The Bicycling World, Vol 13, No 7
Articles in this issue
- The leader column notes that racing has begun with more vigor than ever, that the Yale Bicycle Club's races failed after Racing Board chairman Abbot Bassett's warning (the club threatening suit), worries over the season's crop of headers among road-racing men, and observes that riders who once scorned safeties and tricycles now ride them, the Springfield Bicycle Club having joined the A.C.U. in a body.
- A new English correspondent, 'The Bard', surveys the British scene: the N.C.U. beaten to a standstill by the makers' amateur question, scratchmen Furnivall, Illston and the injured Webber, tricyclists Langley and Letchford, the Dutch champion Kiderlen, the abortive Hampton Court meet, and Breysig's time-medal win on Muswell Hill.
- 'Titnam' reports the N.Y. and N.J. inter-club road race won on points by the King's County Wheelmen (Valentine, Weber, Bridgman and Pettus) over the Elizabeth and Harlem wheelmen, Scorcher N. S. Gilson's winning debut in the three-mile handicap at the New York Athletic Club games, and the Morris and Essex Railroad's decision to carry wheels free.
- The Coventry Machinists Co. of Boston report that a young man giving the name F. B. Graham hired a 50-inch American Club bicycle, No. 34,801, on 26 May and never returned it, appending a full description of the machine.
- A digest of 'Faed's' article reconciling big- and small-wheel theories, arguing that the angle at which a rear-driving axle pushes the front-steering axle explains why Rover-pattern machines with small wheels bowl so lightly over obstructions.
- The Chicago letter records the collapse of the Mirror of American Sports under editor Mr. Cowles, the Chicago Club's weekly run and dinner at Fischers, the Owl Club's uniformed runs, and a meeting to square up the debts of the Chicago Bicycle Track Association.
- A touring tip reprinted from the Cyclist: a reader fitted leg rests made from an old coned pedal to the head of his machine so the handle-bars no longer cut into the legs when coasting.
- A list of recent bicycle and tricycle patents furnished by Boston patent solicitor Henry W. Williams, including velocipedes by A. W. McClure of Chicago, Star-type machines by D. H. Rice of Brookline and Charles S. Liddel of Morristown, and a luggage carrier by C. H. Ross of Albany.
- Harry Corey, the 'King of Hill Climbers', has ridden his bicyclette up the steeper Brighton side of Corey Hill, believed never before ridden, adding to his hill-climbing exploits on the Rudge.
- A column of gossip paragraphs: James Lennox started 7 June to break his own Land's End to John O'Groats record, Alfred Nixon is after the Land's End to London tricycle record, Rowe and Hendee are rumored inside 2.38 on the Lynn track, and the Montreal Meet on 1 July promises to be a 'busier'.
- A correspondence letter from J. Styles asking what the L.A.W. has ever done for New England, complaining of the Racing Board's rule enforcement and the Bulletin editor's abusive answers, and urging a compact New England or Massachusetts division governed by its own officers.
- Seven Albany Bicycle Club members riding the Boulevard were attacked by a driver named John Leddings, who tried to ride down Scattergood and Hall on their tandem and horsewhipped Scattergood; a club dispute between members and associates over the club's funds follows.
- The light column opens with the poem 'In Summer' on the wheelman's season of soda-water fountains and June bugs, then lists the season's fights — Ducker v. Bassett, Yale Bicycle Club v. Bassett, Pope v. Overman — and notes Corey's conquest of Corey Hill and Reilly's European touring party sailing 3 July.
- Notices include T. J. Kirkpatrick's new 1886 handbook of the Ohio Division of the L.A.W., with 150 pages of roads, hotels and records plus a large map for $1, and the Rudge Humber tandem's prospects for the coming year.
- The Newton Bicycle Club and the Nonantum Cycling Club will combine for their annual Antique and Horrible parade on 5 July, covering eight miles of Newton's roads in fancy dress before a breakfast at Newtonville.
- Racing notes cover the Yale College races (Rowe, Hendee, W. F. Knapp and Weber among the winners), the Wakefield Bicycle Club's first twenty-five-mile road race, record-breaking at the Gainsborough C.C. meet at Crystal Palace by Letchford and Speedily, E. Oxborrow's 2.57 mile on a Rover safety at Cardiff, and the Trojan Wheelmen's meet at Rensselaer Park.
- Club notes: the new Roxbury Bicycle Club organized with Dr. W. H. Emery as president, the Meriden Wheel Club's elections and twenty-mile championship road race to New Britain, the Boston Club house-hunting after its lease expired, and the Ramblers' sixty-four-mile run to the county line.
- A calendar of coming events, including the King's County Wheelmen's race meet in Brooklyn on 19 June, the Michigan L.A.W. Division meet at Detroit, the C.W.A. meeting at Montreal on 1 July, the L.A.W. tour from Rochester to Harpers Ferry, and the Newton Antique and Horrible parade.
- The photography column praises the pyro-potash developer over ammonia — greater power with under-exposure, reusable solutions and clean negatives — and gives Mr. Beach's two-solution formula with dilutions for over- and under-exposed plates.
- The official C.T.C. column from acting chief consul C. H. Potter lists the American state consuls and new membership applications, and U.S. Chief Consul Frank W. Weston issues an 'Amateur Question' notice warning members that the N.C.U./L.A.W. amateur definition still governs C.T.C. racers.