The Bicycling World, Vol 13, No 11
Articles in this issue
- The unheaded leader column defends New Jersey's bell-and-lamp requirements against Karl Kron's protest, questions Hollingsworth's 24-hour record made by doubling over a short picked course, endorses the A.C.U.'s three-class racing scheme as worth trying, and predicts a treaty between the L.A.W. and A.C.U. after the Bassett-Ducker meeting at Springfield.
- Correspondent 'Spokes' visits Scranton, where the Scranton Bicycle Club presented local champion J. B. Schlager with a new Columbia racer at its annual banquet, then runs up to Wilkesbarre to be entertained by its club; John S. Prince, T. W. Eck and the writer rode contests against horses, and Yale racing man John A. Kulp bemoans his thirty-day suspension for competing at New Haven.
- 'Tom E.' recounts a four-day spin from the Boston Bicycle Club wheelroom on three Quadrants and a Rover through the Connecticut Valley, dining on bass at Warehouse Point and reaching Hartford's Allyn House at 27 miles by cyclometer, with a call on the Connecticut Bicycle Club; en route a demonstration saw four men stand on a Victor wheel's rim and try in unison to smash it, without avail.
- A column of one-line gossip: Van Sicklen is pedalling a tricycle in great shape; the Missouri Club of St. Louis's first six men average 705 miles; Hendee wears a diamond stud from the Caledonian Club for smashing the mile record; and rumor has Bassett accepting the League secretary-editorship once the Beckwith-Ducker difficulty is fixed.
- The English correspondent reports that the A.C.U.'s formation was received without surprise in Britain; the N.C.U. has refused recognition but the correspondent believes recognition will follow if the A.C.U. proves its standing.
- Chicago recovers from its astonishment at the successful race meeting Blake and the Cheltenham Beach people gave; Hart of St. Louis downed Van Sicklen in the Chicago-St. Louis race, Heywood of Chicago won every race he started, and 280-miler Hollingsworth of Indiana was handicapped by inexperience.
- The Orange Wanderers' road race for the championship of Union, Essex and Hudson Counties drew New York cycling reporters and officials; C.E. Kluge, recovered from his injury, was among those in attendance.
- Short editorial paragraphs anticipate peace between the L.A.W. and A.C.U., suggesting the League focus on touring while the A.C.U. controls racing, with the three-class system as an experiment worth trying; the column continues on page 13, predicting that road racing's growing popularity in England will soon bring its prohibition there.
- Patent attorney Henry W. Williams of Boston lists new cycle patents, including Edward P. Howe of Northborough's ratchet clutch, treadle motion, tricycle brake and steering devices, and George H. Day of Hartford's hollow sheet-steel velocipede rim assigned to the Pope Manufacturing Company.
- The Vermont division's opening business meeting at Bellows Falls on 9 July, Chief Consul C. G. Ross of Rutland presiding, re-elected F. E. Dubois secretary-treasurer, appointed a road book committee and demanded payment of the balance due from the L.A.W.; the Mount Kebborn Club entertained the division at dinner, and a following note covers the Mercury Bicycle Club of Minneapolis's first annual tour toward Winona.
- A clippings column opening with a poem in praise of the Rudge Light Roadster; among the items, Speechley did the mile in 2:34 1/4 on an Invincible, Eldred won the twenty-mile Springfield road race in 1:19:50 with all five starters on Victors, and (continuing on page 14) Howell rode a mile in 2:39 3/4 at Leicester and a half-mile in 1:17, both English records for the Rudge, while the North Road Race winner rode a Rover-pattern safety.
- The Crescent City Cycling Club is organized at Evansville, Ind. with J. N. Jorgenson president; officer elections are reported for the Berkshire County Wheelmen of Pittsfield, whose fourth annual tournament comes 10-11 September, and the Boscobel Bicycle Club of Lynn under president P. J. McCarthy.
- P. Furnivall won the one-mile amateur championship of England at Jarrow in 2:46, beating Speechly by three yards; full results follow of the three-day Montreal meet (wins by H. W. Clarke of Woodstock, Fred Foster of Toronto and Chas. Ware of Marblehead) and the first Winona, Minn. race meeting, with continuing notes on H. B. Warner's Millville consolation win in 3:27 and the Boston Club's planned 100-mile road race.
- A calendar of coming events from the Illinois L.A.W. division tour at Chicago on 17 July through the Genesee Bi. Club tournament at Rochester, the Cleveland Bicycle Club's three-day race meeting, the New Jersey division meet at Millville, the L.A.W. tour from Rochester to Harper's Ferry, and the Springfield and Lynn tournaments in September.