Vol 1, No 4

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Kolarz Polski, Vol 1, No 4 cover

Articles in this issue

  • Minutes of the 28 March 1926 Z.P.T.K. general meetings in Warsaw (27 societies, 155 votes), covering the new statute's first reading, Bodalski's report on 54 newly admitted clubs, and the sporting report on M. Lange's Polish road championship and the Amsterdam world championship team.
  • Signed "Pomian", a technical treatise ranking sprinting, road racing, track distance and motor-paced "sztajer" riding by physical demand, citing Frank Kramer, Moeskops and Schilles alongside Polish riders Szymczyk, Łazarski and Stankiewicz.
  • Relay races organised by the Z.P.T.K. for the 3 May holiday carried dispatches from Kraków, Poznań, Upper Silesia and other regions to Warsaw, where President Wojciechowski received the arriving pairs at the Belweder over two hours.
  • The W.T.C.'s 50 km season-opening race on the Miłosna road was won by Jerzy Koszutski (Kaliskie T.C.) in 1h 57m 14s from Bartodziejski and Kamiński, though Koszutski broke his collarbone when a spectator rode into him at the tape.
  • Foreign round-up assessing pre-championship form of Martinetti, Mazairack and Abegglen among others, headlined by Victor Linart's eighth Belgian motor-paced championship at the Buffalo track in a record 1h 15m 48s and Henri Suter's win in the 524 km race around Paris.
  • Editorial notice asking provincial correspondents to send reports by registered post at least five days before the press deadline, to avoid late publication.
  • Domestic round-up led by the Towarzystwo Cyklistów w Warszawie electing Prince Seweryn Czetwertyński president, plus Kazimierz Włodarczyk's win in the fifth "Stadjon" road race and club reports from Łódź, Mińsk Mazowiecki, Kraków and Grudziądz.
  • Continues the Z.P.T.K. club directory (nos. 46-71) across the Lwów, Poznań, Pomeranian, Polesie, Wilno and Silesian voivodeships, from Lwowskie Towarzystwo Kolarzy i Motorzystów to Towarzystwo Cyklistów w Siemianowicach.
  • Publisher's notice that from 15 May 1926 Kolarz Polski's editorial and administrative offices moved to Nowy Świat 70 in Warsaw, at the "Impet" firm's premises.