MR LANGDOWN IN AMERICA.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1410, 18 November 1886, Page 2

MR LANGDOWN IN AMERICA.

Mr W. P. iangdowo does not appear •to have found his trip to America bo pleasant as hia friends hoped it would be. In a letter received by the last San Francisco mail, and dated New York, September 30, he atates that he has been seriously ill. He Bays —“I think it was very foolish of me co ride at all (at Springfield), as I was all bioken up The weather at Springfield nould kill an 'army mule. It is a damp sort c£ heat, and at night is something tumble. Near Sacramento, coming acro s in the cars, I fainted fr m the heat, and had dysentery badly for over a At Topeka it was ICG in the shade, and we bed the theimonoeter at that for three days. When I had training on the t’ ck at Sprinefisld for fou - days i did 2m>n 39sco for the mile, avid smin 23 ac for two miles. This is within l|*ec of record, 1 was doing the same ouk as J H. Prince, who was training me, and wap 1 not strong enough. At present I am laid up with malaria; I did not get to the Lynn rices, as I did not feel welt enough The Newark racoi are on, but itws out of toe quoa ion for me to go." Sp? aking of the probable visit of professional cyco.ats f o this part of the world, Mr Langdown rays : “Wood and J'tm’s are talking about io’ng to New Zaa'tnd and Australia They are very nice fellows indeed and if they do come I hope the boys will treat them right. They are very different to what I expected professionals would be like. The? are quiet, gentleman y and unassumin and are very much liked." Fr;.d Wood, whose name is mentioned by M> best all round professional cyclist in England, and visited America to take part-in the last Spris,-field tmrn»me'>t. He waft through pessangor by the ’Frisco mail boat at Auckland or -innday last. He will probably make | et-ty in New Zealand previous to re utning to England. Mr Langdowa does not seem to have been particularly impressed by the hospitality extended to him In America He says :—“The night I got there the Springfield Club took me to a restaurant and gave me some pueper, and after that they did not take the least notica of me Dueler (the S’cretary), is. however a very nice follow irdead, and ia genuine, and so are eomo ef the o her men in the Club.”