Vol 10, No 12
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Articles in this issue
- Otto Ziegler of California takes the world's mile record from John S. Johnson with a flying-start 1:50 at Sacramento on Oct. 16, beating his pacemakers easily.
- Ziegler's trial on Oct. 15 at Sacramento, running ahead of his pacemakers in the last quarter, in preparation for the Johnson record.
- Four more world's records fall at Sacramento on Oct. 11: R. S. Long and Tony Delmas on a tandem, C. S. Wells, L. S. Upson, and a Ziegler quarter claim.
- At the Decatur, Ill., race meet A. I. Brown (Class B) and W. J. Klinger of Terre Haute (Class A) set quarter-mile records, with full summaries.
- Roy Tisdale of the Salt Lake Cycle Co. team lowers the two-, three- and four-mile Utah state records, completing the team's set from a quarter to 25 miles.
- Letter-Carrier A. E. Smith completes his Chicago-to-New York ride in 7 days 13 hours 35 minutes, beating the northern route record by over 8 hours despite a fall at Peekskill.
- London letter by C. W. Hartung: Wridgway regains the London-to-Bath-and-back record, W. Ellis rides 100 miles on a tricycle in 4:38:58, Piatt Betts lowers the two-mile safety record, and the Herne Hill versus Putney track-surface debate and the N.C.U. record rule are discussed.
- The exposition's Wheelmen's Night, with Sousa's band and copies of The Bearings handed out; L. D. Cabanne, Bert Harding, E. E. Anderson and G. A. Maxwell plan record attempts and the De Soto run on October 28.
- H. E. Raymond, chairman of the L.A.W. Racing Board, becomes vice-president and superintendent of agencies of the Sterling Cycle Works, Chicago, from December 1; sub-head 'Raymond's Farewell' gives his open letter to L.A.W. members; sub-head 'Raymond's Resignation Refused': President Luscomb declines it, so Raymond stays chairman until February.
- George Banker wins the grand prize of Paris at the bicycle races, ahead of the Frenchman Delansorme, taking a work of art, 750 francs and a gold medal.
- Louis Gimm of the Cleveland Wheel Club breaks Spooner's 24-hour record with 383 miles 1,490 yards at the Newburg track, riding a Triangle on Morgan & Wright tires; a photograph of the Sterling team accompanies the page; its sub-head 'Gimm's First Trial' covers the abandoned first attempt on Oct. 12, called off in rain at 87 1/2 miles after a fall.
- L.A.W. Colorado division election contest: J. A. McGuire against W. E. Perkins of the Ramblers for chief consul, with the Denver Wheel Club ticket likely to win.
- W. B. Troy sails on the Campania to rejoin Zimmerman, saying the Madison Square Garden deal is still on; sub-head 'The Monarch Road Race': Monarch Cycle Co. employees' five-mile race at Palmer Square won by P. Van Tine, Haas in 13:44 from scratch.
- Editorial on Ziegler's 1:50 mile, which places him in the front rank with Bliss, Sanger, Johnson, Bald and Titus.
- Editorial on charges by W. S. Daniels of Plymouth, Ind., that George W. Wolfe's New York-Chicago record was faked, with The Bearings offering to supervise record checking.
- Editorial calling on a manufacturer to offer a trophy for 24-hour racing, in the manner of England's Cuca Cup, after Gimm's record over Spooner's.
- Editorial warning makers against doubling output for 1895 and repeating the disastrous overproduction of 1893; with sub-headed fillers 'The Seven Ages' (Chicago Record parody of life on pneumatic tires) and 'Centurion Gunther' (J. F. Gunther's thirty-five centuries in thirty days on a Czar).
- Louisville letter on rising cycle thefts, B. W. Twyman's court-martial fine and coming 24-hour attempt, Kentucky division elections, a southern circuit proposal by C. J. Sherer of Memphis, and the Jockey Club's ban on bicycles; sub-head 'Davidson Among Canadian Records': Harley Davidson of Hamilton, Ont., lowers Canadian records.
- New York column attacking Chairman Raymond's selective reclassification of Class A riders (Blauvelt, Sims, Scott, Grosch and others) and urging an open amateur and professional division with pool betting; sub-heads 'Sims as a Football Player' (W. F. Sims at Swarthmore, with notes on Banker, Knowles, Taylor, Titus) and 'Two New Road Records' (Monte Scott's 25 miles in 1:05:21 and R. P. Searle's 100 and 200 miles).
- Frank Dampman, Abe Powell and John Wells beat the 108-mile Pennsylvania Bicycle Club course record; Time Wheelmen officers, George Gideon as Racing Board candidate, the Tioga track, and the Yelva Wheelmen's meet; sub-head 'The Course Was Short': Chicago Cycling Club course found 197 feet short, voiding Peck's and Holmes and Osmun's records.
- Zimmerman and Harry Wheeler leave Paris for Italy; Lesna wins the Paris-Bar le Duc road race after Frank Waller loses his way, the Michaux monument is unveiled, and Huret wins the 100-kilometre championship of France.
- R. P. Searle starts from Chicago City Hall on a Syracuse for the Chicago-to-New York record, unpaced and checked by the Century Road Club, aiming at 5 days 15 hours; sub-head 'Prices for '95': Sterling and Monarch set $125 standard prices.
- Burns Pierce of the Linden Bicycle Club wins the 100-mile road race at Chelsea, Mass., in 6:28:52 through mud and rain, with McDuffie and Nat Butler scratch and full results; sub-head 'The Roxbury Run' (Roxbury Wheelmen's ten-mile handicap, won by Earnest Ford in 28:05) follows it on p15.
- Description of the galvanized steel hand-shaped road sign for L.A.W. roads, sold at $1 by Sterling Elliott of the Highway Improvement Committee, Boston.
- E. C. Stearns racing bureau's head-to-head win table: Sanger .683, Johnson .565, Cabanne .457, Bald .433, Bliss .423, Murphy .400, Titus .377, Tyler .348.
- Maryland division nominates J. A. Arnold for chief consul amid poor finances and track debts; also notes Searle's 200-mile road record in 12:44:45 and the Channel crossing by Brown's nautical bicycle.
- Chicago cycle show preparations by the National Cycle Exhibition Co., with a list of firms allotted bicycle-department space; sub-heads 'The Falcon All Right' (C. Maxson Smith's San Francisco-Pomona ride) and 'Single Tube the Type for '95' (75 per cent of Hartford orders).
- The Tillinghast Mfg. Co.'s proposal of a universal valve and pump thread draws a reply from A. H. Overman of the Overman Wheel Co., who wants a coarser thread.
- Interview with Col. Albert A. Pope on Columbia sales in Europe, the Humber, the New York cycle show's space bonus rule, Madison Square Garden and the rival Chicago show; sub-head 'Shelby Steel Tube Co.'s New Price List' (wider size range).
- George Houk of the Eclipse Bicycle Mfg. Co., Beaver Falls, Pa., shows the 20 1/2-pound '95 Eclipse and a new detachable tire at the editor's ninth-floor office.
- C. E. Weaver, formerly of Mcintosh-Huntington Co., Cleveland, now manages tires for the Boston Woven Hose & Rubber Co. and shows a tiny new valve and a detachable tire.
- Rambler records on G. & J. tires: C. S. Wells and Long and Delmas at Sacramento, J. A. Weaver's 9-hour De Soto round trip, and Millard Lee's Portland six-day win.
- The Leow 10,000-mile cyclometer from the Capitol Mfg. Co., Chicago, weighing four ounces at $2.25; sub-head 'Trade Visitors' lists Chicago trade callers.
- F. E. Weaver of the Eagle Bicycle Mfg. Co. answers an American Wheelman item on Shelby tapered tubing, defending Eagle's cold-swaged reinforced joints.
- London trade gossip by Will o' the Wisp: R. L. Philpot at Coventry Machinists, Dunlop buying part of Singer's works, the Boudard Gear Co. prospectus, large chain wheels, vulcanite rims, tube sizes and trade spending on records.
- A Fort Madison, Ia., wheelman proposes large moulded numbers on the head of the bicycle to help recover stolen wheels.
- Frank T. Fowler of the Hill Cycle Co. reports a good year and improvements for the 1895 Fowler; Horace Bell sells 500 bonded Humbers in England.
- Bert C. Van Nest of the South Side Cycling Club wins its road race, breaking the American five-mile record in 11:19, paced by Osmun and Holmes.
- The Indiana Bicycle Co. ships its '95 Waverley Scorcher, listing at $85 and weighing 25 pounds.
- Yost Mfg. Co. signs Ziegler, Gus Steele, C. R. Coulter and C. Harbottle for its racing team and previews the 1895 Falcon line and prices; sub-heads 'Evansville Trade Is Peculiar' (Evansville dealers and proposed bicycle tax), 'Shelby Steel Tube Co. Officials for 1895' and 'A New St. Paul Firm' (A. D. Smith's store).
- Failures, incorporations and removals across the trade, plus Monarch's plan for 15,000 wheels in 1895, Derby's prison-labour factory at Jackson, Mich., and Lamb's factory extension; sub-heads 'Riggs Leaves Stearns' (F. C. Riggs succeeded by E. H. Wilcox) and 'Salesmen Wanted' (Monarch).