New-York tribune., 1900-01-07
CYCLING.
SOME REMARKABLE RECORDS LAST
sEAsoN-MOToR PACING MACHINES
LARGELY RESPONSIBLE FOR

FAS1
Eighteen hundred and ninety-nine remark
able year for time trials and competition records
the bicycle in spite of the disastrous which has
been waged for the control of the sport. The gen.
eral interest has been crippled by the unfortunate
conditions just the case in professional base
bali ten years ago, when the players rebeled from
the control Of the National Baseball League. What
the outcome will be no man can tell. If the League
Of American Wheelmen, at its assembly in Phia-
delphia next month, decides to continue to have
supervision cycle racing the chances are that
the outlaw organization will not be heard from
again
What is regarded possibly the most wonderful
achievement the bicycle the ride by
Charles NJ. Murphy behind a locomotive
Long Island last summer. 1t was thrilling spec
tacle and Murphy made the mile in 81 40 seconds.
McDufee and Taylor are confident that they
r 70 give IN snoba has eeen seen IDgq rn
Taylor and McDuffee, with the aid of wind shields
ing world Nothing like the time has been made on
track , in =, any ny other country TAYLOR made third
onds and a mile in 1:19 fiat McDuffee's best effort
H6Pe e m Of h a oneg the ows 46S g
mile in 2:O3 30. c. c. Holzel. of Spokane, Wash
mile in % seconds third mile in % 2g S seconds
half NILE & IN 40 70 seconds and one mile in 126 -
the best time made for two miles. unpaced 1867 Is,
Frederick r Hoopes also made the handicap rec
of 1rd for me Of dng angge the distance M in 2oS
an unpaeed five mile handicap. in II 40 As Tay-
hon
The introduction OF the motor pacing machines was
mainly responsible for the wholesale breaking of
records, and as these machines are improved a nd
the tracks are banked properly for their use there
is no estimating how fast man will be able to
ride bicycle behind one Of them AT nresant
none OF the oval tracks in this country are banked
properly for fast work by the motors
t. j. Keenan,, jr.. of Pittsburg president Of ths
League OF American Wheemen and Senator Pen
rose. OF Pennsylvania, had an interview with Presi
dent Mckinley at Washington Friday in which
they urged him TO press the claim against the
Frank LenZ. the American bicycle rider who was
murdered near ErZeroum, Armenia in 1894 The
League of American Wheelmen members are much
interested in the which attracted considerable
attention at the time.
The macadamized roads are at present generally
In excellent condition and those who have a chance
get out their wheels and allow the opportunity
to slip past the losers. A number of riders
have used their wheels to get and from the lakes
in the Park. and the sight OF wheelman with
in both boroughs. The police IN BROOKLYN apparent
ly have not been vgilant as usual for many of
the asphated streets are strewn with broken glass.
A new bicycle tire the cushion principle is
promised for next The tire does not have
10 be inflated. This is a radical departure from
the pneumatic pattern The tire is constructed of
rubber disks three-sixteenths of an inch thick and
seven-sixteenths of an inch apart held by ribs
the thread and vuicaniZed to the outer covering
The tire weighs more than the pneumatic but IL is
said be fun OF resiliency and life" Punctures
and leaky valves are Impossible