Lancaster Standard and County Advertiser. — 1898-09-30 (Lancaster, Lancashire, England)

CYCLING.  The last official club rim of the 5ea...011 as re• pude th, Mar Mites trok place on Monday night. There was a fair :tad representat,ve muster. upwants cf it neora leaving hend4uartere well up to ; time, Moricainhe being the destination. On , getting clear it the bustle and limits ot the norough, hiking was simply a treat, and the Morecambe roads were at their best, ~vhich is not saying much. It is obvious they are lot intended for pnelimatie tyres. and lever will be until they get re-inet, led and an eight-ton tricycle upon them, but after passing Torrisholme and the Hare-lane ,nterel the road eurface was decidedly Letter. What with beautiful moonlight and a froth crimp breeze, the cycling was most exhilarating, with the result that t inie seemed to fly quicker, and the ilistame appeared shorter than wh-o the journey is taken under auspices which are less favourable. However, the village of level crossing and canteen notoriety was 00011 panned wit hunt a etop. On turning on to the pram at the White House it u,. found ; that the tide was at full height, with scarcely • ripple, and the reflection on the water of the lights from the East End Pier was very pretty. After riding down the promote& the club wended their way to their Morecambe headquarters, the York Hotel, and after a short stay o restart M. made, and hem, remitted about 9-311, after one of the nine( pleaaant nuns of the season. We understand that the Marsh t'lub intend to wind up the semon with a special run on Monday to Holton-le-Sands, where a dance is benur arranged for at the house of their energetic and popular captain's parents.  Five members of the Marsh Club rode to liverpool on Sunday, to visit the Channel Fleet, retelling home again about 104)0, after a spiffing rim, but con.plain bitterly about being unable to grub. Liverpool W. visited by immense crowds of people, and woo simply eaten out.  One of the bent unpaved record rides accomplished on the roads of England thie season is the 100 miles inimical tandem record:—A. F. and 1.. G. Ilsley. in essaying this record, not only brat the previous best 'by 11 min. 17 mem, but also knocked 1 min. 17 PP.. off Itothen. and Stocks raced record fee the distance. The loose state of the roads in many places, and the intense heat. made the performance, which was memplinhed on Dunlop tyres, the more meritorious.  More often than not when one's lamp litter Bret lighting it appears to have an extinguishing fit on, the light will greatly improve as soon as a little draught 61 inmerted into the lamp. It is merely a queer habit peculiar to cycle lamps, and no rider should abandon the ilea of continuing in tlio saddle, until a sharp run through the air has been iesayed in view of improving the light.  A good idea of road racing as practised in Australia ran lie gathered from the following letter written by Hr. Adams, who was offivially in attendance at the Victoria Road Championships. He writes:—"As medical officer at the 25 ma es etammunidini oa. Saturday, I should like my opinion to be recorded, and it ii. that, in future, unlees the race can be run in heats, or several Saturdays taken for the heats and final, no 25 nide road ram should take place. as where 76 men are starting and racing the road is too narrow. Cattle are about the isiad, and farmers' carts are continually obstructing the path. billeted'. Hotel on Saturday was nothing else than a hospital, the ambulance men and myself working for about lj hours, attending to men senously injured. I saw seven men myself, one unconscious for halfatehour, another with a drab. ration of tho left shoulder, and others with injuries too numerous to mention. I nay it is asking men to attempt suicide in a novel manner to rare under the conditions as on Saturday. Within three-quartets of a mile of the start awe toes men fell."  The matter will now be brought before the racing committee, who will take steps to prevent the reeutTenoe of Saturday's experience. It had been pointed out, the inadequate 31Tia:ffertlellt that the League made for the race tome months previous; but no action was taken to remedy what has been a blot on the League's management of the Road Championships for year,* taw. Now that neveral accidents have taken place a reform is promised, and not before it is required.  The game cych. polo At ratf,.rd the other day was very zavouridily rec*tved by the spectators. This ,s the first ocumion that the game has been pl..yed in public in }lowland; that is to say, the &pine of polo with the use of mallets. The ir.ovtnituts remind one very much of pony polo; the teams having a full field for playing their mat. .11 with of course goal poste or nage at each end. Mr. It. J. Meer,ly. of Dublin, who pilot.-,l the teams. 01 to be oongratulated upon the ...mess of the new game.  A very mad fatality is that which happened to a Clapham cyclist while touring through the beautiful district of North Wales. The rider seems to have met his death in the Pass of Llanbens, which is at the babe of Snowdon, throw" hits machine becoming uuoontrollable. At least thoi is what is surmised, as his body was found on the roadside, with his bicycle broken up near to the spot. It is difficult to associate death with such a lovely place as this Welsh mountain pass.  The cycle continues to grow in use and favour in India and other but countries, due in a great measure to the introduction of Dunlop tropical tyres, which are reiecially made with a view to counter-balancing heat and other adverse conditions common to equatorial lands. Cycling hioi received a decided inipetue among !admit in India since these tyree became available.  It is juat a little *range to find club.i already fixing datai for their winter feetiviti.. One well-known London club oomploted arrangements for four Cinderella dances and a Bohemian ooncert as. far book ea six weekii ago. nos to taking time by the forelock with a vengeance.  A falling cyclist recently set himself alight by striking a whole box of matches at once, as he fell. The friot ion of this fall grated their heads together, and the spontaneous combustion which resulted, ruined his coat, though it did not consume himself. It is a remote contingency to guard against falling on one's match-box, but a more frequent cause of minor conflagrations is found in the putting of an unextingwehed pipe into one's pocket.