The Bicycling World, Vol 13, No 2
Articles in this issue
- Unheaded leader column urging members to vote for good men at the League Meet, announcing that Stephen Terry declines to run for the L.A.W. presidency and that F. W. Weston is retiring from the World's staff through ill health, and picking apart Chairman Bassett's Boston Herald interview defending the Racing Board's wholesale suspension of makers' amateurs.
- Satirical verses signed 'Rox' addressed to John 'Arrington (John Harrington), the English patentee come over 'to make th' Yankees pay' over his cradle-spring patent, warning that he will taste Yankee law and should sail home.
- A tongue-in-cheek survey of booms for the L.A.W. presidency: H. E. Ducker (shouted for by Dr. Kendall, weak on parliamentary law), incumbent N. M. Beckwith, W. W. Stall of 'screamer' fame, J. G. Dalton ('Junius'), and Burley B. Ayers of Chicago.
- Column of one-line squibs: Furnival's and Speechly's excuses after the Surrey Cup, the Massachusetts club's stand against the 'screamer' nuisance, the Springfield club's threatened bill in equity against the Racing Board over Hendee, McGarrett and Westervelt, Webber's $400 of Clarksville prizes, and Fred Von Meerbeke's two-month ride from New York to New Orleans.
- Letter from 'Philo': the Chicago club quiet, the Owl club fishing for recruits, riding disrupted by strikers and the Anarchists' picnic on the west side; continues overleaf with the Ribolla tragedy, in which Felix Ribolla of the Chicago club was mortally wounded by his father's accidentally discharged revolver.
- Programme of the clerical tour starting 3 August from the Citizens' Club House, New York, riding via Yonkers, Tarrytown, Poughkeepsie, the Mount Lebanon Shaker settlement, Albany and Saratoga to Howe's Cave; the party is limited to twenty-five, with names to Rev. Sylvanus Stall of Lancaster, Pa.
- Burley B. Ayers circulates a warning after a swindler posing as 'Col. Paul Methuen of the English Army', bearing a forged letter from Mr. Moodie of Hamilton, Ont., got Ayers to endorse a worthless sight draft at the Illinois Trust and Savings Institution in Chicago.
- Mr. Underwood writes to correct reports about young Mr. Wall, who suffered a compound arm fracture falling from a dwarf bicycle: Wall was not mounted on a Rover safety.
- Philadelphia correspondence defending the Quadrant tricycle — no machine under seventy pounds would survive the city's roads — and rejoicing that the Victor 'is out of jail at last'.
- Notes column opening with 'Out of the Depths', mock-pitying verses on A—t B—tt (Abbot Bassett) and colleagues; items on the Overman Wheel Company's record eighteen pages of advertising, unridden Lockes Hill in Watertown, Burnham's disputed 3.15 circuit of the Reservoir basin, and Secretary Aaron's enforced sick leave.
- The Stroller finds Boston dealers rushed to death with business ahead of the League Meet, deplores the 'howling hoodlums' and screechers among Sunday crowds at Chestnut Hill reservoir, and reports H. S. Tuttle of Lynn taking hold of the Union Athletic Grounds track to fit it for training.
- The Lynn track is finished and racing men are training for 31 May; Rowe says that, if the Racing Board permits, he will take the Pope Cup 'for keeps', and the seventy-five-member Cycle Club is agitating for better quarters.
- W. B. Everett announces reduced railroad rates for the League Meet: parties of fifteen or more from fifty miles out pay two cents per mile with wheels carried free, provided the passenger agent is notified a week in advance.
- Officials named for the hill-climbing contest at Corey Hill on the morning of 27 May — W. G. Kendall chairman, C. S. Howard and H. W. Hayes judges, E. S. Wheeler starter — with three prizes each for bicycles and tricycles and a $1 entrance fee.
- Dr. W. G. Kendall, marshal of the Massachusetts Touring Division, organizes a run for Sunday 30 May from the Hotel Vendome to Hingham, Pemberton via Nantasket and the Jerusalem road, planned to give inland visitors a view of the ocean.
- The Olympian Skating Rink at Mechanic's building will house the League's general meeting, the Massachusetts Club subscribes $200, nightly home-trainer races are promised at the Boston Club Show, and a resolution for a third class of racing men is coming; continues with the Racing Board's right to reject championship entries and Chairman Walburg's parade diagram.
- Correspondence signed 'Lynn' attacking the Racing Board's suspensions, arguing that makers' amateurs give the public good square races and that Springfield has done more for wheeling than the L.A.W., and urging a third 'promateur' class so the League Meet races succeed.
- A. M. Hill reports from Greenville, Ga., that the tourists have passed through almost uncivilized country, tramping from early morning until after dark and doing very little riding up to 1 May.
- In the fifty-mile professional race at the Leicestershire cricket grounds, won by Duncan, F. Lees broke the professional records from 41 to 49 miles, 41 miles in 2.14.35 through 49 miles in 2.46.13.
- The opening of the Lynn track on 31 May promises a racing treat with Rowe, Hendee, Kluge, Weber, Knapp, Windle, Prince and Neilson all expected, and records to go.
- Races at Woodstock, Ont., on 24 and 25 May are commended to racing men, with a management very liberal in the matter of prizes.
- Officials for the Lynn meeting: Abbot Bassett referee; Harry Corey, Frank Winship and John Wood, Jr., judges; Will Pevear, George Chinn and A. D. Peck, Jr., scorers; Charles Howard starter and W. W. Stall clerk of the course.
- Circulars announce a grand international cycling tournament at Alexandra Park, London, under the patronage of some eighty-five clubs with $900 in prizes, though short notice will cost it American entries.
- The Easter bicycle tournament at the county cricket ground, Leicester, closed 26 April with a slow but pretty ten-mile race of 30m 30s; Howell, Duncan and Lees finished first three.
- On the Aylestone grounds track H. O. Duncan beat F. J. Lees by four yards in 2h 49m 35s, with the Frenchman Dupois third after his pace cracked up Fred Wood in the seventh mile.
- At the close of the second day of the six days' race at Minneapolis, Prince led Schock by nearly twelve miles, with betting at $100 to $60 in his favor.
- Club news: the Maryland Club of Baltimore will send twenty-five men to the Meet, the Hoosac Wheelmen and Fort Schuyler wheelmen of Utica elect officers; continues with the Dorchester, Yale, Winona (Minn.) and Long Island clubs, the new Nassau Wheelmen of South Brooklyn, and elections at Canton, Middletown and Wilkesbarre.
- Day-by-day programme for the Boston meet, 27–29 May: the Boston Club show, Corey Hill climbing contest, runs through the Newtons, the Boston Club tricycle road race from Bailey's, the League business meeting, and the parade and League races at the Union Grounds.
- A supplement republishes an article from the Wheelman's Gazette challenging the Racing Board's expulsions, arguing that innocent men were adjudged guilty of professionalism without good reason.
- Clippings from Wheeling and The Cyclist: a would-be makers' amateur vows never to pay for a mount, the N.C.U.'s prompt rescinding of its suspensions improves racing prospects, The Cyclist hopes the N.C.U. will refuse the Springfield club's offer to pay English racers' expenses, and Kennington Oval is reported soft and full of pits.