The Bicycling World, Vol 11, No 22
Articles in this issue
- Editor Abbot Bassett rebuts the Cyclist's insinuation that the Springfield tournament records were mistimed, defends the American timers, disallows E. P. Burnham's claim to twenty miles within the hour while allowing Weber's 20 miles 135 yards, and regrets that George M. Hendee declined a special race with Furnivall before the Englishman sailed home.
- Readers' letters on lubricating ball bearings with powdered graphite (M. D.), whether a club may restrict a novice race beyond League rules, how championships would fare under Kirkpatrick's class-race plan, the makers' amateur question, and 'Brockton' on the etiquette of saluting lady tricyclists.
- A reprinted Cyclist editorial refusing to credit the Springfield times, arguing that Kluge's 2.41 3/5 mile and the universal ten-second improvement over Hartford form imply the watches ran slow, and quoting Lacy Hillier on Furnivall's defeat of Hendee in 2.48 1/2.
- A. A. McCurdy, nineteen, of the Lynn Cycle Club, claims a new twenty-four-hour road record of 233 1/6 miles on a Victor bicycle over a course through Salem, Marblehead, Brighton, Dedham and Needham, beating L. D. Munger's 211 1/2 miles; the World withholds acceptance pending proof.
- The Massachusetts Division, L.A.W., held its fall field day at Lincoln Park on Lake Quinsigamond, Worcester, on 24 September, with the Worcester Bicycle Club as hosts; field sports, baseball, boating and a tug-of-war won by the visitors filled the day despite threatening weather.
- Columnist Daisie relays a friend's objection that wheelmen change machines too often to name them, worries that racing fashion (the Cripper and Humber steerers seen at Springfield) is driving out ladies' bath-chair tricycles, and protests the rude remarks lady riders endure.
- H. O. Duncan, fifty-mile professional champion, writes from Montpellier via Sporting Life exposing how English makers pay salaried 'amateurs', questions who financed the amateurs lately sailed to America, and urges following France and Italy in letting all riders race for money.
- 'By the Way' gives sidelong impressions of the Springfield tournament — the herdic that broke down under eleven men, an Englishman's lost baggage 'brasses', Tommy Lambert's monocle — framed by a Stockton-esque parable about not risking a second success.
- News paragraphs opening with C. S. Wady's verse 'On Corey Hill', covering Rudge & Co.'s twenty-four-hour Rotary tricycle road race, the Boston Club's pool and billiard tournament, Dan Canary's ship collision in New York harbor, the sudden death of St. Louis rider Cola E. Stone, the Genesee Club's Rochester-Buffalo run, and the Springfield Club's gold watch chain presented to referee Abbot Bassett.
- Richard Howell rides the mile in a world-record 2.31 3/5 on Hampden Park before 500 spectators, paced by Brooks and pushed off by H. U. Corey; Danforth and Gideon Haynes, Jr. start after McCurdy's twenty-four-hour record, and W. A. Rowe prepares a mile-record attempt at St. Louis.
- Two-day results of the St. Louis Ramblers' meeting of 25-26 September — Woodside, Prince and Neilson in the professional events, Whittaker's tricycle wins and Rowe's three-mile victories — followed by race returns from Buffalo, Batavia, Toledo, Cleveland, Pontiac, Leipsic, Minneapolis, Toronto, Haverhill, the Massachusetts Club's fifty-mile road race won by W. A. Rhodes in 3.32.20, New Haven and Oakland.
- Brief editorial replies to readers' queries: records made under cover will stand, no Tricyclists' Indispensable will appear this year, and a rider becomes a professional as soon as he violates the rule.
- Calendar of coming events including the Boston Club's 100-mile road race on 3 October, the Capital Club races at Washington on 9 October, the Omaha Wheel Club tournament, division races at Chicago, and the Wheeling, Va. to Uniontown, Penn. road race on 20 October.