Show etrGicBtlfflc3 I e All of the racing men have now Fettled down to regular training at the Becks Hot Springs track and they are doing some splendid work The new men who are anxious for honors in the Decoration Day road race arc doing their training in more secluded quarters It is said that there are a good many surprises in store this season 00 The little strip smoothed off inside the Liberty Park drive for the wheelmen pleases the riders very much Daniel Jones made a good job of this and now he is using his efforts to persuade the horsemen tq take the outside of the drive leaving the little strip for the cyclists cy-clists The request is quite generally followed fol-lowed and the arrangement Is a good one all around Tiffin O May 11At a meeting of the Ladies Cycling club the question of wearing bloomers was thoroughly discussed dis-cussed This was made necessary by two of the members appearing in bloomer costume one evening when a run was called and the rest refused to ride with them After a spirited discussion a vote was taken which resulted in a narrow majority in favor of skirts but when a rider goes out alone she can wear what she pleases but when she appears with the club she must wear the regular skirt New York May 13The race meeting of the Asbury Park Wheelmen Is making arrangements for the national championship champion-ship races of the League of American Wheelmen that will insure a successful meeting of all the leading class A and Bracing B-racing men The track of the Athletic association Is to rebanked and a new surface possibly cement laid The earliness of the meeting In July this year will likely result in bringing together all the old class B men for the first time this season as previous to meeting at Asbury park the tournaments will be distributed throughout the country coun-try where the prominent racing men will be scattered i San Franciscp May 13 Frank M Byrne of the Imperial Bicycle club has broken the worlds record for five miles He made it in 121313 He started from scratch in a fivemile handicap road race tend finished fifteenth J E Edwards another scratch man rode the distance in 131333 The previous record was 1215 |