The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-05-25
CYCLING.

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Jimmy Michael, will arrive in Phiadel-
phia on Thursday, and another great
star will be added to the big gathering of
cycling champions now stationed at
Willow Grove.
The first night race meet at Woodside
Park track Philadelphia will be held on
Saturday night, June II, when Cissac,
the French mjddie-distance racer, meets
Joe Nernier in a 20-mile paced race paced
by twenty men on each side.
E. G. Bald and August Lehr, the
acknowledged champions OF the United
States and Germany, have been matched
for the best two in three one-mile heats
one paced and one unpaced, with the
style OF the third contest, if necessary
TO be decided by the toss of coin. The
match will be decided May %.
Freeman, the Oregon wonder, claims
to have been misplaced in a heat at Man
haitian Beach which Tom Butler won.
So confident is he that he can defeat
Butler he is said to have issued a
challenge for mile race for $500
Bobby Wathour and Bert Repine of
Atlanta, Ga, and Eli Weinsett of Nash
vile, TRIP of speedy southern riders,
arrived in Philadelphia Monday and
will become a part Of the Eek aggrega-
ton OF flyers.
The foreign racing men OF the National
Cycedrome, Lamberjack and Gougotz,
the Frenchmen; Jack Robertson, the
English champion, and Jaap Eden. the
champion OF Holland, have struck. and
refuse to 90 on the circuit mapped out
for them because their salaries have not
been paid and because they have not
yet been given their prize money won in
Saturdays races at Buffalo.
More than one hundred and twenty
five entries have been received for the
Irvington- Millburn road race on Deco
ration Day. This insures hot fight on
the part of the road puggers for the
prizes annually awarded in the big
event.
Frank Starbuck from his training
quarters at Willow Grove, has issued
statement that he will accept the chal-
lenges issued to him by W. f. Becker
the ex-fve-mle champion, and Billy
Martin, the late arrival from Australia.
Starbuck says that after his race with
Taylore at Willow Grove on Saturday
he will talk business with Becker and
Martin and will meet both men, no mat
ter how his race with Taylo:e ends.
He will also be prepared to make sub.
stantia side bet
Joe Vernier, the middle-d distance rider,
who is training at Willow Grove for his
twenty-mile race with Taylore on Deco
ration Day, is showing true champion
ship FORM.
Big front sprocket wheels seem to be
all the go this season. Many OF this
years wheels so equipped are seen every
where. The impression prevails that the
big front sprocket sets off the machine
and adds greatly to its appearance. 1t
may also seem that rider on wheel so
equipped is one of experience. The
smaller front sprocket, according to a
certain class of riders, appears too
amateursh, and it is known that rider
no matter how new to the pastime,
wishes this impression to be avoided.
The most common sight on the roads
these days is that of the awkward rider
who is invariably ridiculed by those
who see him. A person may be naturally |
awkward at all things, but there is no
good reason why he should be on BIZ
cycle. A little attention to the proper
adjustment of the seat, pedals, etc, ought
to offset the awkwardn1ss. In nine cases
out of ten, the fault lies with the i'm
proper arrangement of the pedal or the
seat. If there is anything that makes
rider appear ungraceful or ungainly it is
the placing OF the seat too far back, etc.