New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-08
CYCLING.
PRESIDENT KEENAN, SAYS THAT THE
OUTLAW MOVEMENT AMOUNTS TO
NOTHING. AND IS NOT HEARD
OF OUTSIDE OF THIS
CITY-NOTES,

NOTHING. AND IS NOT HEARD
OF OUTSIDE OF THIS
CITY-NOTEs.
Colonel T. J. keenan,, jr, or PennsyNania, inc
president of the League OF American Wheelmen
nail a nying visit to this city on Saturday 10 at
tend 70 some private business affairs. He started
Yesterday for his nome, in Pittsburg. President
Keenan, said that League of American "neeinIs"
work was going nicely all over the couhu'' ie
expects TO take a trip abroad In about three "eehs
There are now League of American Wheelneh rep
resentatives in London. Cuba. fars anu 'ien"a
and Colonel Keenan, expects to strengthen ms rep
resentation abroad before he returns 10 this couh
try. In speaking of the outlaw movement anu 'he
efforts Of q handful OF professional promoters W
wreck the League IF American Wheelmen, tne
president Of the wheemen's association SAID IL
is n tempest in a teapot. and nothing Is hearo Oh
the movement outside Of New-York City. ADMIT
that their press work has been we'll done mere. II
is simply case OF an open revolt by ie" as
gruntled individuals with alleged grievances against
a dominant body and like all such revolts there can
he only one result complete failure. 1t Is not unlike
the old baseball brotherhood rebellion except tnat
I, "a mot nearly so formidable and that 1t has not
half the chance Of success for the simple reason
that there is no for its existence ne t &c
ball PLAYERS may hvs nsq but the riders OF the
wheel cannot have any grievances aSalIst ~, .n0
tea sw "a Protected the and saw to It
that the professional promoters were coinpeIee "
10, Tho riders fairly There have been many SIM
liar movements the sporting world IN TINS ~
ny AND yet no mar Ss1 5eGw It is one Of
things which break out in the sporting sSe nuckiy
sonay and soon wither sha qi ss a come and it is
nrobable that It could not come at peter ''ii'e
than the present
savs 1.-THE Cycling Gazette: Tho National Cy-
cling Association disputes the authority OF the
League of American Wheelmen. and INTENDS run
ming that organization into oblivion 10 say not d
word Of the other praiseworthy aims tha' II mas
IN view. The pubic is possessed OF consuming
curiosity 10 know to whom 1t is indebted lot
body OF so mertorious a purpose ana yet '"o
rghtf,,l privilege OF paying homage to men among
nsr "a stuhbornly denied the mob, for roster OF
the body has never been published, NOTWITHSTANDING
ing that requests nnumerable have peeh Haue
for that very same
the component parts Of the National Cycilns AS
soc,ation ara deserving Of all credit. Publicity ana
nron,inence should be theirs and choral odes Oh
10Y sung in their praises. Names such as '"ei'S
should he enrolled on the escutcheon OF idhe' ioi
they are not ordinary men-far from IT, Inc pages
~ history will be dry and coloress with them un-
mentioned and renown will be hollow mockery
indeed IL these Napoeons Of sport are denled ther
honors justly Think OF the injustdcee, Ma d
,he T'1 TIE League OF American Wheelmen, sixty
thousand strong is to be conque[eq III modesv
OF re 10 fade away their iabors being done tenn
pora! o moresl 1t must not be-!
tn. schedule OF runs OF the Vigant Cycle Club
for NAV IS as follows: May Il. evening rum Ever
green Brewery p. m. May IA, random runs 10
a. m p. and m; May H. century run sva aDr
ing Ven % anS May y g. Memorial Day run
will re posted in clubhouse one week aheao'
A nbvs,c,on who was asked why he recommended
cvcline TO a patient said: THE benefit Of physical
culture which delays the decline OF bodily ana
mental vigor. The debility and ill-health which
beset young men and women Of the day is generally
due to a stagnation OF energy INDUCED by desire
IN take things easily. and cycling has been found
10 alter this state Of things in comparatively
short time"
About fifty riders started out with the Century
Road Club yesterday their regular weekly CEN
around Long Island all S e. fheP e.aS
Mrs yam ces 70 9Ss 6g me ThG sa wh f fSe
party and seemed to be as fresh as ever
On the Merrick Road yesterday two small boys.
not more than eight and ten years DID, were
seen riding a tandem. They were Gus and
Alfred Konrad and the tandem geared at 70.
left the clubhouse OF the Daisy. Wheelmen. in
% n Their D s to aRd aa T
reached Rockaway in good shape. but on their
they were coming back at. good gait they were
run into by another bicycle rider. who rode over
tandem Again when they reached JAMAICA 9,S a the
Guilty that they reached home.
The club runs OF the Century Wheemen for the
rest Of the month will be follows: May A.
ladies' run, Fort Hamilton, 915 a. m; May II,
dom evening run, p. m; May q. Sea Cliff. Long
Island. s a. m. and Queens. Long Island. p. m:
Nav
a m; May 90 Philadelphia, start evening OF 10Th,
Coney Island, els a. m; May 81. random evening
run, p m.
Governor Tanner has signed the side path bill
passed recently by the Illinois Legislature at the
instance of George D. Locke, chief consul OF the
Illinois Division League OF American Wheelmen.
Wheelock and Fulford. the English riders who
were outlawed in this country have returned home.
They have paid their fines to Secretary Sturmey as
the Lea que Of American Wheelmen representative
and have been allowed to race on the other side OF
the Atlantic.
Captain Ames. the tallest man in the British
Army and forty of his brother officers in the Life
Guards have ordered bicycles from a Woverhamp-
ton firm.
Bremen magistrates wish to tax cyclists assert
ing that they are worse nuisances than dogs.
We hear that the Marquis OF Lorne has taken
out patent for a brake TO be applied TO the back
BILLIARDS.
PREPARATION FOR THE BIG PROFESSIONAL
MATCH.
Both slosson and schaefer begin their final
week of preparation to-day for the big professional
billiard match next Monday night. The Student
will practise every night this week at slosson's