Vol 2, No 6

Articles in this issue

• Komunikat Związku Polskiego Towarzystw Kolarskich (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• ODZNACZENIA PAŃSTWOWE W SPORCIE (opens in a new tab)

  Editorial welcoming the government's physical-education resolution and Piłsudski's scientific council, and supporting state honours for long-serving Polish sports organisers.
• „CUDZE CHWALICIE, SWEGO NIE ZNACIE” (opens in a new tab)

  "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.
• ZAPOMNIANA SPRAWA (opens in a new tab)

  "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.
• MILUSIŃSCY W SPORCIE KOLARSKIM (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• W IMIĘ RYCERSKOŚCI W SPORCIE (opens in a new tab)

  "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.
• ANKIETA „KOLARZA” (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• Rower na wojnie światowej (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• KRONIKA ZAGRANICZNA (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• KRONIKA KRAJOWA (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• OKRĄG KRAKOWSKI (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• Różne (opens in a new tab)

  Miscellaneous notes: two Lwów club members resign, and Wacław Kwieciński resumes training after a serious track crash the previous summer.
• ŁYŻWIARSTWO. (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• Odpowiedzi Redakcji (opens in a new tab)

  Editor's replies to correspondents, including an apology to Mr M. Karpiński of Łódź.