The Bicycling World, Vol 11, No 15
Articles in this issue
- Leader paragraphs discuss the Record's views on professionalism creeping into English football, a telegram from Mr. Ducker confirming Hendee will race at Springfield despite Hamilton's injury, Corey's fine condition after his safety ride, dark horses in training, the 25 per cent power saving of elastic pedal cushions, and the promise of cheap aluminum for 12-pound racers.
- Correspondent Daisie recounts a week's hundred-odd-mile tour by four lady riders through Salem, Beverly Bridge, Hamilton Camp Ground and Rowley, including Maud's runaway descent on an oiled brake band and the rosin remedy applied by an apothecary at the next town.
- Harry D. Corey rides a 36-inch Rudge Safety geared to 56 for 203 1/8 miles in twenty-four hours while W. H. Huntley of Newton covers 191 miles on a Rudge Cripper tricycle, looping between Newton, Waltham, Needham, South Natick and the Chestnut Hill reservoir with cyclometer checks by policemen and night watchmen.
- Faed, writing in the Tricyclist, argues that the speed of the Humber, Cripper and Quadrant tricycles comes from forward-placed handles, describes a Centaur tandem built with spade handles six inches ahead of the crankshaft, and condemns a maker who substituted a 17-inch steering wheel for the ordered 20-inch.
- About twenty-five clergymen under commander Rev. Sylvanus Stall of Lancaster start from the International Hotel at Niagara Falls on 4 August, are halted by Canadian customs at St. Catharines after the Big Four tour's sins, and are feted at a church reception where Rev. Mr. Swett gives the welcoming address.
- A Globe reprint hails the several dozen young American clergymen touring the country on bicycles in short trowsers and flannel shirts as a sign of changed public opinion, quipping that Cotton Mather would never have talked such foolishness about witchcraft had he taken a header or two each morning.
- At the Massachusetts Bicycle Club's monthly meeting E. W. Pope's motion to raise dues from $12 to $16 is deferred, a racing committee of A. D. Peck Jr., A. L. Atkins and R. P. Ahl is elected, a fifty-mile open road race and club races near the reservoir are planned after Springfield, and hospitality is voted for the visiting Capital Bicycle Club of Washington.
- Geo. D. Gideon and A. G. Powell ride a Humber tandem twenty miles over a twice-measured stretch of the Lancaster pike in one hour twenty-five minutes, covering the outward ten miles in forty-six minutes including stops for toll and refreshments.
- The Massachusetts division of the League of American Wheelmen, meeting at the Bay State House in Worcester on 5 August, reports 289 new members and $183.19 in hand, elects Sanford Lawton of Springfield secretary-treasurer, and accepts the Worcester Aeolus Club's invitation to hold the fall meet, probably 24 September.
- An essay on drawing lines argues that the social line drawn against racing professionals is an egregious blunder, contrasting the millionaire who races yachts and horses for money yet stays a gentleman with the honest professional wheelman Prince who is treated as an outcast.
- London W. urges advisers of intending lady tricyclists to insist on light mounts of no more than sixty-five pounds, preferring central-geared front-steering machines with wheels under forty-four inches and all clothing-catching parts covered in, predicting the tandem will wholly supersede the sociable.
- A letter from the Boston touring party in Bettws-y-Coed, Wales describes sight-seeing in London and Paris, a Kenilworth run with Henry Sturmey sharing a Humber tandem with A. H. Overman, the new three-wheeled Quadrant tandem's five-mile sprint victory into Coventry, and plans to sail home on the Etruria on 15 August.
- The Cyclist reports on the five Boston Bicycle Club visitors — J. S. Dean, E. C. Hodges, L. Harrison, A. H. Overman and R. J. Tombs — riding a Victor and Quadrant mounts, escorted through Stoneleigh Park and Kenilworth, attending the Leicester championship meeting and heading for Harrogate.
- C. S. Wade's poem 'The Moonlight Run' opens a column of squibs: Frank W. Weston is ill with nervous fever, Hamilton's fractured arm ends his twenty-miles-in-the-hour attempt, Buffalo's League meet cleared $357.83, W. A. Rowe receives a 22 1/4-pound Columbia racer, and F. H. Sharpe and P. B. Bird ride 250 miles from Helena, Montana to Fort Ellis; further notes cover Burnham, Neilson and Gaskell training at the reservoir, W. B. Page's 5,775 miles in three seasons, and Burley B. Ayers winning free customs admission into Canada for used bicycles.
- A Brockton correspondent defends Mrs. Allen's long-distance record ride against London W.'s strictures, rejoicing in the freer out-door life cycling opens to women, and N. H. Van Sicklen writes to the Pope Manufacturing Co.'s Chicago branch praising the Columbia Racer on which he won his club championship on 25 July.
- English racing notes lead with the Alexandra Park races of 23 July, where P. Furnivall beat R. H. English by six inches in a superb three-mile scratch tricycle race in 8m. 34s.
- Results from Washington's professional and amateur races featuring H. Higham, Louise Armaindo, Wm. E. Crist and unicyclist Horace Snodderly; the Montreal Bicycle Club's annual handicap road race won by George Darling; plus the Ramblers' St. Louis meet plans, the new East Hartford track association, the Troy Club programme and a $500 international professional handicap at Athletic Park, Washington.
- The Star Club of St. Louis elects Newton Crane president with H. W. Greenwood captain, and the newly organized Helena, Montana club names S. Carpenter president and T. H. Sharpe captain.
- The department for chief consul Frank W. Weston of Savin Hill, Boston lists dues, the roster of State consuls from Connecticut to Wyoming Territory, the Canadian chief consul Horace S. Tibbs of Montreal, and two provisional membership applications from Akron, Ohio.
- Brief editorial answers advise a subscriber that the stimulant is coca, not cocoa, and that the paper does not recommend stimulants, and tell C. E. Johnson that race reports without contestants' names are unsatisfactory.
- The race calendar lists the Cleveland Club's annual races on 27-28 August, the Connecticut Bicycle Club tournament at Hartford, the Troy Club races at Island Park, the Springfield tournament of 8-10 September with the ten-mile championship, the Providence Club races on 22 September and the Omaha Wheel Club tournament in October.