Vol 10, No 4
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Articles in this issue
- Zimmerman wins the 2,000-metre scratch race at the Velodrome de la Seine, Paris, ahead of Louvet, Farman and Medinger, before his English tour.
- Zimmerman's first Birmingham appearance on Aston track, where he wins the quarter-mile lap from Wheeler, Banker and Harris, and the mile and ten-mile races follow.
- The Chicago delegation takes most prizes at the Pontiac, Illinois, meet, with W. A. Thompson lowering A. D. Kennedy's track record to 2:10 2/5; Stanwood's Chicago-New York record ride is noted in the same column.
- Rumour of H. G. Rouse of Rouse, Hazard & Co., Peoria, marrying Miss Ida V. Ripley of Chicago later that month, with a trip west in September.
- F. L. Stanwood breaks Wylie's Chicago-New York record, riding a 21-pound Sterling on Palmer tires in 8 days 7 hours 48 minutes.
- Editorial on the Denver L.A.W. meet, praising the Denver Wheel Club and criticising the absence of the League's president and vice-presidents, with a question about the 1895 venue.
- Otto Zeigler of San Jose, California, takes three national championships at Denver, and the editor doubts he is a coming champion, crediting Denver's altitude.
- J. P. Bliss, training at Hampden Park, Springfield, Massachusetts, sets a flying half in 0:54 2/5 and a standing-start half in 0:58, both faster than Johnson's world records.
- John S. Johnson beats Zeigler, Sanger and Murphy in the mile open at Pueblo, Colorado, with Johnson jumping the field on the last lap.
- Race report of the fifteenth L.A.W. meet at Denver: Zeigler wins three championships, Titus sets the five-mile championship record and Bald the half-mile; Arthur Gardner wins Class A and the road-race time prize. The day-by-day summaries, the road race and the social programme are carried in the same report.
- A full-page cartoon sequence on the Denver meet, with the Whoop-o-la-la Club of Chicago, a Pikes Peak mountain-climbing gag, the L.A.W. ball and the head waiter among the sketches.
- A New York syndicate plans an October professional meet at Brighton Beach with cash prizes; Zimmerman, Banker, Wheeler and Starbuck are named as the riders to return; the Good Roads Tournament at Asbury Park is promoted by the American Wheelman; and the column describes the Asbury Park racing men (Eddie Bald, Billy Young, Kennedy), W. M. Perrett and Rennie L. Smith at Buffalo Bill's Wild West, W. C. Phelan, Jr., outlapped at Asbury Park, and E. L. Blauvelt's quarter-mile paced ride at Plainfield.
- The Harrogate and Slough cycling camps of August, the English team for the Antwerp world's championships, the Herne Hill professional meeting with Zimmerman's quarter-mile record in :30 1/5, and the St Albans track opening.
- Results of the Herne Hill professional meeting, with Zimmerman's quarter-mile race against time in :30 1/5, a British record, and Banker and Harris taking the tandem race.
- Chas. H. Roth of the Crescent Wheelmen rides 22 miles 1,251 1/2 yards in an hour on a Rambler Racer at Norwood track, Cincinnati, breaking the state record by over a mile.
- New York and Brooklyn news: Manhattan Field sold at auction, the Yorkville Wheelmen formed, the Kings County elevated trial baggage cars for wheels, the Riverside Wheelmen century, and Luscomb's letter to the state chief consuls on highway and wheelmen's rights legislation.
- Railways look favourably on a fare-and-a-third rate to the National Cycle Exhibition in Chicago, and dealers' letters from across the west and south back Chicago over an eastern show; the exhibitor list names Pope Mfg. Co., Gormully & Jeffery, Western Wheel Works, Syracuse Cycle Co., Stearns and Rouse, Hazard & Co.
- New York trade news: Campbell's tariff hopes, Newton Rubber's Straus tire office, Bell Telephone ordering thirty bicycles, the Herald Cycle Co.'s cash business, Titus's praise from A. G. Spalding, and Corbett and MacAuliffe riding Ramblers.
- The Doig pneumatic hub company is registered, Sudworth's new gear is reviewed, Chase's 100 miles on the North road in 4:39 15 on a Swift is reported, and a Giraffe tandem safety is criticised.
- Texas dealers expect a strong fall trade and back a Chicago show, with about twenty Texas dealers planning to attend, some giving up the Denver meet to go.
- Chase rides 100 miles on the North road in 4:39 15 on a Coventry Machinists' Swift safety, with Smyth and Heck riding a Whitworth tandem with him.
- The correspondent dismisses a new Giraffe-pattern tandem safety as likely to be a commercial failure and difficult to mount.
- Covey Bros. Cycle Co. buy out Treiller & McKee, Treiller & Entrekin take up Andrae and Cleveland wheels, and the Dallas riding school's proprietors Slicer and Reynolds dissolve their partnership.
- Brief trade department noting store openings, closures, assignments, chattel mortgages and company incorporations across the United States, from Washington, D.C. to Brunswick, Georgia.
- G. M. Allison & Co., Columbia agents, suffer a second fire in sixty days, and the column blames price cutting and a furniture house selling cheap wheels on instalments for the trade's demoralisation.
- W. B. Tackaberry, the racing man who holds the Stearns agency, pushes the Stearns Yellow Fellow, and F. Howard Tuttle is sent on a Texas circuit for the company.
- Parker Cycle Co. (Union, Sterling and Western Wheel Works), A. O. Woodworth (Ramblers, with the largest rental trade in Texas) and Fisher (Victors and F. H. Collins Co. wheels) share the Waco cycle trade.