The record-union., 1899-03-27
OF INTEREST TO CYCLISTS.
THE COMING CHAMPION AND
AMATEUR MEETING.
The Revived Whee1way Movement
English Wheels-American
Wheels Abroad.

Wheels Abroad.
Maud Muller on summer night 80,
Was riding her wheel without ngnt,
With graceful hump and a bicycle lace
She scorched along at merry pace,
When across her path there looiteu d
man,
And into him Maudie straightway ran.
But, alas. to her sorrow he proved TO 1e
A Police Court Judge of stern decree.
And she sighed next day as he hneu neg
Stead of ss.sS as. it might have been.
A letter from the President of the
Crown Wheelmen of Gait says that
that club is ready to cooperate with
the c. C. w. of Sacramento, and build
path between the two places me
Crowns say that they are few In num-
Der, and would be willing only to at
tempt a fair share of the mileage. That
IS all right-let the c. c. W. build TO
Elk Grove, sixteen miles, and the
Crowns to Gait, eight miles. But what
ever is done it will be useless to build
an unprotected path. 1t must be COM
pletely cut off by fence or furrow from
the highway or the vandalS Will take
to it. Moreover, it will be folly to
build without using decomposed granite
on the adobe and swale sections. No
use throwing money away. BY the
way, will not the people along the
route to be benefited, as all will be, con-
tribute few mites to the good work?
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The C. C. w. free conference held
last Friday evening was a. very i'm
portant one It's resolutions ought to-
be adopted mem. con. by the Sacra-
mento Club. In brief, they call for re-
duction of initiation fee until August
1st to 81, the whole sum to be devoted
to building wheelways, and that for all
time one-sixth of all dues income be
devoted to wheelway purposes; that $40
be at once advanced to the Wheelway
Committee Chairman, Frank Hickman,
to be used solely to- reconstruct the Fol-
som wheelway wherever needed, and
make it as nearly as possible an Ideal
path; that rewards be paid for recov-
cry of stolen wheels only where the
wheel owner registers the wheel de-
scrption with the club; that attention
be given to increased indoor entertain
ment facilities, such as a handball
court, etc, if the same is possible,
though on so low a dues income as II
has it is difficult to see how the CLUB
will manage it, Other suggestions were
voted, but these are the chief. The
main thing is the wheelway movement.
now that the Folsom road is goner
and the license bill is dead as door
nail Outings are what cyclists want,
and the vast majority of them who ride
paths are willing to put up for these
pleasures. The difficulty has been to
get at them and collect the mites. The
proposition for the new badge-and a
handsome one indeed is the sample
will help on that matter, and it ought
to be adopted. With $50 c. G. w.
riders wearing the new badge on their
wheels. others ought to feel ashamed
to be seen on the paths without a SIM
liar evidence of contribution having
been made to the common end
Tt is to be sincerely hoped that at the
Supervisors meeting next week the long
delayed path petitioned for on Schley
avenue will be ordered Engineer Boyd
has filed his report, Road Commissioner
Curtis is for the path, all the people on
the route want it, and as it is their
money which is TO be used, why not
order it up at once?
The champion and amateur mixed
races arranged for the 18th in this city
had to be postponed because OF the
heaven-sent rain. Now that fine wealth
er is on again the races have been set
for next Sunday, April I'd. They ought
TO draw a great crowd to Agricultural
Park. The program is fine one, and
is full of variety. It will be years be
fore such an aggregation of talent will
he got together again in Sacramento
Besides the champions, the Turvliles,
the Terrible Swede," Baby" Gibson
Zeigler. Barnabee and the several oth-
ers-and a big lot of them there IS
ten of the swift amateurs OF the Z. u
w. will go against amateur riders from
two of the San Francisco clubs, the
Bay City and the Road Club. Every
thing promises well now for the event
next Sunday, and it ought to be royai
benefit for the C. c.. w, which proposes
to use whatever is made-though 1t
cannot be a great sum because OF the
heavy cost involved-to promote pain
way construction.
They have trouble at the East with
path vandals. just as the G. G. W. mas
in Sacramento, as the following from
the New York Tribune" Will snow:
The people of Oakdale. L. l., are IN
dignant at the actions of drivers OF
wagons who while the roads were In
bad condition recently, drove on the
bicycle path at the side of the road'
and are now driving on the sidewalks.
The taxpayers will not stand the out
rage, and threaten to either cause the
arrest of the guilty ones or impeacn
the authorities if the latter do not take
some action.
Despairing of their tactical ability to
legitimately restrict the popular adop-
tion of American products In their
country, the German cycle makers have
gone to the extremity of coercion and
have announced their intention of re-
fusing credit to all German dealers who
persist in handling American wheels.
AS long credits are the general conti-
mental rule, this will seriously militate
against American adoption in the land
of Frankfurters unless American max
ers conform to German usage and ex-