Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-28

a cordial invitation to the -
to join us at our picnic to be
given June II at Sarpy Mills. We
have made most extensive preparations for
entertaining a large crowd and everything
will be done for the comfort of our guests
Music, dancing, boating, racing, a ball game
and all kinds of athletic sports and pastimes
will be INDUCED in. Ladies and unattached
wheelmen will be especially welcome, and
If you decide to accept you will greatly
obige our entertainment committee by ad-
visng us before June about what number
of riders you will bring, and we also would
suggest you call club run for that day with
the object in view of reaching picnic grounds
about IL a. m. Hoping to have you with us,
we are, yours fraternally,
OMAHA WHEEL CLUB.
| II. S. NUMBERING, Captain.
The above letter has been mailed to all
the prominent wheel clubs in this vicinity
and 1t is hoped that all of them will accept.
| All unattached wheeimen and cyclists look
ing for pleasant day should not miss this
opportunity, as they will be made welcome
| in the well known Omaha Wheel club man
ner. The arrangements are progressing rap
| idly and everything seems to be working
| beautifully. good time and rare lot of
| fun are assured and all that is needed is a
fine day. Several matches are in the air
as the following indicates:
| Challenge to Otto Mielke and Tom e.
| Nickel: hereby challenge you to shoot
/ ing match for the championship of the
Little Triangle" club of fast summers
| fame, the match to take place at the Omaha
Wheel club picnic. / understand that you
two gentlemen are not satisfied with the
elegant lessons / gave you last year and
would like to go against me again. l be-
lieve that can come nearer ringing the bell
with my eyes shut than you can with your
lamps burning 100-candle power. / leave,
all the terms and stipulations to you and
hereby post 20 cents with the sporting editor
of The Bee as a forfeit and to bind the
match. Yours truly,
H. S. NUMBERING.
Everything seems to point to lively
scorch this morning. Captain Numbering
has called this for the special benefit of the
fast riders in the club and will be disap-
pointed If they do not turn out. 1t is
understood of course that there will be no
scorching inside the city limits, but it will
be otherwise in the country. In the after
noon a nice, pleasant ride will be taken to
Bellevue and Fort Crook and an easy pace
maintained.
Otto tried to throw one of his friends a
few nights ago by the novel method of
running into his rear wheel with his own
front one. When Otto had picked himself
up he Immediately squared himself with
the crowd and they brushed his clothes off
for him.
The rainy weather has knocked club runs
into cooked hat the last month and all the
attention of the boys has been given to ar
ranging to make a huge success of their
picnic, which it undoubtedly will be.
One of the most prominent racing men of
this country and an esteemed member of
the Omaha Wheel club went and done 1t"
Wednesday. In the evening the club had
very nice little smoker on MR.. Merstein
Il; +; e. ,;.l
fervor Many expressions of good will and
hopes for his future success in life were
spoken. George has the best wishes of all
his clubmates and they all joined in his
favorite yell. will we work for so cents
a day?" before the evening was over.
When the war fever grabbed the country
by the back hair. year ago, considerable
loud talk was heard about the bicycle as
a vehicle of patriotism and liberty. Figures
and pictures and a deluge of words were
turned loose to show its value as an ac-
cessory of modern war; particular en-
phasis being given to the fact of it's en-
ployment in the French and German armies.
Didn't Lieutenant Moss and a company of
regulars ride and push from Mssoula,
Mont, to st. Louis? Why not equip
similarly the advance guard of the Cuban
invading army and quickly rescue the op-
pressed from hated tyranny? Easy as roll
ing off log" declared the hct boys. Suit
ing action to words, some one started the
story that 10, 900 bicyclers offered their serv-
ices for the holy cause. Nothing came OF
the patriotic tender. The war went on.
and, strange to say, was fought to a finish
without the aid and comfort of the silent
wheel
But the army has not wholly ignored the
tNOc ril, nF t1,1 ,,,hn
usefulness. Peace brings the triumph which |
war refused. The laurel wreaths of vic
tory deck the handlebars, lovingly placed
there by the Salvation army. Members of
the fighting corps in New York City have
decided to mount the wheel and chase Old |
Harry to his lair. The event has inspired a |
poet to immortalize the evolution in these |
picturesque verses:
If sweet Salvation sister
Ove-tak5s you on a wheel,
Pray don't think her smiles of greeting |
4 desire to tiirt reveal:
Don't imagine if she cycles
On beside YOU, O vain man,
'Tis that pretty lassie's purpose
II vour heart flame to fan!
If her voice seems to caress you
:. And tears glisten in her eyes,
Pray don't Jump to rash conclusions!
Don't be silly and surmise
She he In love with you Don't fancy,
Iho IN you she reached her goal,
Twas your heart that she was after
She was scorchng for your SOU!
c. w. Mears, editor of the Cycling Ga
zette OF Cleveland and until recently one
of the pillars of the League Of American
Wheelmen, has become decidedly cold
toward his former associates. Mr.. Mears
thought he was the right man for chairman
of the league racing board. But the ruling
powers thought otherwise and dumped his
hopes outside the breastworks, To what ex
tent the fall cooled his ardor is not for the
laity to say. That he is very frosty is evil
dent from this extract from late number
of the Gazette:
Every indication points to the early loss
by the League of American Wheelmen OF
its control over the sport of cycle racing
and nothing short of a miracle can prevent