The Bicycling World, Vol 11, No 20
Articles in this issue
- Leader comments on the Springfield tournament: American records now largely held by Englishmen, rumors that professionals Fred Wood and R. Howell divided the races by agreement, C.E. Pratt's contested lapsed L.A.W. membership, the Massachusetts division's fee remittance to the Massachusetts Club, and the League meet coming to Boston in 1886.
- Full three-day report of the Springfield tournament, with trial heats and race-by-race times: Burnham wins the ten-mile L.A.W. championship after Hendee and Stone crash, Fred Wood and Howell dominate the professional events, and Furnivall, Webber, English and Cripps lead the English contingent.
- M.V.J. Webber of England rides 20 miles 635 yards within the hour at Springfield, the best amateur hour performance on record, with Geo. E. Weber (20 miles 290 yards) and E.P. Burnham (20 miles 135 yards) also inside the hour.
- Tables of amateur and professional bicycle, tricycle, tandem and Safety records as they stand after Springfield, American against English, plus the one-hour records of Fred Lees, M.V.J. Webber, Geo. E. Weber and R.H. English and Kaufmann's professional unicycle figures.
- Tournament notes: finishing positions of the principal wheelmen at Springfield and Hartford, the machines ridden (Columbia, Rudge, Genuine Humber, Royal Mail, Victor, Star), Hendee's broken shoulder, the failed electric-timing project, and a correction crediting Geo. E. Weber ahead of Burnham in the hour run.
- List of the season's L.A.W. champions with times and venues, including Geo. E. Weber, Geo. M. Hendee, W.F. Knapp, A.B. Rich, Wm. A. Rowe, E.P. Burnham and Burnham's mile tricycle title at Buffalo.
- News paragraphs: Chas. H. Metz reinstated as an amateur, the Capital Bicycle Club's Eastern tour stalled at Cottage City, the Kansas City wheelmen's first annual tour to Mound City, the Boston Club entertaining Percy Furnivall and T.H. Lambert, the Cyclists' Touring Club's Philadelphia-to-Gettysburg tour, and Wheeling, W.Va. repealing its anti-bicycle ordinance.
- Correspondence: J.S. Dean ("London W.") reprints clippings from the Tricyclist and Wheel Life to defend his unflattering account of round-the-world rider Thomas Stevens's reception in England; the editor closes the exchange, defending Stevens's plucky undertaking.
- Cola E. Stone of St. Louis answers the Springfield papers over his collision with Geo. M. Hendee in the ten-mile championship, insisting he held the pole and that Hendee caused the foul by trying to pass on the inside, citing Weber, Burnham, Rich, Rowe and Hunter as witnesses.
- Outline of next year's Big Four tour centred on Niagara Falls: wheeling from Rochester through Canandaigua, Seneca Lake and Watkins Glen, up the Hudson to Saratoga, down Lakes George and Champlain, the St. Lawrence rapids to Montreal and Quebec, then Maine's Kennebec Valley to Portland and Boston.
- List of new cycle patents furnished by Boston patent solicitor Henry W. Williams, including a Fritz children's velocipede, a Rhodes safety bicycle handle, a Shakespear tricycle from Birmingham, a Latta velocipede assigned to the Pope Manufacturing Company, and Lase's spokeless one-wheeled vehicle.
- Report of the League board meeting at the Haynes House, Springfield: ex-president C.E. Pratt's membership claim ruled against, Secretary-Editor Aaron's report of 5,002 members in good standing, an ultimatum to the delinquent New York division, Kirkpatrick's maker's-amateur classification scheme, a proposed $10 life membership, and the 1886 annual meet awarded to Massachusetts.
- Invitation from the Worcester-Æolus Wheelmen to the Massachusetts division L.A.W. fall meet at Worcester on 24 September, with dinner at Lincoln Park on Lake Quinsigamond and boating and wheeling in place of the usual parade and races.
- Twenty-five veterans of the Down East (1883), Kennebec (1884) and Moosehead-Bar Harbor tours hold their first reunion supper at Barr's in Springfield, with toasts from F.A. Elwell, J.L. Crosby, F.P. Kendall, H.E. Ducker and others.
- Trade notes: the Boston Wheel Company's Cyclone lever tricycle, the Overman Wheel Company's improved Victor tricycle with Bown's differential gear, a coming Y-forked tandem bicycle on Kangaroo lines, the Yost and McCune clutch-lever bicycle from Chicopee, Scott Manufacturing's Coventry-exhibited Safety, and Kirkpatrick's hygienic saddle rights sold to Pope.
- Race results and fixtures: Troy Club races at Island Park, the New York State division meet in Brooklyn with A.B. Rich taking state championships, the Monmouth wheelmen's fifty-mile road race won by Bergen, plus meetings announced at Toronto, Danvers, Haverhill, St. Louis, Canton, Brockton and New Haven.
- Club notes: the Peabody Bicycle Club's annual dance, the Maverick Wheel Club of East Boston visiting the Nonantum Cycling Club's anniversary, the Orange Wanderers' Chinese lantern parade and ten-mile handicap, and the Nashville club's new officers under president Ed. D. Fisher.
- Calendar of coming races and meets from 19 September to mid-October, including the Massachusetts division meet at Worcester, the Ramblers' tournament at St. Louis, professional races at Washington, and division races at Chicago.
- Brief editorial replies to readers on route queries, record eligibility (road races give no records), amateur status, and class-race entry rights.