The Bicycling World, Vol 11, No 14
Articles in this issue
- Leader on the makers' amateur evil, prompted by Ohio's protest of Whittaker of Boston and Weber of Smithville before the Racing Board. The editor argues protests without evidence are futile and urges tournament promoters to reject makers' amateurs under Rule 22, as Philadelphia did, pointing to Furnival's and Gatehouse's championship wins as heartening true amateurs.
- Charles Richards Dodge rebuts "London W.'s" slur that Thomas Stevens, the Outing round-the-world rider, was ignored in England, quoting A. J. Wilson ("Faed") on the escort of twenty-six Anfield Club members out of Liverpool and the universal admiration for Stevens's pluck.
- T. J. Kirkpatrick, chief consul of Ohio, defends the Ohio State meet's forty-two medals against charges of bidding for paid riders and confirms the division's protest of Whittaker and Weber as makers' amateurs, pledging to protest every paid racer entering the State.
- Letter signed "Smilax" recording that an eighteen-year-old young lady, never before on a crank wheel or Star, mounted a bicycle with assistance and rode a mile and a sixteenth as shown by the Butcher cyclometer.
- "Don Quixote" of Fort Wayne, Ind., reports night riding by lantern light and offers six rules for beginners, recommending fresh wicks, "signal oil" and the Evening Star bicycle lantern, which burns four hours on a filling.
- "The Person Accused" corrects the World's account of the Dorchester Bicycle Club fifty-mile road race, explaining that Rowe never drank from the disputed pail and that Whittaker and Hunter were refused water only because it was reserved for Whitten, less than two minutes behind.
- L. D. Munger, captain of the Detroit Bicycle Club, tops the Lawrence boys' 1883 twenty-four-hour record on a 54-inch Apollo, riding from Boston through Framingham, South Natick, Salem and Newburyport with pace-makers Gideon Haynes, Jr. and W. B. Everett, the distance verified by a tested Butcher cyclometer and postal cards mailed from every town.
- "Daisie's" ladies' column drawn from an English society paper on tricycle hill-climbing, classifying hills into three types (Corey Hill; railroad rises in Cambridge and Somerville; long grades like Milton or Wellesley Hills) with tactics for each, and announcing that her proposed ladies' tour is organized and about to start.
- Chief Consul Weston appoints a sixteen-man committee, including W. V. Gilman, C. H. Potter and Abbot Bassett, to amend the C.T.C. by-laws for the American division, meeting at the Massasoit House, Springfield, 9 September; the division's annual tour will be held near Philadelphia in September.
- L.A.W. committee appointments: Membership under Ed. F. Hill of Peekskill; the Racing Board under Abbot Bassett of Boston; Rights and Privileges under Charles E. Pratt; Rules and Regulations under E. M. Aaron of Philadelphia; and Transportation under B. B. Ayers of Chicago.
- English news: R. H. English wins the fifty-mile English amateur championship at the Crystal Palace from G. Gatehouse, breaking every record from twenty-nine to thirty-eight miles; Wood beats champion Howell by inches in the twenty-five-mile professional championship at Leicester; a silver-plated Xtraordinary is supplied to Prince Alphonso of Portugal, and Harry Etherington's party sails for the American race meetings 18 August.
- The Ipswich Chronicle recounts Erni Crockett of Newburyport, a one-legged former circus performer known as Signor Erni, riding thirty miles through town en route to Newburyport, probably the only one-limbed man in the country to master the bicycle.
- Humorous essay by "By the Way" on a Boston-to-Salem tour in the company of a fly, christened Ahasuerus after being rescued from the writer's coffee, who dines with him at the Boscobel and dies practising a back somersault on the tire.
- Some forty clergymen organized by Rev. Sylvanus Stall of Lancaster, Penn., start a three-week Canadian tour from Niagara Falls via Hamilton, Galt, Woodstock, London, Stratford, Guelph, Toronto, Kingston and the Thousand Islands, with a route map; Rev. J. H. Harpster of Canton, O., began riding twelve years earlier as a missionary in India.
- Paragraph department opening with F. W. Blacker's poem "The Earth Primeval" and continuing with news squibs: J. H. Polhill of Macon, Ga., champion of the South, starts a road trip through Tennessee and Virginia to Washington; F. W. Sherburne rides the first century on Vermont roads; George W. Baker completes his St. Louis-to-Boston ride on a 48-inch Victor; Karl F. Miller loses a $100 wager to ride Navarre to Massillon, O., in twenty-four minutes.
- Comic poem by F. W. Blacker of Worcester, Mass.: a cyclist killed by a header sleeps through ice ages and geologic epochs until far-future miners unearth his wheel and learned savants restore it as an ancient machine for executing criminals.
- Opens with the Boston Bicycle Club's annual tricycle road race from South Natick, won by E. P. Burnham on a Victor in 1.15.04 from W. H. Huntley (Cripper), L. J. Martelle (Victor) and W. A. Rhodes (Quadrant), who fell at the reservoir; also full results of the Chicago Bicycle Track Association races of 24-25 July (Woodside, Brooks, Prince, George Weber's fifteen-mile L.A.W. championship), Williamsburg Athletic Club sports, and Hendee's retirement from racing contests.
- George D. Gideon of the Germantown Cycle Club circulates the offer of the Gentlemen's Driving Park to build and maintain a real bicycle track in Philadelphia if one hundred riders join at ten dollars a year, with full access to the park and its races.
- Club notes: the Perth Amboy (N.J.) Club elects E. W. Barnes president and E. E. Hartshorne captain; W. H. Putnam is secretary of the Knockabout Wheel Club of Gardner, Mass.; the New Jersey Wheelmen elect J. C. Willever secretary in place of L. N. Spinning.
- Race calendar: Chicago races 8 August; Berkshire County Wheelmen tournament at Pittsfield 13 August; Cleveland Club annual races 27-28 August; Connecticut Bicycle Club tournament at Hartford 2-3 September; Springfield tournament 8-10 September; Providence Club races 22 September.