Vol 2, No 6
Articles in this issue
- The Union board circulates member clubs' proposed amendments to the draft Z.P.T.K. statute ahead of the general meeting, including raising entrance fees, barring racers from board office, and grading subscriptions by club size.
- Editorial welcoming the government's physical-education resolution and Piłsudski's scientific council, and supporting state honours for long-serving Polish sports organisers.
- "S. R." recalls a 215km Whitsun 1922 tour through the Pieniny and Dunajec gorge, urging riders from the plains to see the Carpathians before frontier restrictions close the route.
- "Pomian" complains Polish sporting papers are unobtainable in Upper Silesian kiosks while German titles circulate freely, and regrets no Warsaw cycle-ball team has emerged to play the Silesians.
- Note on cycling for small children, praising the Fr. Zawadzki firm's tiny machines (three-year-old Wojtuś Zawadzki pictured) but rejecting French-style races for five-year-olds.
- "Rdzawiec" prints Baron de Coubertin's circular on sporting chivalry, then attacks Polish track riders who treat boxing-in and jostling as "technique", demanding judges punish it severely.
- Track champion Jan Łazarski recounts becoming a cyclist, including wartime internment in Paris, a knee wound nearly costing him his leg, and wins over world champions Meyer and Martinetti.
- Opening article on cyclist troops in the World War, reviewing Germany's 18 (later 200) cyclist companies, and the cyclist formations of Austria, France, Italy, Britain and Russia.
- Foreign chronicle: the American Jaeger wins the Paris Critérium motor-paced 100km; Michard wins the international speed meeting; and Tonani-Lorenz win the Dortmund six-day.
- Home chronicle: Henryk Nakoniecznikoff elected W.T.C. president with Prince Czetwertyński made honorary president after twenty years, and the city grants a 17,000m² site for a new track.
- Kraków district notes: R.K.S. Legja and Ż.K.S. Makkabi announce their 1927 race calendars, including the Kraków–Wadowice 100km and the Kraków–Zakopane mountain race.
- Miscellaneous notes: two Lwów club members resign, and Wacław Kwieciński resumes training after a serious track crash the previous summer.
- The Polish Skating Union's general meeting of 13 March re-elects Józef Szwejcer president and resolves to draft championship rules and press for a Warsaw artificial rink.
- Editor's replies to correspondents, including an apology to Mr M. Karpiński of Łódź.