The Bicycling World, Vol 11, No 18
Articles in this issue
- Editorial defending the existing amateur rule against correspondents 'Mordecai' and Dr. Blackham, arguing that abolishing it would reintroduce social distinction and money-driven racing, and that the true remedy is reducing the value of prizes.
- Captain Harrison of the Boston Club explains why he will call no club run for the L.A.W. parade of 5 September, holding that wheel parades make bicycling look juvenile in cities like Boston where the sport is well established.
- Letter from Edward J. Shriver of New York urging that the League's president, treasurer and secretary be chosen by popular vote of the full membership, citing the elected chairmanship of the New York Stock Exchange as precedent.
- Karl Kron writes about his forthcoming 'Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle', urging each League division to publish its own road book after Massachusetts's example and noting Thomas Stevens's sketch of 3,700 miles ridden from San Francisco to Boston.
- Trade notes on the Missouri Wheel Company's Duryea saddle for Star bicycles, Zacharias & Smith's new luggage carrier, Lamson's carrier adapted for the Victor tricycle, a protective rubber bulb on the Columbia tricycle head, and Stoddard, Lovering & Co.'s Rudge Racer sales including machines built for G. M. Hendee and W. M. Woodside.
- Amos W. Hart of Washington, D.C. surveys the roughly nine hundred American velocipede patents, dwelling on the twenty-three monocycle designs — annular wheels, skeleton cages and saucer wheels — and on Seely and Dinwiddie's one-wheel riding through the streets of Washington.
- Chicago letter on the Chicago Club's touring mania: secretary Vowell wheeling to Washington, Pa., Bennett and Haywood's lake-shore ride to Milwaukee, a ladies' tricycle tour planned through Waukesha County, Prince and Armaindo's races against horseman Anderson, and a new seven-lap indoor track at the Legrand rink.
- News-and-notes column opening with the parody song 'Over the Handles'; items include Albert E. Purdy's bicycle being refused from an Erie baggage car at Portage Bridge, a Cleveland minister's collision with a deacon's Newfoundland dog, the Boston Club's cycling-and-coaching party to Massapoag Lake, and C.W.A. secretary H. B. Donly's riding injury.
- Full report of the Buffalo Bicycle Club's fourth annual tournament, with Hedge retaining the club championship, Barross winning the one-mile dash, Lavender breaking his arm in a two-mile-dash collision, and a banquet at the Genesee; shorter items cover Westbrook beating Morgan for the ten-mile championship of Canada at Brantford, Richard Howell's world one-mile championship at Wolverhampton, and the Boston Club's second annual hundred-mile road race.
- Detailed four-day prize list for the Springfield Bicycle Club tournament of 16-19 September — cash for professionals, Springfield prize cups, gold watches and plate for amateurs — plus arrangements for the 17 September parade on Hampden Park and a ninety-piece fireworks programme.
- The Greenfield (Mass.) Wheel Club elects officers, with H. O. Edgerton as president, F. R. Hollister as captain, and G. H. Kaulback as secretary and treasurer.
- American Division notes from chief consul Frank W. Weston: the first annual autumn tour will repeat the 'wheel around the Hub' at Boston on 22-23 September, with new membership applications, consul appointments in Pennsylvania, Indiana, Ohio and Wisconsin, and Canadian Division contact via Horace S. Tibbs of Montreal.
- Calendar of forthcoming events for 5-11 September, including the Massachusetts Division meet and parade at Boston, races at Hartford, Pittsfield and Montreal, and the New York Division meet and Albany Club races at Albany.