Vol 2, No 2
Articles in this issue
- The P.Z.T.K. publishes its 1927 calendar, Polish track championship 26 June, road championship 29 June, the 100 km "Naramiennik Polski" 28 July, and orders racers to exchange licences by 1 March at the Union secretariat, Warsaw.
- Full programme for the Polish Skating Union's Warsaw district championships (figure, speed over 500/1500/5000 m, and pairs dancing) on 23 January 1927 at the Dolina Szwajcarska rink, entries closing 20 January.
- Editorial arguing sport needs its own candidates in the coming municipal elections, since city councils tax cycle races as circus shows and levy a luxury duty on the bicycle despite it being an everyday tool for workers.
- Pomian's winter-training instalment: four weeks of rest after the season, a strict sleep and diet regime, a month of corrective gymnastics, then track/park/roller training resuming in January with skiing and skating as supplementary work.
- Inż. J. Jankowski on figure skating's physical demands and equipment, contrasting Vienna's two artificial rinks, which produced champions Böckl and Kachler, with Poland's lack of one.
- "Sław."'s instalment on long-blade speed skating technique, boot fit, blade mounting, the crossed-arms drill, with a two-week build-up of daily timed 3,000 m rides, illustrated by Oskar Mathiessen, Ludwik Kamiński and others.
- Launch of a new standing department, edited by Wiktor Junosza, on cycling's application to military signals work and new competitions matching army requirements.
- Junosza argues Polish cyclists have done too little for military preparedness, concluding that cyclo-pédestre cross-country racing builds the soldier-cyclist, and notes the P.Z.T.K.'s plan for provincial eliminators leading to a National Cross-Country Championship in Warsaw.
- Conclusion of Junosza's serial: rivals Konic and Walski settle their rivalry over Marychna in a 15 km match, but after Konic punctures deliberately, Walski waits for him and they finish together for glory rather than the girl.
- Miscellany recounting how bricklayer Ottavio Bottecchia was spotted as an army cyclist after carrying a machine gun up a steep hill, was urged by his officer to take up racing, and went on to win the Tour de France.
- Artur Schmidt of "Union" Łódź answers the paper's questionnaire, describing his start on a heavy touring bike in 1925, switching to a light machine after meeting racer O. Miller, and winning the Łódź voivodeship track championship in successive years.
- Foreign results: Willie Spencer wins the winter Critérium for foreign sprinters, Italy beats France in the Milan match through Giorgetti, Linari and Girardengo, Rielens–Vermandel win the Brussels six-day, and Michard retains the Paris winter sprint title.
- Home news: Warsaw's racers split between hall/roller training (Majewski, Duszyński, Szymczyk) and ice work, Łódź's A. Szmidt stands out on rollers, Kalisz forms a skating section, and Poznań's Sokół cyclists honour 66-year-old president Paweł Wrzesiński.
- M. B.'s comic sketch on the W.T.C.'s 6 January gathering, in fact the mock crowning of "King Migdał XVIII" at a children's party on Dynasy, with fanfares, halberdiers and praise for co-organiser Mrs Słojewska.
- "Alcho"'s Kraków report on nine small cycling clubs poaching riders from established societies, and Legja's first Kraków roller races on 16 January 1927, won unexpectedly by Wroński from Barzycki.