The San Francisco call., 1898-03-05
CYCLING RACES,
 MEETINGS AND BASEBALL.
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At the urgent request of the Garden City Wheemen, the regular monthly meeting of the board of governors of the California Associated Cycling Clubs will be held at San Jose this evening instead of in this city. The delegates will go down on the 2:30 train this afternoon, al though some will probably make the trip awheel as the roads on the Oakland side of the bay are said to be in the pink of condition.
 The purpose of the G. c. W. in re- questing the honor of entertaining the delegates is that they may be present at the festivities of the club tonight at tendant upon the formal presentation of
 the trophy and prizes won by the clubs riders in the recent twenty y-dve-mile in- ter-club roadrace.
 The Garden City's man, "Bunt' Smith,
 it will be remembered, won both time
 and place honors in this roadrace, and also the Olympic cup. Besides the entertainment tonight the club will ban
 quet the twenty odd members who par
 week. Out of a membership of only a
 hundred, the captain expects over forty
 riders in the relay try-outs next month League series will be played in San Jose tomorrow, and large delegation will
 go down from this city to witness them: Turn Verein Cyclers, and the Olympic
 Cyclers will play the Garden City Wheel
 men. The Olympic Cyelers are leaders
 in the tournament. with looe per cent ana have yet to be defeated.
 The baseball teams will take the SIS
 boat and marrow gauge !, route ten to o,s6 san an
 down this way, although number or
 them will wheel down, taking the a. 1.-I1 m | broad gauge boat, led by captain NH-
 There is some talk of matching "Bunt"
 Smith, John E. Wing and Tony Delmas for a twenty-fve-mile trackrace at Elm hurst each man to furnish his own pac- ing some time next month.
 John E. Alexander, the old-time rae ing man of San Jose, is the latest of the wheeling fraternity to get the klondlke fever, and has already left for the north
 The Bay City Wheelmen and the Re, ReI cross bats at the Velodrome tomorrow at | 12 o'clock The Acme and Encinal clubs | will play across the bay.
 I There will be a race meet at Vallejo on 1 Sunday, March 13, at which G. H. Crafts l and John E. Edwards will have return
 amateur events viii be interspersed in the | programme. think, however, the man | agement has made a mistake in not put ting on a couple of good amateur handf- caps open to all corners, as an attraction to the riders here. The people of Vallejo will not go to see the men of their own town race against each other, but they would go to see them race against the cracks of this city, San Jose and Oakland. It is also mistake, considering the cha otic condition of cycle racing on this coast at present, to attempt to give two meets on the same day within fifty miles of each other, and that is what is being done, as the same managers have a big meet scheduled for the 18th also at Elmhurst It is the intention of the Elmhurst man. agement on this day to have team race between members from the Reliance and
 Acme clubs of Oakland, in the hope of
 reviving some of the old-time rivalry,
 and, incidentally, antagonism. The Re liance Club will put in Deacon, Wyman, Gooch and Rosenheim, probably, and the
 Acme men have not yet been selected.
 The distance, will be five miles, for cup
 offered by the Haywards electric road,
 and must be won twice to secure owner ship.
 The high jinks given by the Olympic Club Wheelmen last Saturday night was one of the best of its kind ever held by
 a cycling club here. The entertainment
 and good, and the large crowd of wheel men present passed a very enjoyable
 evening. President Mullen and the com
 mittee in charge, including Master of Ceremonies Howard P Taylor Jr., are
 certainly deserving of a great deal of credit for the handsome manner in which the affair was carried out.
 T. $. Gore, prominent wheelman of Victoria, B. C., is in the city on a visit | and is stopping at the Occidental. Mr l Gore is an English gentleman and an enthusiastic rider. Intending to visit the
 southern part of the State he thought he
 would ride there from here, but does not to know of any gentleman contemplating
 that trip within week or two. While III IHlS Clly MT GOTe IS DelDP entertained by ex-President Swain and other promi- nent c. A. C. c. officials
 The absence of local cycle show or in door race meet is being sadly felt here by the riders and dealers this year For
 the previous three years the season has opened with the Washingtons birthday
 road-race on February 22, and the in
 door tournament at the Pavilion directly afterward. We have had the road-race but no tournament, and no prospects of any, and the trade is dull and the riders idle in consequence Much as the deal CTS were wont to scoff when told of the advertising benefits derived indirectly
 from show or tournament, they cannot