The Jersey City news., 1899-09-16

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| Manager Fred voight win go South with
| a view Of establishing circuit In the
| following Southern cities Atlanta, Chat
| tanooga, Jacksonville, Mobile and Char
qeston The tracks at Atlanta and jack
| sonyiIle have already been secured by
| option If the scheme is considered a
moneymaker, Voight win carry with him
all of the professional riders and some of
| the amateurs who have tended to make
his race meets successful.
]. Lehman, of the Jackson Wheelmen,
| has returned from a two weeks wheeling
tourney through the Oranges
The Lyceum Wheelmen will go to Ber-
gen Point tomorrow on the regular run.
The annual fail pinochle tournament OF
the Defender Cyclers is being arranged
for by a competent committee, OF which
Ray Blanc is chairman.
The indoor season of the Mantle Wheel
men will be opened on September 20, when
the pinochle tournament will start. Inc
entry list is already quite lengthy and the
event is expected to be unusually success
full The special committee in charge OF
the tourney is composed of William
Rugge. chairman, Andrew Wright, Otto
Gross, Donald Mclean and John Lynch.
Valuable prizes have ben secured for the
winners.
The Mantle Wheelmen will hold a reg
ular meeting Monday night, at the club
house. Much business OF Importance will
be transacted. and a special request has
been made that all the members be pres
ent.
Under the agreement between the Lea
que of American Wheelrnen and the Cy-
clists' Touring Club of England, which
has been the cause of so much satisfac-
ton among wheelmen. members of the L.
A. w. who make tours of Europe, will
be furnished with membership cads IN
the C. T. c., and this will enable them
to secure all the privileges of a resident
c. T. G. member. Among the advantages
that will be derived from this arrange
ment will be the use of c. T. c. road
books (which cover the greater portion of
Europe and the text of which is printed
in English, the only set of cyclists road
books published in Europe that are SO
written.
The Three Link Wheelmen viii go to
Coney Island tomorrow on the regular
weekly club run. Some special arrange
ments have been made by the committee
III CHdESS Ol IOdu anu II - -
pected that the extra inducements viii
prove sufficiently attractive to draw out
a large number of riders.
The committee in charge of the games
has been called upon to hold a meeting
next week in order that the necessary ar
rangements may be made for the annual
pinochle tournament which will open on
October 1.
The Acme Wheelmen have at last got
their new home at the corner of Fourth
street and Newark avenue, in a settled
condition, and are greatly pleased with
the change from the old quarters on
Fourth street, near Cole street. which
were much too small for the comfortable
accommodation of the large membership
Plans for the indoor season will be COM
pleted at the regular meeting. which is
scheduled for Wednesday night
a good card is .offered for tomorrow at
the Guttenburg race track by the Gut
tenburg Racing Association.
The events include one-nile novice
one mile handicap and a three-miie
handicap. Good prizes will be offered for
each.
The opening of the fall months brings
to the minds of L. A. w members that
the time for the annual elections in the
various State divisions is near at hand.
IN each OF nearly~all the DIVISIONS tAeres
will be elected, between October 15 and
November 15 a chief-consul, secretary
trasurer and alb oard of officers. There
are the wheelmen who stand at the head
of the enthusiastic cyclists of the coun-
try, and their constituents are number
ed only by the number of wheelmen with
in the entire State as the League is con-
stantly working for wheelmen generally
as well as for its members.
The renewals of expired memberships
and new applications being received by
the League of American Wheelmen are
now averaging about one thousand a
week. though this is the season of the
year when the membership is at its low
est. Pennsylvania still holds the lead in
the rolls with New York second, Massa-
chusetts third and New Jersey fourth.
Among the smaller devisions Michigan,
Ohio and Connection have ben particularly
active this year.