The Bicycling World, Vol 13, No 22
Articles in this issue
- The leader column lists the coming week's events (the L.A.W. inter-State meet at St. Louis, the Boston Club road race, and the Roseville, N.J. tournament) and runs through editorial squibs: the Lynn-Springfield war over the merits of Rowe and Hendee, the N.C.U.'s unpublished suspensions, a call for paid official timekeepers, and a retrospect on why the season's Eastern tournaments at Hartford, Lynn and Springfield all lost money.
- Corrected route details for the Boston Club's road race: with the Faneuil House closed, the start and finish move to the Centennial House, the course running via Cambridge Street, Harvard Street, Brighton Avenue and Babcock, starting at 9 A.M. with refreshments provided at Needham.
- The Massachusetts Club announces its annual road races for 16 October from the club house at 152 Newbury Street, with full turn-by-turn courses for the thirty-mile race, the thirteen-and-a-half-mile race and the twelve-and-a-half-mile tricycle race; entries to Capt. A. D. Peck.
- Verax's Chicago letter recalls the ill-omened thirteen-at-table dinner at Kinsley's before Billy Durell's death, describes watching Whittaker set world road records of 2:55:46 for fifty miles and 6:43:59 for one hundred at Crawfordsville, and previews the Indianapolis tournament with Van Sicklen, Kluge, $1,500 in prizes and the Pope cup.
- Brevity reports St. Louis alive with the Knights Templar triennial conclave, the track races following the illuminated parade called off though the road race stands, G. W. Krall back from a tricycling tour of England, and gossip of Missouri Club riders ordering custom-built wheels.
- Titnam previews the Roseville, N.J. tournament with its still-unfinished track, doubts its financial success under manager Fred Jenkins, reports Renton apparently backing down in his suit against Dr. Beckwith, notes George Bidwell's L.A.W. presidential ambitions, and proposes a New York-to-Oranges bicycle path across the meadows.
- A Memphis letter welcomes the League meet going to St. Louis, reports the Southern Cycler sold to the American Wheelman by ailing editor W. L. Surprise, who has been offered the Southern District A.C.U. racing chairmanship, and defends two Memphis boys' failed hundred-mile ride over rough dirt roads.
- New Haven wheelmen protest West Haven borough officials forbidding bicycles on the village walks, the letter quoting at length a legal opinion on wheelmen's equal rights to the highway and their right to take the footpath when the roadway is impassable.
- Fred T. Sholes writes that Cleveland, not Springfield, first used electric timing in cycle races at its 1885 tournament with home-made apparatus, and C. R. Haradon protests the L.A.W. racing board's delay in reinstating Willie Haradon of Springfield.
- News and gossip paragraphs: three Clevelanders' rain-soaked attempt to wheel around Lake Erie, rumors of Rowe's retirement, a maple-sugar-versus-Cheshire-cheese wager with Bicycling News over twenty-two miles within the hour, Secretary Aaron's ride over Corey Hill, Van Sicklen's retirement from racing, and Woodside and Morgan planning to race in England.
- A humorous first-person account of the Lynn tournament press trip, featuring Dr. Kendall's balky starting pistol, clerk-of-course 'Pooh-Bah' Barnard, Bassett with his sage-green bag, Col. Pope munching peanuts on the ferry, and 'Murty' Downing's row with Neilson over board bills.
- F. W. Perry of the Massachusetts Bicycle Club suffered very severe head injuries while riding in a race at Weymouth, Mass., with the full extent of the damage not yet known as the paper goes to press.
- Short items including a recapitulation of Columbia riders' prize hauls at Hartford, Springfield, Brooklyn, Lynn and Minneapolis, 'Papa' Weston's new house boat, Rowe's world's championship medal, Adam Forepaugh's plan for a bicycle track in Madison Square Garden, Karl Kron's tour to West Springfield, and the mutual arrests of 'Murty' Downing and Neilson.
- Opening the Racing News department, a full two-day report of the Lynn tournament with race summaries: Rowe beats Hendee in the one-mile promateur, Wood and Woodside smash records in the three-mile professional handicap, Rhodes laps the field in the ten-mile promateur, and Rich and Gaskell duel through the amateur and tricycle events.
- The fourth annual meet of the Minnesota division L.A.W. at Winona, 22-23 September: Savage of Minneapolis takes the state championships and sets state records, while D. P. Long of Le Mars, Iowa, wins Minnesota's first hill-climbing contest despite a cracked pedal.
- The first annual meet and races of the Rhode Island division L.A.W. at Narragansett Park, Providence, 21 September, where Edward Buffum of Newport wins both the one-mile and three-mile state championships and the Newport Bicycle Club carries off the honors.
- The first tourney of the Associated Wheelmen at Exposition Park, Allegheny, Pa., on 18 September before 2,000 people, under the auspices of the Keystone Bicycle Club, Pittsburg Wheelmen, Allegheny Cyclers and Sewickley Valley Wheelmen, with W. T. Wilhelm of Reading and W. D. Banker dividing most of the events.
- At the Queens County fair at Minneola, L.I., on 21 September, Jos. W. Whitson of the Mercury Bicycle Club, Flushing, easily wins the two-mile bicycle race in 6.47 from clubmate Thomas Scudder.
- Reading Bicycle Club races held with the Berks County fair on 21 September: Harry B. Schwartz takes the two-mile club championship and the three-mile race, and W. I. Wilhelm wins the one-mile open and half-mile.
- The first meet of the Wilkesbarre Ramblers' Club draws wheelmen from Williamsport, Bloomsburg, Scranton and Pittston, with J. R. Shlager of Scranton winning the three-mile lap race and the ten-mile state championship.
- The Sacramento Club's tournament of 16 September: F. D. Elwell wins the one-mile handicap, the two-mile state championship and the five-mile handicap from scratch.
- G. E. D. Todd easily wins the five-mile road race on the Boulevard, the second in the Brooklyn Bicycle Club's championship series, in 22.53 3-5 over a heavy, carriage-crowded road, with F. B. Hawkins second and Wm. Vail third.