Vol 10, No 5
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Articles in this issue
- Zimmerman comes down in the five-mile international at Herne Hill after Verheyen crashes into him, with James's foul riding under suspicion and Edwards winning; the paper half-suspects a plot among Harris, James, Edwards and Banker.
- Cable report of Zimmerman's 1:57 mile in Paris, which the paper doubts was a race rather than a time trial; the piece also carries Wheeler's slump after his tandem pacing and the Backus chauffeur story.
- Newburg Athletic Club tournament at Cleveland: Mayo and Patterson cut the ten-mile world record to 24:44 2/5, Frank Tarr clips the boys' half-mile record and Engle takes the novice race.
- Associated Cycling Clubs meet at St. Louis: Anderson sets a state two-mile record of 4:53, Cabanne lowers the state half-mile record and Johnson rides the track-record mile at 2:17.
- Harry Tyler's unpaced mile world record at Hampden Park, Springfield, with Fred Allen's Class A flying-start records, and a Cleveland rider's $5,000 suit against a dog's owner.
- Editorial on the Antwerp international meet: Lehr and Eden take the championships, England is shut out after the N.C.U. licensing row, and America's absence is mocked.
- Editorial on Zimmerman's cabled 1:57 3/5 mile in Paris, which the paper doubts was made in competition on a four-lap track.
- Editorial on the Springfield national meet as the real championship, weighing Tyler, Bliss, Johnson and an out-of-form Sanger.
- Springfield dispatch on Bliss, Taylor and Tyler obliterating the Waltham records on Hampden Park, with Taylor's unpaced quarter in 0:28 and half in 1:00; a Pennsylvania Bicycle Club whist note is folded in.
- Harlem Wheelmen's Manhattan Field meet on 15 September, Egan's revived cash-prize league, Zimmerman's auctioned prize bicycles, Maddox's return from Denver and the Metropolitan Association meeting.
- Logan, Utah meet where Foster rides unopposed to a state standing-start mile record of 2:14 4/5, and C. M. Evans lowers the state half-mile record to 1:08.
- Race report from Antwerp: Lehr wins the one-mile, Eden the ten-kilometre and Henie the hundred-kilometre, with the English team losing every event; the International Cycling Congress and the Hundred-Kilometer result are folded in.
- San Francisco court verdict giving three racing men $145 and costs against the California Midwinter International Exposition for unpaid race prizes, with the L. A. W.'s counsel Kerrigan named.
- D. J. Good, winner of the Poorman road race at Cincinnati, leaves New Carlisle, Ohio owing debts; Clyde and Columbus Cycling Club meets and the Columbus Labor Day meet are folded in.
- The Catford club's London-Edinburgh-London relay, 799 miles in 52:27 with the message carried by the Pall Mall Gazette, plus Zimmerman's five-mile professional record at Leicester and the North Road Club's road-racing setback.
- Kansas City Athletic Club meet ruined by a baseball game next door: Sanger rides out of form, Taxis takes the state half-mile record, Lee Richardson rides a half mile backwards and Sid Black wins the trick-riding contest.
- Otto Ziegler's unpaced half-mile world record of 1:01 at Salt Lake City, timed by six watches, with state records by Evans and Weiler's loss of the one-mile title.
- Letter carrier A. E. Smith of the Lake View club sets out from the city hall on a 26-pound Derby with Morgan and Wright tires, carrying a postmaster's letter to New York and aiming at Stanwood's record.
- Wauseon, Ohio meet with four bands, 200 lady riders in bloomers and a town of 1,900 turning out 600 riders: Sanger wins the mile open, Kennedy takes a state two-mile record and Schrein is disqualified for foul riding.
- Mercer County Wheelmen meet at Trenton: George W. Coffin sets a New Jersey state mile record in open competition, and George C. Smith wins the mile and half-mile scratch races.
- Ogden, Utah state meet: Weiler's five-mile championship in 12:38, Evans's quarter-mile state record and Ziegler's diamond in the half mile, with Bolles taking the two-mile handicap.
- Mt. Clemens Wheelmen's first meet, a success with spills in the mass handicaps; C. Barthel rides against time to lower the Michigan record, and the club promises a two-day meet with $2,500 in prizes next year.
- Milwaukee police arrest Raymond Hamilton, a Sunday-school teacher who stole ten wheels from office buildings, recover them from a warehouse and see him sentenced to five years.
- A. L. Withers Cycle Co. meet at Clifton, N.J.: G. Fred Royce wins the quarter and mile, Paul Grosch's unpaced quarter in 0:28 goes unrecognised by the timers, and the Tourist Cycle Club takes the team race.
- Philadelphia proposal by Eddie Miller that each heat name a pacemaker who drops out to end loafing, with the Century Wheelmen football squad, the Time Wheelmen century entries, the Pennsylvania Bicycle Club's bid to absorb the Eclipse Wheelmen, the Lagan tandem record and the Wissahickon Wheelmen's road race folded in.
- North Side Club road race from Thiensville to Milwaukee on 1 September, with Ed Roth and Harry Crocker favourites for the time prize; a Nineteenth Century Club race over the Mukwonago road and a Junior club race are announced.
- 250-mile road race from Buffalo to Pittsburg won by George E. Williams in 20:37, a cut of over two hours on the record of L. H. Bannister, with only ten of 45 starters inside the 26-hour limit.
- Chicago Y.M.C.A. club meet at the Thirty-fifth street track: A. V. Jackson takes the unpaced mile in 2:33 and the two-mile lap race, and W. G. Black wins the five-mile handicap.
- Columbia Wheelmen ten-mile road race in which W. Bainbridge sets a world road record of 26:13 1/2 on a Thistle, with J. M. Pike winning from the 6:30 mark.
- Illinois Cycling Club ten-mile road race from a field of 65: W. S. Snow wins from a six-minute handicap, F. A. Rogers takes time prize in 31 minutes on a 15-second mark.
- Lincoln Cycling Club's annual ten-mile road race over the North Shore course, won by A. B. Horn from the one-minute mark in 29:12 despite a strong wind.
- New York notes on the A.C.C. of N.J.'s Labor Day twenty-five-mile road race with sixty-four prizes, A. H. Barnett's record ambitions, a novice run to Long Branch and planned Parkway Driving Club 24-hour attempt by Edward Gregoire.
- Louisville news: the Cycling South starts as a semi-monthly, the park commissioners require lights after a rider is run down, a Kentucky Division entrant eligibility ruling is given, and a three-lap track is planned.
- Account by 'The Idler' of how the First Regiment I.N.G. used requisitioned bicycles as a courier and scouting service during the Pullman strike, and how the strikers ran their own cycle scouts.
- Provo, Utah state meet: C. M. Evans wins the three-mile championship in 8:14 2/5 and the half mile, Boles and Collier trade Class B wins, and a rainstorm stops the racing.
- Editorial reprinting the Sporting Goods Dealer on a 1895 Chicago cycle show rivalling New York, arguing that both shows will be sectional and that exhibits need not clash over dates.
- Trade news of factory moves, incorporations and failures: the Snell Cycle Fittings shutdown at Toledo, the Elmo Mfg. move to Clyde, the Geneva Cycle Co. formed, the Freeport plant sold to Belvidere, and the Bredder-Allen plan for a Port Jervis factory.
- London correspondent on second-hand bargains depressing new-machine sales, chain running on high-grade safeties, Lawson's pulling pedals, the Pneumatic Cycle Brake Co.'s rear brake and Smith's rubber tyre covers.
- New York trade notes: Sidney B. Bowman's repeated losses of rented wheels, instalment selling by the Equitable and Brooklyn Cycle Co., Simplicity tyres tested to 450 lb, and E. J. Day's home-made 'chainless, spokeless' machine.
- Freeport, Ill. Elliptic factory sold to the Northwestern Sewing Machine Co. of Belvidere, its principal stockholder L. M. Devore wanting to travel for a year.
- Philadelphia Cycle Co. has a prospective buyer arrested for keeping a loaned Keating wheel, the Overman branch reports a busy season, and the Niagara Cycle Fittings Co. becomes selling agent for the Buffalo Drop Forging Co.