Kolarz Polski, Vol 1, No 2
Articles in this issue
- Leading editorial arguing that physical culture only advances through disciplined federation: a handful of enthusiasts makes a club, clubs make a union, and the union's council is the brain whose organs are the member societies. It urges every affiliated Towarzystwo to stop delaying its business so the Związek Kolarski can represent Polish colours abroad; illustrated with a photograph of K. S. "Cracovia" building its track.
- Signed "Pomian", a plea that touring is what makes cycling the king of sports, since a tourist of 40 or 50 still rides 100–120 km a day where a footballer or boxer is finished, as mass cycling in Holland, Denmark, France, Italy and Germany shows. It attacks Polish outings that end in a roadside inn or beer hall and calls on club committees to organise multi-day summer tours — to the sea, the Tatras, Silesia and the source of the Vistula — bringing back detailed road reports for the magazine's columns.
- Wiktor Junosza continues his survey of the 1925–26 six-day season: Ghent, won by Van Hevel and C. Debaets after Verschelden's fall; New York, where the road champion Gerard Debaets and Goosens beat Mac Namara–Giargetti; Brussels, taken by the "flying Dutchman" Van Kempen with Van Nek; Berlin, won by Mac Namara and Horan after Girardengo and Knappe broke collarbones; and Breslau (Wrocław), where Van Kempen beat the whole German coalition despite being saddled with the third-rate stayer Feja. Illustrated with portraits of Mac Namara, Cugnot, Lonet, Stockelynck, Vandenhove and Giorgetti.
- Foreign results column: the "August Lehr" amateur prize at Dortmund's Westfalenhalle won by Martinetti from Oszmela and Galvaing; winter velodrome meetings in Paris, Brussels (Linart beating Grassin by three metres over 50 km behind motors), Milan, Marseille — where the world champion Kaufmann beat Michard, Schilles, Poulain and Spears in every heat before sailing for America — and Rome. Also Girardengo's Milano–San Remo in the rain, Charles Pélissier's French amateur cyclo-cross title, Verschueren's Tour of Flanders, Delbecque's Paris–Roubaix, Blanchonnet's Paris–Évreux, and a table of the winners of the last nine six-day races.
- Signed "Ursus", a report of the delegates' congress held in Warsaw on 23 March 1926, with 27 societies present carrying 135 votes. The morning extraordinary general meeting, chaired by vice-president Cichocki of the Łódź W.T.C., referred the draft statute back to the clubs; the afternoon annual meeting under president Mieczysław Bodalski recorded 31 new member societies (73 in all) and the founding of "Kolarz", heard Ziembicki's best provincial 100 km time of 5h 16m 2s, made Bodalski an honorary member, and left Pawiński acting as president.
- Home news: the Warsaw Cyclists' Society's opening tour of 14 March to Bielany with 50 riders and the actors Wł. Walter and Sielniewski, and the close of the winter training season on the Dynasas track, where Duszyński set a new half-hour record of 18 km 45 m ahead of Sadcza and Popończyk. Club programmes follow from Kraków ("Cracovia" building a large concrete track for June), Wieliczka, Sosnowiec, Katowice, Poznań, Częstochowa — criticised for allotting only one day to road racing — and Mińsk Mazowiecki.
- The Warszawskie Towarzystwo Cyklistów's tabulated 1926 programme of races and tours, running from the 50 km "Season Opening" and "First Step" road races on 25 April to the closing track meeting on 24 October. It includes the Warsaw and Polish track and road championships, the Tour of Poland on 30 July–1 August, the Warszawa–Lublin–Warszawa road race and the "Grand Prix of Warsaw", paired with outings to Miłosna, Bielany, Wilanów, Łowicz, Ojców and Nadarzyn.
- Adresy Towarzystw Kolarskich — członków Związku Polskich Towarzystw Kolarskich. (opens in a new tab)First instalment of a street-address directory of the Polish Cycling Union's affiliated societies, marked "G. d. n." (to be continued). It lists 37 clubs across the Warsaw, Łódź, Kielce and Kraków voivodeships, from the Towarzystwo Cyklistów w Warszawie on Obożna and the "Sokół" and "Makabi" sections to the Łódź clubs "Union", "Resursa", "Bar-Kochba" and "Rekord", and on to Sosnowiec, Częstochowa, Radom, Kielce and the K. S. "Cracovia" cycling section.