The Bearings, Vol 9, No 26
Articles in this issue
- Race report from Pittsburgh Athletic Club's quarter-mile track on July 19: Taxis wins the mile open Class B by six inches over Bliss, Sanger refuses to ride after finding the track dangerous, and Banker sets a new state one-third-mile championship record.
- Brief dispatch from Paris, July 22: Zimmerman wins both the 1,000-meter handicap and the mile handicap at the velodrome, starting from scratch and drawing thunderous applause from the crowd.
- Five-mile road race on Brooklyn's Ocean Boulevard won by W.E. Kippe (3:30 handicap) in 17:40; first event of a club championship series at five, ten, fifteen, and twenty-five miles.
- Cleveland, Ohio, July 20: Titus wins the three-mile lap race alone in a worsening storm on Cleveland Athletic Club's miserable quarter-mile track, clocking 8:06 — described as likely the fastest unpaced three miles on record.
- Cleveland, July 21: Sanger wins the ten-mile open in 25:45, a world record for a quarter-mile track, with Titus second and Bald third; Sanger crashes over the banking after the finish but escapes without a scratch.
- Chester Bicycle Club's six-man team defeats the West Philadelphia Cyclers 44 points to 34 in a road race from Bryn Mawr; Church of Chester leads the finishers in 12:40 over a dust-covered course.
- The Century Road Club's fourth annual century run is scheduled for Sunday, August 5, starting from Washington Boulevard and Halsted Street in Chicago via Elgin and Aurora; open to all wheelmen.
- Editorial: the Deutsche Radfahrer Bund and Dutch Union demand an apology, travel expense reimbursement, and future recognition of their licenses from Britain's N.C.U., which barred German and Dutch riders Lehr, Lurion, and Eden from its championships.
- Editorial noting that a $500 gold slab prize for an unpaced mile at the upcoming Chicago meet will draw challengers to Sanger, with Titus considered the only man besides Sanger capable of going it alone; Johnson, Bliss, and Tyler show better form behind pacemakers.
- Editorial defending women's cycling bloomers against ridicule from the Louisville Courier Journal, which compared them unfavorably to 'a sack of salt'; The Bearings argues the public will be educated in time to accept the rational costume.
- Interview with Joseph McDermott, Zimmerman's brother-in-law, who describes Zimmerman's European season as a success — wins in Florence, Paris, and against Edwards — with total earnings over $5,000, and predicts Zimmerman will quit the season $50,000 ahead.
- Arthur Nieman of Freeport, Ill., aged fifteen years and four months, showed such speed in training that half the Decoration Day road race field refused to start unless he was placed on scratch; he won it anyway, and the professional Heuman could not come within eight minutes of his time.
- Louisville, July 23: Miss Lily Duff rides downtown streets in bloomers on a wager, attracting crowds and negative comment; C.A. Harvey breaks the Kentucky 24-hour road record with 294 miles on a 21-lb. Waverley, riding three hours through heavy rain.
- St. Louis dispatch: three days of hearings before a board of judges at Washington University fail to settle the Stearns vs. Lu-mi-num bicycle frame strength test; Stearns and Grayson cannot agree on weight equalization or whether a riding test should be included.
- Toledo, July 25: new St. Louis rider Cabanne (2:03 record) surprises the field by drafting Sanger to a close second in the mile open; Bliss wins the third-mile open after Sanger and Johnson are involved in separate heat crashes.
- Milwaukee, July 26: H.L. Dodson of Chicago's South Side club wins the time prize in the 20.5-mile Racine-Milwaukee road race in 1:08:10; George Seely of the Cream City club wins the race outright in a five-man sprint finish, with 65 starters of 83 entered.
- New York, July 23: Spanish-American cowboy Pedro Esquival of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show challenges two wheelmen to a 20-mile horse-versus-bicycle match for $500; the M.A.C.C. meet on July 28 adds a team championship race; K.C.W. members report a season total of 43,784 miles ridden since March.
- Philadelphia, July 22: West Philadelphia Cyclers and Pennsylvania Bicycle Club discuss merging into one large organization to secure better clubhouse facilities; J.J. Corwin of Chicago's Union Cycle Club sets a new Chicago-to-Philadelphia record of eight and a half days.
- London, June 14: Carter's 24-hour ride at Putney totals 423 miles — two miles short of Shorland's record — on a difficult 4.5-lap track in rain and wind; England defeats Scotland by four points in the international team race at Glasgow.
- Jamestown, N.Y., July 20: A.B. Goehler of Buffalo breaks A.E. Lumsden's five-mile American competition record by 5¾ seconds at the Y.M.C.A. Cycling Club meet, clocking 12:32 on a poorly banked half-mile horse track, riding the entire distance alone.
- Rain left the Newark, Ohio track soaked; referee Henry Goodman's inspection confirmed races could not be held, and the track manager refused the offered Standard Oil to burn off moisture for fear of caking the dirt surface.
- Paris, July 9: Zimmerman defeats England's A.C. Edwards in two straight match races at the Velodrome-Buffalo, winning the kilometer by four or five lengths and the two-kilometer with ease; the same afternoon Wheeler beats Louvet, and Farman sets a new 50-kilometer record of 1:12:40. By J.M. Erwin.
- A lighthearted account of the circuit riders' week-long vacation at Asbury Park: the Columbia, Spalding, Sterling, Union, and Victor teams joined in surf initiations, water-pitcher ambushes, and the founding of the secretive 'Stuffed Club' presided over by trainer Billy Young.
- A traveling salesman surveys the bicycle trade across Michigan, finding price-cutting wars in southern towns like Coldwater and Lansing, a booming high-grade market at Battle Creek and Port Huron, and near-dead business in Muskegon, Cheboygan, and Cadillac.
- New York, July 28: Wilson-Myers Co. sells 296 machines at their new Brooklyn store since March; Spalding holds a clearing sale at 243 Broadway; trade notes cover installment dealers, new store openings, closings, recent bicycle patents, and the Liberty Co.'s new Long Beach riding academy.
- London, July 14: hands-on test finds the spring chain wheel offers no power advantage; the new Elswick hub from Newton & Co. is praised as near-perfect; Beeston Pneumatic-Lloyd dispute settled; Surrey Machinists' Co. petitioned for winding up. By 'Will o' the Wisp.'
- R.L. Jefferson, who rode from London to Constantinople, reports that British cycle manufacturers are losing Eastern Europe and Oriental markets to German and Austrian competitors because they insist on cash against invoice rather than extending credit to local dealers.
- National Cycle Exhibition Co. publishes favorable responses from dealers in Nashville, Fort Wayne, Omaha, Dayton, and across the midwest urging Chicago to host the 1895 national cycle show; twenty-five manufacturers including Indiana Bicycle Co., Sterling Cycle Works, and Monarch Cycle Co. have already reserved space.