The Bicycling World, Vol 13, No 23
Articles in this issue
- The unheaded leader lists the coming week's fixtures (Dorchester and Yonkers club road races, the Columbia Bicycle Club meet at North Attleboro), and dissects the failure of the Boston Club's fourth annual 100-mile road race, where all but one entrant went off the too-complicated course, urging the local clubs and the A.C.U. to agree on a standard record route.
- The Bard's London letter reports the N.C.U. executive's suspensions of Engleheart, Hale, Oxborrow, F. W. Allard, R. H. English and others, the resulting agitation to abolish the amateur definition, Furnivall's farewell wins for the Sydney Challenge Trophy and Surrey Cup, and Willson and Mills's 100-mile Humber tandem record of 6h 47m.
- A Boston correspondent signing 'Pedals' visits the Parisian cycling depots in the Avenue de la Grande Armee, describes the strange giant-wheeled French machines, and spends an afternoon riding a hired English loop-frame in the Bois de Boulogne, where cyclists remain a curiosity and the Sergents de Ville restrict where wheels may go.
- Titnam reviews the Roseville Tournament's modest attendance, the feud after the Hudson County Wheelmen imported Star riders Joe Powell and W. I. Wilhelm to sweep the Kings County team race, and the Renton case, in which N. M. Beckwith, T. J. Kirkpatrick, Ed. F. Hill and G. Carleton Brown were indicted by the Richmond County grand jury.
- An American artist signing 'Cle.' writes from Ballancourt, Seine-et-Oise, of ordering a Quadrant tandem and tricycle from Birmingham, hauling the huge crate from the station by donkey cart, and his first ride on the marble-smooth French road toward Corbeil.
- Letters: Robert Lloyd of Montreal claims the electric timer was used at the Canadian Wheelmen's Association meet before Springfield; Poultney Bigelow of Outing rebuts L.A.W. insinuations that round-the-world rider Thomas Stevens is hired to exploit particular makes; and Mr. Robertson disputes the account of his ride along the Cabin John Bridge coping, insisting only one rope held him.
- Short paragraphs on the close of the racing season: Philadelphia's Fairmount Park rules for cyclists, a proposed L.A.W. Massachusetts division camp, Col. Pope touring the Shenandoah Valley, a 64-inch Columbia built for a Texan, Fred Wood's complaints about Springfield, and Furnivall's claim that a 2.20 mile is possible.
- In the Boston Club's fourth annual 100-mile road race, most starters, including Hollingsworth, Berlo and promateurs Huntley, Rhodes and McCurdy, got hopelessly lost on the devious course; W. S. Doane of Dorchester, on a 50-inch Victor, alone finished, covering the distance in 7.24.3 and beating McCurdy's record by nearly twenty-seven minutes.
- News and trade paragraphs: W. H. Huntley's coming 24-hour record attempt on a 51-inch Rudge from the Nonantum club house, praise for Doane's Victor victory, a hoped-for Hendee-Rowe series at Springfield, Whittaker's arm injury, Gaskell's fearful tricycle fall at Roseville, and notices for Ardill's Liquid Enamel, the Buffer saddle and the American Champion.
- A ladies' run for Boston wheelmen, on the pattern of last year's successful tours, is proposed to start next Thursday and wheel easily to Cape Ann, with no scorching permitted; Charles R. Dodge of Willow Cottage, Magnolia, Mass., has the affair in charge.
- Verax reports the postponed three-mile handicap between Van Sicklen and Kluge at the Ball Park, won by Van Sicklen by seven-tenths of a second on corrected time, plus the Owls' coming entertainment, the Illinois Cyclers' run to Libertyville, and Van Sicklen's bid to take the Pope Cup from Hollingsworth.
- Brevity describes St. Louis's brilliant illuminated parade of over two hundred wheelmen, Arthur Young's first-prize tandem tricycle rigged with a hundred lanterns, Alexander Lewis's route-record 20-mile road race win in 1.31 1/2, and the closing banquet at the Lindell Hotel where George Thayer recounted his transcontinental ride.
- Outing has received a letter from globe-girdling cyclist Thomas Stevens, dated Delhi, India, reporting that the August weather is oppressively hot, with indoor thermometers registering 120 degrees for weeks despite punkahs and water-soaked cuss-cuss tatties.
- The Dorchester Club's road races, open to club members only, take place tomorrow from the corner of River and Washington streets, Milton Lower Mills, over the same fifteen-, six-, three- and one-mile courses used last year.
- Arrangements are well under way for the Massachusetts Club races on 16 October; entries close 14 October with A. D. Peck, Jr., 152 Newbury Street, and the routes were published in last week's World.
- Race results: the East Hartford Wheel Club fall races, where Hart took the one-mile open and both lap races and H. E. Bidwell rode a half mile in 1.24 1-5, followed by the Weymouth races of 29 September won by W. H. Senter, F. W. Perry and A. W. Porter.
- Full results of the New Jersey Cycling and Athletic Association's three-day opening tournament at Roseville, 30 September to 2 October: George M. Hendee swept the promateur events over Rowe, Ives and Burnham; Fred Wood, Woodside, Crocker and Frazier contested the professional races; and W. E. Crist of Washington led the amateurs.
- The N.C.U. records committee passes claims including W. A. Illston's flying quarter-mile of 34 2-5s, C. Potter's long-distance path figures, E. Hale's fifty road miles, and G. P. Mills's Land's End to John o' Groat's rides on bicycle and tricycle, while rejecting A. P. Engleheart's three-mile path claim of 8.16.
- Capt. Johnnie Lowell of the Roxbury Bicycle Club calls October runs from 1177 Tremont Street to the Great Sign Boards, South Framingham, Sharon (Massapoag Hotel) and Salem (Essex House), with unattached riders invited.
- The C.T.C.'s American column under acting chief consul C. H. Potter of Cleveland lists the state consuls, notes the provisional election of Miss Emilie Perkins of Smithville, N.J., the appointment of a consul for Hudson, N.Y., and offers copies of the 1886 Hand-Book.