The Bicycling World, Vol 11, No 12
Articles in this issue
- Unheaded leader on the League of American Wheelmen's new strict amateur rule, arguing that the big Springfield, Cleveland and Hartford tournaments live on makers' amateurs and that valuable prizes should be reserved for professional events; a closing squib condemns a new Massachusetts club that has appropriated an old club's name and refuses to change it.
- Arthur C. Hills of Rochester, N.Y., corrects the World's report of trouble with his city's authorities: wheelmen have full use of the streets and the only question is enforcement of the ordinance keeping bicycles off the sidewalks, a restriction the editor endorses.
- Julius Wilcox recounts Oxborrow's Land's End to John O'Groats ride on a Facile, explaining that the much-gossiped breakage was a worn front rim after falls and a bull charge, and celebrates Goodwin's round trip and run to London of 2,050 miles in 19 consecutive days on a 40-inch Facile.
- Daisie meditates on how the cycle regenerates the money-making American, then relays Mr. Hillier's detailed advice on the ideal cycling shoe — soft pliable leather, broad low heel and a front-opening lace — and praises the Boston shoe advertised in the World as near perfection.
- Full programme of the Peoria Bicycle Club's August tour under Captain C. W. Freeman: meeting at Rock Island, steaming up the Mississippi to St. Paul, wheeling to Minneapolis via Minnehaha Falls and Lake Minnetonka, then riding the Wisconsin resort country from Madison through Oconomowoc to Milwaukee, all for under $50.
- Reprinted New York Tribune editorial prompted by a child killed by a bicycle in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, arguing that pedestrian paths are no place for the wheel and that the Park commissioners should withdraw path-riding privileges and grant wheelmen the right of the road.
- St. Louis wheelmen give a seventy-five-cover dinner to Cola Stone, winner of the Big Four 100-mile road race; Chief Consul Senseney urges a bid for the 1886 League Meet, and Arthur Young's comic poem recounts the muddy race in which Stone left Weber seven miles behind.
- London letter on the National Cyclists' Union, whose West Riding centre is prosecuting a Doncaster promoter who falsely advertised races as run under N.C.U. rules; also the Wheeling paper's insistence on 'wheelist', Harry Etherington's coming American visit, the King of Greece's Ranelagh Club tricycle, and Mrs. Allen's 24-hour record on a 65-pound Humber.
- Letter from M. Bowell in Ottawa to Captain A. F. Webster of the Toronto Bicycle Club announcing that Canadian customs collectors have been instructed to admit bicycles and tricycles accompanied by their owners free, under the same regulations as travellers' vehicles.
- 'By the Way' confesses he is no racing man and abhors 'scorching', contrasts himself with Karl Kron's steady six miles an hour, defends racing as the competitive soul of the sport, and champions quiet small-party touring over the big Chicago and Down East tours.
- Noah Count's miscellany: a plea to fix the Butcher Cyclometer cut, scorn for compulsory bells, doubts about Boston League parades while 'Karl Kron' and the unattached are barred, advice against 'Daisie's' dress-reform costumes for lady tricyclists, and a call for an international championship contest with England's flyers.
- News squibs: H. J. Hall, Jr. and A. C. D. Loucks of Brooklyn ride a 122-mile century in 13h. 1m.; the Pennells' 'A Canterbury Pilgrimage' arrives for review; S. G. Whittaker joins Simmons Hardware in St. Louis; a new-model Star is stolen from W. W. Stall's store; and the C.T.C. nears 20,000 members.
- Foreign notes: Mrs. Allen of Birmingham rides 200 miles in under 24 hours on a Cripper, C. H. R. Gossett and Monsieur P. Rousset break tricycle records, Lennox is reported to have lowered the John O'Groats record, Singer's shows a sub-37-pound 'Traveller' racer, and M. V. Webber cuts the English mile record to 2.39¾.
- Race results and plans: Fairgrounds races at Charlotte, N.C. (Overcash, Asbury, Maxwell and Polhill), fixtures at Providence and Troy, Prince conceding Dolph starts at Chicago, the Boston Club's revised tricycle road-race route along Beacon street, and the Dorchester Club's altered fifty-mile course turning at South Braintree.
- Complete three-day programme for the Springfield tournament of 8-10 September, listing every amateur and professional bicycle and tricycle event with its prizes, from $300 professional sweepstakes and Springfield prize cups to gold watches, tea services and Stevens bicycle rifles.
- The Somerville Cycle Club holds its annual dinner at the Quincy House and votes a private ten-mile race; the Boston Club calls a run to the Dorchester road race; the Missouri Club plans new headquarters; Wakefield members hire a York Beach cottage; new clubs organize at Niagara Falls, Ont. and Cincinnati.
- American Division notices from Chief Consul Frank W. Weston: dues, the full list of State consuls from Connecticut to Wyoming Territory, provisional election of applicants A. W. Douglas of St. Louis and Gerry Jones of Binghamton, and the appointment of a Binghamton consul.
- Calendar of coming events, including the Dorchester Club road race and Chicago championship races on 25 July, the Boston Club tricycle road race on 3 August, the Hartford tournament on 2-3 September, the Springfield tournament on 8-10 September, and the Providence Club races on 22 September.