Kolarz Polski, Vol 1, No 11
Articles in this issue
- Editorial dedication signed "Redakcja" saluting the Warszawskie Towarzystwo Cyklistów on its fortieth anniversary, recalling how its founders presented a bastion of organised Polish life as a mere cycling club to get past the Russian administration of Hurko and Apukhtin. It closes by wishing the club to keep its old title of "Macierz kolarstwa polskiego" — the mother of Polish cycling.
- Signed "M. B.", a forty-year history of the Warsaw Cyclists' Society from its founding on 6 April 1886 under August hr. Potocki and Edward hr. Chrapowicki, through Antoni Fertner's campaign to build the Dynasy clubhouse and Warsaw's first cycling track (opened 18 September 1892 at a cost of over 65,000 roubles). It also covers the touring section — some 100 members riding over 60,000 km last year, and Jan Skrodzki's 1895 record of 10,806 versts — the singing circle, and the society's charitable and national work, including banquets for its honorary members Bolesław Prus and Henryk Sienkiewicz.
- Memorial portrait plate of departed W.T.C. men: founder-president August hr. Potocki, founder vice-president Edward hr. Chrapowicki, Antoni Fertner (a quarter-century as vice-president), Stanisław Leppert and Aleksander Kondracki.
- Portrait plate of the society's serving officers: president Prince Seweryn Czetwertyński, the jubilee's honorand; vice-president Henryk Nakoniecznikoff; and committee men K. Pawiński, St. Blikle, F. Wojtkiewicz, A. Jabłczyński, K. Wiciejewski and J. Wadowski.
- Photo plate of club life at Dynasy: the return from church, the 35th-anniversary gathering of hosts and guests, the 3 May 1916 and May Day processions, the W.T.C. parade at the unveiling of the Prince Poniatowski monument, and the first Congress of Cyclists at Kraków, 15–17 August 1919.
- Account of the W.T.C. in the Polish-Soviet war, when its roughly 60-man cyclist platoon carried some 400 dispatches over about 5,000 km for the Warsaw artillery command, once tracking a heavy-artillery unit from Radzymin as far as Brańszczyk near Wyszków. The article reprints Order No. 2 of General T. Rodziewicz thanking president Stanisław Blikle and the members for their part in the defence of Warsaw in August 1920.
- Mieczysław Bodalski's history of racing at the club, from the 1887–89 meetings on the horse-racing track to the Dynasy track, listing four generations of champions from Horodyński, Skrodzki, Osiński and the Barański brothers through Tkaczyk, Bodalski and Weiss to Szymczyk, Lange and Stankiewicz, and giving the roll of Polish road champions from Mieczysław Horodyński in 1891 to K. Duszyński in 1926. It ends with the club's two greatest successes: second place in the Paris Olympic "Race of Nations" of 1924 and the world 4,000 m team record of 5 min 9 sec set by Lange, Oksiutycz, Podgórski and Szymczyk.
- Portrait plate of W.T.C. racing men: Mieczysław Horodyński, first Polish road champion; Józef Lange, first road champion of independent Poland; Juljan Osiński, winner of the first Lwów–Kraków distance race; Kazimierz Duszyński, the latest road champion; and Fr. Szymczyk, first track champion of independent Poland in 1921. Below are the starts of the 1926 jubilee touring races, won by Śliwiński (juniors) and Kędzierski (seniors).
- Second racing photo plate: the 1908 finish on the earth track with Tkaczyk fighting Kudela, the 1921 finish on the concrete track, the 1906 motorcycle meeting with Dawidowicz attacking Piotrowski, the 100-verst race of 1910 approaching the finish, and an "archaic" (old-machine) race of 1918.
- Mieczysław Bodalski on the society's gymnastic circle, taken over after Marjan Olszewski by Dr Karol Noskiewicz, which finished second only to the Kraków Sokół team at Poland's first gymnastic competition during the W.T.C.'s 1903 sports exhibition and gave displays at the cyclists' rallies in Kalisz (1904) and Lublin (1905). In 1905 its members founded the "Czwartacy" Sokół nest under Jan Rudnicki, which still shares the Dynasy grounds with the W.T.C.
- Home chronicle: the first post-war industrial-sporting exhibition at Dynasy and a plea for a Polish sports-goods industry; the "Mazowia" club's track championship of the Mińsk Mazowiecki district won by Młoduchowski; the second Wagner cup road race at Łódź, retained by Pabjanickie Tow. Cyklistów (Szenrok, Falcman, Klimaszewski) ahead of Ł.K.S.; races at Niemce for the L.O.P.P. and R.K.S. Legja's Kraków–Wadowice–Kraków race won by Piotrowicz after Gnojek broke his handlebars. It closes with the W.T.C.'s formal complaint to the Z.P.T.K. over the Lwów club's press claim about drawing pins and black coffee at the Polish road championship.
- Foreign chronicle: Oskar Rütt takes a professional licence, Moeller wins the Elberfeld motor-paced hour with 85 km 20 m, Nicolas Frantz wins the third Tour of Spain ahead of Bottecchia, Moeskops beats Kaufmann at Amsterdam, and Achille Souchard sets a record 2 h 52 m 11 s in the French road championship. It also reports the Parc des Princes meeting where Ganay beat world champion Linart and then crashed, and the deaths a week apart of Gustave Ganay and the German pacer Frantz Hofmann at Hamburg.
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