The sun., 1898-12-07
CYCLING.

Ii the present good weather continue!
the roads will soon be rideable.
When riding in cold weather paper is
a good thing to use under your sweater
Jack Daily pronounced the bicycle ar
excellent training article.
Bill Cooley has given up speed rid
ing.
Jim Colbett is thinking of racing
Jimmy Michaels. That is in talking.
Bicycle riding on the leo promises to
be the thing this winter. r.
How do you like being professional,
Luther?
Carroll Jacks, although starting his
racing career here, don't like the Will
mington riders. Why?
Tol Bradford has quite lot of orders
to fill and mostly Bradfords at that.
Nick Green has had an offer to 90 on
the road with a theatrical troupe.
Fred Snyder will show lot of them
his rear wheel next season.
The most popular form of mechanical
pacing in the future, says an English cy.
clist, will in all probability be the petrol
eum.driven motors, as petroleum can be
purchased at almost any place, while the
electric machines can only be charged in
important towns and cities. It is said
that two reservoirs, one tandem, are cap
abe of pacing for six hours at a speed of
thirty miles an hour.
The racing man is slowly, but surely,
losing his value as the means of an adj
vertisement, and now that the decrease
in the price of cycles is upon US, every
item will have to be cnt very close. The
experience of many who have kept rae
ing teams is that the expense is greater
than benefits derived or the return
made. .-Cyclist. England
The Treasury Department at Washing
ton has issued circular permitting the
entry. free of duty, of bicycles belonging
to members of the Cyclists Touring Club,
OF England, upon presentation OF mem
bership ticket in that organization. The
privilege is intended solely for tourists,
and the wheels must be again exported
within four months after entry.
A question that attracts much atten-
ton among New York racing men is that
concerning the preparations to be made
in regard to tracks for next year. Man.
haitian Beach track and Berkeley Oval
are both under the suspension law, and
no races authorized by the L. A. W.
can be held on them. These are the only
tracks in the neighborhood of New York
,ity.
Headwork is an essential element in
successful bicycle racing, but there is
Inference between headwork and |
jockeying" The disgraceful exhibi-
ion given by Bald and Cooper in their
match race at Indianapolis on Friday
light is an exemplification OF this fact,
md it was not the only big race this sea
on in which the ''jockeying" tactics of
he riders filled the spectators with dis
ust.
Middle distance match racing appears
o be the only style of racing that the
eneral public cares to patronize. As a
ule in such events, the spectators have
Witnessed the fastest possible riding on
be part of both pacemakers and con-
estants IRON start to finish of the race.
tut few more farces, however,, such as
ne recent McDuffee- Michael fiasco, will
squash the only end of the
anne which lets the promoters out even.
The old-fashioned, conservative China 1
ian may cry ''foreign devil" but the :
ew generation of Chinese are becoming
rogressive and want to learn about 4
odern inventions and scientific dis !
,yeries. At the Chinese city of Weisehn
Chinaman is making bicycles, and, it =
said, turns out very fair wheel, al
ough unable to master the mystery of I
,eumatic tires, his tires being made of G
pc covered with hide and colored to I
e proper hue. i