The San Francisco call., 1898-05-14
CYCLERS STILL
 DISCUSS THE RELAY RACE.
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| l1A NAAA NASLs 1 4 4 < < 4 < | Although the annual relay race for 1898 | has passed and been won by the same l club for the fourth successive time, 1t Is | still the principal topic of conversation l among the racing enthusiasts. Rumors of l protests have been rife, but they have 1 ended as they started-in wind. There was also some talk about matching the Bay | City and Olympic teams to ride the dis | tance over again, this time on track;
 but the former club laughed at the propo- sftion. President Kerrigan told them that | his clubs team had been selected with
 view to its efficiency on the road; some of them were not speedy track riders.
 Further, he thought that the race would 1 develop into a case of -the-leader,
 until the tenth relay, when there would | be a ten-mile race between Wing (Olym- | pic) and Furman (Bay City), and that as | the latter was immeasurably Wings su- | perior the result would be a foregone con
 cluson, and, such being the case, it would
 not draw crowd and the clubs would be
 out money on the proposition.
 1 Thurman, who is a Postal-Telegraph op-
 orator at Los Angeles, went back to his key on Wednesday. He said before leav- ing that, as Wing had plenty of time, he
 could come down there and get match II he wanted it, but expressed little expect ancy that he would.
 The Olympic team is still intact, and, all though defeated, may take up the chal- ] lenge of the Reno Wheelmen and go to Nevada some Sunday in the near future for match race at fifty miles, each man to ride a relay of five miles
 Ex-Captatn Joe Catanich of the Imperial Cycling Club regrets that his club did not put in a team now, as he thinks 1t had racing men fast enough to land their. col ors well up to the front. The San Fran cisco Road Club is another organlZatlon that should have entered the race. These clubs will find that their racing men like to be represented on relay teams, and are likely to desert and join other clubs that do put in teams if their own club does not Witness the cases of the Black brothers of the Golden Gate, now of the Bay Clty, and Bozio, formerly Imperial, now Olym- pic.
 Howard w. Squires of the Acme Club Wheelmen, who rode the third relay last Sunday for that club, has written q I dei-
 men denying that he said anything that could be construed as tnferring that Sen
 Noonan of the Bay City team was fa5 pacsa p a ,a knows Noonan rode fair and square
 race throughout the entire course. Now that the relay is over the few re-
 mainng unplayed games of the Cycle l Clubs Baseball League will have to be attended to. The finish is between the
 Bay City Wheelmen. The Bay City team will be out practicing tomorrow at the
 sixteenth street grounds. ., p c,+, | Wheemen is in town after an absence Of | eighteen months In the East He IS now
 bent on encircling the globe. and will
 Meanwhile he is receiving the glad hand from his host of friends at the club. The regular monthly meeting Of the | board of governors of the California As | sociated Cycling Clubs will be heu this
 evening at the rooms of the California | Club, Twenty second and Folsom streets, | at o'clock. The report of the chairman | or the road racing committee on last Sundays relay will be rendered, and other matters of importance are to be brought | up.
 | to Escalles, Marin County, will be held | tomorrow under Captain w. D. Shea. Most of the members and guests will take the a m. Sausalito boat, though some of | the late risers can go over on the 10 and l Il 30. An invitation is necessary to secure admission to the grounds and banquet, and already several hundred have been is- sued by President McGinnis and Secretary Taylor. splendid time is assured all
 who attend, The committee in charge is composed of N. A. Hewson, J. w. Golf froth, c. F. Morel, J. F. Cooney and F. G. O'Kane.
 Captain Ed ". Schneider of the Impe- rial Cycling Club has called a big run for
 Sunday, the 22d. leaving the club house at S:30 a. m. Destination Coyote Point, San
 Mateo County. This is a favoritee picnic down on the train. An important mem-
 bers' meeting will be held next Monday
 
 James Joyce Jr arrived here from the
 South Thursday. Joyce reports a good
 business, and mentions meeting a num-
 Der of the California wheeling colony in
 treasurer of the Olympic Wheelmen; Will bur F. Knapp, our only announcer. and James and John Marshall Jr. Joyce will remain a week and then go back via the northern route.
 The Union Coursing Park Association recognizing the bonds of fellowship in all Hrac of of fir~- tEer cementing the same, has set aside Sunday, May 15, as wheelmens day. Am pie arrangements have been made at the grounds for the checking of wheels, free of charge, and careful employe will be in constant attendance for that purpose.
 Each club is invited to hold run to- morrow, having for its objective point the spacious courSing park near Colma. Un- attached wheelmen, as well as club mem bers are cordially invited. and will be cling costume. Coursing will commence at 80 a. m. The sport is already a fa- vorite one with the wheelmen, and this attempt by the park management to pop- ularize it with them should make it doub- ly so.
 The 'Up-to-Date Cycling Record Book" zette people of Cleveland, Ohio, is to hand, and Is an invaluable compendium of racing statistics for any one interested cuts of the leading record holders of the world. The publishers will mail a copy to any address upon receipt of 10 cents
 More than usual interest Is manifested about the Reliance Club, Oakland. over the fifth annual "Old Mems Rum to San Mateo tomorrow. The party will leave Webster street wharf. Oakland at S:30 o'clock on the tug Walter B. Hackett and steam to Point San Bruno, there disem- barking and wheeling to San Mateo beach. A swim in the surf will whet their appeutes for one of the celebrated Reliance chicken dinners, and as they never do things by halves 1t is safe to assume that every participant on the run will have a whole bird
 The Barker Cycling Club has elected the following officers: President. W. IF Bishop; vice-president, A. Bernstein: sec retary, H. E. Tolchard; treasurer. J. Bamberger; captain, l. Steinhardt: first lieutenant, A. Karski; second lieutenant l. Frank H. W. SPALDING. AMONG WIELDERS
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