The evening times., 1898-08-24
CYCLING NEWS AND GOSSIP.

From present indications the middle
distance bicycle race meet tomorrow
evening at the track of The Park Bi-
cycle Club will be the best attended OF
any local meet held this season. 1t viii
be the fifteenth meet scheduled Tor the
season, and the first race will start at
$50 O'Clock sharp. The entries 10 the
race will close tonight, and already
large number of local men have en-
tered. A number of entries from Bal
timore are expected some time today.
Just how long the sport VIII last Is
hard to state. The pursuit match race
between Titus and Starbuck will per-
haps occupy more time than any other
event on the program. This race might
last for ten or fifteen minutes and then
again 1t might continue for consider
ably over half an hour. The tandem race
might last longer than expected. There
is no telling how many heats II will be
necessary to run. II Is an uncertain
race. The event might be settled in two
heats and then again 1t might require
one more heat than there will be tan
dems entered. This is allowing for the
possibility of each team winning one
heat.
track record and the Lasley trophy
ought to prove to be a good race. 1t is
not at all unlikely that A. c. Moran will
be given an opportunity of showing to
the public his speed abilities. While he
rode a good race against Harry Elkes
the local public had no opportunity to
gauge his relative speed merits. As the
time of the race was but 17:2i 3-5. the
time of the local rider. had he finished.
would have been somewhere around
$500. In the exhibition ride tomorrow
night multicycle pace will be furnished,
the triplets. tandems and one quad be-
ing brought into requisition. So far as
eandems are concerned there will be
plenty of them on hand.
The southern circuit seems to have COL
lapsed. judging by reports that have been
received. Word received from Atlanta
states that bicycle racing is a thing of
the past in the city unless a new man.
ager willing to risk his money on the
sport is found to take charge Of the
Coliseum. w. H. Pickens who leased
the Coliseum from the Atlanta Amuse-
ment Company short time ago, after
giving five race meets, all of which were
conducted at a loss. has Cancelled his
lease. With the end of the cycle racing
season in Atlanta comes the collapse of
the southern racing circuit, including the
cities of Atlanta. Birmingham Memphis.
Paducah. Owensboro and Henderson, the
last three named places being in Ken
lucky.
Al Reeves who succeeded Tom Eek in
the management of the Woodside track,
near Philadelphia, has resigned his posi-
ton. He is now in New York city. fol-
lowing the cycle racing game, at which
place he thinks he can make more money.
Edouard Taylore, the French cyclist,
appears to be riding in the hardest kind
of luck. His ability as a rider has been
demonstrafSd on several occasions,
though he has been defeated in almost
every match contest in which he has en-
tered so far this year. When defeated
by Linton at the Willow Grove track the
Frenchman kept on and made a new
worlds record of thirty-three miles, 9sG
yards for. the hour which was broken
on the night of August 13, by Harry
Elkes. On the same night that Elkes
broke his hour record 1Taylore rode a
mile in the fast time of 1:S2 3-5. the fast
est ever RIDDEN on a race track This
only serves to show that he is a speedy
cyclist. though riding in rather tough
luck.
Ky --
It was thought earlier in the season that
many OF the leading American cycle man
ufacturers would enter the racing game
this year, as they did several years ago.
but It now transpiresA that such is not
the case. One manufacturer has signed
a dozen of the best men in the country
and has a team comprising fifty stars
and pacemakers, making the largest in
dividual team ever organized in this coun-
try. Several other firms have put on the
track single rider teams. and when the
teams Of the track associations are con-
sidered this pretty nearly completes the
racing teams of the season. The leading
tire manufacturers assist some of the bi-
cycle firms but the tire maker, who has
virtually been responsible for the national
circuit for the past two years, has with
drawn entirely from the track, and this
loss Is felt. However. the track asso-
Citations have engaged nearly all Of the
good men, and they support probably
more good men than has ever before been
known on the race track.
II tire tape cannot be easily removed
from q tire use little benzine. The liquid
will not damagesthe tire. II valve stems
wark hard in being removed use the same
inhammable material. Old plugs and
patches Gan also be removed with the
same stn3. A.;.1s