The Bicycling World, Vol 13, No 9
Articles in this issue
- The leader column notes James Lennox's Land's End to John o' Groats record of 885 miles in six days, eight and a half hours on an Ordinary, the Puritan-Mayflower yacht race at Marblehead, rowdies insulting ladies at the Reservoir, the looming Ducker-Bassett fight, Prince and company's conduct at Lynn, and Ducker's circular asking President Beckwith for a mail vote on dropping racing from the L.A.W. by-laws.
- The two editors take a day off from the Pope-Overman controversy and office chaos to ride out to Charles River Village, describing the peaceful countryside roads and the joy of escaping city turmoil.
- A column of one-line news items: two St. Louis tandem ladies near 400 miles for the year, Buffalo claims 400 wheelmen, H. S. Wood resigns his L.A.W. posts, G. H. Day will accompany Col. Pope abroad, George R. Thayer of Vernon, Conn. passes Council Bluffs 1,970 miles into his transcontinental ride, and Hendee, Knapp and Rowe post fast practice times at Lynn.
- Henry E. Ducker denies that the Massachusetts Chief Consulship is vacant, recounting his unanswered letters to President N. Malon Beckwith and quoting Beckwith's note that his resignation would be accepted; he leaves his case to the Division members.
- A comic dialect letter, 'Jonny to Willie', from the office boy at 22 School street, spoofing Abbot Bassett and Charlie's rage over a new low-priced rival paper and Johnny's 'training' as a pure amateur.
- Opens with the verse 'War' on the League-A.C.U. feud, then short notes: the New Orleans-to-Boston tourists wheeled 1,237 miles, A. P. Sturtevant rode Boston to Concord, N.H. in 8h 2m, F. S. Buckingham's 30 3/4-lb tricycle, Nixon's failed attempt on Lennox's End-to-End record, verification of Hollingsworth's 283 miles in 24 hours, and a $50 fine against J. F. Brown of St. Louis for running his team into a tricyclist.
- New York notes by 'Titnam': the Citizens' club's narrative log-book of tours, the State Division Board of Officers' meeting at the Grand Union Hotel with a Buffalo invitation for the annual meet, and A. B. Rich's reinstatement and four-mile championship of America win at Staten Island in 13.22.
- The Chicago Bicycling Club's new clubhouse scheme collapses after Mr. Bemis withdraws his $500 offer; the correspondent faults chairman Tom Miller and argues only R. P. Gormully, John C. Ellis or J. W. Spalding could carry the project.
- 'The Bard' reports the N.C.U. championships at Weston-super-Mare — Furnivall's easy one-mile tricycle win and Fenlon's 25-mile victory over R. H. English and Gatehouse — plus London gossip on the 'Spoof' craze, makers' amateurism resignations, and James Lennox's storm-battered Land's End to John o' Groats record on a Humber.
- At the Connecticut Division annual meeting in Hartford, Chief Consul C. G. Huntington's report attacks the National Racing Board as unreasonable, and the 500-member division votes to formally demand from Secretary Aaron the money owed it by the League.
- Clippings and paragraphs: a Sydney subscriber's reminiscence of the late Cortis, P. C. Darrow's eighteen-day Boston-to-Indianapolis ride on an Expert Columbia, R. Howell's plan to ride twenty miles in the hour on a Rudge Crescent tricycle, and jokes from Tid Bits and the Fort Plain Free Press.
- Three letters: W. J. Morgan's 'A Plea for Professionals' defending horse-versus-bicycle matches for champions John S. Prince and T. W. Eck; Stephen Terry on the Connecticut Bicycle Club's vote to leave the L.A.W.; and Henry E. Ducker's 'The Difference', contrasting expense-paid 'pure amateurs' like Bassett and Beckwith with expelled racing men.
- The Michigan Division's fourth annual meet at Detroit's new Bicycle Park, where Van Sicklen beat Keyes in the ten-mile championship in 36.21 1/2; the Rhode Island 25-mile road race down the Warren road won by James Dawson of Pawtucket on a Star; and the fiasco at Lynn where Prince and Neilson refused to race before a hundred spectators.
- The annual tour route starting 5 July is changed to avoid New Jersey, running Canandaigua-Watkins Glen-Elmira to Stroudsburg and Philadelphia, then by steamer down Chesapeake Bay to Old Point Comfort, Luray Caverns and Harper's Ferry.
- Calendar of July events, including the Lynn races under A.C.U. rules, the Springfield Bicycle Club 20-mile road race, the Illinois Division meet in Chicago, the L.A.W. tour from Rochester to Harper's Ferry, and Elwell's Blue Nose tour down the St. John River.
- Acting Chief Consul C. H. Potter of Cleveland publishes provisional membership applications, including Frederick D. Owen of Washington and Rev. Wayland Hoyt of Philadelphia, and announces copies of the 1886 Hand-Book at thirty-five cents.