The Bicycling World, Vol 13, No 21
Articles in this issue
- The unheaded leader column: heavy rain postpones the first day of the Lynn races (fixtures follow at East Hartford 29 September and Roseville 30 September), the N.C.U. suspends E. Hale, E. Oxborrow, and P. Engleheart, Prince is hissed at Springfield, the epidemic of tandem breakages is condemned, the proposed Orange ordinances are criticised as unjust to lamp-carrying wheelmen, and Ducker's alleged $100 expenses letter from Lacy Hillier is declared a forgery.
- Special despatch from New York: Justice of the Peace L. C. Allston of Port Richmond dismissed D. H. Renton's case against E. K. Hill of Peekskill when neither plaintiff nor counsel appeared, and postponed Dr. N. M. Beckwith's case with a warning it would also be dismissed on similar evidence.
- A despatch from B. B. Ayers reports that George Dakin is better and leaves Ithaca for home, welcome news after the most serious results had at one time been feared.
- Hal Greenwood of the St. Louis Ramblers climbed Corey Hill four times in succession on a 51-inch Star without a dismount, later climbing both the front and back sides, while W. S. Doane on a Victor climbed the front and back sides the same day.
- London letter from 'The Bard': the N.C.U. suspends Engleheart, Hale, and Oxborrow on suspicion of employment by Hillman, Herbert & Cooper and Stanley Sutton; A. J. Wilson ('Faed') resigns from the Coventry Ring after Bicycling News printed threats against him; E. Hale won the North Road Club 100-mile road race in 7:03:44 on a Premier Safety, and G. P. Mills won its weather-ruined 24-hour race with 227 miles on a Beeston Humber ordinary.
- 'The Idler' reviews the finished Springfield tournament: the Columbia team had things its own way, Billy Rowe is pronounced pre-eminently the fastest rider in America over Hendee, and Percy Stone and Crocker surprised with their improved riding.
- 'Verax' praises the League hotel kept by Allen & Ingalls near Oak Park, relays Wilbur F. Knapp's account of a fight in Denver between Columbia agent George F. Higgins and Apollo seller Vanhorn, and describes Whittaker's ten miles in thirty-four minutes at Crawfordsville, Indiana; the Illinois Cyclers' membership reaches forty-eight and Col. Pope is rumored to visit in October.
- 'Philhenry' reports the City Council passed an ordinance keeping cyclists off the sidewalks after a rider knocked over a pompous magistrate, and recounts the attempted tour of Baird, Polk, Davison, and the two Cross brothers toward Hot Springs, which ended with headers into the Saline river at Benton before the party took the train.
- 'Brevity' notes interest in the illuminated parade growing with Mikado and cowboy squads and sixty flambeaux drilling with fireworks, Rogers and Ladish returning from their Arkansas silver hunt, the camera craze in the Missouri Club led by Secretary Sells, and a Pike County horse named 'George Weber' after the departed Star rider.
- 'Titnam' covers the Kings County Wheelmen's race meet and rain-marred moonlight parade, the Inter-Club Road Racing Association's fixing its race for election day (2 November) over the Irvington-Milburn course, park board president John D. Crimmins's curt refusal of the Citizens' committee's petition for more park privileges, F. B. Mirick of the Algonquin Wheelmen having his jaw fractured in three places by a buggy on the Coney Island boulevard, and Chas. E. Renton's grievance against Hill and Beckwith over his son's League expulsion.
- Thomas Stevens, the Outing correspondent riding around the world on his bicycle, has arrived at Delhi, India, in good health and confident of completing his journey unless some unforeseen accident bars his way in China.
- Short items: Capt. A. M. Hill of New Orleans withdraws his diamond-medal offer for a fifty-mile road race, 'Faed' is acquitted at Leyton after a scrapping match, Horace Bell of London joins the Overman Wheel Company, Woodside is timed at six seconds for his last hundred yards at Springfield, Van Meebeke reaches San Francisco after 4,000 miles from New York, and Crist led the Springfield amateurs in firsts.
- At the Springfield meet, cycling editors challenged each other to a one-mile bicycle race: Secretary Aaron of the Bulletin, the editor of the Wheel, and the editor of the World agreed to compete with an 18-minute time limit, with Lacy Hillier's hair as first prize and the loser compelled to read a copy of the publication at gunpoint.
- State Consul W. M. Brewster extends a cordial invitation to members of the American Division of the C.T.C. to visit St. Louis on October 1–3, with a programme including a grand Friday-night parade, Saturday track and road races, a Saturday-night banquet, and a Sunday De Soto run over the famous air line route.
- Clippings: Whittaker now rides an American Champion and is going for road records, George Collister and J. H. Huntington broke the quarter- and half-mile tandem records at Cleveland on a Rudge Humber, a thirteen-member bicycle brass band forms at St. John, Mich., mysterious experimental machines for the 1887 Victor tricycle appear on the Mill-dam, and a Washington rider crossed the coping of Cabin John's Bridge lashed with ropes.
- Recent velocipede and tricycle patents furnished by Henry W. Williams of Boston, including grants to John C. Garrood of Boston, Chas. W. Hamshaw of Blue Springs, Mo., N. M. Wilson of Philadelphia, Chas. E. Courtney of Union Springs, N.Y., David H. Rice of Brookline, and N. M. and Wm. B. Depuy.
- 'Kentuck' reports a party of Chicago wheelmen will visit Louisville at the close of the month as guests of the Louisville Wheel Club, coming for the blue grass fields and limestone pikes rather than the city's beautiful women, fast horses, and good whisky.
- A satirical column of editorial questions probing amateur purity, Racing Board expenses for trips to New York and Springfield, the Pope Manufacturing Company's domination of professional cycling, and what Kennedy Child and Neilson really think of Prince.
- The detailed turn-by-turn route of the Boston Club's 100-mile road race is published, starting at Faneuil Hotel in Brighton and winding through Watertown, West Newton, Waltham, Newton Centre, and surrounding towns.
- Opening the Racing News department: the Roseville tournament near Newark on 30 September–2 October has its third-of-a-mile track in record shape with Hendee, Rowe, Kluge, Wood, Woodside, and Prince entered; also noted are G. Gatehouse's N.C.U.-passed tricycle records at Long Eaton, C. Potter's Surrey B.C. fifty-mile championship in 2:41:40 3-5, and the North Road Club 24-hour results won by G. P. Mills with 227 miles.
- Fourth-day report from the Springfield tournament: W. A. Rowe of Lynn beat Fred Wood of Leicester in the final heat of the world's championship in 3:08 3-5 and was presented as 'Champion of the World,' G. M. Hendee took the three-mile promateur from F. F. Ives, W. E. Crist won the three-mile amateur handicap and with Brown broke tandem tricycle records, and Hendee lowered the American half-mile and one-mile records; a prize-winners table closes the report.
- The Owl Club's Saturday races drew about three hundred spectators, with N. H. Van Sicklen winning the three-mile open handicap, W. S. Webster the half-mile dash and two-mile lap race, and M. Bowber the one-mile Illinois Cycling Club championship.
- The first annual race meeting of the Cortland County Cyclists' Club was held on September 15 at the Cortland driving park during the fall fair before nearly six thousand spectators, with W. B. Perry of Syracuse winning the two-mile open in 7:22 and C. Viele winning the one-mile club race in 3:36.
- The Inter-State bicycle meet was held 17 September at Geneva Park in Beaver Falls on a heavy track, with W. I. Wilhelm of Reading winning the one- and two-mile opens and W. A. Crawford of New Castle taking both the one- and two-mile Inter-State championships.
- At the fall meeting of the Kings County Wheelmen, A. B. Rich won the one-mile lap race and the three-mile handicap from scratch, S. H. Rich took the 3.10 class and five-mile scratch race, and Kings County beat the Harlem Wheelmen 38 points to 32 in the two-mile team race.
- At the Driving Park on 8 September, W. S. Hill of Red Bank won the one-mile in 3:10 3-4, J. McDermott took the half-mile in two straight heats, and J. Powell of Smithville won the two-mile in 7:33 1-4.
- Results from the 8 September tournament at Picton: L. B. Cooper won both the one-mile (3:15) and two-mile (7:24 4-5) races, C. James took the green race, and W. Lingham the four-minute class, with Napanee riders Swetman and Normile placing.
- The C.T.C. department under acting chief consul C. H. Potter of Cleveland lists State consuls, provisionally elects applicants from Williamsport, Pa., East Orange, and Brick Church, N.J., appoints Edward J. Fisher consul for Williamsport, and announces copies of the 1886 Hand-Book at thirty-five cents.