The Bicycling World, Vol 11, No 25
Articles in this issue
- The editor responds to continued English criticism of Springfield timekeeping by quoting the Bulletin's defence that thousands of spectators holding watches could not all have been deceived, and addresses the Polhill expulsion with a damning self-incriminating letter.
- Letters on handicapping men by records alone (Rowe and Ives excluded at Hartford while Cook was let in), Brutus proposing a straightaway Boston-to-Providence road race, R.F.G. on classifying records made in races, oil reservoirs and socket wrenches, the salute-etiquette debate continued by Urban and J. Parke Street, J.A.R. Underwood's offer to prove a Quadrant tricycle can climb Mount Vernon street, and Theo. Rothe on measuring the 100-mile course.
- A. C. Richardson of Buffalo reports on his season-long trial of powdered graphite in the bearings of his 50-inch Expert, finding it useless in ball bearings but effective mixed with oil in the pedals and steering head.
- Report of Miss Minna Caroline Smith's ladies' run from Malden square to Manchester-by-the-Sea, with the Stalls on a Humber tandem, the Bassetts, Dodges, Hayneses and Hopkinses, a dinner at the Essex House in Salem, and Miss Susie Hall's plucky solo ride after losing her way in Peabody; Mrs. Stall logged 81 miles over three days.
- Programme for the Cape Ann Tricycle Run for lady riders: boat to Gloucester on 28 October with supper at the Pavilion, a leisurely run around the Cape, then on to Newburyport and the Merrimac House, open to any lady able to ride twenty miles a day.
- "Daisie" answers the etiquette debate, arguing that lady riders are still in the "days of darkness" of jeers from street loafers, and that the respectful lifted cap of a passing wheelman is part of the freemasonry of the wheel rather than an abuse.
- A question column asking whether dealers are afraid to enter their tricycles in the Corey Hill climb, whether Thomas Stevens rode or carried his bicycle around the world, what made Fred Russ Cook change mounts, and why no American is sent to England to race next year.
- A reprint from Wheel World distinguishing the wage-paid makers' amateur from a rider merely subsidized with expenses to a distant meeting like Springfield, defending manufacturers' right to extend hospitality that benefits their business.
- Notes: Saturday brings the Worcester road-race finish at the Faneuil House and the Corey Hill contest; John Williams made the first tricycle ascent of Corey Hill on a Quadrant; Copeland exhibits his steam bicycle in Newark; Col. Albert A. Pope is recovering with his arm in a sling; Chief Consul Ducker plans weekly reports from state representatives; Hugh J. High completed a 3,409-mile Pottstown-to-Seward, Neb. round trip.
- Foreign notes: T. R. Marriott's Land's End to John O'Groat's tricycle record of 6 days 15 hours on an M. and C. Humber, H. O. Duncan's French 100-kilometer road record on a Cripper, the Bicycling News passing to Iliffe & Sturmey, and Mr. Hausmann's 215- and 230-mile day rides over Danish roads.
- The Massachusetts Bicycle Club delegation under President Henry W. Williams is royally entertained by the Citizens' Bicycle Club, with a run from Orange through Llewellyn Park with the Hudson County wheelmen, Harry Dixey's gags at the Bijou, and rides between Tarrytown and Yonkers.
- The Chicago Club tournament with N. H. Van Sicklen's five-mile state championship and record-breaking ten-mile professional race between Neilson, Woodside, Prince and Brooks, followed by results from Omaha, Danbury, Montgomery, Cleveland, Canton, Kingston, Brattleboro' and other meets, the Worcester Club's 41-mile road race to the Faneuil House, and arrangements for Saturday's Corey Hill climbing contest.
- Wm. A. Rowe of Lynn, paced by Adams, Illston, McGarrett and Brown at Springfield on 19 October, takes nearly every amateur record from two to twenty miles on a Columbia racer, covering 20.5 miles 132 yards inside the hour.
- Springfield Republican account of an impromptu record day on Hampden Park: A. O. McGarrett rides two miles without hands for world records, Fred R. Brown cuts the quarter-mile to 36 2-5, and Rowe lowers the amateur mile to 2.36 2-5 and the half to 1.12 4-5.
- Club news: officer elections at Tecumseh, Toledo and New Orleans, the Technology Bicycle Club organizes with Fred J. Wood as captain, the Somerville club moves from a church to the Odd Fellows building, the Orange Wanderers' mounts are inventoried, and the Long Island Wheelmen invite the Citizens' Club to Coney Island on election day.
- Brief editorial answers to readers on discontinued portraits, standing-start records, oil trials and track measurements, including a rebuke to one correspondent to confine himself to facts.