The Bicycling World, Vol 13, No 16
Articles in this issue
- The unheaded leader column announces next week's illustrated supplement showing the Lynn track, urges Boston wheelmen to form a road-improvement and tariff-reduction association after Philadelphia's example, previews the L.A.W. officers' conclave at the Buffalo meeting, notes that N.C.U. amateurs Furnivall and Webber cannot race League professionals Rowe and Hendee, answers Mr. Schriver on the New Jersey lamp-and-bell ordinance, and closes with warm praise of Burley B. Ayers.
- A humorous editorial piece on the menace of dogs attacking cyclists, proposing satirical remedies including the "dynametical meat-ball" (chopped meat packed with dynamite, mixed by one's mother-in-law) and the "boarding-house pancake method" using rock-hard hotel biscuits to drive off belligerent curs.
- Titnam's New York letter finds the clubs quiet in the dog days, reports the Orange Wanderers' hill-climbing contest at Eagle Rock won by C. H. Chickering in nine minutes (John A. Wells of Philadelphia second in 12m 20s), notes the Harlem Wheelmen booking Cappa's Seventh Regiment Band for their race meet, and lists the Wanderers' 4 September programme at the new Roseville track.
- C.A.N. of Newport, R.I. describes the island's twenty-member club and its scenery, the ten-and-a-half-mile Ocean Drive taking in fashionable Bellevue Avenue, and issues a cordial challenge to visiting hill-climbers to try conclusions with Hoppin's Hill, the club's proudest "member".
- A short correspondent's note from Louisville reporting that local wheelmen now have the longest cantilever bridge in the world — the Sand Island Bridge from Portland suburb to New Albany, Indiana — ending the tedious ferry wait for cyclists wishing to ride the knolls of southern Indiana.
- Paragraph notes covering Lester E. Hickok of Birmingham, Conn. claiming 6,000 miles this season, F. Miller of East Boston thrown near Spot Pond, Harry Corey and H. A. Huntley's 44-minute Humber tandem ten miles, the L.A.W. mail vote counted by Wells, Aaron and Burns (closing 28 August), Ducker's authentic list of foreign racers, and Weyers Cave, Va. as a stop for L.A.W. tourists.
- A Hartford correspondent counts five hundred wheelmen, two clubs and 135 L.A.W. members in the city, previews the Connecticut Bicycle Club's tournament opening 8 September with a street parade of the Connecticut Division, praises the Charter Oak Park prize list, and warns that American cycle racing must foster no gambling element lest it repeat horse racing's decline; signed H.
- F.A.E.'s New York column mourns Frank T. Howard, accidentally shot dead at his brother Leland's Washington residence — one of the five founders of the Ixion Bicycle Club, whose name he chose — then jests about Ducker's removal for "offensive partisanship", weighs New York against St. Louis for the next League Meet, and notes Charles Schwalbach and A. B. Rich entering the cycle trade in Brooklyn.
- Miscellaneous news snippets covering L. Wainwright ordering a 21-lb racing Apollo to challenge for the Indiana State championship, the New Rapid's Large Medal of Merit at the Vienna exhibition, recommended cycling roads in Vermont, Harry Park riding a Standard Columbia down the Capitol steps, and four Lyons, N.Y. cyclists starting a 350-mile ride to New York City.
- Fred S. Rollinson writes from Sydney (14 July 1886) that he and N. S. Maltby are surprising the Australians with fancy riding, that he is training for a match race against Jack Rolfe the Australian champion and planning a tour of the colonies, and that despite California newspaper reports he is not dead.
- A detailed correspondence letter from a New Jersey wheelmen pushes back against the Bicycling World's characterisation of ordinance opponents as "short-sighted and selfish," arguing that the Stickney tandem accident had nothing to do with lamps, and that endorsing discriminative cycling by-laws would dangerously erode the hard-won legal principle that cycles are subject to the same road laws as all other vehicles.
- The editor's squib column opens with "The Editor's Wail", a poem on the League–A.C.U. reconciliation, then runs on (past two advertising pages) with notes on the unknown Berridge's Rover tricycle feats, Lynn's consolation race for pure amateurs, the Massachusetts Club's Music Hall run, St. Clair County, Ill. farmers hostile to cyclists, and F. E. Von Meerbeke reaching Tucson, Arizona on his ride to the Pacific.
- Late-breaking results from Coventry, England on 6 August: A.P. Engleheart sets a world record for five miles on a Kangaroo Safety geared to 60 inches in 14.1 1/5; I.S. Buckingham takes the English five-mile amateur bicycle record on a Premier Safety in 15.40 4/5 at the same event.
- Comprehensive racing results including I. Wood's professional 25-mile (1:22.39) and 10-mile (30.5) championship wins; Worcester Bicycle Club's annual field day on August 7 with results across novice, tricycle, open county, and handicap events; plus Percy Stone of St. Louis setting up training headquarters at Lynn's Glenmere track for the autumn season.