CYCLING NEWS AND COMMENTS. 12 Jan 1895, Sat
The San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, California)
Newspapers.comThis is part of a series of articles describing the construction of a track, designed by Frank D. Elwell, at the Mechanics' Pavilion near City Hall, in San Francisco, and a significant bicycle racing tournament on that track, with a big bicycle show for the public in the same pavilion.
CYCLING NEWS AND COMMENTS
Champion Ziegler's Teammates, Harbottle and Coulter, and Their Record as
Racing Men.
THE CZAR OF RUSSIA AS A CYCLER
The Californias Stirring Up the Racing Element - Ziegler Will Stand by the
Road Club - B. C.W. Track - Relay Teams.
Coast riders are anxious to know all about
Ziegler's
teammates, so I will give the racing history of Messrs. Coulter and Harbottle
in addition to the EXAMINER portraits of them.
C. R. Coulter
is a Toledo, O., boy and his father was a '49er who came to San Francisco when
the few domiciles here were tents, but who returned East after making a stake.
Young Coulter is twenty-one years old, stands 5 feet 11 1/2, inches, and
weighs 185 pounds. He began riding a wheel in 1892, and racing on July 4th
last.
Coulter started with another Toledo boy named Reynolds to ride across the
continent, and the former's experience after finding himself a "speed
merchant" is thus related :
"On my way out I struck Kearney, Neb., on the Fourth of July, the date of the
State L. A. W. meet. I went into the Class B races with a 29-pound road
wheel," says Coulter, "and won the open races over Boles of Denver and other
good riders.
"Then I went in for the State record, and rode a standing start unpaced mile
in 2:19, which became the world's record for a four-lap track at that time.
"From Kearney I rode on to Denver, and went into training there for the
national meet. I won several prizes before the meet which made Ziegler the
champion, and won all but one of the trial heats I went into, but only got
three thirds in the finals.
"At Council Bluffs, Iowa, having gone there from Denver, I was more
successful, winning four open events and two handicaps, and I also got the
Iowa State record for the mile in competition, the time being 2:18.
"From. Council Bluffs I went onto the Eastern circuit and captured thirteen
firsts, seven seconds and five thirds, being unplaced but twice."
Mr. Coulter rode alone all through the circuit, having two team mates to help
him along. His prizes for the three months he was racing amounted to $2,600,
and his best work was a mile, standing start, unpaced, ridden on the Denver
track in 2:12, and the half in 59 2-5 seconds.
C. C. Harbottle
is also one of the newer riders, having begun racing on July 1, 1893, at the
annual championship meet of the
Canadian Wheelmen's Association. At that meet he won all the races in which he rode and covered his novice
mile in 2:29, which was the world's record at that time for a novice.
Harbottle is a smaller man than Coulter, but somewhat taller than Ziegler. He
weighs 155 pounds and stands five feet seven inches. He is the same age as
Coulter, but two years older than the Little Demon of San Jose.
During the season of 1893 Harbottle won fifteen firsts and three seconds,
being unplaced in only three races out of the twenty-one in which he took
part. Ziegler's record for 1893 was eighteen firsts and five seconds out of
twenty-three events.
In 1894 Harbottle competed in twenty races, winning seven firsts, seven
seconds and three thirds, and was unplaced three times. He holds the
quarter-mile Canadian championship and the mile championship of the Province
of Ontario. The quarter-mile standing and flying start and the mile standing
start competition records for Canada are also held by C. C. Harbottle, so he
can be well termed the champion of Canada. Harbottle has taken a great liking
to Otto Zeigler, aad says he is willing to do all in his power to help the
Little Demon beat the world. While on the Coast Harbottle will ride under the
colors of the
California Cycling Club
of this city, and in the East under the colors of his home club, the
Toronto Athletic Club.
Both Harbottle and Coulter are in love with San Francisco, and Coulter says he
is going to try to have his people locate out here.
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ZIEGLER, HIS TRAINER AND TEAMMATES, COMPOSING THE FALCON TEAM. 1, OTTO ZIEGLER JR. 2, C. R. COULTER. 3, ED H. TELLAM. 4, C. C. HARBOTTLE.
[From an "Examiner" photograph.] |
Ed H. Tellam of Toledo is to train the
Falcon team, and will also be manager for Messrs. Ziegler, Coulter, Harbottle and Steele
while on the circuit.
Trainer Tellam says: "My first experience in training dates back twenty years
to Reading, Pa., where I was born thirty-four years ago. I have been with
athletes nearly all my life. My first experience training bicycle riders was
in 1893 at Toledo. I have had great success with local men, therefore, the
past two seasons.
"We shall go to Los Angeles this week and I will have the boys begin training
at once, so they can take part in the
midwinter tournament at the Mechanics' Pavilion
in February.
"We shall stay in California till May," added Trainer Tellam, "when the team
will go East to take in the national circuit."
Coulter is not a member of any bicycle club, and so will ride under the colors
of the
Olympic Club Wheelmen
while on the Coast, and may do so on the national circuit East.
The L. A. W. has again stopped the railroads of the country in their attempt
to levy an unjust tax on wheelmen. Chairman Mott of Baltimore says:
It is gratifying to announce success in still further staying action by the
Trunk Line Association
in the matter of the proposed charge for carrying bicycles, and the good
prospect that such a rule will not be passed at all. It is also hoped to
bring the
Central Traffic Association
into line. For whatever success it had in this direction, the credit is
entirely due to organization as represented by the
League of American Wheelmen.
To-night local cyclers will have a high jinks at Union-square Hall. The
Olympic Club Wheelmen are to entertain 250 of their friends with an
up-to-date smoker, and as this is their annual jollification extra pains
have been taken to have it excel all similar events.
A remarkable feature of the Thanksgiving bicycle races in New York, Los
Angeles, San Jose and San Diego is that the time made by the Class A men has
been repeatedly exceeded by small boys on the Phoenix track. - Phoenix (Ariz.)
Gazette.
At the Chicago Cycle Show this week there was presented for the first time a
series of living cycling pictures tracing the progress of the past time from
the days of Baron von Drais, who propelled his machine by pushing with his
feet on the ground, to the modern wonder, who covered a mile in racehorse
time.
A cinder path is being constructed
from Titusville, Pa., to Canadohta lake,
a distance of eighteen miles. At present the path is graded and rolled for a distance of eight miles, and the first three are already cindered. The work so far has
cost $600, including what bridging was necessary. The total expenses will be
about $2,500.
There is some talk of holding an indoor cycle tournament in St. Louis this
winter after the principle of the Madison-square Garden and Philadelphia
events.
The New York Cycle show begins on January 19th and lasts five days. It will
be held in Madison-square Garden.
There are about 100 bicycles owned in Bakersfield, while the number of
riders is more than three times that number.
The new Czar of Russia and his brothers are enthusiastic wheelmen, as has
already been stated. They ride bicycles of the type common in America two
years ago, but get as much fun out of them as the American scorcher with his
feather-weight road-racing machine. The Czar says that he rather prefers a
bicycle to his thoroughbred charger, but court etiquette requires the use
of horses most of the time. Nevertheless his Royal Highness found time to
got in a good many miles last season while on the Continent, and this summer
he will probably patronize the sport and make it easier for Russian
wheelmen, who have had all kinds of disagreeable laws to contend with.
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THE CZAR OF RUSSIA AS AN ORDINARY CYCLER.
[From a photograph of H. R. H.] |
The San Jose papers and some local papers as well have been circulating the
report that
Otto Ziegler Jr. of the
San Jose Road Club is to join the
opposition San Jose club, the
Garden City Cyclers, and wear their emblem, the fleur-de-lis. The American champion was interviewed
by me yesterday on this subject and exclaimed: "There is no truth in that
report whatever. The Road Club has always stood by me,'' said Ziegler, "and
I shall stick to it. The Garden City Cyclers have persuaded the coast agent
of the wheel I am to ride to ask me to change, but I shall not desert my own
club to please anybody, so tell all my friends that I will wear the ivy leaf in 1895 the same as ever."
There is another report that is meant to injure Ziegler's club. It is to the
effect that the San Jose Road Club is going to pieces, and that its officers
are forming a new club. There was a misunderstanding in the Road Club's
board of officers over the Thanksgiving Day race meet and several resigned.
Champion Ziegler says the club is stronger than over now, and the change has left the club without factions.
Ziegler's team will have us a mascot a real grey falcon - the only falcon in
America - which has just been imported from Berlin, and is now in Chicago at
the cycle show. The team will therefore be known as the
Falcon team. All
will wear Nile green racing suits.
Captain Belloli of the San Jose Road Club writes that the new clubhouse will
be opened on the 15th of the month with appropriate exercises and all will
pronounce the new quarters as convenient and cosy as any this side of the
Rockies.
Last Tuesday evening the
Reliance Club Wheelmen of Oakland held their annual
election, which resulted as follows: President, E. B. Jerome; Captain,
Charles Bates; Secretary, Phil Carlton; First Lieutenant, J. H. Dieckman;
Second-Lieutenant, Fred Knight; Bugler, H. P. Carlton. This places the
racing men in charge of the wheeling part of the Reliance A. C., and as the
officers are young men full of life, the club will be more active this year
than ever in cycling matters.
Captain Bates will have charge of the Reliance relay team and already has
half his men picked out.
The
California Cycling Club announces that Messrs. Harvey, Theison and Reid
will ride under the colors of the C. C. C. in all racing events in which
they may take part, other reports to the contrary notwithstanding. Messrs.
Harvey and Reid are new members of the
Imperial Cycling Club, but have no
intention of working or riding against their clubmates in the California C.
C.
Trainer Tellam has consented to remain over till Monday before starting for
Los Angeles, so that Messrs. Coulter, Ziegler and Harbottle can attend the
Olympic Club Wheelmen's smoker this evening.
Among the new racing men in the
California Cycling Club who have signified
their willingness to train for the relay race are Bellman, Casserly,
Heineman, Pattiosen, Birdsell, Erbe, Kilby, Boyd, Boyle, Prentiss,
Friedlander, Thomas, Creigh, Lovie, Wentworth, Argenti, Aller, Sternberg and
Reid. None of these riders took part in last year's relay, and all are
mounted now on light wheels. In this list is some very promising talent,
notably Tom Casserly, Ernest Erbe and F. C. Heineman. Erbe has ridden in Germany before coming to
America and is one of the best road riders in this country. Heineman holds
the State championship of the Y. M. C. A., beating such Class A men as C. C.
Gilbert, Charley Common and Edwards of Los Angeles. Casserly is a new rider,
but an all-around athlete and teacher of boxing in the C. C. C. Argenti is not ambitious for
racing glory, but for years has been a pedestrian of some note and can ride
fast if he desires, too.
The Bay City Wheelmen's progressive euchre tournament, which was to have been
held to-night, has been postponed on account of the Olympic Club smoker at
Union-square Hall.
At last Monday evening's meeting of the California Cycling Club it was
decided to old the next ladies' night on February 24, and the committee in
charge is Messrs. Larry Mayo, H. A. Feidlander, W. H. Westerfall, Alam Karl
and Ed Wilburg.
The
Californias wish it distinctly understood that they’ll are not imitators
and that their racing men are loyal, and the club is loyal to its racing men.
No other club on the coast has done more for its racing talent in proportion to the size of
the club.
The
Garden City Cyclers of San Jose were going to open their beautiful new
clubhouse to-night, but will put it off for a week on account of other
events.
Fossitt of Eureka is now located in this city and is a valuable addition to
local wheelmen.
The
Acme Athletic Club of Oakland thinks their '95 relay team will be a
winner, and the men are beginning to train already for this annual event,
which will come off this year on April 7th.
GATES.
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