A TRIP AWHEEL.
The Olympic Club Annex Rides to Fairfax.
"Good roads and fine coasting guaranteed” is what it said on the invitations issued by the Olympic Cycling Annex to their first run of the season, from this city to Fairfax, Marin County, and return. At the close of the invitation to the members there was another addressed to any person who was interested in cycling to swell the ranks, and in response to this manifestation of good will a number of outsiders and unattached wheelmen were present at the 8 o'clock Sausalito boat yesterday morning.
In the absence of Captain N. A. Robinson the command was assumed by Lieutenant R. R. Russ, and in his position he started the club off in first-class style from Sausalito, and they held about the same order and pace until they arrived at the foot of Corte Madera, the worst hill on the run. Here half of the riders started on ahead walking and the rest attempted to ride the hill, but before they had climbed half way all were walking and sweating at the rate of forty miles an hour. Without accident or incident all hands at last arrived at the top of the hill, and congratulating themselves on having a fine coast upon the downgrade they started to descend, but had only gone around the first turn at a reasonable rate of speed when the man in front struck a place in the road which was undergoing alterations. He got off with more speed than grace, and the others, who came before he could warn them, also struck the bad place and mixed themselves up in a tangle of wheels and men which was hard to straighten.
It was done soon, however, and by partially walking and partially riding they arrived at the bottom of Corte Madera, which was then and there named "Corduroy" Madera, on account of the road being as rough in comparison to a decent road as corduroy cloth is rough when compared to velvet. The rest of the run was made without accident.
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