The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-03-25

paper field, Is secretary Of the Harlem
and also Of the Lakeside Jockey club, in
both of which positions he is practically
without peer in the turf world. Mr.
Williamson Is said to be the cleverest
Handicapped In America, and when he
assigns the weights in a race or arranges
the conditions for all event, it's clever
man who can figure out a winner from
the best class of horses that are sure to
go to the post.
This spring great improvements are be-
ing planned at Harlem and Lakeside,
new stables, reconstructed and improved
grand stands, new walks, shrubbery and
other expenditures having been provided
for. Harlem and Lakeside had twothirds
of the local racing last season, and the
clean sport, excellent business manage
ment and care given to please horsemen
and patrons at these tracks have done
more than anything else to place racing
about Chicago and in the West upon a
popular basis.
Mr.. Condor, who has been to Europe
to receive treatment for his blindness, is
expected home early in April. He has
not been helpel, but letters received from
him are full of cheerfulness.
GREAT YEAR IN CYCLING.
Cycling sport will be almost as popu-
lar in Chicago this season as it was in
~, WHen ZVVUOU Was COllS6rNdlIN6 SSIi-
mate of the number Of riders. This city
has exceptional facilities for riders, May
or Harrison being an enthusiastic wheel
man, who, in other days, secured a num-
Der of century bars, and who now turns
out with the wheelmen in parades. The
care of the streets Is a hobby with the
mayor and on election days the wheel
men go to the polls 10000 strong to vote
for 1.-The best son of Chicago's best may
orr
The macadam and asphalt streets
around the city-and at no point do they
touch the extreme limits-is thirty-five
or forty miles, a nice trip for those who
wish to take a little spin before break
fast.
The new wheels do not SHOW great
changes over 1885, and the improvements
are largely in the nature of comfort and
convenience to riders. In this respect the
Rambler of the Gormully &. Jeffrey make.
which remember in the old high wheel
days when Schock won the long distance
races in Minneapolis, has led the field.
This conservative concern has never
adopted any feature of matchmaking
which was an experiment, but has gone
In strongly for the practical wheel with
the result that its sales last year were
over AGO. 600 and are likely to be doubled
this season.
/ mention this fact to show that the
wheel has come to stay and that cycling
is no longer fad. Consequently those
who bought the thirty-inch wheels, patent
tires and sunshine spokes, with other
fiapdoodle are now coming back to the
sensible wheel and the makers, who were
wise enough to cater to the practical side
of cycling, are now getting all the trade
and consequently all the dough"
BRIEF NOTES OF SPORT.
Jimmy Barry, who retired from the
bantam, has decided to take on few Of
the new aspiIants. He may appear in
an exhibition bout in the Northwest soon.
The fact that FitZsimmons gave up the
chance of meeting Sharkey SO suddenly
and his quick matchmaking with Mccoy
is taken here as an indication that FitZ
was not overly anxious to fight the
sailor.
Harry Kuhl, secretary OF the Chicago
Racing association, Hawthorne track,
may succeed Presiding Judge Rees this
season at Hawthorne, Capt. -Rees having
been selected as judge in the East
The Chicago ball club has gone to Sell
ma, Ala, to get into training. Charley
Nichols, the veteran pitcher, thinks that
the White Stockings is weak combina-
ton. He says that Brooklyn, Boston, st.
Louis and Pittsburg will lead in the pen
nant race.
Two pupils Of the Frinceton-Yal acad-
envy met in boxing contest in the school
gymnasium, Wednesday, large number
of scholars and teachers being present.
The contest continued six rounds and
was decided draw by the referee,
another pupil in the school.
&C. w. Ryder.