The Bicycling World, Vol 13, No 6
Articles in this issue
- The leader column notes Volume XII is ready in bound form, endorses Eck's suggestion after the Prince-Neilson race at Lynn that races carry a time limit or no prize, reports H. C. Sharp's world quarter-mile tricycle record of 41 1-5 at Alexandra Park, and follows the sparring between Racing Board chairman Bassett and L.A.W. president Ducker. It argues the L.A.W. and the new A.C.U. should be co-workers rather than rivals, and picks apart the A.C.U.'s proposed constitution with its three membership classes and new amateur rule.
- Mr. G. F. C. Searle of Cambridge describes simple sheet-iron 'saucer' mud-guards, resembling halves of a Harrison's double alarum, fitted between the bearing sleeve and fork to keep water and grit out of a bicycle's back-wheel bearings.
- Clippings from Bi. News and Wheeling: F. Wood beats the veteran Jack Keen in the mile professional at the Albert Palace track opening, fast tricyclists overtake bicyclists on the Ripley road, and H. H. Griffin resigns from the N.C.U. executive over the suspensions.
- A comic misspelled letter from 'Willy' at the Wurld Offis to his 'dere frend jonny', describing the League Meet, the diabolical squawkers, and the Mikado pagoda booth at the Cycleries where pretty maidens sold the dollar-a-year World.
- The 'London W.' column reflects on the Alexandra Park international races that Rowe and Hendee were barred from, predicts a stubborn fight between the L.A.W. and the A.C.U., mocks the School street paper for cribbing its Meet report from the Boston Globe, and airs the rumor that Secretary-Editor Aaron intends to resign.
- Philo reports Burley Ayers home from the Boston L.A.W. meet, the Chicago Club's muddled Decoration Day runs, the St. Nicholas Toy Company preparing to rival the Western Toy Company when the Pope patents expire, and the two-inch plank bicycle track being built at Cheltenham Beach for the World's Pastime Exposition.
- Titnam's New York letter covers the opening of the Staten Island Athletic Club grounds at New Brighton, where A. B. Rich won the mile and novice F. Ray of the Ixions took the three-mile handicap, plus talk of Ixion-Harlem Wheelmen inter-club road racing and the postponed K.C.W. vs. Elizabeth Wheelmen road race.
- Don Cesar recounts a mosquito-plagued Germantown club trip through the Jersey sands and the races at the Schuylkill Navy Athletic Club games, where M. J. Bailey beat Samuel H. Crawford by three inches in the mile and C. B. Keen of the University of Pennsylvania won the two-mile easily before sailing for Europe.
- A column of League Meet gossip squibs: the screamer trade is falling off, the Springfield Club nearly withdrew from the L.A.W. in a body, Knapp and Kluge are recovering from the Lynn smashup, Mrs. H. J. Hall of Brooklyn ranks among the best lady tricyclists, and sixteen races are set for the Yale College tournament.
- Pointed rhetorical questions about cycling politics: why Bassett wants to be secretary-editor, why the Pope cup was withdrawn from the Lynn races, whether Potter and Boggis will get a verdict against the Lynn Track Association, and whether every Racing Board expulsion strengthens the A.C.U.
- Running commentary on the coming L.A.W.-A.C.U. contest for control of racing, Bassett's retention as Racing Board chairman for another year, the crowded receptions at the Boston and Massachusetts clubhouses, Hal Greenwood's claim to champion hill-climber after six ascents of Son-of-a-Gun hill near St. Louis, and W. H. Bowker's one-wheel mile in 4.01.
- In the Correspondence column, president Henry E. Ducker issues the American Cyclists Union's manifesto, announcing the new organization formed at Boston on 29 May in protest at the Racing Board's expulsions and appealing to wheelmen, clubs, track associations and manufacturers for support.
- Trade and gossip notes: the Massachusetts Bicycle Club counts more Rudges than any other make, Prince will ride the Singer-built Apollo racer in his next race with Neilson, Stoddard, Lovering & Co. receive light Crippers, and Kluge is exonerated of blame for the Lynn collision.
- The full text of the constitution, by-laws and racing and track rules drafted at Springfield on 3 June for the newly organized American Cyclists Union, covering club and unattached membership dues, the Racing Board's record-claim and track-measurement requirements, and detailed race-meeting officiating rules.
- Club news: E. P. Baird of the Orange (N.J.) Wanderers rides 126 miles on Decoration Day to win the club's hundred-miles-in-a-day medal, the Le Mars (Iowa) Bicycle Club organizes, the Missouri Bicycle Club of St. Louis opens its new Cardinal Avenue clubhouse, and the Bay City (Mich.) club elects B. H. Miller president.
- Racing results: the Alexandra Park tournament's record-smashing finale with H. C. Sharp's quarter-mile tricycle world record, J. H. Robertson's win in the Montreal A.A.A. three-mile handicap, and the East Hartford tournament where H. E. Bidwell and young W. M. Haradon of Springfield took multiple events.
- A calendar of forthcoming events for June and July, including the Yale College races at New Haven, the King's County Wheelmen's annual meet in Brooklyn, the Michigan L.A.W. Division meet at Detroit, the Capital Club races in Washington, and the opening of the World's Pastime Exhibition in Chicago.