The Bicycling World, Vol 11, No 24
Articles in this issue
- The editor dismisses English claims that the Springfield records were timed on 'fixed' watches, concedes the class-race system lets fliers prey on the slow men, and reports that Capt. Harrison and C. S. Howard have measured the Boston hundred-mile road-race course and found it three miles short.
- Letters on road racing ('Cassius'), the saluting-etiquette dispute stirred by Mr. Shriver ('H. A. Schall', 'Courtesy', 'Suburban'), League reinstatement of a professional oarsman, A. B. Towne on climbing Mt. Vernon street, record classification, and Chas. S. Cock defending the Canton Bicycle Club's disputed novice race.
- A humorous first-person yarn about a 573-mile twenty-four-hour 'record' from Boston to Newburyport and back, made on a machine built by the inventor Growzer, whose forty-inch drum hid a steel spring guaranteed to drive the bicycle twenty-five miles an hour.
- Official handicapper N. P. Tyler, M.D., writes to racing-board chairman Abbot Bassett endorsing Mr. Kirkpatrick's call for more one-mile class races, and proposes a rule with a time schedule from 2.45 to 3.20 barring prize winners from re-entering slower classes.
- Henry W. Williams's list of recent bicycle and tricycle patents, including E. G. Latta's velocipedes assigned to the Pope Manufacturing Co., D. H. Rice's two-track tricycles of Lowell, and Homer A. King's rocking-chair-propelled velocipede of Springfield.
- At its monthly meeting the Boston Bicycle Club received Chief Consul Henry E. Ducker's letter urging it to return to the L. A. W., and after debate led by President Hodges voted unanimously to rejoin the League in January.
- Rev. S. H. Day of East Greenwich, R.I. gives a forty-seven-mile route from Boston through Dedham, Walpole, Foxboro' and Pawtucket to Providence, advising dinner at the Foxboro' hotel and the East Avenue approach rather than the Swan Point road.
- News paragraphs opening with C. S. Wady's poem '3 O'Clock A.M.', noting the Boston Club's vote to rejoin the League, its Corey Hill climbing contest planned for 24 October, the death of a Malden schoolboy run over by a bicycle, the theft of Walter Brown's Rudge at Brockton, and L. D. Munger's plan to attack the twenty-four-hour record at Detroit.
- Reprinted from the Wheel World: inventors are urged toward real wants such as a tandem tricycle better balanced than the tipping 'Humber', anti-vibration handle-bars for safeties, adjustable lamp-brackets, and a solution to the unsolved tyre-cement problem.
- 'Daisie' describes autumn outings with her wheel-women to Castle Rock in the Middlesex Fells, her conversion to light machines after trying a 44-inch central-geared mount, and Miss Minna C. Smith's mixed party about to ride from Malden to Magnolia.
- English notes: M. V. J. Webber's defeat by Hillier at the Keen testimonial, Wheel Life's 'American Heroes' cartoon of Ducker, Hendee, Burnham and others, three papers merging into The Bicycling News and Tricycling Gazette, J. H. Adams's 232 1/2-mile Coventry Rotary ride, Geo. Smith's Rover Safety hundred-mile win, and T. R. Marriott's record John-o'-Groats trip.
- Results from the Brockton Fair and the Capital Club races at Washington, where W. E. Crist won all five of his events against Kluge and Hanna; continued with the Boston Bicycle Club's first novices' road race won by T. H. Lambert, the Winnipeg tournament, and Prince's answer to James's challenge to race at Springfield.
- At Springfield, Richard Howell lowered the world's professional two-mile tricycle record to 6.12 3/4, and F. F. Ives of Meriden rode 100 miles on Hampden Park in 6 hours 25 minutes 30 seconds, with W. A. Rhodes, Cripps, McGarrett and Rowe pacing and mile-by-mile times tabulated.
- Officer elections for the Colorado, Waterbury, Pilot (Lancaster, N.H.) and new Puritan (Salem) clubs, the Leominster club's whist tournament, the Massachusetts Club's New York visit as guests of the Citizens Club, and the Massachusetts Club's Saturday athletic entertainment led by E. J. Ethier.
- C. H. Potter, acting chief consul at Cleveland, publishes the C.T.C.'s American state-consul list and new appointments, including a consul for Harrisburg, Pa. and appointed hotels at Nashville and Brattleboro'.
- Editor's answers to readers, noting that Hendee has held the one-mile championship since 1882 and that L. H. Johnson was the first champion, with advice on League cloth weights, powdered rosin for brakes, and bringing machines through customs duty-free.