A contest of "professional resourcefulness" organized by l'Intransigeant, with the help of l'Echo des Sports and La Pedale The cyclo-porteurs battle in teams for the Challenge du Petit Parisien
The organization of the Critérium Cycliste des porteurs de journaux, which will be run January 31 - this Sunday - is in a period of great activity!
The race commissioners met at l'Intransigeant to make the final arrangements for the event organized by l'Intransigeant, with the assistance of l'Echo des Sports an la Pedale. Numerous cycling clubs from the Paris region spontaneously placed themselves at the disposition of the race organizers. Let us mention in particular Halles Sportives, l'Association Sportive Audonienne, the Sporting Club du IXe, the Societe Sportive des Suresnes, the Union Vélocipédique de Puteaux, Vaugirard-Grenelle Sportif, Montparnasse Sportif, Grelot Parisien, Cyclo Club de Grenelle, Lutèce Sportif, Club Sportif de Vanves, Vélo Club Montreuillois, Vélo Club Daumesnil, National Cyclo Club, Voltaire Sportif, Cyclo Club de Belleville, Vélo Club du XIXe, Vélo Club du IIIe, Montmartre Sportif, Cyclo Club de Colombes. As one can easily note, the agglomeration of Paris Sportif, guided with authority by M. Jean Michel, gave tremendously. Right off the bat, we deeply thank the leaders and members of these sporting clubs for their precious collaboration.
The Challenge du Petit Parisien
Our partners le Petit Parisien offer a trophy valued at 1200 francs which will be held by the winning team for one year.
The ranking will be obtained by adding the finishing places of the best-placed riders of each journal.
In case of a tie on points, the victory will be given to the team with the best-placed rider.
Incomplete teams will be able to compete for the challenge, but, each cyclo-porteur missing will count for as many points as there are competitors finishing inside the time limit, plus one.
The team which wins the Challenge du Petit Parisien three times, consecutively or not, will keep it permanently
Of course, the teams must be made up exclusively of cyclo-porteurs or cyclo-porteuses.
The organization of the controls
Here is how the various controls will be run:
Start Control: Office of l'Intransigeant, 100, rue Réaumur, under the direction of M. Emilien Robert, et de la rédaction sportive del'Intransigeant, with the assistance of Halles Sportives.
Control place Clichy: Au Muguet (proprietor H. Tixler), 5, place Clichy, under the direction of M. Eugene Lion, with the assistance of the Association Sportive Audonienne et du Vélo Club du IXe.
Control Mailot: Café-restaurant Trianon (proprietor Decouture), 80, avenue de la Grane-Armée, under the direction of M. Levacher, with the assistance of the Societe Sportive de Suresnes and of the Union Vélocipedique de Puteaux.
Control La Motte-Piquet: Café Fraboulet (proprietor Fraboutet), 132, boulevard de Grenelle, under the direction of M. Schlatter, with the assistance of Vaugirard-Grenelle Sportif, Montparnasse Sportif, Grelot Parisien and Cyclo Club de Grenelle.
Control place d'Italie: Brasserie-Restaurant Rozès (proprietor Lasnier), 20, place d'Italie, under the direction of M. Borson, with the assistance of Lutèce Sportif and Club Sportif de Vanves.
Control place de la Nation: Café Philippe-Auguste (proprietor L. Coutel), 7, place de la Nation, under the direction of M. Gaubert, with the assistance of Vélo Club Montreuillois, of Vélo Club Daumesnil, and National Cyclo Club.
Control Belleville-Temple: A la Vielleuse (proprietor L. Duchemin), 120 et 122, boulevard de Belleville, under the direction of M. J. Michet, with the assistance of Voltaire Sportif and Cyclo Club de Belleville.
Control Villette-Jean-Jaures: à la Rotonde (proprietor Bertrand), 202, boulevard de la Villette (coin de l'avenue Secrétan), under the direction of M. Machard, with the assistance of Vélo Club du XIXe and Vélo Club de IIIe.
Control place Blanche: Café-Restaurant Coquet (proprietor A. Thiel), 80, Boulevard de Clichy (place Blanche), under the direction of M. Vannest, with the assistance of Montmartre Sportif and Cyclo Club de Colombes.
Finish control: Place Constantin-Pecqeuer, Mairie de la Commune libre de Montmartre.
Finish line judge: M. Ulysse Ferriot, assisted by M. Andre Gary.
A possible itinerary
For informative purposes, both for the competitors and for the interested sportsman, here is a possible, but - we must repeat - optional, route.
Rue Réaumur no. 100 (office of l'Intransigeant), start, rue Montmartre, rue du Faubourg-Montmartre, rue Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, rue Fontaine, rue de Douai, boulevard de Clichy.
Place Clichy, mandatory control. Boulevard des Batignolles, boulevard des Courcelles, place des Ternes, avenue des Ternes, rue Saint-Ferdinand, avenue de la Grande-Armée.
Porte Maillot, mandatory control. Avenue Malakoff, place du Trocadero, rue Franklin, boulevard Delessert, rue Beethoven, avenue de Tokio, pont de Passy, boulevard de Grenelle.
La Motte-Picquet (corner of boulevard de Grenelle and avenue La Motte-Picquet), mandatory control. Boulevard de Grenelle, place Cambronne, boulevard Garibaldi, rue de Sèvres, boulevard de Montparnasse, boulevard de Port-Royal, avenue des Gobelins.
Place d'Italie, mandatory control. Boulevard de la Gare, pont de Bercy, quai de la Râpée, rue Villiot, rue de Rambouillet, rue Erard, rue de Reuilly, boulevard Diderot.
Place de la Nation, contrôle obilgatoire. Avenue Philippe-Auguste, boulevard de Menilmontant, boulevard de Belleville.
Temple (corner of boulevard de Belleville and rue du Faubourg-du-Temple), mandatory control. Boulevard de Belleville, boulevard de la Villette.
Jean-Jaures (corner of l'avenue Jean-Jaures and boulevard de la Villette), mandatory control. boulevard de la Villette, boulevard de la Chapelle, boulevard de Rochechouart, boulevard de Clichy.
Place Blanche, mandatory control. Rue Lepic, rue Tourisque, rue Caulaincourt.
Place Constantin-Pecqueur, Finish.
Over 150 registrants
The care with which arrangements for this test have been made is well-known, as it is that the race is well-equipped to reward the "roule-toujours" for the hard efforts they will have to make. The rest follows in a splendid fashion. Today, the list contains 150 names. Will the second hundred be named?
The new registrants
Here are the latest registrations which we have accepted and recorded, subject to their review by the technical committee:
WALHIN (Alphonse), 33 years, Intransigeant
MARS (Emile), 24 years, Agence Parisienne
VANSYNGEL (Marcel), 31 years, le Quotidien
LOUGUENEUR (Marcel), 39 years, Daily Mail
BOEL (Louis), 61 years, Intransigeant
BOLNET (Edmond), 35 years, Intransigeant
OZANNE (Lucien), 36 years, Intransigeant
CATINAT (Robert), 40 years, La Liberté
FROMENT (Rene), 25 years, Intransigeant
THIERRY, 47 years, Intransigeant
ANDRE, 23 years, Paris-Sport
SAMYN (Armand), 17 years, Messageries Hachette
WORMS (Henri), 18 years, Intransigeant
HODEN (Manola), 17 years, Messageries Hachette
VIZET (Eugene), 22 years, Spécial
BRIAND (Emile), 45 years, La Liberté
BAUDIN (Henril), 39 years, Intransigeant
CAILLOT (Charles), 32 years, Intransigeant
ENGER (Paul), 26 years, Intransigeant
VESSERON (Louis), 29 years, Intransigeant
SUFFIZE (Louis), 19 years, La Presse
LINDEN (Michel), 26 years, Information
BALTHAZARD (André), 43 years, Coopérative
BARDIN (Albert), 41 years, La Liberté
SCHWEIGER (Camille), 46 years, Intransigeant
Note the registration of the veteran of veterans, Hoel, who is more than sixty, and still has good feet and good eyes.
This evening, it closes!
Registration for the Critérium Cycliste des Porteurs de Journaux are accepted at the Cafe de la Grille, 121, rue Montmartre. A commitment fee of 5 Frances is due, in order to assure perfect regularity of the registration. but it will be reimbursed to those who start.
Closure of registration will be strictly enforced on Wednesday January 27, at 6 pm. After this time, no further registrations will be accepted. Any competitor challenging the qualifications of another should contact the Commission technique des Cyclo-porteurs, Echo des Sports, 13, faubourg Montmartre, Paris (9e). This commission will meet shortly after the close of registration to discuss, if neccessary, any complaints it has received, and to produce the final list of competitors.
Raining prizes
Our associates Aérauto offer a prize of 50 francs to the oldest cyclo-porteur who finishes within the time limit. It should be noted that more than one thousand francs of toys will be given by Aérauto to the "gosses à Poulbot" after the race, through the commune libre de Montmartre.
Le Taverne Fantasio, 16, faubourg Montmartre, offers 3 bottles of champagne Ayala.
M. Henri Colnot, porteur at l'Information, offers 50 fr. to the highest-placed of his clerks.
Le Papou maintence products, 121, rue Montmartre, offer the first ten porteurs a box of tubes of Le Papou wax, value 15 francs, and to the first five porteuses a liter of brilliant Le Papou, liquid polish, value 15 francs. Also, a tube of wax will be given to each entrant.
MM. S. Charles et P. Borelly, heads of sales at l'Intransigeant, offer to the 4 fastest porteurs of their journal, respectively 20, 15, 10 et 5 francs.
Morever and always, to the porteurs of l'Intran, MM. Dobanton, Conangle, Delière, Debruges, Saint-Andre, Goulet, Viaud, Fohrer, Karm, Glomot, Féry, offer prizes of 5 or 10 francs for various special attributions. Finally, M. Bartaire offers to the most senior of the veterans, a basket of fine wines, and a tray of fruit preserves and fine chocolates.
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