The Bicycling World, Vol 10, No 9
Articles in this issue
- The New Year leader reviews 1884 under the heads Trade, Racing, Tours, 'Cycling Institutions, 'Cycling Literature and Clubs: the Kangaroo and Rudge Safety launches, Sellers's 2.39 mile at Hartford, Hendee's League championships, Stevens's Pacific-to-Atlantic ride, the L.A.W.'s empty treasury and the Missouri secession, and the boom in club-houses.
- Short-paragraph column opening with the poem 'The Cyclist's Farewell to the Old Year', then notes on Jo Pennell's Coventry Tandem ride from Florence to Rome, Thomas Yates's saddle-gear patent, the death of Col. Newton on a tricycle in London, the Cunningham Company's settled Customs suit, and Park Commissioner Salem H. Wales on easing Central Park restrictions.
- Letters on League membership terms from W. K. Gilman, on wider rear-wheel tires and central-geared tricycles, and Geo. H. Orr of Toronto explaining how the professional Westbrook raced in Omaha under the name Patterson on a mistaken amateur certification.
- Press extracts with editorial rebuttals: the Amateur Athlete and the Spirit of the Times attack the L.A.W. racing rules on tape finishes and pistol starts, answered with the 'Cyclist's method of judging bicycle races by a broad white tape.
- Club president L. H. Johnson reports Capt. J. W. Smith's champion six months' road record of 4,158 3/4 miles from May to October 1884, verified by cyclometer.
- Mr. and Mrs. Ormiston have obtained passes from the Department of Parks for riding in Central Park and on the Riverside drive, settling another phase of the vexed park question.
- The Hermes Club's Christmas rink meeting in Chicago, where Prince beat Woodside by six feet in a fifteen-mile professional match for $100 a side; Miss Mattie Wallace's five-mile win over Professor D. W. Marsh at Hudson, Mich.; and F. T. Merrill's ten-mile Oregon championship win over Bert Hatch at Portland.
- The Fort Wayne Bicycle Club opens new club rooms with an oyster supper; the Baltimore 'Cycle Club's Christmas reception where A. M. Snyder received a gold medal for 2,013 miles ridden; plus Maryland Bicycle Club, Ixion and Stamford Wheelmen news.
- American Division notices from Chief Consul Frank W. Weston listing State consuls, 1885 renewal instructions via Chas. H. Potter of Cleveland, new consul appointments, and Canadian Division contacts under Horace S. Tibbs of Montreal.
- Brief editorial replies, including a ruling that a salaried aid at a roller-skating rink is a professional, and acknowledgments to H. S. Wollison, Ixion and J. F. Adams.