The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-14
Associated Cycling Club is the South
ern California district.

ern California district.
President Mckinley is expected to
watch the finish of a professional BIZ
| cycle road race which will take place
| on the evening of May "a in, Washing
| ton, during the jubilee celebration. The
race is promoted by the Jubilee com
m1ttee. According to the present plans
| the race VIII be on Pennsylvania ave-
nue. starting from the front of the
| treasury building and finishing in front
| OF the capitol. where President Nc
| Inc race Will be a handicap affair.
| AS good purses will be offered and no
entry fee is charged it is thought prob
able that Bald, Cooper, kimble, Stevens,
! k1ser, Mcfarland and the rest of the
fast men in the country will compete
IN the race. During the afternoon
| there will be a professional tournament
at the track, in which all the cracks
will enter, so that their presence in the
city at the time of the celebration is
assured.
Some queer documents get into the
hands of cycle dealers as the result of
good crops. A down east farmer wrote
to local dealer: Dear Sur, l am in
need of few extres fur that there
wheel. Yistiday she come down and
the wind all come out the hoop partly
come unglued from the wood and I
don't no ware the hole is but l want
some first-class glue or wax you no
best, my wheel is a single tube. Please
| send me list of different artickles l
have catlagone here but. would rath-
er bye of you being CHESTER to hum if
we can sa'tisfice both partys. The bull
wheel is sum bent but | guess | can
straten 1t out alrite, my geers is both
tWenty-eight inches
In a letter received from Bald at
Washington that rider writes: I am
buckling down to my training in good
style, and find that the road work
which I am doing is proving very bene-
fetal. The roads hereabouts are excel
lent. and after long plug in the morn
ing | ride in the afternoon on the fast
| board track. With me at the present
time are Oscar Babcock, the Simms
brothers and Steenson the old side
wheeler. Everything points to a most
successful season down here, and he
outlook is fully as bright as it is in
New York.
Having successfully accomplished a
| double century, Mrs Irene Brush, the
Brooklyn long-distance rider, is ambi-
'tious to wheel triple and a quadruple
century. With her husband, Charles
Brush, Long Island centurion of the c.
r. C., she has begun to prepare for the
S00-mile, which will be essayed in about
a months time. If they survive the
triple, Mr.. and Mrs. Brush will start
on the 4O0-mile run about five weeks
later
Both runs will be made over the
standard Long Island century course.
| To be accepted by tine Century Road
| Club the triple century must be ridden
in thirty-six hours. and no more than
forty-eight hours may be consumed on
| the quad.
The 'six-day race" crowd down
about New York will probably find the
| recent law designed to prevent affairs
of this kind a blessing in disguise. In
| trying to find a way to get around the
law a scheme has been evolved to give
| ''intercity team races The law pre-
scribes that no rider shall ride over
again coming on the track must rest
twelve hours. Under the new plan the
| riders will be divided in teams. Miller
and Schinneer, for instance represent
ing Chicago, Waller and Barnaby, Bos-
| ton, and SO on. Each member Of a
team could relieve, his partner at the
| expiration of each twelve hours. It
| teresting such contest as this would
| be and what 'livelier one it would be
from start to finish.
Bald the everyday champion of the
past three seasons, will, after several
years of delay, visit Europe next fall.
and try his speed with the cycling stars
of the old world
| One of the many professional riders
in filling his entry blank for the bene-
fit of Handicapped, pathetically stat
ed in the blank left for the past per-
| formances:" Il have not won enough to
! pay for drink in two years, and l am
| mighty thirsty
Toledo will endeavor to secure the
national meet of the l.. A. w. for 1902
| An exposition will be held there that
| year, and the wheelmen of the city
desire that their organization shall
have it's annual meeting during the
| progress of the show.
The League of American Wheelmen
| has sued the city of Worcester Mass,
| for 81 cents. The case was started to
test the right of assessors to make
| what is claimed were false assessments
of bicycles. 1t is said every wheel is
valued at $50 regardless of make. The
suit involving so small amount is likely
to be carried to the supreme court of
| the state.
When M. lola was compelled to leave
| Paris for foreign country on account
| of his connection with the Dreyfus
case, he was expelled from the French
| Cyclists Touring club. of which he was
an enthusiastic member. Now that
body is on the verge of disruption as
a result of the treatment give lola
Since the new light obtained on the
Dreyfus affair there has been change
of heart. and nearly half the members
wish to have Zola's expulsion recon
sidered.
A peculiar decision as to the rights
of cyclists has been made by the su.
preme court of Michigan. The court
holds that cities. towns and villages
need not keep their roads in safe con,
dition for bicycle riding. The duty OF
the municipality ceases when the roads
are safe for other vehicles. The cast
is so striking that plans are now or
foot whereby the League of American
Wheelmen will protest as a nationa
body and endeavor to secure a new
ruling.
Miss Ehrie Bloss, the young woman
who has undertaken to ride from For
| Worth, Texas. to Washington is nov