Vol 10, No 7
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Articles in this issue
- A secret cash-prize league is being organised at Asbury Park by Frank Egan, S. Wallis Merrihew, O. S. Bunnell and W. J. Morgan, with Saltonstall's money and Zimmerman expected to ride for it.
- Chairman Howard E. Raymond backs the Potter-Underhill-Bull ticket for the New York division, Isaac B. Potter running for chief consul, and rejects claims that Potter is owed money by the division.
- The Springfield meet of 11 to 13 September: Bliss's flying-start mile in 1:52 3-5, Titus's five-mile pace record, Sanger's unpaced mile, Tyler shut out in the heats, and Bald winning the international mile from Sanger and Bliss in a world-record 2:05; day-by-day summaries follow.
- The Capitol City Cycling Club's Illinois State Fair races at Springfield on 29 September, with about $1,000 in diamonds and a mile clay track; an unheaded paragraph describes a bridal cycle procession in Paris.
- Editorial welcoming a successor to the defunct National Cycling Association and the prospect of cash-prize racing, and hoping the new league outlasts the last.
- The Bearings gloats that it tipped Sanger, Johnson and Titus against Tyler, and mocks The Wheel's editor for calling Tyler the best man of 1894 after Springfield.
- Editorial arguing that 1894 produced no popular champion, citing Hendee, Windle and Zimmerman, and discounting Ziegler's Denver title.
- Raymond prints a letter from S. T. Clark, manager of the Maryland Bicycle Club, inviting him to referee its races, and says he has accepted, dispelling reports of a rift over track admission.
- A reprint from La Revue des Sports on the Anglo-professional races, which showed the English public that professionals could race as honestly as amateurs.
- At Portage, Wisconsin, Ross Kellogg wins the time prize in a five-mile handicap held on 12 September, with Frank Lee first across the line.
- William F. Murphy's 24 1/2 miles in the hour at Springfield, and the 24-hour attempts that C. H. Ferris and A. A. Hansen are said to be preparing; Hansen's ride is disallowed. Unheaded run-ins cover Wisconsin meets at Wausau and Marshfield and a Wausau-to-Kelley's road race.
- The fourth biennial meet of the St. John's Wheelmen in Michigan on 5 September, all Class A events; A. L. Morris wins the one-mile handicap and the half-mile dash.
- The Will County fair-grounds races at Joliet on 12 September: Castle wins the one-mile novice in 3:27 and Stevens the two-mile handicap in 5:35.
- Dr L. M. Willard breaks the Merrill to Wausau road record in 1:19; Louis Reed of Ripon and B. B. Bird of Minneapolis are to meet at Wausau and Marshfield; Percy Patterson wins the two-mile handicap.
- The Belvidere Cycling Club's races on 12 September before 2,500 spectators, where Keator of Chicago wins the Class B mile handicap and Kenyon takes the novice and two-mile events.
- W. F. Sanger of Milwaukee breaks the track record for a half mile at Menominee, Michigan, in 1:11 2/3, and he and Warren set a state tandem half-mile mark.
- F. F. Radway of London, Ontario, cuts more than thirty minutes off the American century record at Toronto in 5:01:10 in a cold wind.
- Editorial rebuking the Evening Post's correspondent "Jeanette Sturtevant" for calling bloomers immodest, and arguing that the bloomer is the end-of-century fashion, the divided skirt of Annie Jenness Miller having led the way.
- Lieutenant O'Brien of Company A, Fifth Infantry, at Fort Leavenworth, a West Point man and son of ex-Mayor O'Brien of Boston, wants every regiment to have a drilled cycling corps.
- The editor mocks the San Jose Road Club's "Ziegler! Ziegler!" welcome, which turns "ah" into "ahr" to rhyme with "star", and compares it with Thackeray's Jeems and Sam Foss's rhymes.
- The editor asks why no maker has displayed a wheel that survived being struck by a train at the Northwestern tracks, the rider sent forty feet into the air and the bicycle undamaged.
- The New York World's cycling coverage collapsed after its sporting editor Chauncey Miller was let go under Pulitzer; the Brooklyn Citizen's 10-mile road race is set for 26 September, and "Jack Centurion" Knowles is riding consecutive centuries, ten days in, from the K. C. W. clubhouse. Run-ins cover Brooklyn's ban on Sunday cycling on Ocean Parkway and an A. A. U. two-mile at Travers Island.
- Knowles's trial of thirty consecutive centuries from the K. C. W. clubhouse on Bedford Avenue, ten days in: he leaves about 7 a.m. and completes each 100-mile loop in about 12 hours, with a daily table of total and net times, checked at Jamaica, Valley Stream, Freeport, Seaford, Babylon, Islip and Oakdale, on a League Chainless wheel that has not broken.
- Isaac B. Potter, the Good Roads figure, visits the American Wheelman office, where the office monkey Pantata strikes his bald head with a sledgehammer blow.
- Compares Dr E. M. Santee and I. B. Potter for New York chief consul: The Wheel backs Santee, the American Wheelman backs Potter, who is the better engineer but is suing the League for back salary.
- Sterling Elliott, buying a white flannel suit, yellow ball-bearing shoes and a yachting cap after years of farmers' jeans, is mocked at Asbury Park and ends half-dressed as referee after Luscomb's persuasion.
- Paris racing in late August: Zimmerman, after nearly letting Cottereau win, wins his heat and the final from Farman, Edwards and Banker; Farman takes the kilometre championship; Mercier wins the five-kilometre; Harry Wheeler is badly hurt in a training fall.
- The Philadelphia five-mile club race between the Century Wheelmen and the Quaker City Wheelmen is called off over whether John Lagan was eligible; the Eclipse Wheelmen narrowly reject amalgamation with the Penna Bicycle Club; the Oxford Wheelmen elect officers. Run-ins cover Wylie's Chicago-New York attempt and a Philadelphia-Portsmouth ride.
- The Oxford Wheelmen's annual meeting in Philadelphia reports good finances and rising membership and elects John N. Heath president and Louis Wagner secretary; Captain F. E. Whipple and F. L. Parkhurst rode 204 miles from Woonsocket to Portsmouth, N.H., in 23 hours.
- The Associated Cycling Clubs' Philadelphia circuit meet on 22 September will use a referee-selected pacemaker in heats, with riders 100 yards behind him distanced.
- Rain has spoiled most St. Louis meets; Henry Stewart wins the mile at the coloured Associated Cycling Clubs tournament in 2:36; Chairman Raymond condemns a women's race and threatens to refuse sanction; the Victor Cycling Club is refitting a clubhouse.
- London, 1 September: Fontaine and Chase beat Shorland's London to York and 12-hour road records; the Galloway Rifles win the volunteer 100-mile team race in 8:31:30; Lord Albemarle, president of the N.C.U., has died.
- Tables of the current American records from quarter-mile to five miles, standing and flying starts, paced and unpaced, led by Bald's 2:05 standing mile and Bliss's 1:52 3-5 flying mile, and Johnson's and Tyler's marks.
- On 6 September Bliss rides a flying-start mile in 1:52 3-5 with Lumsden and Githens, Cooper and Silvie, and Warren and Arnold pacing; F. H. Allen does 1:58 4/5 in Class A, and Titus starts his record work.
- At Springfield on 8 September Titus, paced by a dozen riders, sets a five-mile standing-start record of 10:51 1/3; W. F. Sims cuts Callahan's Class A unpaced mile to 2:16; Johnson and Bliss fail.
- The Waco Wheel Club's third annual tournament, with Solomon winning all the Class B events and Boren the Class A quarter-mile; the National Cycle Mfg. Co. boasts sixty prizes in eleven days.
- Toney Landenwich, back from Waltham, will build a Louisville cycle track adjoining a hotel and the river, with Sanger and Tyler favouring the site; Waltham's owner Bradstreet's rudeness is recounted, and a Thanksgiving Day meet is planned. Sub-heads and run-ins cover the ladies' road race and the Clifton, Ogallala and Rubey items.
- H. H. Wylie, who left Chicago to beat Stanwood's 8 days 7 hours 48 minutes record to New York on a Sterling, wires from Brownsville, Pa., that he is gaining time and expects Philadelphia by Friday noon.
- Kirkpatrick's giraffe safety, a 61-pound bicycle with a 46-inch wheelbase and 11-foot saddle height, ridden at Springfield by Lem Smith and Fred Graves; the editor says it is a genuine Beeston built for a Paris parade and says Carter's Little Liver Pills offered $1,000 for it.
- The New York show is set for Madison Square Garden from 19 to 26 January 1895, under the National Board of Trade, with floor spaces at $75 to $275 and bonus bidding; Frank W. Sanger manages it.
- The department lists new firms, business changes and chattel mortgages among cycle dealers across the United States, including the Toledo Cycle and Repair Co., Standard Sewing Machine Co. of Illinois and the Sieg & Walpole Mfg. Co. in Chicago.
- The Fairbanks Wood Rim Co. moves its New York office to its Boston factory, enlarged to treble its past output.
- The Globe Cycle Works' annual 25-mile handicap road race at Buffalo on 22 September, with forty-two prizes and a prize for every starter, promoted by Penseyres and Haberer.
- A St. Louis box-office dispute: the Associated Cycling Clubs find 1,508 more spectators than tickets, after the Pastime Athletic Club took the box office. Unheaded run-ins cover the Snell Cycle Fittings expansion and Yost's 1895 wheels.
- London correspondent on the collapse of the Coventry combination, the Rudge and Whitworth merger, the Boudard Peveril gear company, Chase's 212 1/2-mile 12-hour ride on a Swift, and James Robertson's complaint about credit given to straw agents.
- A Houston correspondent reports a dull South Texas cycle trade: Reinson & Perl sell Ramblers, the Victor agent has stored his stock in an architect's office, the Columbia agent has sold nothing, and Houston needs a second live agency.
- Quotation from the Gazette de France of 15 July 1818 predicting that velocipedes would end by carrying their scoffers, with the editor's comment that events confirm it.
- Reprinted from McClure's, Professor Berthelot's view that rubber can be made chemically and that the feared exhaustion of the rubber supply need not trouble the cycle trade.
- John J. Grant reports a prosperous season, orders for balls and automatic screw machines, a planned 200-foot factory extension, and the sale of $70,000 of machines to Clement in France.
- Bliss's 1:52 3-5 at Springfield on 6 September regains the world's one-mile record for Rambler and G. & J. tires, with Allen's Class A flying-start marks and Sims's unpaced Class A mile at 2:16.
- The New York Tire Co. opens an office and stock room at 334 Dearborn Street, Chicago, under C. M. Fairchild, with R. W. Slusser assisting.
- A list of recent United States patents for bicycle seats, wheels, pneumatic tyres, chains, bells and related parts, with filing dates and assignees.
- The Mercury Wheel Club's New York races on 8 September are rained off, the fourth postponement; another attempt is planned in about a month.
- New York trade news: the Wilson-Myers store and Liberty wheels, a spring-frame bicycle found in Niblo's Garden's cellar, Cleveland wheels in demand, League Cycle Co. agencies, the American Ormonde Cycle Co.'s spot-cash plan, and the Raleigh store's early closing. Run-ins cover Titus's record and Spalding's bicycles.
- J. R. Nisbet, editor of the Scottish Cyclist, predicts American makers will sell in Britain once they race there, and a Belgian cyclist wins towpath access by prosecution; run-in items cover two Liege cyclists acquitted over a bridge toll.