The Bicycling World, Vol 12, No 21
Articles in this issue
- Dr. Dudley A. Sargent, director of Harvard College gymnasium, delivers a lecture at Union Hall on professionalism in modern athletics, touching on its value and abuse within organised sport including cycling.
- Faed's London letter reports Rudge & Co., Hillman, Herbert & Cooper and Goy converting themselves into limited liability companies, then describes four novel tandem bicycles: Rucker's design made by Humber, Renouf's patent built by Brocas, a dwarf tandem by Howes of Cambridge, and Faed's own convertible Rover conversion.
- Programme of the third annual tour of the Indiana Division of the L.A.W., 9-14 July 1886, from Rushville to Indianapolis via New Castle, Kokomo, Lafayette, Crawfordsville and Lebanon, including a twenty-one-mile handicapped road race from New Castle to Pendleton; issued by tourmaster A. B. Irvin.
- Comment reprinted from the Mirror of American Sports on the L.A.W. Racing Board's investigation of the amateur standing of twenty-four American and ten English racing men, arguing that amateurism under the strict L.A.W. rules is largely hypocrisy and pretence.
- Manufacture-department description of the New Rapid, built by the St. George's Engineering Company of Birmingham and imported by Samuel T. Clark & Co. of Baltimore, detailing its true tangent wheel with spokes bearing 1,200 pounds tensile strain, its removable cold-pressed handle-bar, and a forty-pound fifty-inch weight.
- Burley B. Ayers outlines the association's 1886 tour from Rochester through Watkins Glen, New York City, Old Point Comfort and the Shenandoah Valley to Harper's Ferry, and calls a meeting at the Genesee Hotel, Buffalo, on 28 March to consider merging the tours into the L.A.W. Touring Department.
- List of recently issued cycle patents furnished by Henry W. Williams of Boston, including Freeman Lillibridge's bicycle saddle, Anson P. Merrill's bicycle lock of Fall River, and E. G. Latta's velocipede head improvements.
- Rebuts a Boston Herald paragraph about a petition to place the Overman Wheel Company in insolvency, noting the petition was filed by the Pope Manufacturing Company over a $5,600 tricycle royalty claim that the courts had twice decided in Overman's favour.
- Correspondence from Brockton riders D. C. Pierce, G. O. Hayward, Wm. L. Puffer and others urging L.A.W. members to keep W. M. Pratt on the ticket as Brockton-district representative rather than nominees from North Easton or Saratoga.
- Notes column opening with the comic racing poem "The — not Cork, but Wheelist's Leg" from Wheeling, followed by squibs on S. G. Spier's planned Albany-to-San Francisco record ride, the Connecticut L.A.W. nominations under Charles G. Huntington, and the loss of the March C.T.C. Gazettes on the sunken steamer Oregon; further unheaded notes continue on page 15 with the Prince-Neilson race deposit and the Pope Manufacturing Company's court victory over the St. Nicholas Toy Company.
- Richard K. Fox offers a $500 Police Gazette trophy for the twenty-mile professional bicycle championship, and John S. Prince deposits $100 and challenges all comers on returning from England; shorter notes cover Schock and Woodside's Minneapolis six-day gate receipts and the Lynn Cycle Club's $1,300 track-grading contract.
- The Yale Bicycle Club holds its first annual banquet at New Haven, the Florence, Portland and Newton clubs elect officers, and the Brockton Bicycle Club publishes its season schedule of club runs from Randolph to Nantasket.
- C.T.C. column from acting chief consul C. H. Potter of Cleveland listing the American state consuls and provisionally elected members, with a special notice that the bulk of the March Gazettes and club mail sank with the Oregon off Fire Island.