Vol 2, No 1
Articles in this issue
- Board notice that racers must exchange their licences for 1927 by 1 March or pay a fine, listing the required particulars and directing applications to the Union secretariat at Oboźna 3, Dynasy, Warsaw.
- Resolutions of the Polish Skating Union board: admit the Jewish club "Makkabi", order 100 competitors' health cards, circulate the P.Z.Ł. regulations, and query the Kaliskie Towarzystwo Cyklistów's skating section.
- Editorial urging Poland's cycling societies, which have propagandised mainly among adults, to organise schoolboys into cycling detachments with the school authorities and run Sunday excursions for some three thousand youngsters.
- Review of the 1926 road season defending the W.T.C.'s running of the Polish championship against Lwów's allegations, profiling champion Kazimierz Duszyński (winner of the 564 km race round the Kraków province in 29h 30m) and listing the nine provincial championship winners.
- Pomian's first instalment of a training manual covering riding position, a first year of touring before racing, choosing sprint versus distance, group sessions, and regulated sleep, diet and massage, recommending the Polish preparation "Vital".
- Instalment of Junosza's serial: Kazik Konic secretly sabotages rival Walski's wheel during a road race and wins alone, then is sickened by his own conduct.
- Training article on long-blade speed skating measuring excellence against national records rather than wins, citing cyclists Łazarski, Szymczyk and Lange and skaters Kuchar and Jucewicz, and prescribing abstention from tobacco and alcohol.
- Bodalski urges preparation for the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, calling for every cycling society to copy the W.T.C.'s new fund-raising commission while the cash-strapped skating union picks a squad from the coming Polish championships to train abroad.
- Pomian attacks the demotion of Poland's Health Ministry and Warsaw's overcrowded, disease-ridden housing, arguing that Poland's sporting results against France, Italy, England, Germany, Czechoslovakia and Finland are the true measure of national health.
- Foreign chronicle: Mac-Namara and Linari win the New York six-day, Martinetti avenges his Wrocław defeat by beating W. Spencer twice in Milan, Linart crashes at Dortmund, and Kolbjørn Andersen sets a 500 m mark at Oslo.
- Editor's answers to correspondents, including Koszutski's refusal on cost grounds and confirmation that the bound annual volume of Kolarz Polski is ready on request.
- Home chronicle: the W.T.C.'s 23 December prize-giving honoured Stanisław Gronczewski's twenty-year jubilee, and Kraków's skating season opened with Cracovia's 3:0 ice-hockey win over Makkabi.
- Z.P.T.K. captain Stan. Rudnicki condemns penniless touring cyclists who beg from officials and consulates abroad, noting the Union's resolution against supporting such trips and Kraków's eight clubs' refusal to help them.