The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-04

Clubs, of st. Paul, the minneapolis
Century Club and Other Cyclists
Not Yet Banded, They VIII Take
Pleasure Ride to Lake Mime
tOnIa.
At o'clock this morning, Archie
Matheis, the local centurion, Of the
Century Road Club of America, will
start with a party of bicycle riders,
probably the largest that ever left st.
iPauI Meeting at Rice Park the party
Twill move up Fifth street to Pleasant
IaVenue, and go over Oakland to sum-
init. AT the top of the hill stop will
Ebe made to wait for any slow ones that
may find it hard coming up the steep
grade.
After all are again together the party
will move out Summit, through the
woods to Marshall and out Lake street
ITO Lake Calhoun. Here stop will be
made at the c. r. c. headquarters and
DR.. c. H. Hunter, of Minneapolis, with
a party Of riders, will meet the st.
Paul party and all start over the cycle
path for Minnetonka Mills. The pump
at this place will do good service and
refreshments will be in line.
After a good rest at this point the
next effort will be to get to Excelsior,
where Mr.. Sampson will act as host and
make his hotel the c. P. c. headquar-
tiers. At 2 p. m he will have prepared
an elegant dinner, after which DR..
Hurter and A. L. Mace will give short
addresses on good roads and road rid
ing, while r. e. Low will try and in
terest the party IN behalf Of the Laurel
Club and cycle paths. r. Bott will put
in a good word for the Capital City
Cycle club, and Miss Mabel Carmichael
and Master c. McIlrath will render
some selections on the plano.
Both the Capital City and Laurel Cy-
eye clubs will join forces with Century
lCapitaI City and Laurel Cycle clubs
will join forces with the Century Road
club to make this run a success. After
dinner Mr.. Matheis will call his part
of the run complete and all will spend
the balance of the day as suits them
hest, and many will return in the
moonlight. The steamboat will make
q special trip over the lake for those
that wish to go. Mr.. Matheis will take
Upon himself that difficult task Of set
ting the pace to suit every one It
positively will not exceed eight miles
an hour. Any visitors in town are
cordially invited to attend this run,
the second one given by the c. r. c.,
in Charge of the local centurion
{ The fact that President Potter and
a number Of his ablest supporters are
leading the anti-racing movement, the
purpose Of which is to divorce the
sport from the league, gives foundation
ITO the belief that the New York at
itorney will again be candidate for
the presidency, and 1t now appears that
Mr. Potter will stand or fall upon an
fani-racing platform. In 1896 Mr.. Pot
ter first suggested that the league drop
the sport. AT the national assembly
of that year he strongly advocated
the idea and advanced numberless ar
eumentS against the continued control
Of racing, but on that occasion Mr..
Potter was alone in his position, and
he accepted defeat gracefully. He stat
ed, however. that the time would come
= when the majority would favor his
proposition. With the defeat Of the
movement at Baltimore two years ago
last February. the Potter idea appar-
y entity died out, but Potter is hard
loser, and. although he steadily re-
Trained from forcing his opinions upon
the public, he did not by any means
acknowledge that he had taken the
wrong ground. On the contrary, he
paign against racing, which eliminated
last February in the passage OF reSO-
buttons directing the leagues executive
/ committee to take the preliminary
steps toward relinquishing the sport
} control by investigating the status Of
letic bodies for the purpose Of discov-
ering if one or more Of these were
sufficiently well organized to exercise
jurisdiction over cycle racing. Presi-
dent Potter disaVows the paternity of
these resolutions. but, coming as they
did from the Wisconsin chief consul,
O. strong advocate Of Potterism and all
that IT implies, the close followers OF
league political transactions express
1t as their candid opinion that Presi-
dent Potter alone was responsible for
the Introduction of the apparently
that the chairman Of the highway
Improvements committee, Otto Dorner,
ar appOintee of Potter, who is Jealous
Of the immense publicity racing re-
ceives as compared with his good
roads literature, and Frank p Van
lValkenburgh. who nominated Potter
at st. Louis, and who Is now leading
sthe anti-racing forces. are both Wis
cOnsin men, as we'll as unwavering
Potterites. is taken as additional evil
dence not only that Potter was behind
the st. Louis resolutions. but, as we'll
that he intends to run again for the
presidency, and with Discontinue con-
troll of the sport as his battle cry.
The worlds championship races this
year will be held in Vienna on Sept.
8, 10 and II.
America will not be officially repre-
scented in the championship races, but
George A. Banker and Charles w Mil
Ter will take care Of American inter
ests in the big events, nevertheless.
Banker wants once more to win the
worlds mile championship. while Mil
Yer's heart is set on gaining the 100
kilOmeter championship.
Both of these men, by the way have
already done some good work abroad,
and peculiarly enough each won his
first race on foreign soil Banker
victory came in a short distance race
at Berlin, in which, against a number
Of good men, he made long sprint
and won all the way Miller's win
was in the seventy-two-ho hour race at
Paris. and, in addition to winning. he
broke number Of records. The field
in this event was large and represen-
fative OF the twenty-one starters.
thirteen were French, three Italian.
two Swiss, two American and one
German.
Wheelmen are finding much cause