The Bicycling World, Vol 13, No 20
Articles in this issue
- Editorial announcing this special extra edition carrying the review of the Springfield Tournament telegraphed by the World's special correspondent "Comus," and regretting that the Saturday noon printing deadline and the rain postponement make the last day's results impossible to include.
- First day at Springfield: W. A. Rowe, E. P. Burnham and Percy Stone of St. Louis take World's Championship promateur heats, George M. Hendee wins the ten-mile A.C.U. promateur championship and R. A. Neilson the five-mile professional handicap over Woodside and Crocker, while W. E. Crist and P. S. Brown of Washington set world tandem-tricycle records; Neilson and R. James of Birmingham are fined for loafing in a 4.19 mile.
- Before some 7,000 spectators Fred Wood beats W. M. Woodside in a 2.32 2-5 mile professional trial heat and Hendee outrides Rhodes, A. B. Rich wins both the five-mile amateur lap race and the three-mile amateur tricycle, H. G. Crocker takes the three-mile professional tricycle from T. W. Eck, and Burnham comes a cropper on Ives's rear wheel in the five-mile promateur lap race won by Rowe.
- Pouring rain debars all racing and breaks the Springfield Club's run of good weather luck, leaving the crowd to argue the coming Rowe-Hendee match; editors Aaron, Bassett, Jenkins, Ducker and Fourdrinier fraternise at headquarters and the Massasoit House, and Secretary Lawton's minstrel show draws well in the evening.
- Eight thousand at Hampden Park see W. A. Rowe beat George Hendee in the ninth World's Championship heat in 2.44, Burnham set an American three-mile promateur tricycle record of 8.56 2-5 over Ives and Kluge, H. G. Crocker take world professional tricycle records at half, two and three miles from scratch, and Crist and Foster dead-heat the three-mile amateur, Foster winning the run-off.
- Letter from James A. Spead warning that novices ruin their ball bearings by tightening the adjusting cones when a front-wheel rattle nearly always comes from the loose joint bolt holding the bearing case to the fork ends, and urging makers to send out two wrenches and printed adjustment directions with every bicycle sold.
- Story from "Spokes" in the Springfield Union recounting how racing man T. W. Eck's hair turned snowy white overnight after he clung to an overturned duck boat on Lake Ontario off his home at Aurora, Canada, in a November squall that drowned his two companions.
- Manufactures note describing the Beauty Cycle Saddle built by the Humphreys Spring Company of Irwin, Pa., whose coiled-wire suspension gives a rocking cradle motion, with an adjusting rod and brace running from the front rivetting plate through a pocket in the back plate to absorb road jar.