The Bearings, Vol 5, No 22
Articles in this issue
- p. 1
A mother asks Willie to bring the parrot upstairs before his father cleans the bicycle chain, not wanting the bird to acquire the vocabulary father uses on such occasions.
- p. 1
Two relay racers stranded in a flooded road console themselves: one calls it highway robbery, the other is just glad they are 'in the swim.'
- p. 1
A racing man loses his last prize at the pawn shop and declares himself 'broke — pawn-broke,' combining financial ruin with a perfect sporting pun.
- p. 1
Comic argument that the Racing Board cannot legally require riders to cover their arms while racing, because the Constitution guarantees the right to 'bare arms.'
- p. 1
Allegorical lament from a rental wheel to an oil can: though it makes many friends and is always taken out, it is 'always a loan.'
- p. 1
A friend stops being seen with Racer, who is now traveling the road paved with good intentions — he is dead, and the mortgage proves it.
- p. 13
One-liner declaring that when all racing men become pure amateurs, it will be time to listen for Gabriel's trumpet.
- p. 1
Comic verse advising cyclists to first learn their own ignorance before discovering that of others, presented as the path to true advancement.
- p. 1
A judge examines a bicycle rider's complaint about a dog biting his calf, but finds for the dog upon inspecting the rider's notably slender legs.