Vol 10, No 1
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Articles in this issue
- Harry Tyler fails twice to lower Bliss's mile record at Waltham, the second attempt ending in a fall; Nat Butler sets six world's records from 1 1/4 to 2 miles, and Otto Zeigler breaks the Acme coast ten-mile record in Oakland.
- Otto Zeigler of San Jose cuts three minutes off W. H. Haley's Pacific Coast ten-mile record in the Acme Athletic Club race at Oakland, finishing ninth on scratch.
- The Kansas City Athletic Club asks to move its meet from 22 to 23 August to give western racing men time to arrive, with a banked quarter-mile track and big prize list.
- At the Toledo Cycling Club meet, Sanger and Johnson tie in the $500 mile open and a coin toss gives Johnson the bedroom set; Titus nearly beats the mile handicap from 20 yards.
- The M.A.C.C. meet at Manhattan Field in heat of 95 degrees sees two mass falls, one in the half-mile scratch with Smith and Royce down and one in the handicap that takes eleven men.
- Editorial welcoming the new American League of Racing Cyclists, formed at Indianapolis, while warning it must stay clear of the L.A.W. and not drift into professionalism.
- Editorial urging the Racing Board to investigate J. S. Johnson for quitting the Stearns team without cause, since manufacturers now have no recourse against riders who break contracts.
- Editorial on Nat Butler, the Cambridgeport rider who cut the two-mile record from 4:15 3/5 to 4:07 4/5 and may be a long-distance man for America.
- Editorial urging riders to attend the L.A.W. meet at Denver, the first held in the west, with its promised hospitality.
- Signed editorial by S. W. Merrihew defending Zimmerman against doubts after a reported Italian setback, with a short Watseka item on William Swinford sweeping the Paxton races folded in.
- Watseka News item: William Swinford wins every race and all the purses, about $29, at the Paxton bicycle races.
- New York news: the Asbury Park meet on 10-11 August, Perrett's bill-posting, Tom Stevens's pneumatic tyre story, a bicycle thief caught in Brooklyn, and the M.A.C.C. committee.
- Buffalo's Class A riders Goehler, Callahan and Leonert, and the Press C.C. against the Ramblers for the Rose cup on 8 September, with the city's road-record men and a 100-mile road event proposed.
- At the Lafayette meet P. J. Titus lowers Goehler's five-mile competition record to 12:28 in a handicap, Taxis beats Sanger in the half-mile, and a disputed mile is run again after Murphy is called back.
- Short circuit notes: the Rambler team's $1,350 in prizes, Will Pixley's wins, and a hotel overwhelmed by seventy-five racing men at Newark.
- English news: the Society of Cyclists congress at Maidstone with Sir Benjamin Richardson, the Cuca 24-hour race that Fontaine and Shorland are expected to contest, Bidlake's fifty-mile tricycle record and Chase's North Road fifty-mile record.
- Bliss wins the Lima half-mile by a length from Taylor, Murphy is six inches behind Sanger in the mile, and Tom Cooper takes the Class A mile and half-mile with a two-mile competition record.
- Chas. F. Stokes says he will close his Chicago retail store and sell his Milwaukee branch to the Union Cycle company, blaming list-price cutting and installment selling.
- The St. Louis judges' meeting on the Stearns and Lu-mi-num aluminium-frame tests ends without result; the tests are to be made against steel frames of the same weight at Ithaca.
- At Brasted, Kent, F. L. Wale beats A. E. Payer up the 700-yard hill climb promoted by the Catford club, in 2:43 on a Humber.
- The American League of Racing Cyclists is formed under W. H. Wells, F. Ed Spooner and M. L. Bridgeman, with the racing men's grievances over prizes, tracks, dressing rooms and judges, and Indianapolis officers listed.
- Birdie Munger, of the Munger Cycle Co., quietly marries Mrs. E. L. Gray at Marion, Indiana, ending the famous bachelor quarters at Indianapolis.
- Frank Hackett wins the Madison Club's twelve-mile road race from Sun Prairie, with the Milwaukee Mercury club's Racine course replaced and a full finishing table; Zimmerman's Bordeaux wins are noted.
- The Rover Wheel and Athletic Club works to make its 20 August national circuit meet at Pueblo, on a new three-lap track, a rival to the Denver League meet.
- Cable reports say Zimmerman repeats his Sunday win at Bordeaux over Loste, and Lumsden takes the Toulouse prize at the Paris races.
- Chairman Raymond suspends Fred D. Cartwright for thirty days and takes back his medal for a technical violation, and a Louisville club declines a national circuit date for 1894.
- The Chicago letter carriers' first ten-mile road race for a medal given by Postmaster Hesing, won by C. W. Green from an 8-minute mark.
- The Zig-Zag Club's Indianapolis meet of 27-28 July: an entry-fee dispute, the American League of Racing Cyclists formed on the spot, a slim crowd, and the mile, half-mile and two-mile races won by Bliss, Sanger, Titus and Bernhardt.
- Buffalo wheelmen fight an old ten-mile-an-hour ordinance and arrests in the park, and gather some seven thousand signatures for a cycle path.
- Over two hundred wheelmen attend the California Associated Cycling Clubs' picnic and run near San Mateo, in a eucalyptus grove on the bay.
- F. Goetz's feature on the Waltham track's cement surface, the banking, Lon Peck the starter and Billy Corcoran, with the Kings County Wheelmen clubhouse and the Portsmouth and Mt. Clemens meets folded in.
- The Kings County Wheelmen buy a $30,000 clubhouse at 78 Herkimer Street, Brooklyn, with a gymnasium, bowling alleys and tennis courts, ready by September, plus the Portsmouth and Mt. Clemens meets.
- J. M. Erwin reports Zimmerman beating the Englishman Barden in a match at the Velodrome de la Seine, Paris, winning the mile and then the five-mile tandem race in 11:55.
- St. Louis news: the Associated Cycling Clubs' 25 August meet at the Pastime track, Cabanne's rise, the Victor club's unsanctioned St. Charles meet and Boschan's Davenport time prize.
- Shorland breaks the twenty-four-hour record with 460 miles 900 yards at the Cuca cup race and keeps the trophy for a third time, Peterson second with 430 miles.
- L. C. Dowe of Cleveland wins the Detroit twenty-five-mile road race from scratch in 1:05:58 ahead of George Morris and A. F. Little, with the full finishing table.
- The West Philadelphia Cyclers vote to join the Pennsylvania Bicycle Club, the Riverton tri-county championship is set for August, and Century Wheelmen sign two riders.
- Preparations for the Chicago cycle show of 7-12 January 1895, with most space already sold to Lamb, Eclipse, Stearns, Union Cycle, Gormully and Jeffery and others; dealers' letters from across the west back a show in Chicago.
- The Dunlop-Michelin patent action and the 1846 Thompson specification, falling trade and the tricycle's exclusion from the Cuca race, Boudard and Grose gear cases, and a stolen Columbia caught in St. Louis.
- Bensinger, McDonald and Bowdish dissolve their Brooklyn partnership, Burris ships Simplicity 47 tyres to Europe, Webster rents Unions at a cent and a half an hour, and Schwalbach arranges an elevated-train baggage car for riders.
- H. C. Johnson, a Pope travelling salesman, runs down a bicycle thief in St. Louis and recovers a stolen Columbia.
- G. M. Allison and Co. reopen in a larger store after a fire, and the Louisville trade complains of price cutting by rival agents, with R. C. Whayne selling his own Southern wheel.
- Trade news from across the country: a Brazil opening for American makers, fires and store openings, and bankruptcies and new firms in Massachusetts, Ohio, Texas and elsewhere.