Evening star., 1898-07-29
CURRENT SPORTING NOTES
Record of the Clubs,


INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, July 29-The nine
teenth annual meet of the League of Amer
lean Wheelmen takes place in Indianapolis
the week of August to 13. inclusive. The
officers of the Meet Club have been work.
ing for months in their endeavor to arrange
an attractive program for the visitors.
They feel that they are prepared to offer a
greater variety of amusements than ever
before given at a national meet. Indian
apolis possesses many attractions for
wheelmen. Within the city are over 100
miles of broad. level and well-paved streets.
Radiating from the city in every direction
are thirty gravel turnpikes, Offering ire
sistible inducements to those who enjoy
country riding. The Broad Ripple and Mil
lersville cycle paths are possibly the grand
est wheel paths ever built.
The program for the national meet this
year occupies five full days, and those wish
ing to enjoy the full measure of the meet
should make 1t a point to reach Indian
apolis Tuesday morning, and remain over,
if possible, until Sunday night. Tuesday
will be largely devoted to getting settled,
but on that night will take place the re-
ception by Governor Mount and the ban
quet rendered the visiting newspaper nen.
Preparations for the Women.
The '9S Meet Club has made special prep
arations for the entertainment of women
during the week of the national meet In
almost every feature in the program ,ney
have been included and their comfort and
enjoyment will be one of the concerns of
the Meet Club Miss Ada Newly Is chair
man of the committee on reception and en-
tertainment of women. The Propylaeum
has been secured for woman's headuuar-
ters and they will be of just as much i'm
porta ice during the week of the meet as
any man, no matter if it be President Pot
ter himself. Hoosier hospitality is not one
sided. With a reception at the state house
a vaudeville entertainment at English :
Opera House, special program at the
German House, a run over the MilersyilIe
path, breakfast at the Country Club and
an afternoon at Broad Ripple Park, the
women will find plenty to occupy their
time, and no man will regret bringing with
him his wife, his sister or his sweetheart
Urged to Take Wheels.
Thcse who contemplate visiting Indian
apoii7 dui ng the week of the meet are
urged to bring their wheels with them.
1t will be impossible to fully appreciate
what the '9S Meet Club has done in the
way of entertainment unless the visitors
distinct feature of the Meet Club program
are the tours and runs, and those who
come to Indianapolis for that week and
do not take part in some of these runs or
make trips over the cycle paths, will re-
turn home without apprecating what has
been done for their enjoyment. The Meet
Club urges most strongly that every Wis
itor come equipped with a mount. Ample
facilities have been made for taking care
OF wheels, and they will be essential to
the pleasurers of the meet
Boston and Buffalo will invade Indian
apolis in strength during the week of the
meet The delegations from those two
cities nave engaged headquarters and come
prepared to make a hard fight for the
meet in 30. Their work in Inijanapolis
will be one of the side lights of the big
meet and they will assist Indirectly the
wkeelmen of Indianapolis in entertaining
the Whceln.en of the country. Indianapo-
lis is backing both to win and the larger
the delegations from each city the better
the members of the '9S Meet Club will feel
The Boston club has stolen a march on
their Buffalo brethren by electing the
members of the indianapolis Meet Club
honorary members of their organization.
The Races.
The national championship races this
year will occupy three days and one night
beginning on Wednesday morning. On
Friday night there will be big middle
distance race, the first of the kind ever
run at a national meet. The program is
decidedly novel. There will be multiplet
handicaps, tandem races, pursuit races.
and, in fact, all Of the novelties which
have been introduced into the racing game
this season.
Six events will be run each day, and the
program will undoubtedly attract all of
me crack racing men Of the country who
are riding in form at that time. The prize
list Is in itself an inducement sufficiently
large to draw the racing men to Indian
apols In none of the professional events
is the first money less than $50 As an
added attraction there will be on the sec
ond day the great American handicap for a
purse of $1,000, of which 500 will be dis
trlbuted in the trials of semi-finals
Preparations have been made at Indian
apois TO take care of the biggest crowd
that ever attended national meet Ad-
vices received from many of the leading
cities would indicate that the wheelmen
VIII descend on the hoosier metropolis in
droves. There is plenty of room for all,
ana the members of the Meet Club feel
that every wheelman or wheelwoman will
be repaid by ATTENDING ha ,QS ,,aaf