The Bicycling World, Vol 17, No 11
Articles in this issue
- Leaders by C. W. Fourdrinier and J. S. Dean announcing the World's hundred-mile road race at Buffalo for 7 September, condemning the unfenced English tracks that left S. G. Whittaker with a broken collar bone and Fred Wood shaken after the twenty-mile race at Leicester, and answering Bicycling News over W. A. Rowe's claimed thirty-three-second quarter on the Coventry track.
- Joseph M. Chase of Washington, D. C., who rode a horse over Prof. E. A. Paul in March, was convicted of manslaughter on 5 July after the jury deliberated an hour; Judge Montgomery told them the question was whether Chase's gait was prudent or reckless, and a new trial has been moved for.
- Fifteen friends — E. C. Hodges, F. W. "Papa" Weston, W. B. Everett, Dr. W. G. Kendall and others — dined co-editor J. S. Dean at the Hotel Victoria, Boston, on the eve of his departure for Europe, from which he will not return until the fall.
- "Wing Foot" on H. J. Hall, Jr. and Wilson being fouled and then ruled out of the Central New York championship at Herkimer; June mileages from the Brooklyn, Kings County and Long Island clubs (W. C. Murphy over 900 miles, L. W. Wise 709); and the Mercury Wheel Club's reception at the Flushing Athletic Club on 21 July.
- "Ariel" argues Pennsylvania got no League offices at Baltimore because it nominated nobody and sent barely a representative besides Chief Consul Jessup; also Captain W. D. Supplee and ex-Captain C. A. Roberts's two-week tour to Lake Erie, and the burial of the undefeated racing man S. M. Gideon.
- "Ratchet" follows Newark's Lewis N. Thorne, H. D. McCormick and Edgar P. Harrison on a fortnight's run to Portland, Kennebunkport and Hartford, warns that Eagle Rock's upper section is too rough for record attempts, and describes six Orange Wanderers circling Staten Island on the Fourth.
- "Vernon" previews the Caledonian Club games of 25 July at the Driving Park, where Governor A. R. McGill's gold medal goes to the five-mile winner, reports Charles Wicht's win over Fred Bowers in the millers' picnic two-mile, and notes the marriage of Miss Lilla Youmans of Winona, the state's only L. A. W. lady member.
- "Mentor" describes about a hundred wheelmen from St. Joseph, Topeka, Kansas City and Leavenworth keeping the Fourth as guests of the Leavenworth County Wheelmen — dinner at the Planters' house, a run to the Soldiers' Home, Ned Jewett's win in a scratch 300-yard dash, and the Topeka Flambeau Club's pyrotechnic parade.
- "Mentor" lists the United Wheelmen who rode to Leavenworth under Captain Nelson T. Haynes with Chinese parasols against the heat, complains of the nondescript dress seen at meets, and announces the club's new rooms in the Horton block on Central Street.
- "Linneus" reports twenty-five local wheelmen racing at Bowling Green, Mo. on 4 July (Mehlig first in the five-mile, Percy Stone in the one-mile), Stone going into training for the Buffalo tournament, and W. E. Hicks's resignation from the Post-Dispatch wheel column.
- "The Jottist" expects Prince Wells and J. H. Shurman on Corey Hill on Saturday, reports the Maine Division saving to publish a state road book, the Rhode Island Division amending its by-laws to the new national constitution, and a proposed Holyoke-to-Northampton cinder path.
- Paragraphs on W. E. Hicks's call at the office and the hoodlumism at the League meet, C. C. Hopkins wheeling from Denver to Buffalo, Geo. M. Hendee engaged as starter for the Buffalo tournament, Buffalo's nineteen-member Ladies Tricycle Club, and the Chicago Bicycle Club's new fifty-cent road book for the Chicago, Milwaukee and Peoria districts.
- Some thirty employees of the John P. Lovell Arms Company were entertained at William Crawford's Melrose residence, where Geo. Harvey won the mile-and-a-half road race final in 5.03 from D. R. Harvey and J. F. Higgins took the slow race.
- A cablegram to the Boston Herald reports Temple of Chicago winning the half-mile at the Scheningen tournament near The Hague in 1m. 28 1-2s. from Allard of England, and making a dead heat with Woodside of Philadelphia in the professional 5000 metres.
- About 200 visiting wheelmen at Springfield, Ill. on 3 July saw Bert Myers of Peoria take the mile dash in 3.20 1-5, A. J. Street of Chicago the five-eighths handicap and the slow race, and George Thorn the three-mile safety, followed by a lantern parade lit with colored fire.
- Henry Campbell rode a Star safety up College hill four times without a dismount, going up in a straight line and coming down with ease, and was in condition for another trip; the paper prints the hill's grades over its 620-foot length.
- R. T. Patten won the Maine championship mile easily in 3.55 on the Fourth, keeping the Elmwood champion belt for the Skowhegan Bicycle Club, while William Podfish of North Anson took the Somerset County half-mile in 1.43 from Herbert L. Sawyer.
- "Ariel" makes E. I. Halsted the best man in the state after his quarter-mile State championship at New Castle and his Lancaster win over Wilhelm of Reading, explains Halsted's Wilmington loss to Schwartz on clay clogged between the forks, and reports the Tioga Athletic Association's new Westmoreland grounds opening.
- Brooklyn Bicycle Club members marked the Fourth with five-mile road races on the Jerico Pike, W. F. Class taking the novice in 20.44 and J. W. Schoefer the club championship in 18.34; at the Queens track that afternoon Schoefer added the two-mile handicap, the club mile and the three-mile open.
- In the Cincinnati Wheelmen's seventeen-mile handicap road race from Chester Park to the Hamilton toll-gate on 2 July, eighteen-year-old Bryson Burroughs came from scratch to win in 1h. 10m. 3s., passing eight men after the Glendale hill, with Greenwood second and H. Croninger third.
- The Pittsburg Cycle and Athletic Club's opening meet on 7 July went to Wilhelm in the half-mile and mile open and to F. G. Lenz in the 1.30 and 3.20 classes and the two-mile handicap, beating both Bankers; "Duquesne" also notes Rhodes shelved with rheumatism and W. W. Windle's fall.
- J. B. Kalcher of Pittsburgh offers a gold medal to the first man to climb "Murder Lane" in Sewickly, barring the Star which has already done it; the printed grades make the lane's average 1 in 9.7, steeper than Corey Hill, Son-of-a-Gun, Fords Hill or Ross Hill.
- A thousand people watched the Fourth of July races, Wakefield taking the one-mile handicap in 3.16 2-5 and the two-mile time handicap, Hills winning the East Hartford mile on a Champion light roadster, and H. E. Bidwell the half-mile handicap from scratch; a collation at Wells Hall followed.
- Rain wrecked the New Castle meet: W. I. Wilhelm won the morning Jefferson street hill-climb and also surmounted the never-climbed Mercer street, Halsted took the quarter-mile State championship in 40 3-5s., and the rest was postponed to around the Buffalo meet; W. W. Windle was hurt in a practice collision with Midgley.
- At the Canadian Wheelmen's Association annual meet at Belleville, Ont., some 300 visitors paraded 250 wheels before 4,000 people; Fred Foster of Toronto took the one-mile and five-mile championships of Canada and lowered the Canadian tricycle record to 3.18 4-5, and W. P. Way was elected president.
- Herkimer County's first bicycle meet drew 1,000 spectators to the Driving Park; the Fort Schuyler Wheelmen of Utica took the Pope Mfg. Co. parade cup, C. H. Metz won the Central New York championship mile in 3.04 1-2, and T. L. Willson of Brooklyn escaped with bruises after losing a pedal in the three-mile dash.
- John Rivard of East Saginaw won the mile open in 3.02 and set the pace that took the ten-mile team race and the State championship from Detroit for the third consecutive time; E. R. Pratt of Flint won the novice and the 3.20 class.
- A correction to the previous issue: the Ohio Division L. A. W. meet is at Toledo, not Cleveland as printed.
- P. M. Harris rode Washington's Stand Pipe Hill eight times up and down without dismounting on a Springfield Roadster on 6 June; the World asks Washington readers for the hill's grade and wonders how long the record will stand against Wells, Shurman, Worden and Harradon.
- Jno. G. Fuller writes to correct the issue of 29 June: the fastest mile on the University of Pennsylvania track is E. I. Halsted's 2.50 in practice about mid-May, not Stenken's 2.51 3-5, and Fuller was one of the two timers.
- Edward J. Shriver explains his vote against the new League constitution at Baltimore: twenty-four divisions with 308 members are left disfranchised, small divisions are represented only by Chief Consuls, and the delegated-choice system will let a clique in a big division outweigh unanimous smaller ones.
- C. C. Hopkins recounts 1,008 miles in fourteen riding days: leaving Denver on 3 June with J. L. Gard along the Kansas Pacific, walking 18 of the first 56 miles into a head wind, finding the finest road between Collier and Wilson, Kansas, then riding Peoria to Columbus over what he calls thoroughly bad Illinois roads.
- Trade column on the Apollo's win at Memphis, W. B. Everett & Co. catching up on safety orders, the Trigwell ball head on the New Mail from William Read & Sons, Cushman & Denison's leak-proof pocket oiler, the Kirkpatrick saddle on the Columbia "Veloce," and 108 Singer safeties landed between 15 June and 4 July.
- Fixture list from Shurman and Wells on Corey Hill on 14 July and the Wells-Greenwood Eagle Rock hill-climb on 28 July through the Massachusetts Division meet at Cottage City and the Buffalo national, state and world's professional championship contests of 4-8 September.
- President T. J. Kirkpatrick names the year's National Committees: Membership (G. Carlton Brown, Chas. S. Davol, Frank C. Blodgett), Rights and Privileges (Chas. S. Luscomb, J. S. Dean, A. Moore Berry), Rules and Regulations (Wm. H. Emery, W. W. Share, Henry Crowther), Improvement of Highways (Stephen Terry, Chas. S. Butler, H. S. Livingston), Racing (Gerry Jones, Geo. S. Atwater, George Collister) and Transportation under Burley B. Ayers of Chicago.
- The Cambridge Bicycle Club, through Secretary Geo. A. Nash, nominates H. W. Hayes of Cambridge for Chief Consul, Sanford Lawton of Springfield for Vice Consul, Abbot Bassett of Newton and J. H. Grimes of Somerville as District 2 Representatives, and Dr. W. H. Emery of Boston for Secretary-Treasurer.
- Chief Consul Chas. S. Davol announces that under the new Article IX., added July 7th, the Rhode Island Division will elect by mail vote between July 15th and August 15th, with Geo. L. Cooke of Providence, Chas. W. Greene of Warren and A. W. Howland of E. Greenwich appointed to receive and count the ballots.
- L. A. W. No. 1614 asks readers for the best wheeling route from Chicago to Detroit in August, and whether to cross into Canada by Toronto or keep south of the Lakes by Buffalo and Syracuse.
- H. G. Woodrow of Ada, Ohio, invites riders to join him on a tour from Detroit through Canada and New York to the Atlantic coast, returning by the Old National Road to Cincinnati, leaving Detroit July 23.
- Chief Consul James R. Dunn calls the annual meeting of the Ohio Division for Memorial Hall, Toledo, at ten o'clock on July 23d, and announces the appointment of A. E. Mergenthaler as Representative for the 2d District vice R. B. Cary, resigned.
- Chief Consul J. H. Cooley appoints Thomas S. Burr of Plainfield chairman, with L. H. Porter and E. W. Johnson, to make up the ticket, nominations to reach Burr on or before July 20th.
- The Cottage City, Martha's Vineyard meet of 2-4 August: business meeting in the Town Hall, a clam bake at Mattakeeset Lodge, a parade for the Martha's Vineyard Club's banner, five amateur races round Ocean Park, the Gay Head excursion on the "Island Home," plus Old Colony R. R. fares and hotel rates.
- Chief Consul Geo. R. Bidwell reproduces the circular issued by the L. A. W. Executive Committee under date March 15th in order to explain his action to New York members.
- Chief Consul J. Fred Probst tells Indiana Division members that the new L. A. W. Constitution ratified at Baltimore forces an election between 15 July and 15 August, so he temporarily adopts the California election laws with two changes - ballots to Secretary-Treasurer Josh Zimmerman at 139 S. Alabama street, Indianapolis, and only one Representative for the Division.
- List 147, 95 names bringing League membership to 10,490, published under Article III with the two-week protest period; also the Executive Committee's appeal for a popular subscription of at least fifty cents per capita to clear the League's inherited debt.