Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-02-27
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The '3S Meet at NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. News
for Wheelmen.

Ine 80 Meet at Indiana poiis-Other News
for Wheelmen.
The '9S Meet Club of Indianapolis
has under Consideration the following
plans for the entertainment of visitors
next summer:
The entertainment of the wheel visi-
tors next August will deyolve ON the
members of the Indianapolis L. A. w.
Bicycle Club, an organization of $50
members. Many plans have been sub
mitted to Chairman Harry for con-
sideration and from those now in hand
a most delightful weeks programme
can be arranged. There will be of
course the usual number of tours and
runs. These, however, will be over
unusually good roads. In addition to
the regular tours and runs committee
there is one on the condition of the
roads and the members of that COM
mittee are already at work.
An all night smoker will be another
feature of the weeks programme, and
one OF the attractions in this event
will be Kid Mccoy, the famous mid
dleweight pugilist, who is an Indiana
polls boy and member of the L. A.
w.
Another feature under consideration
and one which will probably be adopt
ed is an Old-fashioned southern barbe-
cue, which will be given one night of
the week in delightful grove along
the route of the cycle path along the
banks of White river. Here whole
oxen, sheep and pigs will be roasted
in deep trenches over glowing beds Of
Goals and served in sections, smoking
hot, to the visitors
A night in Bohemia has been pro-
posed. 1t will be night of revelry,
during which the guardians of the
peace usually vigilant when wheel
men are about, will be permitted to
sleep on II cir beats and encouraged
in SO doing
Then TO offset a night of disquiet
and unrest there will be a formal re-
ception one night during the week to
enable the citizens Of Indianapolis to
meet their guests.
There will also be a reception for
the women who attend the meet and
the wheelmen who contemplate visit
ing Indianapolis next August are urged
to bring their wives, their sweethearts,
or their sisters with them. The invi-
tation to attend the SO meet is extend
ed to the women riders of the country
with equal cordiality, and committees
for their reception and entertainment
have been appointed.
A monster parade will probably be
one of the features of the weeks en-
tertainment. The broad level streets
of Indianapolis are admirably adapted
for parade purposes and this will be
one means of gathering the visitors
and their entertainers together.
Another plan under consideration is
a trip through the famous Indiana ma
tural gas belt. A flying visit by rail
to the towns and cities of the State
whose manufactures are known the
world over and whose sudden growth
is due to the discovery Of natures I'M
der ground storehouse of fuel.
1t would be incomplete in setting
forth the plans for the meet without
mentioning the movement now started
to hold d series of road record trials
over the famous Charlottesville course,
on which so many unbroken ordinary
records have been made. This will be
the week following the meet. While
the l.. A. w. does not recognize road
racing, the introduction and increas-
ing popularity of middle distance rae
ing has given an added interest to
road events. The citizens of Craw-
louisville, delightful little city fifty
miles from indianapolis, propose to
put the fifty mile road race course be-
tween that city and Lafayette in per-
feet condition and offer prizes for all
road records. An invitation will be ex-
tended TO the racing men attending the
9S meet to compete in those trials,
and it is not improbable that now, as
the Century Road Club has recognized
professional riders, that many of them
will take advantage of the opportunity
and make try for the road records.
This will enable many of the visitors
at the '9S meet to witness these trials.
About every other man and woman
on Market street yesterday. was eX-
claiming Gee whiz," or Great Scott
And all because Of an Adonis, weighing
800 pounds, was gracefully disporting
himself on a Cleveland wheel