Vol 10, No 14
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Articles in this issue
- Harry Tyler cuts the world mile record to 1:48 3/5 at Waltham on 27 October, with the tandem and class A marks Haggarty, Porter and Gardiner-Bainbridge set alongside it.
- Tyler's flying-start two-mile attempt at Waltham on 29 October finishes in 4:04, slower than his standing mark of 4:03 in cold wind, while Porter sets a class A standing-start mile of 2:00.
- Myrtle Hopkins is run down by W. H. Wells's tandem team in Washington Park on 23 September, and The Bearings records Wells's refusal to help and opens a subscription for her.
- A Louisville mother and daughter's rivalry over bloomers ends in ridicule on the boulevard, and the note covers Twyman's planned 100-mile attempt, a local meet and the dealers' carnival.
- Johnny Johnson rides an unpaced straightaway mile at Buffalo in 1:57 4/5 on 30 October, after earlier attempts were spoiled by tyre and chain failures.
- Editorial calling on wheelmen to back a collection for Myrtle Hopkins and to hold Wells of the Turmey Electric Co. to account.
- Editorial urging wheelmen to vote for Van Sicklen, the cycling candidate for county treasurer, to show the wheelmen can decide a Chicago election.
- Walter Sanger's Union contract expires on 1 November and he leaves Waltham with his plans unsettled; Smith and McDuffie and Coleman and Thatcher are named as fast tandems.
- A Goshen hotel tale of a fierce-looking rider turns out to be Wolfe on his Chicago-to-New York ride; trailing notes give the Cleveland team's Decatur records and E. C. Bald's practice mile at Springfield.
- W. W. Watts's letter on Boston's plans for a three-lap metalithic track modelled on Waltham, and the Boston, Denver and Asbury Park fight over the 1895 national meet.
- Cleveland's Lozier-backed team: Cabanne's unpaced quarter at :25 and Rigby and Johnson's tandem quarter at :23, with the training quarters at the track and a southern trip planned.
- A. I. Brown sets a flying-start quarter of :23 3/8 at Decatur on 26 October, paced by L. C. Johnson and F. B. Rigby, and Bernhardt and Goetz take the unpaced third-mile tandem record.
- The Bearings explains the check cards used to vouch for George W. Wolfe's Chicago-to-New York ride after doubts over the Searle and Wolfe records.
- Chicago club notes: Wolfe's card appeal, the Chicago Cycling Club's Pullman run, the Illinois Cycling Club's membership drive, the Prairie and Lincoln club rivalries and the Ravenswood club's disbanding.
- Obituary of Wm. H. Halladay, aged seventy, president of the Marion Cycle Co. of Marion, Indiana, and an account of how his sons will run the firm.
- T. J. Pomeroy of Guadalajara describes Mexico's riders, Sterling and Stearns trade, the Mexican clubs and tracks, and its unpaced record-holders, Columbro, Sarre and de la Mora.
- Zimmerman wins the five-kilometre race at Florence, and George Banker takes the Grand Prix de la Ville de Paris in the rain at the new Velodrome de l'Est; J. M. Erwin's Paris letter calls the Vincennes track a rival to Buffalo and Seine and estimates Paris's cycle numbers.
- Annis Londonderry's Cleveland visit, where she sells brownie pins at 25 cents apiece at the clubs, is followed by notes on H. A. Lozier learning to ride and on Chicago-New York pacemakers.
- New York column: the M.A.C.C. accepts 15 per cent of the Madison Square Garden Thanksgiving races, Hawley resigns, the Riverside Wheelmen hold a beans-and-beer night, and the Brooklyn armory fair, a South Brooklyn century and Knowles's 6,000 miles are noted.
- Wolfe abandons his Chicago-to-New York ride in New York State after 65 hours of rain, having been ahead of schedule at Buffalo.
- A humorous story of Yank Kenny, a bartender turned prizefighter, and Jack Hamilton, president of the Ainsley Cycle Club, who saves the clubhouse from a crowd of sports by taking a collection for the key.
- Manufacturers' racing teams for 1895, the view that a racing win sells wheels, the Yost team of Ziegler, Steele, Harbottle and Coulter, and the lower $100 and $110 prices for high-grade wheels.
- H. P. Davis, Hoyland Smith and L. H. Johnson land at Queenstown from New York on the Majestic, planning to train at Herne Hill and visit Zimmerman in Paris.
- The Bearings canvasses the makers after Pope's $100 list for 1895: nearly all high-grade makers will list at $125, while Gormully, Stearns, Sterling, Winton, Marion, Syracuse and others state their plans.
- New York trade column: 1895 Crawford and Falcon prices, a bamboo bicycle, Overman's song books, Von Lengerke's resignation, League Chainless and Spalding at $100, and the trade's reaction to the Columbia price.
- The Philadelphia cycle trade meets to form an association for price maintenance, the fight against cycle thieves and an annual local show.
- Pope's announcement of the 1895 Columbia at $100 and the news that the Boston store becomes a branch under A. L. Pope from 1 November.
- Town-by-town list of cycle-trade incorporations, chattel mortgages, bills of sale, partnerships dissolved and new firms, from Hagerstown to Chattanooga and Louisville.
- The Pope, Hartford and Hickory companies are consolidated, with machines from $40 up sold under one name by one traveling man per district.
- A dinner at the Wellington hotel in Chicago, hosted by Kirk Brown and William Cahn of the Dunlop Tire Co. for ten cycle newspapermen and tradesmen, and a rumour that R. D. Garden will join Overman, which he denies.
- English trade column: Humber's C. W. Brown ladies' safety with a self-locking frame at 31 lb, the Boudard gear beaten by Whitworth in a tandem match, the Pivot chain, and a rumoured Raleigh-Humber amalgamation.
- Dallas dealers plan a big 1895 Texas season; the state fair stands of Covey Bros. and Marble, the Stearns agency for T. N. Parker and the Yost, Indiana and Monarch moves are reported.
- The Hall-Shone Co. of Rochester is incorporated with $10,000 capital to make mudguards and other bicycle specialties.
- Miscellany: Dunlop wins 33 of 42 national championships in 1894, the Dunlop universal-thread valve correction, Percy Patterson's National record rides, Arrow tire orders from Eclipse, Rex and Climax, and the Robinson trainer dial.
- Bert Van Nest rides five miles from scratch in 11:19 in the South Side Cycling Club's road race, breaking the American record, with the finishing order and officials given.
- Chicago trade column: Sterling and Falcon agencies, Cycle Row office moves, the Sterner sundries business, Columbia's 1895 front wheel, the Thistle factory expansion and Cassady's new Garford and Hunt saddle agency.
- G. & J. tires are to be made in France under a licence granted to Vital Bouhours of Paris, following Mr. Gormully's European trip.