New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-16
Nrws OF THE wHEELMEN.

Tn. ieck Of a sufficient number Of drinking
fountains on the boulevard and the Riverside prVo
,s again being forced upon The notice OF "h'emsn
and pedestrians by the advent % not weather
SUPERINTENDENT Mooney OF the Xavier Athletic
Club has called attention TO the fact that from
the boulevard az Sixty -sixth-st- 20 Grants Iomb
distance OF nearly three miles the length % the
whole OF Riverside Drive there IL not a single
place which one may Querch his thirst with colo
water the only beverage FOR which most cyclists
care during the heat % summer. There were. FOR
merly al about Eighty nfth-st. and at one hun
dred-and -sixth-st. TWO hydrsnts. but these were
removed about two years ago. leaving only the
drinking fountain at SXty-siXth-s and tho hydrant
at Grants Tomb furnish water 10 the thousands
who daily throng these cycling thoroughfares. Re
sides those who walk or wheel for pleasure on these
thoroughfares are scores 81 Young children In
charge % their nurses. The latter may often be
seen carrying bottles OF water for the o. their
charges II may be reasoned out how long. on
such Il day yesterday. liquid 50 carried win
remain cool and palatab.e.
Those who have seen Bedell OF tho thr->
confestarfs entered for the ten-nile paced at
Berkeley oval on Saturday afternoon. at practice
predict for him a promising future in middle-dis
lance racing. He is riding fast and follows pace
Ike a veteran lie IS small Michael. cool
and careful. and appa rently cannot get pace fast
enough His opponents In the three-cornered race
will be Joseph T. Detroit and George n. Durrant
Roth OF these young men have trained early and
late in the last two weeks. and each is confident
that the title o. middle-distance metropolitan dis
,r,ct champion will fall TO his lot The thres State
championships the card have attracted ANA
teurs from all sections II The state
The schedule run IF the Madison Wheemen for
Sunday VIII include a trip through the Oranges
and Paterson, y. J. Tho start will be made from
Tho clubhouse at $50 a. m. thence through Fifth
ave 10 West Twenty third 81. ferry. and by train
Newark where they will be met By tho Cycling
Tub Of the Early Closing Association. which will
escort them through the Oranges and return to
Newark where a dinner will be given In the after.
noon both clubs will make run to Paterson and
ro,urn' by the Passaic River road.
In speaking o. the attitude OF the Associated
yelling Clubs toward the League Of American
Wheelrnen Louis Resented, OF The Consulate says
Il think II will be error OF Judgment the part
~ the Associated Cycling Clubs TO undertake
Generalization OF the affairs Of the League. consider
ing that the Associated Cycling Clubs not
.on,oonent part Of the League o; American Wheel
men"
:, yyas announced yesterday that the Board Of
on,oors NJ the Nca, York Division Of the l. a W
,.iu take M the case 90 Racing Chairman Wait and
the Harlem Whoelmen II looks as II Mr.. Wait
VIII have 10 answer to his felow-members Of the
BOARD Of Officers but not 70 The Associated Cycling
|inbs Of New Orl or to the Harlem WheelTnen.
match race was arranged yesterday between
D,,DuOec and Ioyi. 10 AXE place at Bridgeport
on Jmiy The contest will be hve-mie pursuit
race.
Mr. and Mrs H. p Fullerton returned from their
,.eadi,c trim 70 Ashevillc y G.. yesterday. Mr.
EXHIBITION IL prominent I'm L. 4 w. and good-roads
work
cyclists desiring to join the League Of American
Whcelmcn may obtain run printed information and