The Bicycling World, Vol 11, No 6
Articles in this issue
- Editor Abbot Bassett's leader column takes up the amateur question ahead of the Buffalo L.A.W. meet, defends the Racing Board, notes Boston's neglected trotting tracks compared with New Haven's Hamilton Park, praises the new umpire rule after a foul at the New Haven races, and quotes the Cyclist on regulating professional racing.
- Letters include 'The Hygienic Saddle' praising the Kirkpatrick saddle on a 58-inch Expert (signed M. D.), G. F. H. Bartlett, M.D. of the Buffalo Bicycle Club on college 'professionals' and the injustice of the amateur rule, and 'Bee' of Columbia, S.C. urging the L.A.W. to defend the North Carolina wheelmen's rights.
- The annual meet of the Illinois Division, held on Decoration Day, was hampered by rain, but Burley B. Ayers was unanimously re-elected division secretary and treasurer and read an exhaustive report, with all last year's officers returned.
- A list of recently granted cycling patents, including Wm. Bevan of London's safety attachment for bicycles, followed by a note on New Haven's young fancy rider Master Eddie Leopold and his unicycle tricks.
- Detailed review of the Quadrant tricycles Nos. 8 and 9, made by Lloyd Bros. of Birmingham and imported by J. A. R. Underwood of Dorchester, covering their distinctive quadrant steering frames and Bown's ball bearings. Unheaded trade notes follow on Richard Garvey's new Broadway shop, L. H. Johnson's Humber tandem orders, and Stoddard, Lovering & Co.'s cabled order for fifty Rudge racers.
- Daisie hopes the tandem will not come into use for ladies and champions the more dignified sociable, describing a country spin on an Apollo sociable loaned by W. B. Everett & Co., advising saddles over seats and jersey gloves over kid, and proposing a quiet ladies' tour to Portsmouth via Newburyport.
- Report of the L.A.W. publication committee on establishing an official League organ, covering proposed specifications, printing costs, editorial policy, and the mail vote closing on 18 June.
- Personal notes on the Royal Mail bicycle's association with Jack Prince, the Reads' cycle agency, and other topical observations from the cycling world.
- English racing and trade news includes the Howell versus Wood ten-mile match at Leicester, Singer's new 'Springfield' tandem, the N.C.U.'s road-record rules, Fred Wood's twenty-five-mile championship, Oxborrow's Facile ride from Land's End to John O'Groat's, and Nicolas's fifty-mile record attempt at the Crystal Palace.
- Buffalo notes from 'p. x. q.' report the new club house nearing completion, the Buffalo Ramblers' fifty-mile road race fixed for 11 June, Secretary Alley's newly arrived sociable drawing crowds at Bull & Bowen's, and preparations for the L.A.W. grand meet in July.
- F. A. Elwell of Portland, Maine details arrangements for the Moosehead Lake and Mt. Desert tour starting 17 July from the Massachusetts Bicycle Club house, with a steamer offered at the Mt. Kineo House and a list of participants from Lynn, Springfield, Hartford, Portland and beyond.
- The editor's running pen column opens with the poem 'The Harbinger of Spring' by C.S. Wady and continues with short notes on St. Louis cycling, L.A.W. proxy votes, and other miscellany.
- Results from the Yale Club Tournament First Day on 6 June (three-mile record, one-mile, tandem tricycle, Pope Cup won by Hunter despite injuries) and Second Day on 8 June, plus Louisville, Woodstock Ontario, Geneva NY, and other recent race results.
- News from the American Division of the C.T.C. under Chief Consul Frank W. Weston lists the State consuls, applications for membership, and new consul appointments at Greenville and Canton, Pennsylvania.
- Brief editorial replies to correspondents including A. C. R. of Buffalo, G. F. H. B., F. A. Elwell, W. C. Marsh, and C. E. D.
- Calendar of forthcoming bicycle races, club runs, and cycling events from 17 June through the Cleveland Club annual races on 27-28 August, including the L.A.W. annual meet at Buffalo on 2-3 July.