The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-07
Phone 1922.

absolutely necessity to it's success and
their absence would cast a shadow over the
proceedings which nothing under the heav-
ems could efface. They are veterans of the
league in numerous instances, men who
have attended every meet since the first at
providence away back in the beginning of
1t is among this class of men, that anec-
dotes without number may be CLEANED of
these anecdotes that the old timers thrive,
ana with their aid make life at
the meet one constant round of
pleasure. quiet nook, more often
far from quiet corncob pipe or a good
cigar, a group of hoary headed old timers
apparently far beyond the riding age and
termed the acme of bliss for these men. The
young men are out meanwhile making more
history to be used on similar occasions
OF the thousand and one incidents of past
meets annually .rehashed and revived for
the amusement of the late corners into their
"reminiscences than the c. +. S. Club,
formed at Niagara Falls, back in go The
initials initials stand for something, but none but
those initiated at that time will ever know.
niagara rails had the meet. 1t also had
notes, and the proprietors of these hostel
1les seemingly had the opinion firmly rooted
mat Wheelmen were made of money!
Prices were so eXtortionate that few of
the Jovlal spirits concocted a scheme. the
results or which brought about one of the
most enjoyable occasions of any meet of
history. These leaders found little Ger
man motel, hlred 1t completely, and then
gathered the push in one by one. They
gathered them by means of marshals, who
patroled the streets and captured bodily
every victim wanted. The. members of the
G. f. s: Club uniformed themselves in an
cfent tiles with the rims torn off, and
number formed themselves into a kazoo
to this day. In the dining room of their
private hotel the members of the club held
trials by jury upon all sorts of Imaginable
and unimaginabie charges, and 4very VIC
accordingly as the jury thought the size of
MS roll might be. This club soon became an
later years through the detection of the
members from the ranks into other lines of
business than cycling.
At Detroit in 1891 ii was the Hickory Club
mat to this day brings reminders by the
score. The Hickory Club was both club
and club, the latter welded by great
big men on the sitting down region of the
anatomy The victim was first caught, then
turned up IN proper position and the lam
baSting followed. which almost invariably
made standing up at the mantelpiece for
meals preferab bic to sitting at the table even
though on a pillow. The victim of the joke
% always considered that ne was even
when score more had been personally
induced by himself 10 go through the or
deal. The force necessary as an inducer
was one-half the fun and the force neces-
sary at the other end Of the club to make
the impression was the other half. Every
with Hickory worked out and the possess
sion Of the pin was protection against an
otner or those terrible limitations. The
Hickory Club was fathered ny Sterling FL
lott, the ex-president of the league known
then as Hickory Elliott w w. Stall was
the initator at the Detroit meet, but Mr.
Stall had imitators during the balance Of
that year. for Hickory members became
thicker than flies in summer time. the
growth being on the plan somewhat Of the
great endless chain principle OF COLLECTING
money for charity.
Washington. d. c., held the national meet
IN s2 and the members were far too busy
sight seeing TO indulge in any great 8 y,,ra1nt
or horse play.
But at the meet OF u.s. held in chicaro
where the members were gathered in eneaf
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