CYCLE NOTES.

Evening Star, Issue 11168, 17 February 1900, Page 8

CYCLE NOTES.

The cycle championship meet of the world to be held t*L I’aris next mason wdl occupy three day-'. The main events will !n rim during the latter part of August and the first part of September, excepting that the grand prize of the City of pan, and varb uuvrnw of the Union V-lmsipstPqae do Paris will bo held in June and July. The grand prize nf the Exposition w 11 bu open 'o the world, and is at. 2.0C0 metre?, or 2 lbi yds. It wdl have pr.Z:s aggi "gating £l,2 ;; 0. ami 'he date will piobildy b --S p teinbirS. Oi tho same day there will bo tun a lap race worth £6O, a t'-rce-mib handicap for £l2O, and a intrhm race of ihtame distance for £l6O Oa liio sicond day, September 0, international nioes will '•’o held for piiz aof £3OO On September 10 ihe grand przi of iho Exposition for amateurs, vatued at £IOO, will be run in tr.al he.aa, and a IUO-mii? pivcM race for £•100 will bs Ihe feature. Ou September 12 the t-emi-finals and finals of the grand priz a of Ihe Exposition for amateurs and piofcesionulj will be held, and there will be a thiity-onc-milo race, with pacemakers, for £230. September 12 will lie the International Day, with lenmi of three men from each nation, for £260. For September 14 and 15 there are carded tho “Foreigners’ P'ize,” at I,o9+yds, heats and finals, for £IOO and a twenty-four-hour race, paced, for £I,OOO. Tho total prize-list foots up to £II,OOO, which will serve to attract many Amoiicaa riders, as well as a host from European countries.

Six-day bicycle races having been legislated against as brutal, the contest this year (viys the N-w York correspondent of the ‘Morning Leader’) was started with men competing in piiirs. Each rider is consequently only twelve hours a day on the track, but the brutality of the contest is thereby only increased. The competitors ride at a terrific pace around the small boarded track, and probably some 3,000 miles will ba covered by the end of the week. The men eat a-wheel. One day two riders while catching food thrown to them swerved aud fell from their bicycles, both men be : ng badly injured. The ‘ Journal ’ affirms that morphine injections were used on the Frenchman Pertain, whose trainers insisted on his earning his pisssgo money home. The riders seemed dezed and semi blind as they pursued their wild course round the track."

W. Martin estab’Lhcd a gond ride up at E iglebawk (Victoria) during the Christmas holidays, riding a mile on a wet track in Imin 49 4-sjcc behind a Dunlop motor. The ride was all the more creditable on account of Marlin'having previously ridden in several hard races during the afternoon.