Bicycle Notes. CYCLING NEWS AND COMMENTS. Liberty Cycling Club drawing
largest bicycle rider
05 Jan 1895, Sat
The San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, California)
Newspapers.com
CYCLING NEWS AND COMMENTS.
The Biggest Bicycle Rider So Far Reported Is Rev. Mr. Frost of San Bernardino.
WITH THE LIBERTY CYCLING CLUB.
What the Cycling World Is Doing - Rain Stops Club Runs - O. C. W. Smoker -
Imperials in New Clubhouse.
California now possesses the largest bicycle rider in the world, as well as
the amateur champion.
Rev. A. J. Frost of San Bernardino is one of the 1894 converts to cycling,
and, though he weighs 360 pounds avoirdupois, he gets as much pleasure out of
the flying wheel as any eighty-pound youngster.
Rev. Mr. Frost stands seven inches over six feet, and is, therefore, a very
large man, but as he has been something of an athlete, and was at one time
years ago a lover of boxing, he is not a fat man.
In his pastoral work Rev. Mr. Frost finds the bicycle much handier than a
horse. His wheel is an ordinary safety of the usual type, weighing less than
thirty pounds.
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REV. A. J. FROST OF SAN BERNARDINO, THE BIGGEST BICYCLE RIDER ON EARTH.
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There seems to be considerable misunderstanding about
Ziegler
and his programme for 1895. He has signed with a Toledo bicycle maker to ride
his make of wheel and with a Chicago make of tires at a certain fixed price,
which has been variously stated at from $200 to $500 a month. The latest
report was that sent out from San Jose when the contract was signed. As a
matter of fact he is to receive only about one-half of the largest reported
sum, and, of course, the exact amount is the secret of the parties most
concerned, as it should be.
This wild report was sent broadcast over the Coast, and every racing man and
would-be racer will be led to believe that there is big money in bicycle
racing, while as a fact only three other racing men -Zimmerman, Sanger and
Johnson - have received as big a salary as Ziegler is to get, and it has only
been possible in the last two years. If Ziegler is as successful as his
friends hope for his prizes this season will amount to $10,000 or more.
[Adjusting for inflation,
that's about $320,000 in 2021 US dollars. - MF]
Gus Steele of Chicago,
Coulter
of Toledo and
C. C. Harbottle
of Toronto will ride in the same team with Ziegler, and it is the intention of
their manager to send them to this Coast to train with Ziegler till May.
On the 20th of last September J. Irelan, C. Bouton, W. Irelan and J.
McLaughlin, four cycling enthusiasts, met and organized what is known as the
Liberty Cycling Club. The "torch and crescent" were adopted for an emblem and white and gold for
club colors.
The first meetings were held at the houses of the different members, until it
was decided to have permanent rooms.
The Libertys are now conveniently located at
505 Capp street, a few
blocks from the
California Cycling Club, and in the heart of the Mission smooth-pavement riding district. The
membership at present is twenty and new members are being received at almost
every meeting. Though most of the members are under twenty years of age, all
are good road riders and take road runs every pleasant Sunday.
At the last meeting of the Liberty C. C. notice of its election to the
Associated Clubs was received, and the following members of the Libertys were
elected to the Board of Governors of the
California Associated Cycling Clubs: H. E. Morton, B. Bouton and J. McLaughlin. The present officers of the
Liberty Cycling Club are: President, H. E. Morton; Secretary-Treasurer, B.
Bouton; Captain, A. Schmitz; First Lieutenant, C. Bouton. Most of the local
clubs had runs mapped out for tomorrow, but the heavy rain will stop them
all.
The San Jose Road Club will hold a ten-mile handicap road race on January
13th.
On January 15th the new clubhouse of the
San Jose Road Club
will be opened with a smoker and ball.
Captain Belloli
of the Road Club says it will be the most comfortable bicycle clubhouse in
the State.
The newest bicycle olub in town bears the name of
Normandie Cyclers, with M. A. Lyons as Captain.
The
Imperial Cycling Club, under command of Captain Conger, has a scorch run to San Leandro
to-morrow, leaving Fruitvale about 1 o'clock. Rain will of course stop the
run.
The
Olympics' postponed road race for December will be held about the middle
or last part of this month, probably on January 20th, over the usual course.
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The Imperials are getting settled in their new clubhouse at
636 Golden Gate avenue,
and will soon have as good a clubhouse as any city club.
The Olympic Club wheelmen's team will be nearly as follows:
Haley, Christ, Plageman, Hobson, Bernard, Geldert, Bob Long and Fuller brothers.
[George Fuller and
Frank L. Fuller
- MF]
The
Olympic Club Wheelmen's
annual smoker will be held at Union-square Hall on the evening of January
12th, and the invitations will be limited to 300. A long programme has been
arranged, and besides the usual feast, pipes, etc., there will be some
pleasant surprises.
All inquiries in reference to the Imperial Cycling Club should be addressed
to Secretary
W. C. Howe, 636 Golden Gate avenue.
The postponed run to the beach on the old-fashioned high wheels will be held
tomorrow if the weather permits.
Captain Thornton
of the Olympic Club Wheelmen will be in charge, and all who can produce an
ordinary bicycle
are invited to take part. No
safety bicycles
will be allowed on this run, and all will assemble in the old-fashioned
manner at the Olympic Club at 10:30, so that the procession can reach the
park by 11:30. The falls, headers and dismounts will be kept track of in a
novel way.
Jule Farnsworth and Howard Taylor are now bicycle enthusiasts and the
Olympics talk of putting them on their relay team.
The Imperials are very anxious to take part in the
relay race
and fear that they will not be eligible as they were not in the association
at the time of the last relay.
There is little probability of their being shut out on this account as they
were not organized at that time, and the race is not for the Rambler trophy
as a prize as much as for the championship of the
Associated Clubs, besides the trophy is to be won each year and should go to the best team
in the C. A. C. C.
The clubs composing the California Associated Cycling Clubs are all
preparing for the annual 100-mile relay race and part of the clubs have
already chosen most of their teams of ten men each.
The California Cycling Club will use most of the following: Burke, Brunt,
Bellman, Erbe, Casserly, Egeberg, Haller, Harvey, Friedlander, Heineman,
Theisen, Reid and Reynolds.
The
Bay City Wheelmen's
relay team will be nearly the same as last year, as will also the teams from
the
Acmes
and Garden Citys. The unknown quantity will be the teams from the
Oakland Cycle Club
and the Imperial Cycling Club. The Acmes and Garden Citys have the strongest
teams from present indications.
Early in the season Messrs. Reynolds and
Coulter
of Toledo left that city to ride to San Francisco entirely by bicycle. In
Nebraska Coulter took part in several races and showed considerable speed.
On reaching Denver he rode in more races and remained for the national
tournament. He showed up there so well that the wheel manufacturer who was
backing him had him give up the long tour and follow racing the rest of
the season. Coulter was quite successful, too, and at this moment is in
Denver trying for records, His partner, Reynolds, returned to Toledo at
once when the trip was abandoned.
Messrs. Alvord and Easton of St. Louis rode from that city to the Coast on
bicycles for their own pleasure, and I have no words of condemnation for
them. Alvord returned home by way of Mexico and New Orleans, using the
railroad, though he had intended to visit Hawaii and Japan first. Mr.
Easton returned to St. Louis by the shortest rail route after being here a
few days and getting homesick.
The only other long-distance rider to reach the Coast on bicycle besides
Messrs. Alvord and Easton was
Boyd Grey, the colored bootblack from New
York, who was the only wheelman to cross the continent on a bicycle this
year. He had plenty of proof that he rode all the way on a bicycle except
for a short distance in Montana, where his wheel was smashed and he had to
go to Ogden, Utah, before getting it fixed.
From San Francisco Boyd Grey is riding back to the Atlantic coast on his
bicycle. He left this city for the south a fortnight ago, and will ride to
New Orleans leisurely and up north from there to his home near Atlanta,
Georgia, then on to New York next spring.
GATES.
Bicycle Notes.
J. W. Ritchey is in the southern part of Arizona, riding on
the railroad tracks with a bicycle. The attachments making it possible are
his own invention and are very simple. He claims to have ridden from San
Francisco with eighty pounds of baggage.
The new officials of the South California division of the League of American
Wheelmen are: Chief Consul, W. J. Allen, Los Angeles; Vice-Consul, S. J.
Castleman Riverside; Secretary-Treasurer, P. H Lyons, Los Angeles,
California is the only State with two divisions.
Chairman Raymond of the National Racing Board is finally located in Chicago,
and he announces emphatically that he will not be a candidate for President
of the L. A W. next term.
Among royal advocates and users of the bicycle are the King of Belgium,
Prince Albert and the English Princes, the King of Servia, King Christian of
Denmark, President Casimir-Perrier of the French republic and the Czar of
Russia.
The managers of the Yppert cycle track, France, are considering the
feasibility of an automatic mechanism by which a racer will fire a pistol
when he starts. Another mechanism will ring a bell as a very rider crosses
the tape on each lap.
General von Wahl, the Governor and Chief of Police of St. Petersburg, has
issued strict orders forbidding any woman to ride either a bicycle or a
tricycle in the public streets and squares of the Russian capital. As
several women prominent in society are fond of the sport an influential
petition is now being prepared with the object of prevailing upon the
authorities to withdraw this edict.
Three hundred Philadelphia postmen use bicycles in the discharge of their
duties.
The inhabitants of the Celestial empire call a bicycle a yang ma, or foreign
horse. In some of the provinces it is called feichoi, firing-machine; in
others, tzu-tzun, wagon that goes alone. The best definition by the Chinese is: "A little mule that is
driven by the cars and goes by kicking it in the stomach."
No greater object-lesson exists than the Coney Island cycle path for the
riders and drivers of horses. Of course, a brute can not express an
objection to horrible roads, but it would seem that when a good, dry road
like the cycle path was in juxtaposition to a road of mire and mud, where
horses had to walk, the owners would desire to improve it. For years horses have been driven on the Boulevard to
Coney Island, and no desire shown to improve the road. - New York Recorder.
The big trip outlined by T. W. Winder of Warsaw, Ind., may be carried out if enough newspapers will join his proposed syndicate. If it does he says he
will start early in February from New Orleans and then follow the boundary
line of the United States and average over seventy miles a day for 300
continuous days. My idea of this trip is that he has more nerve than muscle, for, from New Orleans for
several hundred miles west, it he makes half of his schedule he will be a
record-breaker.
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