The Bicycling World, Vol 13, No 24
Articles in this issue
- Egan's gossip column recalls Will R. Pitman, the 'Old Vet' whose doctors ordered him off the wheel with a weak heart after winning the Boston Club's hundred-mile tricycle race in 1884, cites veteran trainer Alfred Badger as proof of the 'evils of water drinking', and warns that the double-levered brake on Humber-type tandems can injure a coasting front rider's spine.
- 'Southerner' writes from Memphis that work has begun on the Memphis Cycling Club's new track, that a local daily's leader on street paving may finally stir the city officials, and that new pike roads promise routes Memphians won't be ashamed to show Easterners.
- 'Brevity' reports A. T. Stevens of the Missouri Club riding 1,052 miles in September to beat Captain Brewster's 1,021, Deere, Mansur & Co. taking the New Rapid agency, Messrs. Fisher and Wengel riding 150 rough miles from Fulton, Mo., in three days, and Percy Stone's plea for supporting promateurs.
- Quoting the Transcript, the editors eye the English 'house-boat' craze said to be crossing the Atlantic in the hands of the same gentleman who introduced the bicycle to America, and playfully blame 'Papa' Weston for yet another looming expenditure.
- Correspondent O. M. Cardinal, a well-connected convert from yachting and horse racing, asks the editor to explain why cycling's amateur law brands men like him professionals unfit for the League, and why 'promateurs' exist at all.
- Edw. J. Shriver reports that First Lieutenant J. O. Jimenis of the New York Bicycle Club settled the club's single-day mileage contest by covering 92 miles by daylight over the rough Tarrytown road, with a full table of his stages and times.
- A grab-bag opening with 'The Victor', a verse lampooning the wheel-hopping poet 'L. H. P.', then noting Knapp joining the Denver Wheel Company, Louise Armaindo and Morgan's planned tandem records at Lynn, the Springfield Union's defence of George M. Hendee against 'The Owl', and F. T. Merrill's praise of Portland, Me.'s mile track.
- W. A. Rhodes of the Victor team rides 21 miles 534 yards within the hour on the Springfield track in perfect still conditions, with the full mile-by-mile summary and Furnivall, Rowe and Fenlon sharing the pacing.
- Champion W. A. Rowe, unwilling to rest under Rhodes's mark, reclaims the hour record on Tuesday with 21 miles 1,149 yards, taking world's records from six miles to the finish and leaving the record only 610 yards short of 22 miles.
- On Wednesday Rowe returns for Rhodes's two-to-five-mile records, missing the three-mile mark by a second but cutting the five-mile record to 13.27 3-5.
- F. F. Ives of the Victor team attacks the 100-mile track records at Springfield, taking world's records from 22 to 68 miles and American records from 69 to 100 miles, paced by Rowe, Rhodes, Harradon and Illston.
- At the Dorchester club's second annual road race meet, W. S. Doane wins the fifteen-mile road race in a record 54m. 21s. after pacemaker Simpson's fearful header, with Fowler, Bates and Benson taking the shorter club races.
- W. H. Huntley abandons his twenty-four-hour bicycle record attempt at 265 miles, felled by nausea that dropped him from his machine on the nineteenth round, but vows a third try over a 50-mile course.
- The Boston Club is talking of holding a twenty-four-hour road race next month during the full moon.
- Woodside, Morgan and contractor Geo. P. Coleman engage the new Minneapolis Exposition Building for a six-day world's championship; the Troy six-day closes with W. J. Morgan on 527 miles just ahead of Mlle. Louise Armaindo's 526; and summaries follow of the League of Essex County Wheelmen's races at Lynn, Philadelphia club events won by W. E. Crist, and the Colorado Wheel Club's three-day Denver meet.