Vol 10, No 6
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Articles in this issue
- Tyler's unpaced flying-start mile at Springfield, Bliss's paced attempts that tied Tyler's record twice, and the preparations for the Springfield tournament.
- Canton Class A tournament with O. P. Bernhardt and A. L. Banker as stars, Banker's state-record quarter-mile, and Bert Morrison's exhibition half-mile without handle-bars.
- Philadelphia club news: the Eclipse Wheelmen weigh amalgamation with the Pennsylvania Bicycle Club, the new Idler Wheelmen elect officers, and the Time Wheelmen admit thirty members.
- Ten thousand spectators at Waltham's track see Bald win the one-mile invitation over Taylor, Bliss and Sanger, with Sanger taking the fastest-mile prize.
- Ray Dawson wins every event he starts at Boonton, N.J., on Labor Day, while Hodgson breaks his collarbone in a tandem fall.
- Newark's Postoffice Cyclers five-mile handicap won by Hood in 16:59 from the limit men, with Van Houten badly hurt in a fall.
- South Orange Field Club games, where H. D. Johnson wins both the two-mile and one-mile open events.
- Chicago police revive an old ordinance requiring wheelmen to carry lighted lanterns at night, and many riders are fined.
- Associated Cycling Clubs of New Jersey twenty-five-mile road race from Elizabeth, won by A. S. Swartout of the Newark Wheelmen in 1:14:13, with Lucttgeus taking the time prize and a full table of the first twenty-five finishers.
- Seven state and course records accepted by the Century Road Club, from L. A. Callahan's 1:10:45 for twenty-five miles to C. E. Wood's five-mile 14:26, followed by a note on English riders beaten by German and Dutch champions and by Zimmerman and Banker.
- Team arrivals for the Springfield tournament (Union, Spalding, Rambler, Stearns, Cleveland and others), Fred H. Allen's new Class A flying-mile and standing-start records, and a pile-up at the training quarters.
- A notice asking entrants in the best-story competition to be patient, as the large number of manuscripts delays the selection.
- The Potter and Luscomb fight over the New York division chief consulship after Luscomb's withdrawal, with Dr. Santee nominated in his place and Chairman Raymond backing Potter.
- Endorsement of a Cycling proposal that heat riders draw lots to make the pace, a remedy for loafing that the editor urges promoters to try.
- Labor Day meets across the country and the cycle trade's steady sales through the depression, with livery men complaining and carriage firms taking up wheels.
- Riverton, N.J., diamond tournament before about three thousand people, E. A. Bofinger's record-lowering handicap mile, and complaints of loafing under referee O. S. Bunnell.
- G. S. Weiler lowers the unpaced Utah half-mile state record to 1:09 on a poor track after the horse race had damaged its surface.
- H. H. Wylie plans to leave Chicago for New York by the Southern Route to regain the record between the two cities.
- Frank Osmun wins the two-mile open at the county fair races, with Martin Nessel and J. Bezenek placing second and third.
- E. W. Ballard wins the open Class B events and C. V. Dasey sweeps the Class A events, with A. J. and J. G. Nicolet placing second and third.
- York Wheeling Club's first annual meet, with H. L. Eichelberger, R. W. Crouse, R. H. Carr Jr. and C. W. Crich among the winners.
- Chester County fair races, with Luther C. Johnston taking the county championship mile, and E. F. Oberholtzer fainting as he crosses the tape.
- Erie Wanderers' third annual road race of fifty starters over dusty roads, with a collision at the finish that led to E. A. Weinig protesting the result.
- Syracuse Athletic Association's two-day meet, where J. S. Johnson and F. J. Titus refuse to ride over handicap and pacemaker disputes and the second day draws under half the first day's crowd.
- Stratton McCargo wins the Orleans County thirteen-mile championship in 38:32, with F. E. Page winning the one-mile handicap.
- W. W. Hamilton of Denver and F. G. Barnett of Lincoln star, Hamilton winning the third-mile and one-mile opens and Barnett the five-mile scratch handicap.
- Labor Day races won by Frank Caz, Frank Cunningham, G. Geltz and T. A. Frazier, all in slow times.
- Labor Day races on a wretched track, with Charles Monnie and Charles Barthel winning the sprints and Andrew Prendergast taking the Class A half-mile city championship.
- Zimmerman, with one injured leg, beats Banker, Wheeler, Harris and Edwards in a five-mile scratch race at Leicester, then sets a mile of 2:05 in a flying start, against a crowd of only about 2,000.
- J. M. Erwin replies to the "Scorcher" column of Wheeling on Paris cycling, on a quoted claim about Zimmerman's earnings, and on an early prediction of Zimmerman's decline.
- George D. Moffat, formerly of the Moffat Cycle Co. in Chicago, plans a variety theatre on the lines of London's Empire, with D'Oyly Carte and Sir Arthur Sullivan interested.
- Newcastle-on-Tyne professional meeting: Zimmerman wins the five-mile race in 11:44 from Wheeler, with Banker third and Harris fourth.
- Galesburg Cycle Club's meet before more than four thousand people, with C. M. Ridgely winning the half-mile and Knoxville riders taking most of the other events.
- The League's Good Roads meet at Asbury Park, with world competition records by Monte Scott and F. E. Doup, Tyler's win over Johnson, the referee Sterling Elliott's remarks, and about $800 added to the Good Roads fund.
- Lafayette Wheelmen's twenty-five-mile road race on Staten Island, won by F. D. Smith in 1:26:30 with W. F. Beam second.
- Riverside Wheelmen's trip to Hartford, the Mercury Wheel Club's Flushing meet with Alexander Schwalbach refereeing, and other New York gossip.
- A run of anecdotes: Sterling Elliott's mock police detention until spectators subscribe to Good Roads, LeCato's monkey-prize announcement, and Luscomb's priest prank on George A. Perkins.
- A Buffalo evening daily's twenty-five-mile road race on the Martin course, marred by lost numbers, a false start and a judges' wrangle; W. L. Steimal wins the time prize and the placings are disputed.
- Buffalo's Leonert, Foell, Northrup and Mignerney take the Franklinville races, and W. A. Newton of Little Valley wins three handicaps.
- Chicago wheelmen who attended the Du Page County Fair races praise their treatment at Wheaton, naming Nelson, the Nessels, Bezenek, Blum and the Osmuns.
- The Rhode Island division issues a pocket road book with a map and routes, free to its members and priced at $1 to others.
- The Associated Cycling Clubs dispute the Pastime Athletic Club's gate returns for the August 25 meet, where turnstiles counted 3,276 admissions.
- Pastime Club meet with Minnie Walden's ladies' half-mile in 1:28, her 2:58 ladies' mile, Cabanne winning the Buckley trophy, Will Coburn's state half-mile of 1:03, and Joe Howard's 2:17 mile.
- The Maryland Bicycle Club's plan to name cycle dealers as officials in defiance of Chairman Raymond's rule, the trade's revolt against Chief Consul Reed, and the loss of Mr. Mott.
- Cleveland Wheelmen's debate over quitting the League because of the $2 initiation and dues, Charles Measure's trip to Philadelphia, and Merrills's injury in the Buffalo-Pittsburg race.
- Single-tube tyres selling fast because they can be repaired in a minute or two, with C. F. Smith of the Indiana Bicycle Co. visiting Buffalo.
- R. C. Whayne's road races before 15,000 people, including the first ladies' road race in the United States, won by Lizzie Strohman, and a ten-mile race won by a fifteen-year-old.
- Xenia road race of sixteen and a half miles, with W. S. Furman of Oran taking the time prize in 47:25 and Niswonger thrown out by a broken saddle.
- San Jose welcomes Otto Ziegler Jr. home from the League meet at Denver with a parade of more than 150 riders and a banquet by the San Jose Road Club.
- Hartford Wheel Club's meet, poorly attended by the cracks, with C. R. Newton winning the Class A opens and the state mile championship, and W. W. Taxis the Class B opens.
- Zimmerman and Wheeler arrive in Paris from England and will ride two or three meetings there before going to Switzerland.
- The London correspondent reports the Putney 12-hour race in rain, won by C. G. Wridgway with 226 miles 1,450 yards, Zimmerman's Gosforth Park win, Knights's grass record, and Balfour's Bantam, with Catford's relay the Volunteer Cyclists' 100-mile challenge cup on the Hampshire roads, and the International Cycling Association's Antwerp amateur definition set beside the Paris athletic congress definition.
- The Catford C.C. relay ride to Edinburgh, which the Pall Mall Gazette holds up as proof that cyclists could carry war messages when telegraphs fail.
- The N.C.U. fifty-mile safety championship at Herne Hill on 15 September, with Green, Michael, Adams and Henie expected, a stiff time standard and tandem pacing planned.
- Lexington fair races, where Louisville riders complain of neglect, S. W. Templeman wins the one-mile open, F. S. Davis the half-mile, and Hugh Caperton the coupler for the best mile.
- Labor Day races at Bay City, where the Cleveland team takes most prizes, L. D. Cabanne sets a state mile record of 2:16, and Dr. Brown is disqualified in the half-mile.
- Garfield Beach ten-mile road race in poor weather, with Ernest Langton winning on a six-minute handicap and T. S. Jensen taking the time prize in 31:40.
- A humorous account of Tom Eck and John S. Johnson's visit to a Wild West show, where Eck meets the medicine man Flat Iron and they conduct their talk in mock French.
- The Union County Roadsters' ninth meet before 3,500 people at Rahway, with E. C. Johnson winning the three-quarter-mile handicap and the club championship mile, and a novice winner protested for past prize-money racing.
- Preparations for the Chicago cycle show: cycle-department spaces sold, railroads granting a fare and a third, and a list of bicycle and tyre exhibitors with dealers' letters of support.
- The League Cycle Co. opens a New York branch at 64 Cortland Street under Elliott Burris, with sub-agencies in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
- Sterling Elliott denies a rumoured assignment of the Hickory Wheel Co., explaining that the Pope interests may move the factory to Hartford.
- Frank J. Fanning leaves A. G. Spalding & Bros.' Chicago retail store for George E. Lloyd & Co., and D. J. Canary takes over the retail management.
- Columbus Cycling Club's fourth annual meet, where Conn Baker's flying mile in 1:59 breaks the state record by six seconds, and Charley Tudor wins three Class A events.
- The Time Wheelmen's second annual century to Wilmington, Del., with 350 riders leaving Philadelphia, Mrs. Rice in bloomers on a diamond frame, 335 finishers, and the club winning the George W. Childs' cup.
- London notes on the trade drifting from Coventry to Birmingham, falling export figures, Humber's Beeston extension, the Trigwell tyre and Sark pedal, roadster forks and the decline of the tandem tricycle.
- The Royal Cycle Co.'s Royal Limited sold at $60 through H. D. LeCato's Pennsylvania Bicycle Co., the Century Wheelmen's Boston tour on light wheels, and the Orient and Americus wheels in the Philadelphia trade.
- A Milwaukee judge gives Raymond Hamilton five years in Waupun for bicycle theft, the Milwaukee Wheelmen plan a September 22 amateur tournament, and rain hampers the Milwaukee riders.
- Badger Cycling Club's road race in heavy rain, won by A. L. Richards, with W. C. Schrader taking the time prize.
- North Side club's road race won by A. J. Held in dusty conditions, with Edward Roth taking the time prize within four seconds of the road record.
- Portsmouth, Ohio's first cycle races draw over 2,000 people, with Bobby Goetz missing the state half-mile record by two seconds and Wesley E. Taylor and W. J. Klinger winning the Class A events.
- Norristown Wheelmen's fourth annual meet, where George C. Smith wins three races and Walter C. Eckhardt rides a no-hands exhibition half-mile.
- Mountain City Wheelmen's Labor Day meet at Chattanooga on a half-mile track, with H. Weaver winning three events and W. M. Brown the club championship.