all likelihood come
off this week under the patronage of the
Automobile Club, Bordelais.
Some idea of the growth and prolni-
nence of motor-vehicle manufacture in
France may be gained through learning
that the amount of French capital in
vested in this new industry exceeds
$3.50, 100000, and the number of en-
ployes and workmen engaged in its
various branches is estimated at 20O,-
600.
A new excuse for riding without light
was recently discovered by local wheel
man who was halted by policeman.
He told the bluecoat that he was going
for doctor and that his light had Jared
out and was in too urgent haste to stop
and light up. The story naturally
event" If the policeman had arrested
the man he would have been accused of
being overzealous, but this excuse, when
false, is like the cry of "wolf." Ii it
becomes common some honest man really
going in a hurry for physician is likely
To be detained and serious consequences