The Bicycling World, Vol 12, No 13
Articles in this issue
- Editor Abbot Bassett introduces the annual record tables, explaining that only path records are now counted, that Star machine times are placed under safety performances, and challenging N.C.U. figures including Hillier's 53 and 54 mile records and the Lowndes flying-start quarter; shorter notes cover Fairmount Park traffic statistics, the Liverpool Tricycle Club admitting safety riders, the Omaha Wheel Club's tournament debts, and a Brooklyn fancy-riding contest won by George E. Hutchinson.
- The annual multi-page tables of American and English amateur and professional path records from a quarter-mile upward, covering bicycle, safety, and tricycle classes, with times by Geo. M. Hendee, Wm. A. Rowe, W. M. Woodside, Fred Lees, T. Battensby, R. H. English, F. R. Frye, Geo. E. Weber, and Geo. Gatehouse, plus notes on where and when each record was made.
- A ladies' column reprinted from Wheel World and signed 'Daisie' looks ahead to the social side of the coming Boston meet, a proposed three-or-four-day tour to Gloucester and Manchester-by-the-Sea, and confesses an unsystematic approach to keeping mileage records compared with the New Jersey ladies.
- An announcement invites cyclists to the Springfield Bicycle Club's annual ball at City Hall on Washington's birthday, with President Ducker managing the programme that includes an international grand march, fancy riding by Willie Haradon, a phosphorescent 'demon drill', and a prize contest on an old iron-spoked bone-shaker 'trick-mule' bicycle.
- A Mikado-adapted 'little list' poem signed 'Pedals' skewers cycling malefactors, followed by short notes: the Racing Board accepts the Ives records made at Springfield but rejects Whittaker's St. Louis board-track times, P. N. Myers of Covington is declared a professional, E. G. Whitney plans a down-east tour on Big Four principles, and a Pope Manufacturing Co. riding-school anecdote about a reluctant Colonel continues over the page.
- The great six-day race opens at the Washington rink in Minneapolis with W. M. Woodside leading T. W. Eck, Albert Shock, Snyder, Shaw, and Hardwick, while Louise Armaindo beats Fred Shaw 182 to 162 miles in a twenty-six-hour race; also home-trainer races of the Nashville Bicycle Club won by E. D. Fisher and J. B. Burdett, and Will Watson defeating Chas. Cunningham at Muskegon.
- Club notes report the Maverick Wheel Club of East Boston joining the L. A. W., officer elections at Detroit, Milwaukee, Jackson, New Haven, and the Springfield Bicycle Club (whose ball is set for 22 February), the Scranton club's rink entertainment with fancy rider N. E. Kaufman, the Florence Cycle Club masquerade, the new Conomo Bicycle Club at Manchester-by-the-Sea, and an athletic evening at the Massachusetts Club-house.
- The C.T.C. department under Acting Chief Consul C. H. Potter of Cleveland lists dues, the roster of State consuls from Connecticut to Wyoming Territory, provisionally elected members including H. V. Brundage and W. G. Saxton, and consul appointments for Newburgh, N.Y. and Springfield, Mass.
- Brief editorial replies to readers including G. N. Osborne, E. D. Fisher, and L. H. Porter, with a note to 'W. A.' confirming that Cripps' records were not made in competition.