The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-10
BIG CROWDS FROM EAST
COMING TO ATTEND THE NATIONAL
L. A. w. MEETING.
A Monster Run from Chicago to This
City-Some New Light ON the
Race Programme.

The members of the executive committee
of the '9S Meet Club are inclined to be en-
thusiastic over the outlook for the meet.
Communications from clubs and organiza-
tons all over the country which are planning
to attend the big event next August are be-
ing received daily and it is believed that
the war, instead of being a detriment, will
be of benefit to the meet. This is particu-
larry true of the East Several letters have
been received from prominent people from
Boston, New York and Philadelphia. War
will cause the closing of many of the East
ern summer resorts, and the fact that the
Atlantic coast will be sparsely populated
by the summer residents this season has led
many people who always go to the seaside
resorts for week or two to turn their at
tention to the West, and the exceedingly
low rates will attract many people who
have never before ventured beyond the
Alleghenies to visit Indianapolis next
August.
Plans for the big run from Chicago to In
dianapolis during the week Of the meet are
being rapidly perfected. 1t is now thought
that from LOCO to 1,5O0 riders will take part
in this big event, and nothing but extremely
bad weather can prevent it being the most
successful run taken by an organized body
of wheelmen The visitors will be met by
a delegation of Indianapolis riders some
thirty forty miles out and escorted into
the city. The tourists are planning to reach
here Monday evening, Aug. s.
John j. Appel, chairman of the committee
on street decorations, has been asked to
make a report at the next meeting of the
executive COMMITTEES for plans for the deco
ration Of the streets and residences of the
city. Indianapolis will take on a gala dress
during the week of the meet, and as the
citizens have responded so literally to every
call that has been made on them so far, it
is believed that they will take lively in
terest in decorating both their residence and
business property. Mr. Appel has been on
several committees of a like character and
is well qualified for the position. He is now
in correspondence with several firms who
furnish decorations, and appropriate designs
for decoration which will be suitable for
that week will be sent him within the next
few days.
To the average man the race rules of the
L. A. W. are as much of an enigma as a
solution of cartoons in q Spanish paper at
the present. 1t takes an expert and a stu
dent to decipher just what Chairman Mott
and his associates meant when they framed
some OF the rules for the different events
which will be run off during the week Of
the meet One of the races which puzzled
the press committee in sending out a de-
scription of the race programme was the
amateur championship. which will be run
off Saturday afternoon. Chairman Mott has
kindly notified the committee that it has
made an error in what it said concerning
this event. The one mile national amateur
championship carries with it the amateur
championship of the year, and the winner
of that race is entitled to all the glory and
emoluments SO long as they come strictly
within limit During the week of the meet
the other five championships, the one
fourth, one-third, one-half, two-mile and
f1ve-mile events, will be run. The men win
ming first and second places in these events
qualify in the one-mile championship and
only those men are entitled to take part in
starters, two trial heats and a final, three
men qualifying in the fastest heat. The
winner of the final will be the national
champion for the year.