Vol 10, No 3
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Articles in this issue
- Officials stay away from the Denver L.A.W. meet over Luscomb's slight, and talk of a Western League; Zeigler beats Sanger's unpaced mile record and Johnson is pressed to ride a Stearns.
- Zimmerman takes the English quarter-mile record at Herne Hill in 0:30 1/5 and wins the international five-mile race; Verheyen is thrown in a collision.
- Bliss, Githens, Lumsden and Cooper skip the Denver meet and leave Chicago for the east, where Bliss hopes to regain records taken by Tyler.
- A. A. Hanson of Minneapolis rides 376 miles 466 yards in 24 hours on a Fowler, beating Spooner's record through rain and mud.
- Park Avenue Wheelmen's meet at Riverton, N.J.: E. A. Boffinger wins the 2:40 class and the five-mile handicap, with a broken collar-bone in a crash.
- The Washington-to-Denver relay ends at Denver in 6 days 12 hours 37 minutes; Governor Waite and the President's secretary exchange letters.
- H. W. Higham promotes a twenty-mile road race on the Washington conduit road for October 16, with prizes donated by makers including Eclipse.
- Frank Stanwood, riding Chicago to New York in eight days, reaches Elyria slightly ahead of schedule; the Chicago YMCA also plans an inter-department race meet.
- The Asbury Park two-day meet: referee Prial disqualifies Taylor, Miller and Arnold, George C. Smith breaks the half-mile track record, and Tyler wins the five-mile Class B race.
- Oregon claims of Charles R. Frazier's record one- and ten-mile standing starts at Long Beach, and J. B. Farmer's Munger five-mile record at Chicago's Plaza course.
- John S. Johnson may turn professional like Zimmerman, and Chairman Raymond has ordered him to ride a Stearns or leave the amateur ranks.
- Chairman Raymond rules that Class B races may not be declared off with more than three entries, after a Pontiac, Ill. promoter tried to cancel them.
- The Minneapolis referee's 7:15 time limit on a three-mile lap race is condemned, and the riders' refusal to ride it is defended.
- Toronto B.C. Rosedale meet: Harbottle, Davidson and Hyslop take records and races, including a two-mile competition record by Alf Young and a mile tandem record.
- London gossip: Shorland's 460 miles in the Cuca Cup 24-hour race, the Boudard gear company, the Coventry combination, Clark's 423 miles, the North Road and the Huntingdonshire police.
- Howard W. Jefferis takes the first 100 miles in 5:58 at Louisville, then gives up in the heat after a brandy-and-egg dose; also Surrey and Cycle agents' union news.
- Minneapolis Cycle Track meet: the Rambler and Cleveland teams' trunks fail to arrive, and Titus and Cabanne ride a paced tandem mile in 1:52 4/5 with Lumsden and Githens pacing. The second day's meet report follows: the referee's 7:15 lap-race limit makes the riders dismount, Cooper wins both handicaps and Bird takes the mile handicap.
- The Columbia team's flannel suits pass from rider to rider after washing, shrinking as they go.
- Newark's mound-enclosed track is praised as one of the finest and windless, and a late-August or September meet is proposed.
- The Century Road Club accepts road records by Linneman, Bettner, Wilmans, Collier and Graves.
- R. P. Searle rides a 208-mile double century over the Chicago-Elgin-Aurora course in 16:38; Walter Worls is caught changing his name to win a prize.
- Zimmerman is feted at Bordeaux, beats Loste and Fortuny in the 2,000-metre heats and final, and beats Loste on the unpaced lap by about two seconds; also Lumsden's 50 km at Buffalo and Crooks at Spa.
- The Minneapolis Cycle Track Association brings charges against Sanger, Titus, Cabanne, Lumsden, Githens and others for demanding money to pace and ride exhibitions; W. H. Crosby's new daughter is noted.
- Birmingham, Ala. cycle club riders carry election returns from 25 precincts, covering 1,049 miles in all.
- T. A. Zimmerman says Arthur has offers to race indoors in Paris over the winter, the stage offer is undecided, and the Zimmerman Mfg. Co. and Zimmerman, McDonald & Co. are to open.
- Cleveland wheelmen take to camping at Lakewood and Put-in-Bay, with the Fifth Regiment field-day races won by R. D. Updegraff and Joe Graves.
- Baltimore's division officers demand a special meeting over the Park track's finances and chief consul James B. Reed; Philadelphia's Turner Wheelmen are refused medals on the Newark century; the St. Louis national circuit meet and C. D. Cutting's Elgin century are noted.
- Philadelphia's Turner Wheelmen are refused medals for the Newark century, and a Y.M.C.A. rider sets a relay record; a Century Wheelmen trip is announced.
- The American League of Racing Cyclists closes its 58-member charter list and resolves to suspend riders who enter and fail to appear.
- The Associated Cycling Clubs national circuit meet on August 25 at the Pastime track offers $1,500 in prizes with Bliss, Cabanne, Bald and Murphy entered.
- Charles D. Cutting rides the Elgin-Aurora century in 6:45:45 on a twenty-pound Ide, beating Gunther's 6:50.
- A reprint from the Irish Cyclist on Zimmerman's record, his professional offer, and a physiognomist's reading of his face.
- Trenton's Mercer County meet, Monte Scott's Plainfield paced-mile record, the Asbury Park Good Roads tournament and the Times medal, and Prince and Schock's western tour.
- Annie Oakley rides a twenty-seven pound Sterling ladies' wheel, shooting from it in New York with Buffalo Bill's show, and takes a daily twenty-mile ride.
- Makers chase the four remaining tire-department spaces for the Chicago cycle show, and dealers from across the west write in support of holding the show in Chicago.
- Short trade notes on bicycle firms: business sales, closures, incorporations, a factory extension at Grand Rapids and the Tester Modeling Machine Co. suit against the Central Cycle Mfg. Co.
- The Chas. F. Stokes Mfg. Co. is closed by the sheriff after a Sterling Cycle Works suit for a receiver, with Stokes accused of fraudulently transferring goods to the Union company.
- Morgan & Wright sue the Newton Rubber Works of Boston for infringing their tire patents.
- Burglars break into the Knight Cycle Co. store, carving a hole in a door to reach the bolt and rifling the till.
- Trade report from Vicksburg and Jackson, Miss., where Victors, Ramblers, Columbias and Clevelands are sold and race meets have boosted sales.
- London correspondent on the Cuca Cup, the Boudard gear, the Coventry combination, dividends at the parts makers, and an agents' union.
- The National Board of Trade of Cycle Manufacturers fixes its first annual exhibition at Madison Square Garden for January 19, 1895.
- E. H. Croninger, a member of the National Racing Board, loses an 1893 Victor near Dayton, Ohio, on July 25.