The Bicycling World, Vol 13, No 8
Articles in this issue
- After nearly three years of costly litigation involving seventeen patents, Pope Manufacturing Company and Overman Wheel Company have reached a court-sanctioned settlement, described as 'the Treaty of Springfield.'
- Unheaded leader paragraphs press Secretary Aaron for an explanation of the L.A.W. election farce, report that the English publishers will not supply the called-for book 'Cortis on Training,' mock the School street Clipper's 'clip and no credit' journalism, and argue the Racing Board's suspensions are within the letter but against the spirit of the amateur law.
- A despatch from Teheran to the editor of Outing reports that Thomas Stevens, riding around the world, was arrested by Afghans near Farrar between Herat and Kandahar, held nineteen days, and returned to Meshed, whence he will resume his journey to India via Constantinople.
- M. F. Robinson's letter describes S. P. Hollingsworth's 282-mile 24-hour ride at Greenfield, Indiana, with Jamison of the Indianapolis Club pacing an 1.11 mile and Smith bringing him in 'rested' at an eleven-mile-an-hour clip.
- A column of rumor squibs: the Yale Club claims $250 lost through the Racing Board chairman's action, George Hendee is training for the 5 July Springfield races, Rowe rode ten miles in 29.18, the Hartford Courant hints the Hartford Club may quit the League, and Kluge is still on crutches after his Lynn fall.
- 'Ixion' follows the twenty-four starters of the inter-club team road race over the Irvington-Hilton macadam from the rear saddle of a tandem: Valentine of the Kings County Wheelmen wins in 1.41.05 from Steuken of the Hudson County Wheelmen, and the K.C.W. take the challenge cup with Elizabeth second.
- Racing Board notices expel John Illston of Hartford as a professional and suspend fifteen riders, including A. B. Rich and E. A. DeBlois, for the New Haven races; the World shows Chairman Bassett's 16 June reply to J. S. Dean flatly contradicts his own notices dated 13 June.
- Boston's Institute Fair Building has burned to the ground with loss of life; the World recalls the Prince-Keen matches, Lewis Frye's forfeited amateur status, 'London W.'s' famous handicapping, and Ralph Ahl's first sub-three-minute mile ridden there.
- 'Titnam' reports on the Kings County Wheelmen's meet, where Pope Cup hero A. B. Rich received an ovation and 'Peg' Gilson showed well, notes the Ixions' coming road race to Yonkers, and laments that the K.C.W.-Elizabeth inter-club race of 3 July has been declared off.
- 'Philo' describes the Cheltenham Beach exposition and its fast board track praised by Captain Van Sicklen, Mr. Bemis of the Richelieu Hotel backing a Chicago club house with a $600 subscription list, and the committee under T. C. Miller with Messrs Gormully, Durell, Ayres, Maynard and Andrews.
- In the Correspondence department, Henry Ducker rebuts the Cycle's charge that the A.C.U. antagonizes the League, citing Chief Consuls Huntington and Johnson and the Springfield Bicycle Club, and warns Bassett he 'will need many years to his life to extinguish Ducker.'
- Club notes: the Rockingham Bicycle Club hosts the New Hampshire Division meet at Portsmouth on 5 July with a steamboat ride down the Piscataqua; the Florence (Mass.) Cycle Club votes attendance prizes; officer elections at Schenectady, Winona, Rochester and the Capital Bi. Club; and the Suffolk Wheel Club's North Shore tour programme.
- Racing Mems account of the 17 June Lynn meeting: Rowe takes the mile open in 2.37 2-5, Hendee the three-mile lap race, Eck lowers the professional quarter-mile tricycle record to 42 2-5, and Prince beats Neilson and Woodside in a thirty-lap ten-mile professional sweepstake in 30.08 1-5.
- At the Kings County Wheelmen's fourth annual race meeting at the Brooklyn Athletic Association grounds on 19 June, A. B. Rich wins the two-mile and three-mile handicaps from scratch and the five-mile New York State championship; the Binghamton Bicycle Club's 5 July race programme is appended.
- The C.T.C.'s American column under Acting Chief Consul C. H. Potter of Cleveland lists the State consuls from Connecticut to Wyoming Territory and the provisionally elected applicants for membership.