The Bicycling World, Vol 17, No 10
Articles in this issue
- Five leaders: the mixed mounts met in Boston's suburbs (two tandems, two rear-driving safeties, a Star, a Springfield Roadster); a policeman in the Arnold Arboretum ordering a coaster to keep his feet on the pedals; English records claimed on Harry Sturmey's timing and S. Golder's lap scoring; the vulgar conduct of guests at the Massachusetts Division officers' dinner; and Sunday racing in the South and West.
- F. W. Pope reports the L.A.W. Entertainment Fund prize drawing held 20 June aboard the steamer Columbia returning from Bay Ridge, witnessed by President Kirkpatrick, Abbot Bassett and others; receipts of $1,951 caused the ninth to twelfth prizes to be withdrawn, leaving eight worth $1,390 headed by a $250 Quadrant Tandem to receipt 917.
- "Senator" writes from Berlin: Temple beat Fred Wood, Lees and Robb in all three races at Dublin, then upset the 2000- and 3000-metre records at the Berlin tournament, riding the latter in 5m 10s before 20,000 spectators. He describes T. H. S. Walker of Der Radfahrer, Berlin's ban on street bicycling, and the German amateur Lehir of Frankfort, who whipped Crist of Washington before crashing into a beer barrel.
- "The Jottist" reports Rowe has discarded his sling and is pedalling a tricycle while training for autumn races against Howell at Buffalo; Midgley and McCune train on the Lynn track; H. C. Backus alone climbed New Haven's Highland Street Hill on a 51-inch Star; and Worden's "Springfield Roadster Combination" conquered Mt. Vernon at Gloucester on the eighth attempt.
- Fred Foster of Toronto took the Canadian mile tricycle record in 3.18 4-5, still far off Gatehouse's 2.41 3-5; Temple wants a match with Howell for £100 a side; Rochester wheelmen paraded three or four hundred lanterned wheels on the Fourth; and the rumour that Hendee had been reinstated is denied.
- "Wing Foot" on the Brooklyn Bicycle Club's six-mile afternoon parade, which drew only 130 riders — 60 of the B.B.C., 30 of the K.C.W. and Brooklyn's one lady bicyclist — led by pacemakers Neal and Ackerson and a bugler of the 12th Regiment; also Capt. Clarke's 431 miles for June and G. M. Nisbett's 1,059, probably the United States record.
- "Jack" drops a braid-and-epaulets French rider on the Ripley road, argues that women are handicapped by dress and by heavy machines such as a 112-pound Salvo and an old Coventry Rotary while praising Mrs. Smith's style, praises the "Anchor" at Ripley, settles scores with "Chesterfield" and the Scottish Cyclist, and welcomes nine new L.A.W. members at Greenville, Mississippi.
- "Linneus" reports the first of the hill-climbing series between Hal Greenwood and Jno. A. Wells on Kimmswick Hill, Missouri: Wells broke a strap on his Star halfway up his first attempt and finished his second in 6m 4s, while Greenwood, hampered by his string foot brake, won by 12 seconds before about 25 Missouri and Cycle Club men.
- Mart Dow of Waterville won the half-mile bicycle race for a $40 purse at Capitol Park on 4 July in 1 minute 45 seconds, beating Harry Stone and Charles Clark of Augusta.
- A cablegram to the Globe reports Temple recovered enough from his accident to start at Amsterdam but forced to stop by the pain; Allard won with Woodside a good second.
- The club's antique and horrible parade on the Fourth drew cyclers from Boston and the surrounding suburbs, the costumes representing the feminine portion of creation proving the funniest.
- The Springfield wheelmen's twenty-mile Fourth of July road race to Suffield and back failed to beat Eldred's record of 1 hour 19 minutes 50 seconds, but George Thomas won in 1 hour 27 1-2 minutes.
- The club spent the Fourth on runs to Brookline and Hyde Park, then held a three-mile road race in which E. C. Chase caught and beat Walker's thirty-second start; illuminations and fireworks at the club house closed the day.
- Over a rough track on Lynn Common on 4 July, Buttrick won the one-mile novice from Stevens and Nightingale took the one-mile open and both two-mile handicaps from scratch; five races produced seven headers.
- At the Cincinnati Ball Park, Levi of the Centrals won the half-mile ordinary in 1:26, six inches ahead of Perin of the Kentons, while T. J. Craighead of the Kentons won the half-mile safety race on a Star in 1.33 1-3 from Charles Hanauer.
- C. F. Crandon won the one-mile novice on 4 July and C. H. Roberts the championship of Chelsea; in the mile lap race L. F. White, C. G. Bernard and Roberts took headers abreast near the finish, and a boys' velocipede race closed the programme.
- F. W. Smith won the five-mile race in 17m 20s, the quarter-mile without hands in 45s and the one-mile run-and-ride at the city council's Fourth of July races; Charles R. Chance took the half-mile novice, and the South-enders beat the North-enders 19 to 17 in the team race.
- The Rhode Island Division moved its third annual twenty-five mile race from the road to the Roger Williams Park track, where W. A. M. Scott of Providence won on a Victor Light Roadster in 1.24.30 from Van Wagoner of Newport on a 51-inch Star and B. Tailor Bruce on a Victor safety.
- Over 7,000 spectators watched the Fourth of July races on a poor track: J. P. Clarke won the mile novice, David Drummond the two- and three-mile amateur events, and Berlo the two-mile lap race with 27 points, while Berlo and Caldwell both took bad falls.
- Harry C. Cummins, secretary of the Bay City Wheelmen, challenges the San Francisco Bicycle Club to a club road race over the Oakland-to-San Jose ground, teams of five to twenty-five men, over the disputed best time.
- Chas. A. Stenken of Jersey City writes that he did not receive 17 seconds in the 2-mile safety race: he was scratch man and gave Midgley 3 seconds, but through Van Sicklen's ignorance was held back 17 seconds despite protesting.
- P. M. Harris of Washington offers to meet John A. Wells in a road scorch, in difficult road riding or on the track, his Springfield Roadster against Wells's Star, provided the Star weighs the same forty-three pounds; the editor notes Wells has ridden rather than written any "effusions."
- Secretary H. H. Smith announces the Hartford Wheel Club's two-day tournament at Charter Oak Park on 12-13 September, with $2,500 in purses and prizes, the one-mile professional championship of America and the state championships, and a new hotel opposite the park for trainers.
- The division board of officers met at the Point of Pines under Chief Consul H. W. Hayes, amended the constitution to conform to the national body, fixed elections between 15 July and 15 August, and voted to hold the annual meeting at Cottage City on 2-4 August, with Kendall and Robinson on arrangements.
- "N. L. C." argues that fourteen and a half miles of Jersey sand and rutted clay on Route 49 cut Washington off from eastern cycling — only 400 of 3,000 Baltimore meet visitors came over, and none by wheel — and urges Chief Consuls Mealy and Atwater to appoint a conference committee to rebuild the Columbia-to-Clarksville stretch.
- A corrected programme for the division meet of 23-25 July: business meeting, League picture and parade, a Toledo Cycling Club entertainment at Presque Isle Park, a special train to Ann Arbor for a hill-climbing contest and a go-as-you-please to Ypsilanti, then a wheel to Detroit and return on the steamer Greyhound.
- John Lee Font of Martinsburg corrects the World: cyclists have paid a cent a mile for over twelve months on the M. & W. turnpike between Martinsburg and Winchester, half the buggy rate, and he asks why the paper has no correspondent in the Cumberland Valley, where Chambersburg and Hagerstown have thriving clubs.
- Fixture list from Shurman and Wells on Corey Hill (14 July) and the Iowa Division tour to Spirit Lake through the Massachusetts Division Meet at Cottage City and the Buffalo national, state and world's professional championship contests of 4-8 September.
- J. G. Carpenter publishes List No. 1 of L.A.W. hotels for Pennsylvania with day, meal and lodging rates, from the Alden at Alden Station and the Allen at Allentown to the National at Mt. Pleasant.
- Chief Consul H. W. Hayes gives the Committee on Rights and Privileges' district representation — four for Norfolk and Suffolk, two for Middlesex, one each for the rest — and requires nominations to reach Sanford Lawton at Springfield by 15 July, endorsed by ten members.
- Chief Consul Geo. C. Clarke appoints the Foster House of Natchez and the St. Charles Hotel of Greenville as League hotels at reduced rates, with R. H. Washington local consul for Greenville and Phil. M. Essig for Natchez.
- Chief Consul F. N. Clarke appoints Frank S. Spofford local consul at Kearney, Neb.
- J. H. Johnson's Consul List No. 2 names consuls at Allegan, Adrian, Holly, Howell, Iron Mountain and Unionville, repair shops at Coldwater and Grand Rapids, hotels at Amherstburg, Detroit and Newaygo, and G. W. Eddy as chairman of the Division Racing Board vice Ely.
- Chief Consul A. E. Mealy calls a special meeting at the Maryland Bi. Club House on Mt. Royal Avenue for 10 July to nominate the official ticket — chief consul, vice consul, secretary-treasurer and four representatives — and to hear the League Meet Committee's report.
- Gerry Jones, chairman of the Racing Board, announces the appointment of F. P. Prial of New York City as Official Handicapper of the League.
- List 146 — 103 names bringing the League to 10,395 — printed by division from California and Delaware to Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin, with club, address and membership number, together with the constitutional article governing admission.