The Bicycling World, Vol 11, No 9
Articles in this issue
- Editorial on the L.A.W. annual meet at Buffalo, arguing the national body has grown too large and cumbersome and opposing Mr. Harris' plan to sink the divisions, while noting the Boston and Massachusetts clubs will be absent. A following squib criticises the inconsistent handicapping of Rich, Kavanaugh, Crist and Finley at the K.C.W. races.
- Leader contending that amateurs and professionals should not race against each other because the temptation for a paid rider to sell a race is too great, yet seeing no objection to both classes racing at the same meeting or to well-behaved professionals joining the L.A.W.
- Letters include the Cunningham Company on its suspension after its customs troubles and its plan to reorganize, Singer & Co. of Coventry on the true weights of racing cycles and on the Rudge v. Coventry Machinists' tandem patent case, H.S. Wood's defiant 'A Martyr's Last Words' ahead of Buffalo, and a report from Orange, N.J. on L.H. Johnson's store and the local vogue for Humber tandems.
- Daisie replies to 'Morrill' in their duel over whether a lady and gentleman look seemly on a tandem, invoking Mrs. Grundy, and quotes Mr. Hillier of the Tricyclist and Mrs. K.L. Philpot in settling the boots-versus-shoes question in favour of the shoe.
- F.A. Elwell of Portland, Me. asks everyone joining the Moosehead tour to confirm by postal card that they can be depended on to appear on the 17th, giving the size and make of their wheel.
- The third annual run of the New Hampshire Division L.A.W., hosted by the Rockingham Bicycle Club at Portsmouth on 4 July, will wheel via Greenland Depot and Little Boar's Head to dinner at the Farragut House, Rye Beach, with Chief Consul H.M. Bennett inviting all New Hampshire wheelmen.
- After John Topping was arrested in Wheeling, W. Va. for riding over a child under a city ordinance classing cycling with kite-flying and football, the Wheeling Wheelmen retain attorney H.M. Russell to fight a test case, lawyers doubting the clause will stand in court.
- The English correspondent previews the N.C.U. championships at Aston, where young Illston is favourite and Hendee is entered but unseen, and tours the works of Lloyd Brothers (Quadrant), the Coventry Machinists' Company, and Hillman, Herbert & Cooper, finding the Safety and Kangaroo craze making havoc with the tricycle trade.
- Recalls Jack Keen spotting young Corey, the 'Kid in yellow breeches', at the Institute and coaching him to his first prizes, traces Corey's rise with Stoddard, Lovering & Co., and sketches Dan Rudge of Wolverhampton, whose name survives in the record-holding Rudge with some 1,500 expected to sell in America next year.
- Henry W. Williams of Boston lists newly issued cycling patents, including Franklin J. Drake's velocipede saddle assigned to the Pope Manufacturing Company, Charles H. Lamson's spoke-driven cyclometer of Portland, Me., and Theodore E. Ware's bicycle bell of Bristol, England.
- Captain Charles W. Freeman outlines a fifteen-day, fifty-dollar August tour from Rock Island up the Mississippi by boat to St. Paul, then awheel to Fort Snelling, Minnehaha, Minneapolis and Lake Minnetonka, returning via the dells of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and Chicago.
- Paragraph department opening with the comic poem '2.35', then noting the Cunningham suspension, E.C. Hodges' farewell dinner at Taft's, the Little Four party (Overman, Harrison, Tombs and Hodges) sailing on the Etruria for a John O'Groat's to Land's End tour, the League's vote to publish its own L.A.W. Bulletin, and St. Joseph, Mo.'s ordinance ordering the arrest of all cyclers.
- A Cyclist correspondent argues that extra-thick tires and backbone springs are the wrong cure for vibration, citing the late James Starley's coasting experiment at Coventry in which the tricycle with lighter tires reached the bottom of the hill first.
- Entry lists for the L.A.W. meet races on 3 July, with George M. Hendee, W.G. Ross of Montreal, George Webber and A.B. Rich in the mile championship, Prince, Frazer, Dolph and Martin in the five-mile professional, and Abbot Bassett as referee.
- Notes at home and abroad: the Boston Club's Big Four representatives and Downer Landing clambake, Sanders Sellers beating Illston by six inches for the English mile championship at Aston, Gatehouse and Furnivall's tandem records at Cambridge, J. Grose's nineteen miles in the hour, and London bicyclists' cold shoulder to Thomas Stevens, now reported at Constantinople.
- Reports the Nashville Club's two-day tournament led by Capt. J.B. Burdett, the Lynn fifty-mile road race from the Hotel Boscobel to Rowley won through rain and hail by W.A. Rhodes on a Victor in 3.44.10, Asa Dolph's wins over Woodside and Brooks at Cleveland, and the Inter-State meeting at Youngstown, O.
- The Bijou Bicycle Club of South Framingham elects John W. Gorman president, the Old Dominion Wheelmen organize at Richmond, Va. under E.V. Williams, and the Portsmouth, O. wheelmen name their club for pioneer rider Weston.
- Frank W. Weston, Chief Consul of the American Division, publishes the list of State consuls from Connecticut to Pennsylvania, provisional membership applications from Boston, New York, St. Louis and Cleveland, and hotel appointments at Round Lake, N.Y. and Helena, Montana.
- Calendar of coming events from the Fort Schuyler Wheelmen's Utica tournament and the L.A.W. annual meet at Buffalo through the Big Four Tour, the Ohio State Division meet at Springfield, and the September tournaments at Hartford and Springfield, Mass.
- Editor's answers to readers' queries: the Massachusetts Division was organized at South Canton in October 1882, the level gear is preferred, and racing men use no leg-strengthening preparation though coca is sometimes taken as a stimulant.