. The bicycling world . he Surrey man came home a popularwinner. Osmond was fourth, Synyer retiring. Time, Mayes, 4-5S-; Hinchclifte, 2m. 44 1-5S. : Mendy-Parry, 2m. 44 4-5S. Finally, came the piece de resistance, the great race for the challengeshield, the qualified teams being as follows :—England : W. A. Ills-ton, F. J. Osmond, J. E. Fenlon, and E. M. Mayes. Germany: and Ed. Lehder. Scotland : J. Ireland:J. F. Williamson. The event was run off in two heats and a final. Final heat:—England i, Scotland 2, Wales 3.—W. A. Illston i, Osmond 2, J. E. Fenlon 3, J
. The bicycling world . he Surrey man came home a popularwinner. Osmond was fourth, Synyer retiring. Time, Mayes, 4-5S-; Hinchclifte, 2m. 44 1-5S. : Mendy-Parry, 2m. 44 4-5S. Finally, came the piece de resistance, the great race for the challengeshield, the qualified teams being as follows :—England : W. A. Ills-ton, F. J. Osmond, J. E. Fenlon, and E. M. Mayes. Germany: and Ed. Lehder. Scotland : J. Ireland:J. F. Williamson. The event was run off in two heats and a final. Final heat:—England i, Scotland 2, Wales 3.—W. A. Illston i, Osmond 2, J. E. Fenlon 3, J. G. Paterson 4, D. Mendy-Parry and Paterson did most of the pace-making, the rest hangingon excepting Parry, who fell to the rear. Illston got the lead whenthe bell rung, and stalling off a determined challenge on the part ofOsmond, won by eight yards. Time, 15m. 14 3-5S.; Osmond, 4-5S-; Fenlon, 15m. i6 3-5S. Thus securing the shield a secondtime for England. 212 THE BICYCLING WORLD IS July, Bate, i6o yards, first; Charles Paynter, 250 yards, second. Time,7 m. 20 sees. Opening games of Yonkers Athletic Club, upontheir new grounds. Two-mile handicap, four entries: MorganMarshal, first; time, 6 min. 32 3-5 sees. NEW YORK. Nothing probably has more clearly shownthe moral effect of the Bicycle Bill, than thechange of base on the part of the press,« -TRF RA VFN ^^^ ^ many cases allowed itself to beused for partisan purposes by irate andbigoted horse-owners. The persistency andconsequent success of the wheelmen, and the display of their per-fect organization throughout the State and country at lai-ge, hasopened the eyes of the press, and consequently those of the public,to the fact that Me are men, not boys, and are a power too strongto be either laughed down or over-riden. The politicians, too, everready to trim their sails to a favoring breeze, have seen in the one weraised over the attempted defeat of the bill, evidence sufficient towarrant them to e
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