The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-04-28

sleep the sleep LndL hilOW5 lAO| WANING
Dream Of bicycles no more,
Tires bursting, pedals breaking!
When you got your fatal fall,
Ger the landscape you were scattered;
Still we think we've got you all.
Limbs dlsmembered, body shattered.
scorcher, rest; thy racing's Ger;
Dream Of lodging cars no more,
Sleep the sleep that knows not waxing,
It's the final scoIch you're taxing
The hundred-mile relay race between
two Stockton and one Sacramento team
for the Weinstock, Lubin & Co. trophy
was run off for the third time on the
24th instant in great shape, and was
won handily by the Capital City Wheel
men in five hours and twenty minutes
the course being very nearly 105 miles,
and the road average country high
way.
AS this was the third time the cup
was won by the C. c. WIS team 1t
gives the silver in perpetuity to the
Sacramento Club. But a protest is IN
that may change the result, and pass
the trophy to the Terminal City team
and in that case the cup must be run
for again, possibly several times, be-
fore the ownership is decided.
Some nice points are involved The
terms require that the race shall be
between clubs of the two cities; that
seven men and seven trailers from each
club shall compete in relays of such
length as may be agreed upon; that
each rider shall carry an official mes
sage. and at the end Of the relay pass
IT to the next rider, and so on, until it
is returned to the point Of starting.
It is also provided that whoever ac-
cepts outside pacing is disqualified, but
competing riders may take pace from
one another if they can. On the part of
the two Stockton clubs 1t is charged, as
We gather from the Stockton papers
that Wilson, the second relay, who had
a bad fall, lost the packet: that Payen,
an outside rider of the c. c. w, went
back and found it, rode to near Stock
ton and delivered 1t to a return rider,
and thus it was carried to the starting
point again. Also, that several Of the
Sacramento riders accepted PAGERS.
on the part of the Capital City
Wheelmen it is admitted that the pack
ct was lost, was recovered by Payen
and returned by him to a returning
rider. But the c. c. w team claims
that on the fourth relay the Terminal
City team rider had a PAGER; that on
one relay the trailer Of the Terminals
started in advance of the rider where
as the rule is that the trailer shall
start thirty seconds late at each relay.
Now say the c. c. w. men, as the
leaders talk it, I'VE beat you fairly;
the T. C. W. by seven minutes and
twenty seconds, and the Road Club by
over twenty-six minutes. If you
took pace. your rider was disqualified,
and the race would be ours. If any Of
our men took pace, we are disqualified,
and the cup is yours. You charge that
Payen aided one of our men by riding
alongside and pushing the man. If So
that disqualifes US. But we deny that
such is the fact. Payen is incapable
of such an act. If you will withdraw
your charges of pacing, or prove them,
and then you claim the cup, we will
surrender it.
But we claim that the essential
thing was the race-the speed. 1t is
admitted that if the race was fair and
no pace accepted, we won out with a
good margin. But if you claim the
non-carriage of the packet disqualifies
we surrender the cup and will go for
1t again whenever you name date, or
at the fixed date in 1899. We prefer
a race this spring. What we care most
for is the charge of accepting aid and
pace That is a stigma on our teams
and our honor, and that we want
proved or withdrawn.
you say that in Stockton Readell
accepted pace on Park street; but we
can show that we had no rider IN Stock
ton to give pace, hence you are mis-
taken. We claim that your man on
the fourth relay did accept pace, and
have proof positive of the fact We
claim further that the race is the es-
sential thing, and the packet mere
incident, that the rule as to delivery
and carriage of the packet is direc-
tory, not mandatory. as it cannot af-
feet the speed, but pacing does affect
speed, and hence is an essential ele-
ment to be considered"
There the matter stands, with the
probabilities Of the trophy going to
Stockton If the Terminals claim it on
the technical ground of loss Of the
packet, as stated. The c. c. w. men
in fine spirit admit the loss, and will
give up the cup, if it is claimed by the
Terminals that the packet carriage is
on essential affao+ino 41a question Of