The times., 1898-06-12
WHEEL WHIRRS.

It is reported that the National Cyclsdrome has
released Lehr, Kaser. Eden, Robinson, Johns,
johnson. Kiser. Bowler, and Gardiner.
Many bcycists overdo amateur repairing
Cemants and solutions too prof,Isely shattered on
are liable 70 practically ruin the thing 'mended."
The match race between Tom Butler and II b.
Freeman may be July at the National Cir
cult meet on the Vailsburg track, which is To-
Gated at Newark, \. J.
Pop Zimmerman, as the father of the ex-cham-
piOn IS familariy called wrote to friends this
week that Jimmy is trihe better, and that he
expected him to pull through.
Clinton Coulter, the unpaced champion Of
America. has not completely become accli,nated
to the East as yet, but his work during the past
week has shown marked improvement over his
previous work.
Clinton Coulter and Karl Kaser will meet in the
second heat Of their unpaced match June Is,
az the National Circuit meet to be held on the
Pleasure Beach track, at Bridgeport The distance
will be five miles.
The Kings County wheelmen have arranged a
match between Linton and Titus for their meet
on june p, at Manhattan Beach The two pace
followers viii go twenty miles, and each may
have as many as he chooses.
Tom Linton and Fred Titus will meet again on
June p. at Manhattan Reach track in middle
distance paced race Linton accepts his defeat
by Titus in a most graceful manner, but still in
sists that he is a better than the New
Yorker.
The foot should rest squarely on the pedals It
IS not thly Ine novice VINO ruDS his heelS against
the crank shaft ends on the forward stroke and
against the rear forks the foot is returned
Many otherwise good riders thus handle their feet
caTelessly.
Tom Linton predicts that before the close OF
the season the mile record will be low as
l;30 and the hour record will have thirty-three
miles crowded into it. He also makes the pre-
diction that both records will be held by the Ma
tiOnal Track Team Association.
Eddie McDuffee will meet Major TAYLOR in a
match at Boston on june II for twenty
miles This will be Taylors first race as a mid
die distance rider, and the clever middle distance
rider will initiate the cOlored lad into the secrets
and tricks Of the new style OF racing.
Henshaw and Kent, one Of the crack sprinting
teams Of tandems on. the National Track Team
Associations corps OF stars still have their chal-
lenge to ride any team in America best two in
three mile heats unaccepted. They are waiting
patiently for some fast team to accept their chsl
lenge.
Charles Miller the six day wonder has been
signed by the National Track Team Association
TO pace on the black and pink team He made
his initial appearance pacemaker for this
association at Pleasure Beach Track last week
when ne assisted in drawing AcDufee to victory
Fred Hoyt
Women do net succeed well in throwing the
baseball for instance, not being built that way,
but in planning the female specification nature
surely must have anticipated the bicycle. An
inspection of male and female skeletons outlines
a story which is simplifed by study of the nude
and fully corroborated by the experiences of
practical cycling.
Tom Butler, the clever little sprinter of the
National Track Team Association, has been
matched against Howard Freeman, the Oregon lad
This race was the outcome OF Freemans defeat
by Butler at the opening of the season in the
mile national championship race at New York
after Freeman had previously defeated Cooper and
Eden. The race will be contested in New York
early next month, the race to be decided by mile
heats best two in three. paced by tandem
Eddie McDuffee initiated Fred Titus into the
H. -. N
with opportunity for Fred Hoyt to break in
He will next give this opportunity to Major Tay-
Tor, the coored rider. Taylor and McDufee will
contest fifteenmie race at Boston on June IL
Fred Titus at New York. The Boston lad is i'm
proving rapidly in his riding and is now one
OF the prettiest riders in the country
Pleasure Beach track, at Bridgeport. will be
the scene of some fast riding June 15 when the
National Circuit meet Is given there. The man
agement has offered some excellent prizes, and
several features will be presented The second
heat OF the Coulter kaser match race will be run
there, and the two unpaced riders are training
harder than The record is likely to go in
this race. as Coulter is riding unpaced miles close
TO two minutes in his training each day
Eddie McDuffee will have fifty pacemakers in
his coming match with Jimmy Michael Every
member of the auxiliary teams OF the National
Track Team Association will be brought into use
on this date, and the greatest paced race ever
run in the world will be the result. The distance
is fifteen miles, and IL is conceded that two bet
Ter matched men never faced starters pistol
than these two men, especially when they are
fitted with pacing machines and men as they
will be on this day.
Bicycle law, and plenty of it, is a good thing.
but there are too many useless rules and regu-
lations in force. Rules necessary in crowded
sections of great cities are often duplicated in
smaller towns accomplishing no good and serv-
ing only the wheelman's inconvenience In one
two New England cities of moderate size eve
lists may not trundle their machines on the side
walks. although no restrictions are placed on
wheelbarrows. fruit stands and other impedi-
ments TO pedestrianism. Ordinances restraining
wheelmen from leaning their machines against
the walls OF city buildings. while necessary and
appropriate under certain conditions, are often
enforced where no benefit ensues to property
owners or the public.