The Bearings, Vol 7, No 19
Articles in this issue
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Connecticut and Massachusetts cycling leaders, angered by a reported $11,000 League deficit and $16,000 Good Roads bureau loss, begin organizing a call for a special National Assembly session, with Ohio, Michigan, Nebraska, and Colorado also said to be willing to join.
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A special cable reports that Zimmerman, after winning the mile open and breaking the Irish quarter-mile record at Dublin, collides with another rider in the twenty-five-mile championship, has three teeth knocked out, and is too badly hurt to race for some time.
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Referees finalize the Pullman road race placings and prize selections, with winners choosing from bicycles, watches, merchandise, and other goods, and the Columbia Wheelmen receiving a $100 picture as the club of the overall winner.
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The Connecticut Senate passes an amendment to the anti-pool bill allowing purses, premiums, and entry fees at regular race tracks, preserving the Columbia Cycle Club's July 4 meet and other events that the original bill threatened to ban.
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J.S. Johnson travels to New Haven and defeats mile record holder Willie Windle at Derby Park, then ties Zimmerman's Ansonia track record of 2:19 4/5 paced by Rich, Wheeler, Tuttle, and Windle.
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Charles M. Murphy, fresh from his Decoration Day road race success, wins both the half-mile open and two-mile handicap at the New York Athletic Club games at Travers Island.
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The National Cycling Association of America publishes a thirty-nine-day professional race schedule spanning July through October, with $1,000 daily prize money at Manhattan Field, though the question of whether established professionals or prominent amateurs will participate remains unsettled.