The San Francisco call., 1898-03-26
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 The Turn verein Cyclers of San Jose will hold 2 five-mile handicap road race over the Milpitas staightaway course to-mor- | row morning at 10 o'clock. An attempt | will be made to lower the record or iZ'o4' held by J. E. Wing, made by nm III iaos d | road race given by this club Aprll H. io9a' I The following are the entries ana naliul- | caps for to-morrow's event: r. Ii"Sen' | 2 minutes; L. Haehnlen, P. Thfel, E. COT | fin, minute 30 seconds; F. Graul, J. Es- traboo, w. Higgins, l minute 10 seconos; | L. Parsons w. Raymond, D. . Brlen' minute; J. Mitchell, 50 seconds; l.. LOW land, 45 seconds; N. Williston, 40 seconds; W. Sharp, 20 seconds: H. Schnttspan' scratch The handicapping was done py | c. J. Belloli.
 Zerah Y. Howard and Robert A. Relo' of the Bay City Wheelmen, completed trip last Saturday and Sunday of which they may we'll be proud. Leaving nero Saturday afternoon they rode to Pesca- dero, via San Mateo and Spanishtown' 10 | view the wreck of the ship New York; They returned the following day, ar- | irving back here in time to occupy front | seats on the rooters bench at the Bay | City-Acme baseball game early in the | afternoon. The distance travelled and the l roads and hills encountered character1ze | time in which they made 1t under these conditions was remarkably fast. | The nV6-1nlle match road race on AprlI 3 between l.. R. Cofer, B. J. Bangs, c. ". | SchilIing, Walter Macdonald, Arthur F. Lundberg and R. P. Phillips is attracting l a good deal of attention in the Bay City | Club of which the men are members It will be a scratch race, and Bangs Is tha favorfte in one or two infinitesimal wag- | CTS that have been made on the result. Either Cofer, Lundberg or Macdonald will probably show him their rear wheels at the finish, however
 Arrangements have been made match I ing Bob" Terrill, the crack professional, and "Plugger Bilf' Martin, who has just Australia, for a five-mile pursuit race at the Elmhurst track on Saturday after noon. April g. under a double sanction C., the former controlling the men and | the latter the track. An amateur tandem | handicap at two miles will also be on the cards for the same day.
 Martin has also been matched to ride against Floyd A. Mcfarland, the San Jose professional. in that city on April s, under men. There is also some talk of four cornered unpaced match between Martin, | Mcfarland, Terrill and Otto Zeigler Jr. | This would be one of the best events in cycling racing ever held on< the coast, and should draw big gate. | R. Gallegos, prominent wheelman of | Mission San Jose, was '~ town during the week, visiting the Montalegre brothers. Wheel Life is the name of new cy- cling publication just to hand from Chi l G. Sinsabaugh well-known writers on wheeling topics.
 Captain Wilson is arranging a big run | of the Imperial Cycling Club to Warm 1 Springs for April 3, the feature of. which will be barbecue at destination. The Olympic Club Wheelmen'S regular meeting will be held next Tuesday even- | ing. Tonight there will be a home trainer race, held in the bowling-alley at the club. Three handsome prizes will be awarded to the, three members covering the greatest distance in ten minutes, from a flying start. The entries are as follows: Fuller, D. F. Russ, H. D. Bean, J. w. | Kingsley, J. H. Nash E. J. Stanley, L. H. Stone and L. H. Smith.
 Percy Dell of the Olympic Club Wheel men, left for Los Angeles Thursday on his wheel.
 The Smith-W Wing match at Elmhurst on April is attracting a good deal of interest around the clubs, particularly at San Jose and in the Olympic Club here, where the men belong respectively. Since | Wing disposed of Wyman so easily last | Sunday the betting has slightly favored l his side. but Smith will undoubtedly have 1 the best pacing.
 left on the steamer China Wednesday, and just before his departure was in re- | ceipt of a touching evidence of his pop ularity among his fellows at the club in the shape of a handsomely engrossed set of resolutions, signed by the members. The Bay City Wheelmen will hold 1 ten-nile road-race on April 10, as a try out for the relay race in May. There will be a club run tomorrow via 10 a. ,m | dl, date the club will hold a coasting race on Balboa boulevard, to which all members are eligible without read trang to anfer Tom Doane and his ordinary being barred. however. The clubs annual run to Blythedale will be held probably about April 24
 A Southern California paper says that | Shoemaker of Riverside. Tabor of Cor l ona and Cromwell and Furman of Los Angeles have been booked to ride in the annual relay race May s. Furman will he turns professional before that time under the pursuasions of the manager of Elmhurst track.
 The Honda Club of 232 Capp street will hold one-mile scratch race over the San Mateo course on April 3. The entries are Gus Bergman: O. C. Welk 1ydaIa Emil GGIngg. Duplissea, August Nickel, James Sander son, Arthur Wenle and Will Sperling:. The and Sperling.. Duplissea is the famous oarsman of the South End Club, and is said to be crackajack on the wheel as l well.
 The games of the Cycle Baseball League tomorrow are as follows: Turn Verein | Cyclers vs; Garden City Wheelmen, at clers, al Velodrome; San Francisco Road Club vs. Bay City Wheelmen, at Elm l hurst.
 The Acme and Reliance Club teams have shown the white feather and for feited thear last two games rather than play, because they were so low down in the schedule. The courage of the Encin- als is worth noticing for with not a vic- tory yet to their credit. they appear every l time they are called upon, and put up a | strong game.
 The second of the series of three team | races between the Acme and Reliance clubs will be held tomorrow at Elmhurst- The makeup will be as follows: Reli- ance-Gooch, Deacon, Wyman and Rosen- helm. Acme-Schleuter, Lefevre, Smith and Burke.
 H. W. SPALDING.
 Clausen Must Suffer. l The Sunreme Court yesterday decided