The Jersey City news., 1901-05-02
NEWS OF THE WHEELMEN
Vailsburg Opening Scheduled
for Sunday-Amateur at
.BeIleville Dropped.

Racing is scheduled to begin at the
vailsburg track next Sunday, but it is
doubtful whether 1t will. The track is
finished and being used for training pur-
poses, but or the stands and at other
points about the grounds alterations are
incomplete. There IS also to be consider
ed a certain amount of friction that has
arisen between the municipal government
of Newark and the trolley companies
thereof. Jersey justice is proverbially
hard but the lessees of the Vailsburg
track and the racing men hope for the
best, because the owner of the property
where the track and ball grounds are si.-
uated is one of the most influential stock
holders in the trolley company. The troll
ley cars carry the crowds to the track.
and it is not believed that their owners
will bite off their noses to spite their
faces rather than give the transfers that
have been suggested.
II has been discovered by the National
Cycling Association that an amateur,
who was registered with it, participated
last Sunday in races at Belleville, N. ].
That rider has been suspended from all
tracks. The action in the case was sum-
mary and it should be a warning to other
situation, might err. The Belleville dirt
track never has been licensed by lie n.
c. A. and all who ride on it are liable to
suspension. Last Sunday there was held
there 10-mile bicycle race that was woI.
by Fred Peterson, an unregistered anna
teur. For next Sunday another race
meet is scheduled, in which it is expected
that pretty much the same field of riders
will participate.
Amateurs are always interesting, and
there is enough gate money to pay the
prizes promised, but it is good "tip" for
all New Jersey amateurs that there are
innocent looking persons who buy ticke s
and sit opposite the tape who are really
spoilers for the N. C. A., and if any
amateur wants to ride in sanctioned
races he should be careful. Changing the
name does not seem to be sufficient, for
men have been identified on the track in
spite of entry blank pseudonyms.
Concerning bicycle riding, to which he
is ardently devoted, Julian Hawthorne,
the novelist has said
Human companionship can seldom be
more agreeable and less irksome than
when sweeping across country on a BIZ
cycle. 1t spiritualizes intercourse; it
mingles with it the elements of speed, of
variety, of ardent exertion, of friendly
rivalry. And when a woman is at your
side, you are made sensible of all the
magic of the sex. 1t is sweet to moderate
your pace to hers, or to note how she
keeps her pace abreast with you. AS the
miles gy by you marke the warm color
rising in her cheeks and the frightening
and sparkling of her eyes. Nothing slim
ulates wholesome intimacy with a girl
more surely than physical exercise and
joys in common, and hearts grow larger
and more tender under the witchery of
the wheel. The woman who can ride
bicycle well is pretty sure to have in her
the making of a good wife, and I cannot
wish bridegroom a happier honeymoon
than one passed by the side of his newly
created wife on bicycle journey through
the fragrant hills and forest of an Amer
ican June or October"