Vol 10, No 11
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Articles in this issue
- Willis B. Troy arranges Zimmerman, Banker, Wheeler and other foreign riders for a Madison Square Garden Thanksgiving-week carnival with over $10,000 in prizes, a 24-hour race and a fortnight of matinees; Zimmerman has cleared about $40,000 on the season.
- Chicago C.C. ten-mile road race: C. H. Peck breaks McDuffie's ten-mile record in 24:39, and Holmes and Osmun set a tandem world record in 24:02 after the tandems were allowed to start with singles.
- George W. Wolfe of Chicago reaches New York in 6 days 9 hours 30 minutes, 1,038 miles by cyclometer, 36 hours faster than Letter-carrier Smith's record; Smith sets out again with The Bearings checking his times.
- At Waltham, Johnny Johnson beats H. C. Tyler in the Class B mile invitation with Murphy's help and the tandem pacing of Mayo and Saunders; Harley Davidson of Toronto is the star of the Class A races, and the season's last American track meet ends.
- At Salt Lake, Weiler wins the three-mile handicap and a Social Wheel Club championship heat but loses the half-mile scratch to Evans on a heavy track.
- A. C. Van Nest of the South Side Cycling Club rides five miles in 11:19, beating Lagan's 12:09 record, paced by Osmun and Holmes on a tandem and by single wheels.
- J. A. Robertson takes the British one-hour record at Herne Hill with 26 miles 1,670 yards; McNish and Scott's tandem beats 12 to 50 mile records; the Anchor Shield 12-hour race (Walters 258 miles 120 yards) and Fontaine's 375 miles in the North Road 24-hour are reported, with a note on Miss White's riding costume.
- The New York Recorder's 25-mile road race over the Elizabeth-Rahway course: a wrong turn disqualifies the leading group, Thomas Hughes wins the regular time prize in 1:09:27, beating Louis Callahan's American road record, and George Coffin is awarded second; tin tacks on the North Road are also reported.
- The editorial urges Chicago wheelmen to back N. H. Van Sicklen's county-office campaign and to vote as a bloc, after both parties court the Associated Cycling Clubs and offer money to the editor.
- The editorial condemns Dr. Santee's privately circulated letters against I. B. Potter in the New York chief-consulship contest, and notes that The Wheel gave the Luscomb-Santee side its columns.
- Editorial on the suppression of English road racing after the Blauvelt and Miller accident near Philadelphia, arguing that clubs must prevent accidents or lose the sport.
- Cleveland notes: Louis Gimm's 24-hour record attempt at Newburg, the C.W.C. club road race of October 19 with a novel handicapping slip system, a Lakeside club reception, and the Cleveland team's record trials at Terre Haute.
- Colonel Pope and George Day visit Chicago unexpectedly, and C. A. Benjamin and C. E. Weaver arrive, both enthusiastic about tire prospects for 1895.
- Sacramento, October 10: Long and Delmas break the flying-start quarter-mile tandem record in 24 4/5 seconds, Upson the Class A unpaced quarter, and Ziegler's record attempt ends when his wheel breaks.
- Providence, R.I.: the Woonsocket Hobo Wheelmen's tournament, where Sylvester beats Hackett in a $1,000 match and E. Hall lowers the state flying-start mile record to 2:19 3/4.
- At Salt Lake, the seventeen-year-old J. C. Royle lowers all Utah records from six to ten miles, rides ten miles in 27:33 and 25 miles in 1:10:54, and sets an hour record of 21 1/4 miles.
- Janesville, Wis.: Ed Church wins the mile handicap and Kenyon, on a Monarch, the mile open, beating Sanger and Howie of Milwaukee; summaries of the meet.
- Henry Talley, formerly of the Overman Wheel Co. and lately of the Diamond Rubber Co., shoots himself at Akron after a quarrel with his sweetheart.
- The Manhattan Bicycle Club's road races over the Englewood-Tenafly course, with C. J. Dimick winning the one-mile handicap and R. G. Betts the two-mile, in front of a crowd of about a thousand.
- Lee and Gundry, handlers of the Liberty bicycle, make a deed of trust for their creditors with liabilities of $6,000 against assets of $2,000.
- Results of the Interstate Fair races at Sioux City: Fredrickson wins the quarter-mile open and Ashley the one-mile handicap.
- Philadelphia clubs abandon Montgomery Avenue road racing after the Blauvelt and Miller injuries and press attacks; Church wins the Quaker City Wheelmen race from scratch in 12:13 1/4 on a new Bryn Mawr course, and the Associated Cycling Clubs discuss scorching, the Frankford lantern parade and club membership.
- J. A. Weaver of the St. Louis Cycling Club cuts Bert Harding's round-trip De Soto record to 9 hours flat on a 23-pound Rambler, with a 7 hour 20 minute riding time.
- Waltham notes: a week of wind and rain for the record men at Waltham, Johnson's neck boils and skating plans, the Callahans and Murphy's camp life, and the Mayo and Saunders pacing story.
- The Associated Cycling Clubs' 25-mile interclub road race: Porter of Waltham wins in 1:22:42 from Butler, Cambridgeport takes the team prize by 18 points to Waltham's 17, and McDuffie's tire bursts early.
- The Olympic Club Wheelmen's first race meet at the Reliance oval, Alameda: a rutted clay track, ten falls, no coast records, and summaries with F. Howard Tuttle as announcer.
- B. W. Twyman of Louisville rides 340 miles in 24 hours on the Southern driveway, but the Century Road Club says a 2.5-mile parkway with one timer per end is not a recognised course; a bicycle carnival for the boulevard is planned.
- Castalian Springs, Miss.: a three-day meet on a new quarter-mile clay track, where A. C. Abbott of New Orleans makes the fastest time and Z. S. Oliver of Memphis takes six firsts; the day-by-day summaries are given.
- The Maryland chief-consul election: Mott declines, Reed is ill, Dr. Gwynn stands, Unverzagt is likely to be re-elected as secretary, and a dealers' track row at a Baltimore meet is recalled, with the park track's future in doubt.
- Lon Hyde, a novice rider on a Sterling, breaks Utah records from six to ten miles, with ten miles in 28:20 4/5; F. C. McCall of Denver holds a novice mile of 2:15.
- Lyons, France: a policeman tries to eject Zimmerman from the Velodrome after the gate is locked; Zimmerman wins the final from Wheeler, Lambrecht, Michelet, Gibert and Kubler, and Wheeler complains of a 10-franc entry fee.
- Mount Holly, N.J. fair-ground meet: Charley Church wins the two-mile handicap and the Class A mile, Taxis and Maddox split the Class B events, and Ganse wins the five-mile handicap at 425 yards.
- San Jose, Cal.: Otto Ziegler, Jr. beats pacer M. M. Wood over a half mile in 1 minute and a mile against a horse-drawn sulky; the pool-selling on the race worries his friends, and The Bearings awaits the Racing Board.
- Letter from R. P. Searle answering an Erie report that the Cleveland pacemakers left him; he says the slow pace was due to the heavy wind between Painesville and Erie.
- Chairman H. E. Raymond's open letter to the New York division, defending the Potter ticket and attacking Dr. Santee's private letters as scurrilous.
- Former chief consul George R. Bidwell certifies that I. B. Potter received no payment from the division for the Liberty bill, and that Potter cut his bill in two.
- Annie Londonderry leaves Chicago from the Columbus Fountain to continue her round-the-world ride on a white Sterling wooden-rim bicycle, via Bordeaux, Constantinople, India, Japan and San Francisco.
- Metropolitan news: F. J. Titus ill with typhoid, a Long Island Wheelmen tour to Newburg, a proposed mile course at Monmouth Park, a Harlem cycling academy, Pantata the monkey and the stickers, Roberts' Citizens' ten-mile race, Cahill's Jersey City story, the Coney Island wheelway fund, and Overman's letter for a cinder path from New York to Chicago.
- Trenton, Mo. two-day meet: G. A. Maxwell of St. Louis wins the open races and sets a Class A state half-mile record; B. J. McGuire takes the Grundy County events.
- The Idler's standing column, opening with a rebuttal to Mrs. Kendal, who denied in the Tribune that she ever rode a cycle, after interviews in which she challenged Zimmerman on the track.
- A satirical mock stump speech on politicians courting the bicycle vote for the 1896 presidential campaign, praising the candidate who rides a wheel.
- A run of humorous items: a Harty and Smarty joke about a sold wheel, Willie Herrick's 3 a.m. meal in Philadelphia, the Idler's note on The Idler at the Schiller Theater, the bandits who had no wheels, and a bloomers joke titled Necessity the Mother of Invention.
- The French Medical Academy adopts Dr. Hallopeau's report on Dr. Leon Petit's paper, finding moderate cycling harmless to the heart, with only the learning and hill-climbing efforts called dangerous.
- Short item from Le Cycle comparing Dutch and Belgian roads, with Wolfe's Fowler and Reindeer tires and the Elastic Tip Co.'s New England agency.
- Manufacturers' letters, quoted by Eclipse president H. A. Fulton, object to the National Board of Trade's space prices and bidding for the New York cycle show at Madison Square Garden.
- New York, October 9: the American Dunlop Tire Co. says the Pope Mfg. Co. will adopt the Dunlop detachable tire through the Hartford Rubber Works; Colonel Pope and George Day say the contract is not yet signed.
- A. G. Spalding returns on the New York with French poodles, Willis Troy and George Gould; Lamb Mfg. passes to Spalding control, Raleigh and Wolff prepare 1895 lines, and Overman, Simplicity 47 tires, Godfrey's Gazelles and Knowles's century riding are noted.
- Philadelphia cycle show rumours: no local show has yet been started, with Jacob Rech selling the Sterling and Taxis riding one, the Overman branch manager on vacation, and the Powell Cycle Co. opening.
- Town-by-town trade notices: new stores in Augusta, Washington and Toledo, closures and sales of Louisville, Springfield, Freeport and Tacoma businesses, a Trenton infringement suit by Morgan and Wright, and a Holyoke rubber company.
- J. C. Knowles of the Kings County Wheelmen completes 3,000 miles in thirty days on a League Chainless with Simplicity 47 tires, through a rainstorm, and continues to October 31.
- Louisville trade news: J. W. Spalding buys out his partner, the Union furniture house takes the Falcon agency, W. A. Rubey and A. P. Viglini dissolve, and a new cycle factory is planned.
- The London correspondent on amateur fees, the trade's complaints about makers' records, the Stanley show, the Boudard gear, a bamboo bicycle, the Rudge-Whitworth combination and the gear craze.
- Washington, October 8: steel-tube makers Philip S. Justice and Co. and the Ellwood Ivins and Shelby Steel Tube companies write to the Senate finance committee, asking for ad valorem duties in the Wilson tariff in place of the specific duty on cycle tubing.