View source for EASTERN CRACKS COMING. - San Francisco Chronicle - October 30, 1895

=== EASTERN CRACKS COMING. ===
==== THEY WILL REACH HERE THIS MORNING. ====
===== The Bicycle Track Association Discusses the Quarter-Mile Proposition. =====

The [[San Francisco Bicycle Track Association]] held a meeting last night at the clubhouse of the [[Bay City Wheelmen]], with the following delegates present: President [[F. H. Kerrigan|Kerrigan]], [[C. A. Elliott|Elliott]], [[T. S. Watters|Watters]], [[B. C. W.]]; [[George H. Stratton|Stratton]] and [[J. W. Mullen|Mullin]], [[O. C. W.]]; [[E. C. Douglas|Douglass]], [[I. C. C.]]; [[Henry F. Wynne|Wynne]] and [[John F. Burke|Burke]], [[C. C. C.]]; [[J. Sims|Simms]], [[S. F. Y. M. C. A.]]

A number of [[track]] propositions were discussed and laid over until the next meeting, which will be called upon the completion of certain plans of a quarter- mile track to be built in this city within the near future.

It was decided to extend an invitation to all the club members of the [[California Associated Cycling Clubs]] to send delegates to the association to confer upon track matters.

A meeting of the alliance of clubs which are to handle the national circuit meet on November 16th was held yesterday and all arrangements practically completed toward starting matters on foot. The only thing now in the way is securing the track, but negotiations are about closed for the [[Oakland Driving Park]]. The clubs that are to manage this event are the [[Bay City Wheelmen]], [[Olympic Cyclers]] and [[Acme Club Wheelmen]]. The noted Eastern [[cracks]] will arrive this morning on the 9:45 o'clock overland, coming through direct from Ogden, at which place they raced Monday. The party consists of [[E. C. Bald|Bald]], [[Ray McDonald|McDonald]], [[C. M. Murphy|Murphy]], [[Tom Cooper|Cooper]], [[C. S. Wells|Wells]], [[W. A. Terrill|Terrill]], [[F. B. Rigby|Rigby]], [[E. Kiser|Kiser]], [[Asa Windle|Windle]], [[F. Ed Spooner|Spooner]] and [[Young]]. They will be met at [[Port Costa]] by Messrs. [[F. H. Kerrigan|Kerrigan]], [[Sanford Plummer|Plummer]], [[S. B. Vincent|Vincent]], [[Walter D. Sheldon|Sheldon]], [[Will Knippenberg|Knippenberg]], [[Albert W. King-Rhys|Rhys]], [[Smith]], [[H. W. Spalding|Spaulding]] and [[Clarence N. Ravlin|Ravlin]]. Saturday night the [[Bay City Wheelmen]] will give a club [[smoker]] and reception to the visitors, and Sunday they will be escorted through the [[Golden Gate Park|Park]] by Captain [[Sanford Plummer|Plummer]] and the [[Bay City Wheelmen]].

The prospects now are that [[L. D. Cabanne|Cabanne]] and [[F. J. Titus|Titus]] will not be able to appear at [[National circuit meet at San Jose, November 8 and 9, 1895|the San Jose meet]], and possibly not at all on the California Circuit. Owing to their suspension over the recent St. Louis troubles they have been compelled to remain in the East, and until that is settled they will have to abandon their Western trip. This will be a misfortune to California, as Titus was to have ridden for the hour record at San Jose.

Captain [[A. C. Thornton|Thornton]] of the [[Olympic Club Wheelmen]] and Captain [[J. B. Carey|Carey]] of the [[Garden City Cyclers]] will shortly arrange a joint run of the two clubs to [[Woodside]], a few miles back of [[Redwood City]]. A barbecue will be the main attraction at the destination.

[[George Nissen]] of the [[Acme Club Wheelmen]] has decided to abandon the ten-mile attempt for next Sunday, and will exert his energies toward securing the much coveted five-mile world's record of 11:13. The trial will be made Sunday afternoon over the [[San Mateo-San Carlos course]]. Nissen having accepted the "[[San Francisco Chronicle|Chronicles]]'s" suggestion and investigated the superior condition of this course. [[Jesse F. Ives|Ives]] and [[J. G. Hurley|Hurley]] of the [[Alameda Cyclers]] will do the pacing.

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