Vol 10, No 8
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Articles in this issue
- J. Piatt Betts wins the Surrey Cup ten-mile race at Kennington Oval; the column also covers G. R. Martin's Daneville 25-mile record ride, the Inflexible triplet's mile record, and a public trial of the Pneumatic Skate Mfg. Co.'s road skates at the Royal Aquarium.
- The Bearings predicts a cash-prize league war in 1895, with about forty Class A cases before L.A.W. Racing Board chairman Howard E. Raymond and rival promoters Spalding, Powers, Morgan, Bunnell and Egan competing for the Class B men.
- Aftermath of the Springfield tournament: the disputed close finish awarded to Tyler over Bald, the club's profit of $2,500 to $3,000, President Miller's announced retirement, and the riders' next racing dates.
- The Century Road Club of America accepts records including W. H. Whitehead's ten miles at Memphis in 29:10 and H. R. Renshaw's American ten miles at Denver in 27:05.
- Green wins the fifty-mile English championship at Herne Hill on 15 September in 1:56:40.
- Press arrangements at the Springfield tournament: the reporters' best seats, cigars and refreshments, and thanks to press committee chairman W. O. Cohn.
- Sanger and Tyler rest before the autumn season, with dates at Philadelphia on 22 September, Baltimore, Norfolk, Wheeling and Waltham on 4 October; Bliss will try the standing paced mile record.
- Milwaukee rumour that W. C. Sanger will turn professional and face Zimmerman, Willie Sanger's state records at Ripon and Menominee, asphalt paving and the Sheridan Drive extension, and bicycle thefts.
- The Century Road Club accepts state and road records, including C. A. Emise and A. P. Senior's 100 miles at Salt Lake City in 9:22 and F. H. Stanwood's Chicago to New York ride in 8 days 7 hours 48 minutes.
- Editorial urging Chicago wheelmen to back the Independent American Citizen's ticket, which includes wheelmen Abbott, Morgan, Maher and Van Sicklen.
- Editorial asking riders to keep their road clothes as neat as their business clothes, so the public stops taking wheelmen for tramps.
- Editorial crediting Henry E. Ducker and D. J. Canary with the Springfield meets that the press attributed to the recent tournament alone.
- Editorial on Chicago wheelmen entering local politics, citing Philadelphia, St. Louis, Massachusetts and the Kings County Coney Island roadway as precedents.
- The Pittsburg Athletic Club's meet, held just after the G.A.R. encampment, draws about 300 spectators; Doctor Brown and Tyler take Class B events, A. L. Banker wins the Class A opens, and nine-year-old Archie Williams rides a half-mile in 1:14 on a Fowler.
- The Hackettstown, N.J. race meet on 15 September, a thorough success; F. C. Everitt, J. M. Baldwin, Monte Scott and G. F. Royce win the handicaps, sprints and the three-mile lap race in 8:11.
- A. M. Chandler wins the half-mile, the two-mile handicap (cutting the Wisconsin state record by 2 seconds) and the mile open at Wausau, and rides an exhibition half-mile in 1:04 2/5 before a crowd of two thousand.
- George C. Smith wins the A.A.U. bicycle championship at Travers Island, New York Athletic Club, beating H. H. Howard by several yards.
- Zimmerman wins the Grand Prix de l'Union in Paris ahead of Banker and Edwards, and the Velodrome Buffalo sprint and tandem results follow, with Medinger's surprise sprint in the final.
- The Buffalo velodrome meeting where timekeepers missed Zimmerman's flying mile, whose flying mile was timed at about 2:00 against his 2:08 4/5 standing start, and Manager Troy's dispute with timer Moore.
- The Ramblers' six beat the Press C.C. in the Buffalo fifty-mile road race for the Rose trophy, lowering five club records, with Foell's fifty-mile mark cut to 2:30:40.
- Manager Bridgeman says the Columbia team will go south for records, with MacDonald on the short distances and Bald on the mile and upward.
- News from Louisville: the sale of Cycling South, a new paper being planned by the Lawsons, the Clifton club's meet, and the new track and boulevard carnival.
- Kentucky division politics: a rival ticket is expected to be sprung after the Owensboro state meet, and the cyclers plan a carnival to mark the completion of the boulevard.
- The pacemakers and riders at F. J. Titus's record hour at Springfield, the Lozier party's practical jokes, Titus's disqualification by referee Raymond, and the Rambler, Columbia and Union team schedules.
- Sterling Elliott is set to succeed Chief Consul Perkins in the Massachusetts division, which reports 5,200 members; the column also covers the Waltham tournament, the A.C.C. Brookline road race permit row and Elliott's sheet-steel guide hands.
- A.C.C. boosters distribute badges and put up signs at Springfield to win the 1895 L.A.W. national meet for Boston, against Denver and Asbury Park.
- San Jose's Garden City Cyclers stage the largest race meet in California on 10 September, with pacemakers used for the first time on the coast, and Walter Foster riding one-legged after a fall.
- Riverside Wheelmen's third annual meet, with Phil Kitchen winning a thirteen-mile road race in 35:56, Taylor and Burke leading the track events and Cowan taking the five-mile handicap.
- The Interstate Fair at Sioux City offers two days of bicycle races on 9 and 10 October with liberal prizes for Class A men.
- The Harlem Wheelmen's meet at Manhattan Field, with a multi-rider crash in the Class A mile after an exploding tyre, a bell-ringer error, Referee Raymond's decision and the Class B entries.
- The Peoria Bicycle Club's one-day meet at Lake View track, where E. E. Anderson of Roodhouse takes the honours and M. Nelson of Chicago wins one of the Pullman road races.
- The East Orange Ramblers' annual eighteen-mile road race over a New Jersey course, with C. M. Lefferts first on handicap in 56:27.
- T. S. Jensen of the Social Wheel Club lowers the Utah state century record to 8:15 over the Salt Lake to Springville course, riding 6:05 of actual time.
- Notice of the Illinois State Fair bicycle racing at Springfield on 29 September, with three Class B and seven Class A events offering about $1,000 in diamonds.
- The Idler's column opens with his claim that The Bearings has copied his imaginary foreign tour, and his mocking comparison with the paper's three-month continental trip.
- The Idler reports that Zimmerman's face has grown haggard and that he has turned brusque with his admirers since going to Paris, and says he will judge the champion on the track.
- The Idler's interview with Mrs. Kendal at the Auditorium, in which she denies any plan to meet Zimmerman, offers a $25,000 match and then attacks him with a club.
- Frank Lenz, the globe-trotting Pittsburg rider, has not been heard of since February, when he was entering the Persian desert, and a relief expedition is proposed.
- The Pawtuxet Valley Wheelmen's tournament at River Point, with H. B. Hills Jr. taking the state championship (protested by Everett Hall) and Hans Hanson setting a track record in 2:23 2/5.
- August Lehr's interview after his world mile victory over Jaap Eden, on his health, the Antwerp track and his 234 first prizes, with notes on a Waltham match race and a Youngstown road race.
- John H. English of Maryville wins the quarter and half-mile at St. Joseph, Mo., on 15 September, while Frank Whitacre takes the two-mile open.
- Cal Paxton wins the mile open at the first meet of the Springville C.C., N.Y., with Tonawanda riders De Temple, Winter and Blake placing in the other events.
- Profile of Fred L. Buckbee, the Sterling team trainer, who started as an understudy to Professor Culver in 1890 and is careful and painstaking with his fractious riders.
- Town-by-town trade notes: fires at Wetzell and Kansas City, incorporations, business sales and failures, and new hardware and bicycle agencies across the US, Canada and the Caribbean.
- N. E. Turgeon, long with the Chicago branch of the Pope Mfg. Co., goes to open a new Buffalo store at 13 Mohawk Street.
- Chairman Raymond's Racing Board is settling by mail vote the Minneapolis Track Association's charges against several racing men over the August Minneapolis meet, where the riders refused to race under time limits.
- Letters from the racing men to Chairman Raymond answering the Minneapolis charges: the 2:20 and 7:15 time limits, the trunks that failed to arrive, the alleged demand for pacemaker payments and L. D. Cabanne's unpaid $75 diamond prize.
- London correspondent on the Stanley and National shows, Starley's Rover safeties winning at Antwerp, the Macintosh and North British Rubber case, Carter gear-cases, two-speed gears and the Boudard.
- E. P. Holly's hydraulic bicycle drive, with a small pump-driven motor in the rear-wheel position, backed by Dr. A. M. Cushing of Springfield, Mass.
- The machines behind the Springfield records: Titus's Spalding with Palmer tyres, Butler's Lovell Diamond, C. M. Murphy's Stearns with Dunlop tyres and Johnson's Stearns.
- The Chicago city council proposes licensing repair shops and reporting every repair to police, to trace stolen wheels.
- The M. & W. Cycling Club's five-mile road race over the Humboldt Park to Palmer square course, with the Indianapolis Rubber Co. expanding output and a Maryland congressional candidate touring on a wheel.
- The Cleveland Wheel Club stays in the L.A.W. after a stockholders' vote, a new Zig-Zag Club forms, the club's century run and the city's wide-tyre ordinance for wagons are reported.