Cycling Extraordinary.
_ — • — (Per Press Association.) Sydney, May 30. The Hampden Cycling and Driving Club recently formed with the object — to quote the words of the originators — " that nice people might meet nice people in the nicest way," held its first meet at the Centennial Park, and had an effect which the promoters never contemplated. Some thousands of people of the baser sort turned up to see what the nicest people were like. These plebeian folk did not merely come to see, but, to show that no ill-feeling existed, they brought bikes and various other kinds ot vehicles from spring traps to fast bowling sulkies, with horses or wrecks of horses attached, while those who were merely foot-pas-sengers quizzed the " nice people." In one instance a Chinese Zimmerman evidently mistook a distinguished military officer for a pacemaker by the persistence with which he followed his wheel. The sights in many cases were most humorous. The meet is sure to be popular with the mass of the people, but whether the nice people will appreciate such popularity is another story.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 279, 1 June 1896, Page 2
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178Cycling Extraordinary. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 279, 1 June 1896, Page 2
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