Vol 1, No 14
Articles in this issue
- Board of the Polish Skating Union (7 December) drafts a model statute for member societies, admits the Bydgoskie Towarzystwo Wioślarskie's skating section, and names the new Lwów Skating Society board headed by president Dr Zbigniew Barth.
- The business office sends No. 14 to all subscribers as an exception despite No. 13's arrears demand, warning that unless subscriptions through No. 18 (1 March 1927) are settled by the New Year the loss-making paper will suspend again with no hope of revival.
- The editors' Christmas Eve address wishing Polish cyclists good results and Olympic laurels, with a photograph of the builders of the newly completed Kalisz track.
- Pomian's long review of Poland's 1926 racing season, criticising organisers for dropping the 400 m time trial and other events, and giving rider-by-rider verdicts on Łazarski, Szymczyk, Podgórski, Garley and Szmidt including their Milan world-championship rides; continued on p.6.
- A warning against amateur-designed concrete tracks, citing the botched banking exit at Kraków and Kalisz's near-disastrous 45-degree banking scheme rescued at 37 degrees, urging proper design for the new tracks planned at Łódź, Lublin, Warsaw and Lwów.
- "Sław."'s first instalment of a skating tuition series on mastering the edge to pass from straight lines to curves, advising beginners to master the back-inside edge before tricks and to spend most of their ice time practising alone.
- "Fes." replies to a reader's letter defending short-distance racing, citing Gędziorowski's paced records against stayer Lange, Garley's win over Bartodziejski and Lange, and Szymczyk's kilometre records as evidence; continued on p.9.
- Instalment of Junosza's serial: Kazik Konic abandons his cousin Jerzy Walski mid-race after Walski's chain fails, then plots to fake a fall in their next 20 km race to let Walski win; continued on p.9.
- "Rdzawiec" reports on the new municipal stadium being built at Fort Szczęśliwicki near Warsaw under engineer Suszyński, including a 666.67 m concrete cycling track around an athletics track and stands for 25,000.
- A cartoon feature explaining cycling slang to laymen, such as "usiadł na kółko" (sat on the wheel) and "kicha nawaliła" (the tube gave out).
- "R." welcomes Polonia's public protest against being linked to football professionalism and its stand for pure amateurism, with a photograph of Łazarski, Martinetti, Szymczyk and Boyocchi lining up for a "match of speed".
- Foreign chronicle: Wambst–Lacquehay lead the new Madison Square Garden six-day, Oppermann sets a 100-mile record of 4h 36m 4s, and young Pole Henryk Szamota wins the international Prix de Septembre on the Buffalo track in Paris; continued on p.12.
- Home chronicle: winter training opens on Dynasy's indoor track, Erwin Pydde dominates Gniezno's season report, Kalisz's concrete track nears its May 1927 opening, and Kraków's season closes with Kołek's Legja championship and Hilfstein's Makkabi title.
- The Polish Eugenic Society opens free medical advice for sportsmen at its Żórawia 28 clinic, and the paper urges every club to require a health card for each rider.
- The Warsaw Cyclists' Society (Nakoniecznikoff, Zagoździński) protests the No. 13 report's wording on Podgórski's win over Łazarski as impugning the champion and judges; the editors partly retract but maintain Podgórski caused the collision; continued on p.15.