The Bicycling World, Vol 11, No 16
Articles in this issue
- Editor Abbot Bassett spars with Ducker's Springfield Gazette over the amateur question, defending the L.A.W.'s new amateur rule against Secretary Aaron's charge that the board of officers disgraced itself, and endorsing the Wheel's proposal to reject suspect entries.
- A discursive column on the amateur controversy, friend Growzer's Paris habit, next year's big tour to Canada, the etymology of coasting 'adown' a hill, a proposed temperance inn at Chestnut Hill, and a young lady at the beach wearing League badges won from her three summer conquests.
- An anecdote reprinted from Wheel Life about an American racer who, writhing with a sprained ankle in the dressing tent, silences a meddling spectator by demanding to know who is 'boss over this here sprain'.
- Review of the Coventry Machinists' Company's Ranelagh tricycle, first shown at the 1884 Springfield tournament by Messrs. Bale and Gaskell — essentially an Imperial Club with a novel rein-rod bicycle-handle-bar steering arrangement and foot-lever band brake, now selling briskly in Boston.
- Henry W. Williams of the Massachusetts Bicycle Club compiles twelve rules against headers and slipped pedals: choose a small full-weight roadster with inch tire and good brake, sit erect, cultivate quick pedalling, never coast, and take rough places at a good speed.
- Columnist Daisie rebukes praise of Mrs. Allen's 200-mile ride as record-seeking unwomanly display, and disputes 'London W.'s' advice to await a sixty-five-pound tricycle, noting she and her friends happily ride machines of eighty-five to one hundred pounds.
- Programme for the division meet at Brooklyn on 12 September under the Kings County Wheelmen: a six-hundred-wheel parade, a run to Coney Island via Prospect Park and Ocean Parkway, state championship races at the Williamsburg Athletic Club grounds, and Sunday runs to Garden City, Orange and Yonkers.
- Fourteen Capital Bicycle Club men under Capt. L. W. Seeley leave Washington via Baltimore steamer for Boston, entertained en route by Norfolk's Seaside Bicycle Club at Virginia Beach and in Boston by the Massachusetts Club, riding to Cambridge, Chestnut Hill reservoir, Quincy and Nantasket before steaming to Cottage City.
- Eighteen of the expected fifty riders — nine ministers and nine laymen, led by Rev. Sylvanus Stall of Lancaster — tour Ontario behind schedule, feted with church receptions and band escorts at Exeter, Goderich, Seaforth, Mitchell and Stratford before reaching Toronto, where several members drop out.
- 'London W.' writes up the Harrogate meet for Wheel Life, deriding the motley cycling procession — in which he and Jo Pennell were the only Americans — as a poor affair beside an American parade, and reporting the Americans' dinner for Rucker, Letchford, Furnivall, Sturmey and Varley.
- Wheel World describes David Moseley & Sons' patented two-part tire, combining a hard ebonite seating with a soft rubber wearing surface: heated in hot water it softens for fitting to the rim, then hardens in place so firmly it must be cut through or reheated to remove.
- News paragraphs opening with C. S. Wady's 'In Memoriam' verse: Dr. N. P. Tyler elected official handicapper, S. G. Whittaker's Manchester road run, August Guelcher killed by a runaway team at Erie, John Brooks surrenders his medal, Percy Stone's quarter-mile in 37 4-5s, Fred Russ Cook and McCulloch arrive at Springfield, and Etherington's 'label-licking' Wheeling advertising expedition.
- English racing: H. O. Duncan of Montpellier wins the fifty-mile professional championship of the world at Aylestone Park, Leicester, while Howell beats Wood and Duncan in the ten-mile before 5,000 spectators; with the season's list of English amateur champions including Sellers, Cripps, Webber, Furnival, Gatehouse and English.
- The Berkshire County Wheelmen's rain-hit Pittsfield tournament, where E. P. Burnham wins the two-mile, five-mile and tricycle races; Chicago Track Association races in which N. H. Van Sicklen breaks records from 18 to 25 miles on a 57-inch Columbia Racer; plus notes on Hendee's training and a $500 professional handicap at Washington.
- The Suffolk Wheel Club of Boston organizes with Capt. W. B. Webber, a new club forms in Gloucester under president H. A. Burnham, and Lynn's eccentric 'Wash-tub Club' gets a raised eyebrow.
- Official column of Chief Consul Frank W. Weston of Savin Hill, Boston, listing dues, the roster of State consuls, applicant H. B. Hart of Philadelphia, and the appointments of Chas. A. Fisk as consul for Springfield and J. W. Drown for Brattleboro.
- Race calendar from late August through October: Cleveland Club annual races, the Connecticut Bicycle Club tournament at Hartford, the Springfield tournament of 8-10 September, the New York Division meet at Brooklyn, and meetings at Pittsburg, Binghamton, Rochester, Washington, Providence, St. Louis and Omaha.