Vol 10, No 9
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Articles in this issue
- John S. Johnson's paced mile attempts at Waltham fail through pacing mistakes, though he sets half-, two-thirds- and three-quarter-mile marks along the way.
- Johnson lowers the paced flying half-mile record at Waltham in :54 flat, with a practice quarter in :26 4/5 and a sub-record one-mile rate.
- R. P. Searle abandons his attempt on the Chicago to New York road record, arriving in New York after eight days and three hours, hampered by rain.
- A card from South Africa announces the marriage of long-distance champion Laurens Meintjes to Miss Winnie Watermeyer, and the paper sends its good wishes.
- The Williamsport, Pa., meet of the Keystone Wheel Club is run on a muddy track, with Sanger's saddle slipping in the mile open won by MacDonald and A. B. Goehler's two-mile handicap win.
- C. C. Hildebrandt makes a round trip over the De Soto road from St. Louis, climbing all the hills both ways on a 21-pound Cleveland in 8 hours 18 minutes riding time.
- Nat Butler takes 1 minute off the fifteen-mile world road record at the Foxboro, Mass., road race, finishing in 41 minutes 25 1/2 seconds.
- E. C. Bald beats Dr. A. I. Brown in the Reading, Pa., mile open with a late sprint, Ray MacDonald wins the half-mile heats, and Sims takes the Class A mile.
- The editor reports that the Associated Cycling Clubs of Chicago have committed to campaigning politically, endorsing N. H. Van Sicklen for county treasurer and forming a campaign committee.
- The editor argues that American riders lag behind the English and French in long-distance riding and that the New York to Chicago record, about eight days against under half that on English roads, should be lowered on whatever roads exist.
- The editor, signed President Bates, questions whether the L. A. W. Racing Board should enforce rider contracts with manufacturers, arguing that such disputes belong in the courts and that the League would be unjust and unwise to intervene.
- The Associated Cycling Clubs of Chicago pass a resolution endorsing N. H. Van Sicklen for Cook County treasurer and expand their political committee to one member from each club.
- The proposed cash-prize professional league is shelved indefinitely because Zimmerman will not return from France until next spring, and the Brotherhood baseball grounds booking is also dropped.
- Results of the Aledo, Ill., Bicycle Club's first annual meet, with William C. Smith of Davenport winning the two-mile, five-mile and one-mile open races.
- The Victor people deny newspaper reports that the Overman Wheel Co. plans a rival national baseball association using its balls.
- Zimmerman beats Bozino and Champion at the Geneva velodrome in cold weather, then rides against the watch in Switzerland, where track surfaces are rough and his tandem pacing falters.
- The Mountain City Wheelmen of Chattanooga hold a two-day race meet during the Odd Fellows' Grand Lodge session, with diamond prizes, and G. E. Quinn makes a fast mile with pacers.
- J. Green wins the N.C.U. fifty-mile championship at Herne Hill in a world-record 1:56:45, ahead of A. A. Chase, while the North Road 24-hour race is shifted to Peterboro and W. Ellis sets tricycle records.
- The royal princesses cycle only within the grounds of Sandringham and Balmoral, Lady de Gray and Mrs. Asquith are named as fashionable cyclists, J. Michael wins the Welsh 100-mile championship, and the Lady Cyclists' Association plans to ask the N.C.U. to bar women from race meetings and ignore their records.
- Milwaukee professional Henry Kanaska, scarcely eighteen, sails for France to race at Herne Hill, and the same column notes Paul Jones's world trip, a stolen Berlin bicycle recovered, and Wisconsin and Ohio road races.
- Louisville wheelmen carry the Courier-Journal's election returns from the county and city precincts by bicycle in a rainstorm and mud, getting official tallies to the paper hours before its rival.
- Louisville riders fare badly at the Nashville road race and track meet, where H. A. Caperton wins bananas and Owen S. Kimble a gold-headed umbrella, and a new Southern Cycler paper is announced.
- At the Baltimore meet, Sanger, MacDonald and Barnett win Class B events, Cabanne wins a half-mile handicap by inches and Sims takes the Class A two-mile, while Eddie Bald's father dies that day.
- The Newport society families, including the Vanderbilts and Van Allens, take up cycling, and Mr. Van Allen's evening cycle party ends with the riders leaving their wheels with servants and returning by carriage.
- The Nashville Athletic Club meet opens with a ten-mile road race won by D. A. Coffer's group, followed by track races in which G. E. Quinn of Chattanooga takes several handicap and scratch events.
- Emmett Smith of Oswego wins the Oswego meet's class events and the time prize, while the non-appearance of Frank J. Jenny disappoints the crowd of about five thousand.
- Emmett Smith wins three events at the Auburn Athletic Association meet, which also features a five-mile road race won by Frank S. Jacques and a half-mile race won by fourteen-year-old Eddie Barnes.
- J. J. Fister of the Georgetown Cycle Club rides 331 and a half miles on the Conduit Road in 24 hours on a Sterling, eleven miles beyond the previous American record, and a Houben tandem match is announced.
- The Danbury Fair races on October 2 with $1,000 in prizes, L. A. W. president Luscomb answers a Louisville complaint over Landenwich, the Albany Bicycle Club's run-off meet is set for September 26 with forty-three riders expected and F. J. Jenny to attempt the Ridgefield track record, and the Long Island interclub 25-mile road race on Thanksgiving Day is set for the Jamaica course with H. H. Wylie's planned New York to Chicago record run also noted.
- L. A. W. president Charles H. Luscomb and New Jersey chief consul James S. Holmes, Jr. circulate their letters urging wheelmen to attend primaries and vote for good roads candidates and a $200,000 state appropriation.
- The column predicts record attempts at Waltham by Tyler, Bliss, Johnson, Sanger and Titus, with Bliss expected to attempt a 1:46 mile under Dave Shaefer's training.
- A stock company is to build athletic grounds and a bicycle track at Red Bank, the Kings County Wheelmen plan a new clubhouse on Herkimer Street, and the New York Wheelmen plan a theatrical evening.
- W. W. Taxis wins the mile 2:20 class and a half-mile in 59 seconds on the Tioga track in Philadelphia, while Sanger beats Bald and Tyler in the mile open, and W. Helfert's disputed placing is recounted.
- Taxis breaks the track record for the half mile at the Park Avenue Wheelmen's electric light meet at Riverton, N.J., covering it in 1:05 3/5 and paced by H. Swank, while Charley Church wins two events.
- E. L. Blauvelt is badly injured when the front fork of a tandem breaks during an attempt on the five-mile Montgomery Avenue tandem record, while Taxis declines to ride through the carriages at Haverford cricket.
- George Marshall Jr. of Red Oak, Iowa, wins the two-mile and one-mile open events at the county fair.
- The Mercury Wheel Club's second annual meet at Flushing, L.I., decides the Long Island championship, won by Chas. T. Earl with Frank E. Doup second, with several falls on the half-mile track and a banquet afterwards.
- C. H. Peck wins the Vincennes Cycling Club road race in 24 minutes 44 4/5 seconds, close to the world ten-mile record, and the paper reports the state record and club time results from Chicago.
- P. B. Wilson of the South Side Cycling Club wins time prize in the club's ten-mile road race in 26:00, lowering Bainbridge's state record of 26:13 3/5 and riding away from the other scratch men.
- A. T. Heywood finishes second in the Calumet C.C. five-mile road race in 12:56, failing to beat the course record of 12:15 after two accidents, with John Lyons winning.
- The Evanston Wheelmen's ten-mile race on a four-lap course is won on scratch by W. J. Doyle, who is disqualified for having a pacemaker, leaving W. B. Moore the first-place prize.
- C. H. Woods wins the Englewood Wheelmen's road race, with A. V. Hales winning the time prize, and the finishers listed with handicaps and times.
- The Lake View Cycling Club's fifth annual ten-mile road race gives each finisher a prize, with Herman Jordane taking time.
- T. Solum wins the eighth annual ten-mile road race of the Eolus Cycling Club and the Thorsen medal in 28:52, with H. Swenson and F. P. Fregg taking the other time medals.
- The Ottawa, Ill., Cycling Club fall meet is dominated by Chicago riders, with A. L. Leonhardt winning the three-mile handicap and the one-mile open, and E. E. Anderson of Roodhouse breaking the Ottawa Driving Park mile record.
- The Des Moines Cycling Club, taken over by social members, has lapsed, and a new club of about seventy-five riders is organised at the Commercial Exchange with Dr. Field as president.
- George C. Smith wins the one-mile scratch at the New York Athletic Club games at Travers Island in 2:30 4/5, with Ray Dawson winning the two-mile handicap.
- The Idler recounts the 1894 expedition of Conkey Tubbs and Birdie Bucket, who tried to ride 100 miles in under 76 hours, hid in a haystack for four days, and were relieved by a Slingum Club party the wrong way round, and wonders about the search for Frank Lenz.
- The editor answers Harper's Weekly and The Wheel on the use of "bike" and "wheel", arguing that "bike" is an old word worthy of respect from the pioneers of the sport.
- The editor comments that politicians have at last courted cyclists as voters and advises riders to grab all they can get from them.
- The editor reviews Chicago riders' repeated attacks on the Chicago to New York road record, noting that the trials expose bad roads and good bicycles but that the rides are not truly fast.
- Cleveland's council committee on streets and railways reports adversely on an ordinance requiring wider wagon tires, after teamsters' protests on weight and cost, while C. B. Coit argues for wide tires.
- The Monadnock Cycle Club's Keene, N.H., races draw about 1,800 people, though John S. Johnson fails to appear, and E. A. McDuffie wins the Class B one-mile open.
- Letters to the Senate finance committee from bicycle importers and manufacturers, including Rouse, Hazard, Knight, Whitten and Wilcox & Hubbard, argue over duties of 30 to 45 per cent and English competition.
- The United States Tire Co. is organised with $500,000 capital by Wall Street men, with offices and a factory to be established in New York.
- Ernest Bocker of the Mannesmann Tube Co. visits American makers and renews the Manufacturers & Merchants Warehouse Co.'s Chicago agency for Mannesmann bicycle tubing, and the Newton Rubber Works launch the Newton No. 2 tire.
- The trade column lists town-by-town changes in bicycle firms, including a Detroit partnership dissolved, a Boston polishing machine, the Pope-Mannesmann charter at New Haven and the Chicago Derby Cycle Co.
- An editorial argues that a maker's guarantee is worth little, so riders are better off dealing with a reputable firm than relying on a warranty from a shady one.
- Bids are invited for the programme of the National Cycle Exhibition Co.'s January 1895 show in Chicago.
- E. B. Dye & Co., paper dealers of Louisville, hire M. T. Callahan to run a wheel department for 1895 and seek agencies for two more brands.
- C. H. Plumb resigns as manager of the Chicago branch of the Ariel Cycle Co., and the paper praises the Straus elastic tire and Eastern Rubber's new valve, and notes William Hamilton joining the Syracuse Cycle Co.
- The Standard Cycle Co. of Louisville retires from the trade on October 1, and the Dow Wire Works and E. B. Dye & Co. take up its Imperial and Orient agencies.
- The London correspondent reports on the Birch wood rim, the Coventry combination scheme, saddle and handlebar positions, a Dunlop valve improvement, broken chains, Humber's new frame and tandem safeties.
- New York dealers report on the season: P. E. Snyder's uptown sales, F. W. Aymar's Remingtons, the Storiettes magazine enlargement, Alexander Schwalbach's Liberty Hall store with over seven hundred wheels sold, and the Park Row Cycle Co.'s sundries.
- The Hartford Courant reprints a note on E. C. Bald's Columbia record rides at Springfield and Denver, lowering the three-quarter and mile world records on Pope tyres.
- The Wheeler, reporting a visit from Edward Pope of the Pope Mfg. Co., contrasts American and English practice on very light machines, makers' prize contributions and gear-cases.