Kolarz Polski, Vol 2, No 1
Articles in this issue
- Board notice that racers must exchange their licences for 1927 ones by 1 March 1927 or pay a fine, listing the five particulars required (name, year of birth, address, club membership, club colours) and directing applicants to the Union secretariat at Oboźna 3, Dynasy, Warsaw.
- Resolutions of the Polish Skating Union board: admit the Jewish club Żyd. T. G. S. "Makkabi" on payment of dues, order 100 competitors' health cards for distribution to member societies, duplicate and circulate the P.Z.Ł. regulations, and send a questionnaire to the skating section of the Kaliskie Towarzystwo Cyklistów.
- Editorial arguing that Poland's hundred-odd cycling societies, which have propagandised the sport almost solely among adults, should organise schoolboys into cycling detachments in agreement with the school authorities, teaching correct riding and running Sunday excursions for some three thousand youngsters.
- Review of the 1926 road season defending the Warszawskie Towarzystwo Cyklistów's running of the Polish championship against the Lwów club's "poisoned coffee" allegations, and profiling Kazimierz Duszyński (Polish champion and winner of the 564 km race round the Kraków province in 29h 30m), Bartodziejski, Ziembicki, Lange, Kamiński and Gronczewski, with a table of the nine provincial championships won by Duszyński, Miller, Malicki, Piotrowicz, Ignatowicz, Ziembicki, Salski, Dawid and Pisarski.
- First instalment of "Pomian"'s training manual: the evolution from the crouched high-bicycle position to the modern machine's five points of support, a first year of touring before racing, choosing between sprint and distance or track and road, 10 km group sessions, running and rope-skipping, regulated sleep and meals, and massage — recommending the Polish preparation "Vital" over acetic-acid rubs and talc.
- Instalment of Wiktor Junosza's serialised story in which Kazik Konic, riding a road race to impress Miss Marychna, secretly loosens the screw on Walski's wheel after Walski stops to retrieve his race number; Walski's wheel collapses in the final sprint and Konic wins alone, only to be sickened by his own conduct.
- Training article on long-blade speed skating which defines excellence by proximity to national records rather than by wins, citing Łazarski, Szymczyk, J. Lang and Höchsman among cyclists and W. Kuchar and Jucewicz's Olympic performance among skaters, and prescribing complete abstention from tobacco and alcohol plus a sleep length tested over successive timed training runs.
- M. Bodalski urges preparation for the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics: the Warszawskie Tow. Cyklistów's new fund-raising commission should be imitated by every cycling society, while the skating union — with no funds and only Kuchar and two or three others — must pick a squad at the coming Polish championships and send it to train on an artificial rink in a neighbouring country.
- "Pomian" welcomes the public-health section opened by the paper "Głos Prawdy" and Professor Szymanowski's account of Andrzej Sztanfar's work in Yugoslavia, then attacks the demotion of Poland's Health Ministry to a department of the Interior Ministry, Warsaw's overcrowded damp cellar dwellings and its scarlet-fever outbreak, arguing that Poland's sporting records measured against France, Italy, England, Germany, Czechoslovakia and Finland are the real balance sheet of national health.
- Foreign chronicle: Mac-Namara and Linari win the New York six-day with 5,680 km 322 m and 884 points from Giorgetti-Belloni and Winter-Stockholm; Martinetti avenges his Wrocław defeat by beating W. Spencer twice in Milan; the Blanchonnet-Raynaud match and the "Nowy Rok" and "Noël" sprint meetings in Paris with Michard, Faucheux, Kaufmann, Moeskops, Guyot and Grassin's motor-paced 30 km wins; Linart's crash at Dortmund; and, under skating, Kolbjørn Andersen's 500 m at Oslo, Chamonix Hockey Club's 11:0 over Star Lausanne and the departure of Poland's ice-hockey team under Osiecimski-Czapski.
- Editor's answers to correspondents: Mr Koszutski of Kalisz is refused on grounds of block-making cost, Mr M. Wilczyński of Warsaw is again given the address of the sportsmen's medical advice clinic at Żórawia 28, Mr A. Szmidt of Łódź is thanked and promised publication next number, and Mr Ł. J. of Kraków is told the bound annual volume of "Kolarz Polski" is ready and sent on request.
- Home chronicle: the Warszawskie Towarzystwo Cyklistów's prize-giving of 23 December, with gifts to Stanisław Gronczewski on his twenty-year jubilee and speeches by vice-president Nakoniecznikoff, Fr. Szymczyk, K. Harasimowicz and M. Bodalski; and from Kraków the opening of the skating season with Cracovia's 3:0 ice-hockey win over Makkabi on 26 December 1926 and a combined Makkabi-Cracovia side's 4:0 over Sokół, alongside a complaint that Warsaw's 35-year-old skating society still has no artificial rink.
- Stan. Rudnicki, captain of the Z.P.T.K., condemns the summer "tourists" who set off round Poland or round the world by bicycle without money and then beg from club officials, newspaper offices and consulates abroad, noting the Union's standing resolution forbidding member societies to organise or support such trips and that Kraków's eight cycling clubs will give them no help, while properly accredited touring cyclists remain welcome.