Vol 10, No 2
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Articles in this issue
- Shorland rides the 24-hour Cuca Coca Cup race at Herne Hill, July 28, passing Huret's record and riding on despite sunstroke; the English letter also reports A. A. Chase's 50-mile road record of 2:16:13 and Pinkert's failed Channel crossing.
- The Ripon, Wis. two-day meet: Louie Reed takes the state championships, Lumsden wins the one-mile handicap, and Titus and Cabanne ride a tandem mile in 1:59, a world record, on the second day.
- Photographs with captions of Cabanne, Maddox, Taxis, Bliss, Ballard, Cooper, Steele, MacDonald, Lumsden and Bald at the Chicago meet, including the parrot and the monkey prizes.
- Editorial on the L.A.W. meet at Denver, where the League's officials stay at home to save $500, and advice to the Denverites to enjoy themselves without them.
- Defends Walter C. Sanger, who rode one Chicago heat while sick and left, against the Chicago newspapers' ridicule, and asks the press to stop.
- Argues that the public wants unpaced records, citing Titus's Chicago unpaced mile, Tyler's Waltham records, and Maddox's 2:15, and predicts an unpaced mile in 2:05.
- H. L. Stanwood of the Illinois Cycling Club sets out on the northern course to beat the Chicago-New York road record of 10 days 4 hours 30 minutes held by H. H. Wylie, on a 23-pound Sterling.
- Zimmerman, Wheeler and Banker ride the quarter-mile at the Sport and Play tournament in Birmingham, with Zim's 0:28 2/5 and Wheeler's 0:31.
- A humorous anecdote: a Jewish banker on his first spin balks at an old cyclist's warning of a 5 per cent grade and turns back to the city.
- Boston wheelmen's farewell dinner at the Nantasket House for L. A. W. secretary Abbot Bassett, leaving for Chicago, hosted by the Bicycling World, with speeches by Col. Pope, S. T. Williams, Sterling Elliott and Bassett himself.
- The Chicago meet of the Thursday to Saturday: Sanger withdraws ill after one race, Bliss falls twice and rides an exhibition half in 0:58 3/5, Titus rides a 2:02 mile, Maddox takes the one-mile handicap ahead of Leacock, and Arthur Gardner wins nine of ten Class A starts; also the unpaced-mile trials, with Titus at 2:14 2/5 and Maddox at 2:15, and the Last Day races, folded in as day sub-heads.
- Profile of L. D. Cabanne, the St. Louis rider who scored at Toledo and Indianapolis and in every Chicago race within the first five, and who is going to ride for the Cleveland team.
- The poorly run Milwaukee meet of 6 August, where one man acted as clerk, starter and everything but timer, and the Cleveland riders Brown, Johnson and Goetz took the two-mile handicap, and Sanger won the one-mile open in 2:38.
- Louisville news: Howard Jefferis plans a 24-hour attempt on the Louisville boulevard record, Raymond's false-entry question, the stalled grandstand subscription, and the cancelled Jefferis-Caperton championship race.
- The Kings County Wheelmen's ten-mile road race on the Merrick road near Jamaica, L. I., in a strong wind: F. E. Doup won off 45 seconds in 27:51, with the scratch men U. S. Paige and I. D. Phillips close behind.
- The Century Road Club's annual century from Elgin to Aurora: J. F. Gunther of the Lincoln C. C. finishes in 6:50 to beat the course record of 7:13, 132 of 175 starters finish, and Miss Annice Porter rides 8:22.
- At San Jose, Walter Foster sets a flying-mile record of 2:07 3/5 and Otto Zeigler a standing-mile record of 2:09 on the Rambler team's pacing, both with L. A. W. officials present.
- L. A. W. president Luscomb, back from the New York state camp at Peekskill, calls for cycling legislation and a wheelman in Albany, doubts he will go to Denver, and describes the Springer bill's passage; the New York column adds the Jersey 25-mile road race and the Ad-Withers meet.
- The Keystone Wheelers' planned steamboat circuit of Pittsburg, Wheeling and Steubenville from 28 September to 1 October, with the Eck-Raymond exchange at the P. A. C. races and the Buffalo-Pittsburg road race of 24-25 August, with a five-man Pittsburg team.
- The West Philadelphia Cyclers disband into the Pennsylvania Bicycle Club, with over one hundred members signing, and a denied rumour of a Quaker City Wheelmen and Columbia Cyclers merger.
- Jack Prince and Albert Schock tour the west and Pacific coast by exhibitions and match races, then New York; Schock has a 144-hour match with Terront for the professional long-distance title at Paris at Christmas.
- Harry C. Tyler breaks J. P. Bliss's flying-mile record at Waltham on 3 August, riding 1:53 3/5 after a 2:00 standing mile the previous Thursday, with a table of quarter splits against Bliss; Manager Atkins's remarks on the start and the $110 prize list.
- The Sterling Cycle Works attaches the C. F. Stokes Mfg. Co. in Chicago circuit court for $4,895, with several other creditors and assets said to cover the liabilities.
- Parisian journalists call Zimmerman a second-class man, and a sword duel follows between Leon Lobien and Darzens, ending in the fourth round when Lobien is wounded in the hand.
- Birmingham, 8 August: Zimmerman wins the ten-mile professional scratch race ahead of Banker, and the one-mile international race, Banker being disqualified and Wheeler sixth.
- The relay from Washington to Denver passes Danville, Ill., 17 minutes 10 seconds ahead of schedule.
- Paris, 22 July: Zimmerman wins the 2,000-metre scratch final and the mile handicap from 100 metres, covering the mile in 2:09 1/5, with Wheeler second, and the Florence race-fixing charge denied.
- Serial by A. S.: an Irrawaddy Steam Navigation accountant struck by jungle fever is nursed at Dr Hammond's bungalow near the Patanur fort, and shoots a tiger that has climbed the tree over the sleeping Marion Hammond, his bicycle having brought the news to the fort; chapters 2 and 3 continue on p.22-24.
- Denver, 5 August: the L. A. W. meet is ready, with the city's hospitality and a new three-lap track; the Rambler Pacific Coast team is pictured, and W. J. Edwards has left the Columbia team.
- Only fourteen spaces remain at the 1895 Chicago cycle show, with Frank Egan's opinion on Chicago against New York, a list of exhibitors, and agents' letters from across the west favouring Chicago over an eastern show.
- Ira Perego & Co., the L. A. W.'s official outfitters at 23 Park Row, New York, assign to John J. Connolly after failing to collect outstanding accounts.
- A quiet summer trade: Wright, Walker's $75 wheel, the Apollo wheel from E. K. Tryon, and Bolton's Victor orders, with Lozier's Philadelphia branch preparing for autumn.
- D. L. Cockley of the Shelby Steel Tube Co. closes a contract for half a million feet of tubing with J. C. Bowe of the Syracuse Cycle Co.
- A letter from the Excelsior Supply Co., Chicago: the injunction against it was only temporary, obtained under false representations and quickly dissolved, and its James '93 cycles are not sold as 1894 pattern.
- The Snell Cycle Fittings Co. of Toledo is booking '95 orders for novelty and patent fittings, and has spent $25,000 on drop-forge and enamel plant.
- A correspondent against wooden rims, praising Humber's racers in the Catford hill climb, and attacking case-hardened mild-steel bearing cones and the capital of the proposed Coventry Combination; New York trade paragraphs (Park Row Cycle Co., Jandorf, Herald Cycle Co.) run on.
- The New York trade is dead for the summer; Worden is at Rockaway, the Western Wheel Works' eastern branch is still on the road for Crescent orders, and the Lamb Mfg. Co. has sold its entire Spalding output and starts on the '95 models.
- Short notices of failures, chattel mortgages, sales of hardware and bicycle stocks, new factory plans and reorganisations across the United States, including the Everett Cycle Co. correction and a Pittsburg rubber works.
- The Hartford League Cycle Co. reorganisation: liabilities of $75,000 against $90,000 of assets, capital cut from $100,000 to $50,000 and $100,000 of new stock, with a follow-up letter from A. H. Parker.
- A list of recent US patents with filing dates, including Stebbins's variable-speed gearing, Dunlop and Jeffery pneumatic tyres, and Weber's bicycle.
- The Rudge company, Ltd., forms a Paris branch, Compagnie Francaise des Cycles Rudge, with $400,000 capital to manufacture at Levallois-Perret.
- H. J. Cassady sells his interest in Thorsen & Cassady to J. B. Thorsen and is looking for the control of a line of wheels for the entire west.
- Harvey W. Jenney, formerly president of the Jenney & Graham Gun Co., died at Waterloo, Iowa, on 1 August; he had brought out F. Ed Spooner's long-distance riding.
- Calendar of August to October 1894 race meets and national circuit dates, including the Denver L. A. W. meet, Asbury Park, St. Louis, Waltham and Springfield.