A Track For Cyclers

New York, 1895

THE QUEENS COUNTY JOCKEY CLUB HAS A BIG SCHEME ON HAND.

Proposing to Build Half and Quarter Mlle Tracks at Aqueduct and Make it the Racing Centre of Eastern Wheelmen — Their Plans.

Cycle racing will probably enjoy a big boom on Long Island next season. Arrangements are being made to make it the cycling centre of the east, and if the plans of those interested in the movement do not miscarry there is little doubt that the attempt will be successful. The necessity of having a thoroughly equipped bicycle track near the cities has been made apparent during the past season, owing to the numerous injuries sustained by riders on local tracks, and the inability of crack men to do anything approaching record time. Attempts to interest capitalists in ventures looking toward the construction of a track up to the present-time have been in vain.

John S. Johnson has succeeded in finding men who are willing to take the chance of making bicycle racing in the East a success, and they are almost prepared to go ahead. The men whom Johnson has succeeded in interesting in the matter are the officials of the Queens County Jockey Club, whose track is situated at Aqueduct, in the town of Jamaica.

It is intended to make the track the fastest in the world, and have trials for records made on it. Training quarters will be established at the track and every facility offered racing men to prepare themselves properly for contests.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, N.Y., Jan. 4, 1895, p. 1.

Note: The article ends early because the page is ripped and the rest is missing. These details can still be gotten from the dangling half-paragraph: David Holland was vice president of the Queens County Jockey Club. "Our idea is to construct a track that will eclipse either the Waltham or [Fo——] Ferry tracks."