The Bicycling World, Vol 11, No 19
Articles in this issue
- Leader columns published early ahead of the Springfield tournament, defending the L.A.W. Racing Board's new rule that handicaps and class races be judged on ability as well as records (citing the Hartford protests of William A. Rowe, Fred Russ Cook, F. F. Ives, D. E. Hunter and William E. Crist), rejecting the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's call for flying starts, and correcting the Springfield Wheelmen's Gazette on Brooks's surrender of the ten-mile medal.
- Correspondence from C. E. Duryea arguing that anyone who rides to save car-fare or horse hire is strictly a professional, so the L.A.W. should drop the word amateur entirely and become a league of wheelmen banded together to promote and defend the wheel.
- J. S. Dean declines to debate Mr. Dodge, standing by his earlier remarks about round-the-world rider Thomas Stevens despite the quotations from 'Faed' and others offered in Stevens's defence.
- A St. Louis Post-Dispatch article urging L.A.W. Racing Board chairman Abbot Bassett to adopt the flying start, quoting 100-mile road champion Cola E. Stone, ex-champion S. G. Whittaker on unequal pushers-off and bent cranks, and Percy Stone ahead of the Ramblers' meet.
- Chief Consul Weston writes from the Senter House, Centre Harbor, N.H., that his strength is slowly returning after his journey, with a week at Littleton planned before joining pilot boat No. 3 at Lewis Wharf for a cruise toward the latitude of Halifax.
- The Connecticut Division parade held with the Hartford tournament, officered by Chief Consul Huntington, Capt. William H. Hale of New Haven, T. W. Williams, C. E. Chase and T. J. Rust, with clubs from New Haven, Meriden, Stamford and beyond preceded by an Irish jaunting car carrying the First Regiment buglers.
- A Pilgrim's Progress parody in which the touring narrator and Mr. Smooth-it-Away visit the City of Vanity, finding hotels that shave wheelmen's rates by cutting the pie ration, a bazaar selling a $280 wheel that cost $10 to make, and race day at Vanity Fair where only the machines' names are recorded.
- Daisie's column weighs the English debate over ladies riding the bicycle between 'Occasional Trebles' of the Tricyclist and Violet Lorne of Wheel Life, then recounts how Maud and her companions lost an ice-cream wager to the doubter Hector by failing their infamous hill climb.
- Review of an advance copy of Henry Sturmey's 'Indispensable Handbook to the Safety Bicycle', which analyses the Safety type and details the tires, rims, cranks and driving gear of each make; the World, as Iliffe & Son's American representative, will stock it.
- Miscellany opening with Bessie Chandlee's poem 'Wheels of Fate', followed by notes on Ralph Friedburg's fifty miles in 3.28, the Massachusetts Division field day at Worcester hosted by the Worcester Aeolus Wheelmen, Crothers and Deaton's 174.5-mile twenty-four-hour Ohio record, and the American Bicycle Company's closing-out sale under manager M. D. Gillett.
- J. Parke Street asks 'Daisie' whether a wheelman should keep saluting passing lady cyclists after two ladies on a sociable met his instinctive cap-lift with stern, forbidding looks.
- An extract from the Book of Health calculating that a mile on a sixty-inch wheel costs about one-sixth the muscular expenditure of walking, and that at six foot-tons a mile a rider should keep daily distances under sixty miles to stay within healthy exertion.
- Wheel World notes on the 'Insertus' pedal clip that locks the shoe in position without preventing instant release, the rolling 'New Buffer' saddle, and N. Salaman's 'Matchless Sliding Spring' that lets a tricyclist shift his weight forward on steep hills.
- Full results of the Connecticut Bicycle Club's Hartford tournament of 2-3 September: P. Furnival beats Burnham and Hendee in the mile amateur, R. Howell twice defeats Fred Wood in the professional races, Rowe takes the five-mile L.A.W. championship, and Chambers sets tricycle and Safety records; with the Cottage City gymkhana, the Seaforth (Canada) club tournament, and the Columbia Club's reinstated Attleboro races.
- C.T.C. American division notices from acting Chief Consul C. H. Potter of Cleveland, with the full list of state consuls and new appointments including J. W. Drown for Vermont and Clarence Howland for Akron, Ohio.
- Calendar of forthcoming meets from 11 September to 17 October, including the New York Division meet at Brooklyn, the Massachusetts Division meet at Worcester, the Ramblers' tournament at St. Louis, and races at Cheyenne, Toronto, Omaha and Chicago.
- Brief replies to readers, noting where to buy lantern oil in Boston and that Mr. Dean sails on the Catalonia on the 8th.