Vol 1, No 2

19268 articlesPolish

Kolarz Polski, Vol 1, No 2 cover

Articles in this issue

  • Leading editorial argues physical culture advances only through disciplined federation, urging every affiliated club to stop delaying so the Związek Kolarski can represent Polish colours abroad; illustrated with a photograph of K. S. "Cracovia" building its track.
  • Signed "Pomian", argues touring is what makes cycling the king of sports and attacks Polish outings that end in a roadside inn, calling on clubs to organise multi-day summer tours to the sea, the Tatras, Silesia and the source of the Vistula.
  • Wiktor Junosza continues his six-day survey: Ghent won by Van Hevel and C. Debaets, New York by Gerard Debaets and Goosens, Brussels by Van Kempen and Van Nek, Berlin by Mac Namara and Horan, and Breslau by Van Kempen despite being paired with the third-rate stayer Feja.
  • Foreign results: Martinetti won the "August Lehr" amateur prize at Dortmund and Linart beat Grassin at Brussels behind motors, while world champion Kaufmann swept every heat at Marseille; also covers Girardengo's Milano–San Remo, Verschueren's Tour of Flanders and Delbecque's Paris–Roubaix.
  • Signed "Ursus", reports the 23 March 1926 delegates' congress in Warsaw (27 societies, 135 votes), where the extraordinary meeting referred the draft statute back to clubs and the annual meeting under Mieczysław Bodalski recorded 31 new member societies (73 total) and the founding of "Kolarz".
  • Home news: the Warsaw Cyclists' Society's 14 March tour to Bielany with 50 riders, and Duszyński's new half-hour track record of 18 km 45 m at the close of the winter season, plus club programmes from Kraków, Wieliczka, Sosnowiec, Katowice, Poznań, Częstochowa and Mińsk Mazowiecki.
  • The Warszawskie Towarzystwo Cyklistów's tabulated 1926 race and tour programme, from the 25 April season-opening road races to the 24 October closing track meeting, including the Warsaw and Polish championships and the Tour of Poland on 30 July–1 August.
  • First instalment of a street-address directory of the Polish Cycling Union's affiliated societies, listing 37 clubs across the Warsaw, Łódź, Kielce and Kraków voivodeships.