The age-herald., 1899-10-12
BIRMINGHAM IN
 THE BIG CIRCUIT Team of Crack Riders Will Arr rive Sunday, MEET COMMENCES OCT. 17 A Dozen Professionals Will Ride on Col iseum Track, Paced by Motor Tan
 dems Richardson, the Trick
 Rider Will Be Here.
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On next Tuesday and Wednesday night, October F and IS, by far the best racing ever seen in the south will be witnessed at the West End coliseum track.
 w. H. Pickens arrived yesterday from Chicago with contracts calling for the ap- pearance of all the big professionals cracks following the Grand circuit of the N. c. A. This is news that will be eagerly received by the cycling fraternity, for never has Birmingham had real professional racing.
 A Chicago special in The ASe-Herald Sunday told that the National Cycling as- sociation had won the West End coliseum track from the L. A. w, and the suspense of the local racing men had gwen away to feeling of satisfaction as the promise of the N. c. A. has been liberel. sa
 Immediately after the Peabody-H Hickman meet Billy Pickens, the promoter of that highly successful event. secured an option on the local track and went east to see what could be done towards having Bir- mingham included in the grand circuit. Upon the result of his talk with the N. c. A. officials depended much for local en- thusiasts, as nearly all the big professional and amateurs were members of the new governing body. Chairman Batchelders' answer was if Peabody turned N. c. A. he would send the circuit south.
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 Peabody has been the backbone of L. A. W. racing in Chicago, but after confer ence with Manager Pickens he resigned from the league and rode in the big Tatter- sails meet last week under the sanction of the victorious N. c. A. Thus comes the downfall of the L. A. w. in Birmingham. Ped Hickman, Joe Riddle and the rest of the local men have decided to join the na-, tional association, and after this week will. be full-fledged outlaws"
 Team Arrives Sunday The big team of circuit chasers vii ar-. rive on Sunday afternoon in charge of Ed Spooner, secretary of the N. c. A., and the best known man in racing circles.
 In the party will be Charlie Miller, the, great six-day champion; Jay Eaton, thei Indoor King; Burns Pierce, the 24-hour. champion; Frank Waller the German A hour champion; Joe Judge, the Frenchman, and twelve others of national reputation. John Nelson, of Chicago, the 10O-kilometer. (63 miles) amateur champion of the world, will ride Hickman a five-mie paced race, and will give Riddle chance at ten miles.
 Will Bring Motor TanoeIns A s.
 The men will have with them six of the famous motor tandems, which will be used for pacing the middle distance races. These machines are capable of going forty-five and fifty miles in the hour
 At last Birmingham is to see the same great racing that has been the rage in the north and east and has drawn ten thousand people to all the big races. The motor tan dems are the most wonderful machines of the automobile type, and the public will eagerly await the sensational middle dis tance events.
 Lee Richardson, the great fancy rider, will arrive in the city this morning on the Louisville & Nashville, and will appear in his interesting exhibitions both nights The motor machines will be placed in the win dows of several prominent stores so that the public may have glimpse of their con- Struction. szsi