The Bicycling World, Vol 10, No 7
Articles in this issue
- Leader demanding protection for amateurs from unprincipled professionals, citing Fred Westbrooke of Canada racing at the Omaha Wheel Club tournament as "Wm. Patterson, of Toronto" and T. W. Eck entering Western races as "Mr. Johnson". Unheaded editorial notes follow on the Kangaroo's eligibility against crank machines, League rule-making, the Buffalo meet and Big Four tour, and betting in the pool-rooms of Springfield.
- Letters headed "Breaking Up" dispute the editor's claim that the Chicago tourists tried to run away from their Massachusetts Bicycle Club escort into Boston; John S. Prince answers Howell and his backer Mr. Corey over their proposed match; and "A 'Cycling Centre" proposes calling Springfield the racing centre and Boston the touring centre.
- News-notes department opening with the poem "Three Rides", with items on objections to the Stanley Exhibition, the dissolution of Louisville's Kentucky Bicycle Club, T. W. Eck's scheme when Armaindo and Morgan raced horses in Missouri, District of Columbia L.A.W. division officers, the marriage of Charles A. Hazlett, and Hill & Tolman's new double-gong bell.
- T. S. Ormiston of New York, applying as a C.T.C. member, is refused a pass for Central Park and the Riverside Drive by the Park Commissioners on the ground that the Cyclists' Touring Club is a foreign, unorganized body; Ormiston rebuts the ruling and intends to push the matter through the C.T.C. consuls.
- The long-disputed Willard Hotel Cup, given to the League by Col. Staples at the Washington race meeting, is presented to Mr. Hanna on 3 December, while the racing board orders a medal struck for Mr. Frazier, winner of the twenty-five-mile championship.
- The November council meeting at the Palsgrave restaurant, Strand, chaired by Dr. B. Richardson, approves the president's scheme to extend the Union with a rented clubhouse, library and machine exhibitions, appointing a committee of eighteen to elaborate it.
- List of new American cycle patents furnished by solicitor Henry W. Williams of Boston, including Robert C. Fletcher's folding tricycle, Stilwell and McNab's air-cushioned bicycle spring, and Charles E. Pratt's tubular truss wheel assigned to the Pope Manufacturing Company.
- Comparative table of English and American amateur tricycle records featuring H. J. Webb, M. J. Lowndes, C. E. Liles, R. Chambers, E. P. Burnham and A. G. Powell, with Maj. Knox-Holmes's 101-115 mile times and Fred Lees's professional figures, plus notes on disputed marks.
- W. M. Woodside captures all professional records from eleven to fifty miles at Chicago on 8 December, covering fifty miles in 2h 54m on a carefully remeasured indoor track, paced over the last miles by Phil Hammill of the Chicago Bicycle Club; the full mile-by-mile times are tabled.
- The six-day team match between Woodside-Brooks and Morgan-Armaindo falls through when Tom Eck pays forfeit; the Hermes Club announces Christmas Day races at Chicago's Exposition Building, the Reading (Pa.) club continues its rink series, Eck plans a New Orleans World's Fair engagement, and Memphis proposes spring races.
- Club notes including a new club formed at Salem, Oregon, officers of the St. Louis Star Bicycle Club under Newton Crane, the Brooklyn Bicycle Club's reception at Capt. H. R. Elliot's residence, the Elizabeth (N.J.) Wheelmen's growth from ten to forty-four members, and the Indianapolis club's planned trip to New Orleans.
- Official C.T.C. American Division column of Chief Consul Frank W. Weston: the list of State consuls, provisional membership elections from Nashua, Philadelphia, New York and Cleveland, and the appointment of F. Alcott Pratt as Massachusetts State consul.
- Editor's answers to readers' queries, advising vaseline to keep nickel bright through winter, naming Stoddard, Lovering & Co. and Julius Wilcox as sources for Ardill's enamel, and settling questions on saddle springs and steering.