The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-10
BIKERS INACTIVE,
The Bad Roads Kept
Them at Home
Yesterday.
VERNONS PROUD OF THEIR MEN.
Moran and Ingraham
Among the Best in
the State.

owing to the threatening weather of
yesterday forenoon all the scheduled
runs of the different cycle clubs of the
city were postponed. When the showers
OF the forenoon had passed away, and
the bicycle riders found that the
weather man was fooling them, they
enjoyed the cool bracing air with the
best riding of the year.
The rain of the morning made the
roads well nigh impossible, but before
the afternoon Old Sol had dried them
up IN good shape for riding, and the
riders who ventured out returned
with the announcement of better
riding than they have enjoyed
TINS year. A slight shower
IN the afternoon had the tendency to
orlve all but the most venturesome
WITHIN doors until the sky had bright
eened up again. The air was cool and
bracing and had an invitation in it for
the riders to make centuries and to
seorch to their hearts content.
Inc Nernons held no regular run. A
Few of the boys under command of
Capt. Frank S. Russell rode around the
Baskerville triangle. They were paced
Dy the triplet, manned by Capt. VIM
a. Dean, Lieut.. Frank ]. Benoit and
VI y. CIbSS. w 6lSn anu couture,
with Kane and Kenneiry mounted on
tandens, helped in the pace. The others
In tPe party were Willard Jones, Frank
+: Dean, Charles ]. Dolan and John
Nahan.
The boys are watching the work of
their racing team with a good deal of
interest and find that the men who
made the Vernon team this year are
winning laurels in the racing world.
Everett E. Ryan, who rode in the team,
VIII ride at Woodside park in Phila-
delphia, July Is and July 30 He will
meet Charles t. Earl of the Kings
County Wheelmen of Brooklyn, N. Y,
on the track ct Manhattan Beach. Ryan
has already defeated Earl at the Walt
ham 15-nile road race.
James T. Moran, who won first place
in the ten-mile road race for the Yer
mons, has been given the honor of rep
resenting Massachusetts, in the inter
national mile amateur championship at
Montreal next month, by winning the
division championship last week Mo-
ran, who has been in the game but a
short time, scarcely a year, is prob
ably the fastest amateur that this state
has ever produced. He is riding in
fine shape, and will make the speedy
ones hustle to win the mile at Montreal
Moran is tied with another Vernon
man for first place in the contest for a
place on the interdivisional team Both
are following the interdivisional circuit
Faithfully, in the hope of getting a
place on the interdivisional team which
is to go to Paris next year to represent
the L. A. W. Both men are showing
up IN rare form, and unless something
unforeseen happens, the race for the
winning place on the team win be a
pretty one. The next race will be
ridden at the Littletown track, Satur-
day.
A small party of the Newport Bicycle
Club went to the Sterling camr
grounds yesterday to visit two mem
bers, Arthur Inman and Thomas Lock-
wood, who are at the camp They re-
turned at O'Clock and reported the
roads in extra fine condition.
j. The Vikings, to the number of a hall
dozen, went to Holden. The party in
cluded Carl Lindgren, Charles Ander-
son, Otto Fagerstrom, Charles Nobeck
John Svenson and Arvid Svensen.
The Douglass Cycle Club did not hold
a run yesterday, and the members were
satisfied with riding about the city. AL
Dert Hazard, who showed up well al
the Westboro meet of the Associated
cycle clubs, the Fourth, has been en-
tered in the ten~mile road race, handi-
cap, at Springfield, a week from Wed
nesday. Frank Harris is to be en-
tered in the races at South Acton, Sat
urday, the 18th.
+ The Century Cycle club boys gave
up the afternoon to riding about the
city and dreaming of the prizes that
their team may bring home from the
lO-mile handicap road race at Spring
Held a week from Wednesday. The
cub has entered the following: Carni.
Hinchley, Smalley, Hepworth and
Drury, and with that representation
the boys should not return empty
handed.
Inc Worcester Cycle club rode about
the city all the afternoon and in the
evening small party went to Lake
Quinsigamond, where they enioyed
themselves at Lincoln park.
The krafve Cycle club hung about
their quarters yesterday and discussed
the project of changing the name of the
club. 1t has been settled that after
Aug. / the club will again bear the
name of the Comets.
The Stearns Cycle club members did
not venture forth on any protracted
run, put remained about the club quar-
'ters all day The house committee is
considering the advisability of improv-
ing the quarters still more, and before
~ nnlsheS the club will have rooms
that win be the peer of any in this
city. 'i'''
William A. Howes, an unattached
rider met with painful accident yes-
1eraay afternoon when riding in the vi
cinlty OF Britain square. He rode into
a sandy stretch, and in trying to make
a sharp turn wrenched the front wheel
SO that the rim was broken in two
The rider was thrown and received q
bad cut on the hand.