Vol 1, No 8
Articles in this issue
- Z.P.T.K. board communiqué exempts women racers from needing a licence, lifts Antoni Gabrych's suspension from 1 July, and names the world championship team for Milan and Turin, Łazarski, Szymczyk, Garley, Podgórski and Szmidt on the track, Ignatowicz and Serbeński on the road.
- The Z.P.T.K.'s eleven standing rules for club rallies require the host society to organise the whole day's programme, arrange meals and lodging, and provide a guide for every visiting group, with visiting clubs giving seven days' notice and covering any shortfall from wrong headcounts.
- Editorial argues Polish cycling's weakness is a lack of will, only three record attempts in six years, and proposes a formal record structure (track and road, national and club classes) with challenge badges and portraits of record-holders displayed in club rooms.
- Signed "Sportowiec", Jan Łazarski (Cracovia) beat Franciszek Szymczyk (W.T.C.) by half a machine in 12.8 sec for his third successive Polish track title at Dynasy, receiving the amaranth jersey from Major Fyda; Garley beat Podgórski in the second final.
- Kazimierz Duszyński (W.T.C.) won the 214 km Polish road championship from clubmate Tadeusz Bartodziejski by three-quarters of a length despite six punctures, with Ziembicki of Brześć nad Bugiem third and M. Lange fourth.
- W. Junosza's Paris correspondence on the Grand Prix at Vincennes: in 1926 Germany's Engel won the amateur race from Oszmella and Galvaing in 12.8, while Faucheux beat 1924 Olympic champion Michard twice in the professional final after eliminating Schilles and Moeskops.
- Home news: the third day of Warsaw's track meeting with wins for Kędzierski, Makowski and the W.T.C. quartet over 4000 m, the W.T.C.'s coming 40th jubilee, and provincial championships including Salski taking Kielce, Malicki Poznań, Dawid Katowice and Ignatowicz Lwów.
- Boxed editorial notice asking provincial correspondents to send manuscripts by registered post at least five days before the issue appears, to stop reports being printed late.
- Foreign chronicle led by the 20th Tour de France (6000 km, 103 starters, defending champion Bottecchia) with stage wins to Jules Buysse, Aimé Dossche, Van Slembroeck and others, plus the Leene brothers taking the Dutch titles at Amsterdam and Grandi Allegro winning the Italian road championship.
- On 9 July, "Czaty" reporter A. Sienkiewicz set out to cycle around Poland via Kraków, Zakopane, Lwów, Wilno, Gdańsk and Poznań back to Kraków, travelling without money and living off promotional sales of "Kolarz Polski" and "Czaty" along the way.