The Bicycling World, Vol 13, No 19
Articles in this issue
- The weekly leader paragraphs urge readers to Springfield for the four-day tournament opening 14 September, note the Cleveland Bicycle Club lost money on its races and that the League goes to St. Louis next year, chide the A.C.U. for rejecting McCurdy's record, back the Springfield Club's proposed special race between amateurs, promateurs and professionals, and declare the editors' stock of adjectives exhausted by England's weekly record-breaking.
- Newcastle pronounces its first race meeting a success, has secured the bicycle grounds for another year, and plans to make its track the best in the state with lawn tennis courts and improved ball grounds added.
- Titnam reports on the Orange Wanderers' meet at the new Roseville track, a Harlem Wheelman's green-paper lantern scheme for recognizing clubmates at night, and the Irvington-Milburn match race in which E. P. Baird of the Orange Wanderers beat C. A. Steuken of the Hudson County Wheelmen in 37.01.
- The Idler confirms Ducker's admission that no English amateurs will attend the fall tournaments, describes his scheme for a one-mile amateur-promateur-professional contest that could pit Hendee against Howell, and passes on rumors that Kluge is dissatisfied with the Star folks and that Knapp was dropped from the Columbia team.
- St. Louis wheelmen prepare for the coming parade, Whittaker rides sixty-one miles in 3.48 on the Clarksville Belt, Chief Consul Rogers pushes a bill to change road taxation, and the Bulletin and American Wheelman are at loggerheads.
- A correspondent describes the bicycle fever in Millbury, six miles of perfect road from Worcester, twenty-odd enthusiastic riders still without a club, and the promise of Wm. W. Windle, who took first prize at the recent Worcester races.
- Verax reports the Illinois contingent of the L.A.W. tour leaving for Buffalo via the Michigan Central under Tourmaster B. B. Ayers, and relays Mr. Gormully's impressions of the English trade at Coventry and London after his summer trip abroad.
- The Bard chronicles the record slaughter at Long Eaton — Furnivall's 2.30 mile beating Howell's world record and Gatehouse's hour tricycle record of 20 miles 460 yards — plus Sidney Lee's fifty-mile road records, G. P. Mills's Land's End to John O'Groats tricycle ride in 5 days 10 hours, and impending N.C.U. suspensions of amateur record breakers.
- Paragraph notes report Charlie Howard's move from the Wheel to the Bulletin, the mail vote retaining Rule H and refusing to reinstate Ducker, Corey and Childs riding ten miles on a Rudge Humber tandem in 41 minutes, Bob English turning professional, and the Lynn Club declining Hon. J. N. Buffum's clubhouse offer.
- Charles S. Willis, a founder and vice-president of the Suffolk Wheel Club, was drowned when the yacht Edith was run down in Boston harbor by the steamer Chatham of the Baltimore line on 29 August.
- The Clarksville Cycle Club of Missouri passes a resolution of sympathy on the death of George E. Weber, praising him as a valued member of the cycling fraternity, signed by secretary E. A. Clifford.
- All the talk in Lynn is of the coming tournament, with local pride in how the Lynn lads conjured up a track in barely a year.
- The Board of Officers met at Buffalo on 3 September under President Beckwith: Secretary Aaron reported membership of 9,676 (up 50 per cent in a year), the mail vote kept Rule H and rejected Ducker's appeal, the 1887 annual meet went to St. Louis, Luscomb's by-law amendment on division voting passed, and Dr. Blackham's resolutions asserting League jurisdiction over racing were voted down 42 to 19.
- Indianapolis will spend $2,500 in prizes on its September tournament, A. R. Coleman won a fifty-mile road race near Red Bank, N.J., Knapp reportedly will no longer race in Pope Manufacturing Company colors, and results follow from the Buffalo L.A.W. meeting and the Orange Wanderers' races, where A. B. Rich took the scratch and lap events.
- The racing calendar lists the Berkshire County Wheelmen's tournament at Pittsfield, the Harlem Wheelmen's races at the Manhattan grounds, the four-day Springfield tournament from 14 September, the Lynn tournament from 23 September, and the Roseville, N.J. tournament opening 30 September.