The age-herald., 1899-10-13
LOCAL CYCLISTS
 s. GETTING READY
Richardson, the Famous Trick
 Rider, Arrived Yesterday.
MOTOR TAN0EMS WILL PACE
The Crack Professionals Will be Here Sunday to Begin Preparations for the Big Meet Next Week
 Records of the Men

The coming of the crack riders of the Grand circuit was the principal theme of discussion among local cyclists yesterday. All the riders are getting in condition for the meet to be held October 17-1S..
 Lee Richardson, the premier fancy rider. arrived yesterday morning, and will rest up a few days before the big meet, in which he gives his wonderful exhibitions each night. Richardson scored pronounced hit here last spring. and is a great Birming- ham favorite.
 Great interest is centered in the motor cycles, which will pace the middle distance events and enable the men to ride at a speed never witnessed here.
 The motors are queerly arranged ma chimes, being propelled by electricity, gas ollne and human power. The men who ride the pacing machines throw caution to the winds and ride in less than 1:30 for the mile, or forty-fve miles an hour.
 The Princi al Riders
 Jay Eaton, the Indoor King will be great favorite in the sprint and handicap
 races, while John Nelson, the middle dis
 tance champion, will be matched against
 Riddle and Hickman in motor-paced races.
 MdndSeF 1lCkeHS says anu Diu-
 de will have ample opportunity to train be-
 hind t.le motors and he will aid them in every way to defeat the great Chicago
 rider, Nelson. Peabody told Nelson before leaving Chicago that he would have to lookout for Hickman.
 Charles W. Miller, who will take part in the great middle distance race, is the grand est of all long distance riders. Starting back in '96 in the Chicago six-day race and closing win the 1O0-hour race In Paris last May, Miller has scored successfully in ev- cry race but the first, in which he aided Fred Schneer, his team mate, to win. He has won no less than seven six-day con- tests, breaking records in each of them. He has won two 1O0-hour races and now at the height of his career is considered one | of the greatest middle distance riders of the | age Harry Bikes was once a six-day rider, | so was Major Taylor, both being pulled out,'' in the vernacular of the track, by that character of work.
 A Great Rider Burns w. Pierce, who will oppose Miller throughout the present series of seven races of which this contest is one, is the greatest twenty-four hour and one hum | dred mile rider ever produced in America. Pierce has ridden 4S0 miles on wheel without a dismount. He won the New I York twenty-four hour contest last season, 1 and also the Waltham twenty-four hour | race.
 In the aggregation is Frank Waller, the | German champion, who is mounted with | Stafford on an American motor. A. B. | Stone, winner of the first one-hour paced race ever held in America; Joe Judge, of | France and other prominent men. | There is much to be won and all to be | lost by either rider in these contests, as | the winning of the series gives prestige | for Madison Square Garden, where both | are anxious to meet Jimmy Michael, the l former king, in December.
 Reserved seats will be on sale tomorrow at the Arms company.