The Bicycling World, Vol 12, No 19
Articles in this issue
- Leader hailing the Racing Board's opening move in the campaign against makers' amateurs, which suspends every prominent racing man in America and puts on them the burden of proving their amateur status, arguing the trade itself is sick of the system and will benefit from its end.
- Editorial on the Pope Manufacturing Company's suits against the Overman Wheel Company and the Ames Manufacturing Company, reviewing the six patents originally claimed (Pickering, Hanlon, Buzzell, Serrell, Peters and Whitehead), the $73,000 of attachments now in place, and Overman's counter-suit over the Bown ball bearing.
- J. S. Dean's full report of the preliminary-injunction hearing before Judges Colt and Carpenter in the U.S. Circuit Court at Providence, with the affidavits of Col. Albert A. Pope and A. H. Overman on the disputed 1883 license; the injunction is denied, as is the Saturday motion to reduce the ad damnum on the attachments.
- Comic illustration reprinted from Funny Folks' Annual, in which an owner declares his 'quadrike' needs only a feed of oil once a week and a rub-down with metal polish, with a University Boat Race quip about the Oxford 'octorike'.
- The Racing Board's official League Bulletin notices from chairman Abbot Bassett suspending W. A. Rowe, George M. Hendee, E. P. Burnham, C. E. Kluge, L. D. Munger and other leading racing men pending proof of amateur status under Rule H, and closing the American path to English visitors including Robert Cripps, Percy Furnivall and R. H. English.
- 'Faed' reports specially for the World on the ninth Stanley Bicycle Club exhibition at the Royal Aquarium, Westminster, with 557 machines staged, Kaufman and McAnney performing Star tricks daily, and detailed notes on the bicycles, safeties, Cripper tricycles, sociables, seventy tandems, and sundry inventions and accessories.
- The editor's notes column opens with the verse 'Apropos Joe' and gathers paragraphs on Thomas Stevens leaving Teheran for Calcutta, J. J. Gilligan taking charge of W. B. Everett & Co.'s letting department, Frederick E. Van Meerbeke's New York to San Francisco bicycle trip via New Orleans, the St. Louis board-track records dispute, and the death of George W. Rouse of Peoria.
- Race results from Minneapolis, where S. G. Whittaker won the twenty- and fifty-mile events and is openly said to have thrown the ten-mile to E. A. Savage, and from the Olympic Club games in San Francisco; John S. Prince, now in England, offers to race Neilson at any distance on his return to Boston.
- The Springfield Bicycle Club votes a four-day tournament with President Ducker's plan for a League/N.C.U.-sanctioned one-mile world's championship run in heats, and names its ticket for Massachusetts division officers; annual elections are reported from the Cambridge, Keystone (Pittsburg), Everett, Tufts College and New Jersey Wheelmen clubs.
- C.T.C. department under acting chief consul C. H. Potter of Cleveland, listing the State consuls from Connecticut to Wyoming Territory, provisionally elected applicants including Burley B. Ayers of Chicago, and new consul appointments for Oskaloosa and Grinnell, Iowa.