The record-union., 1899-05-08

bows, the whips, and even the harness.
Last evening at 6 o'clock the Capital
City Wheelmen learning that the train
that was to bring back their team was
two hours late seized the opportunity
to get up small demonstration They
hurried about and rallied $50 mem
bers, got the Capital City Drum Corps
out in uniform, dressed a procession IN
due order under marshalship of +. M.
Woodson of the House Committee, and
bearing a score of red patrol flags with
the Stars and Stripes in advance porne
by the clubs pride and mascot Master
Willie Mcdonald, the march was taken
lup for the depot where the returning
team was received with great cheering
and enthusiasm and some burning OF
fireworks.
The procession was then reformed,
and with Messrs. Saalbach and Conn,
officers Of the Terminal City Wheelmen,
as guests, marched back to the clup-
room in orderly and decorous manner,
though the temptation to cheer was
very strong, but the order was no
cheering land it was violated but once)
until we get home In front OF the
clubrooms full a thousand people hao
| assembled, and then the cheers broke
loose and everyone having anything to
do with the race, from Captain clay,
who managed it so handsomely, to each
of the riders, and especially Hirsch,
whose sprint shved the trophy to sac
ramento, was cheered Justify.
Inside the rooms the battle was
! fought over again for hours. AS the
procession passed the Record Union
Office compliment was paid to the pa
per in the only cheering had while on
the march At the clubrooms Manager
Ficks appeared and invited any Term
inal City Wheelmen staying over in the
city to attend the theater, and Messrs.
Saalbach and Cohn, who alone re-
MANNED, accepted, and had as escort
group of C. c. w. men, and were given
a box by the obliging manager.
The Captain of the c. c.. w and men
and officers of the last relay come back
with some hard stories about treatment
at the Stockton end. They say that on
Park street big tacks were literally
distributed, and of these they picked
up and brought home as trophies ~.
They say that the Stockton riders
seemed to know where the tacks were,
though one of them they believe got
one.
They claim that our riders for the
Terminals rode in close to their man
Barnes and crowded out the Sacrament
to men and cut across the course re-
peatedly, and actually ran Hirsch into
the gutter on Park street. They charge
that Barnes twice fouled Hirsch by
back pedaling, causing him to be cast
from his wheel They charge also that
teams, racehorses, carts, buggies and
outrider wheelmen interfered and did
their best to obstruct the G.. c. w. rider
and trailer on the finish. In short, they
feel badly about the way they were
treated in Stockton. But the race is
over, the trophy contest is at an end,
and the matter will probably drop with
the cooling of blood
The names of the team which saved
the day and the trophy for Sacramento,
and which is probably as fine and fast
a relay group as there is on the coast
are: Riders Jake Hirsch, H. Noyes, GIL
Eldred, E. Egeberg, B. J. Milne, A D.
Patterson and Eeith Turner. Trailers
and they all kept up with their men
! p. c.. Wilson, Louis Payen, Thomas
WEIGH, Robert Hery, Charles Davis, c.
F. Smith and Robert WEIGH.