The Bicycling World, Vol 17, No 12
Articles in this issue
- Editors C. W. Fourdrinier and J. S. Dean rebut the American Athlete's attack on L. A. W. President Kirkpatrick over the Baltimore meet and the Bay Ridge supper, and reprint Bicycling News's grudging acceptance of W. A. Rowe's Springfield records.
- "Wing Foot" reports I. L. Sawtelle of Wellington, Ohio touring Cleveland–Buffalo–Albany–New York on a Star, the Manhattan Bi. Club's anniversary reception on West 50th Street, the Riverside Wheelmen's growth to nearly 40, and Monell and Kreger's centuries to Patchogue.
- "Vernon" describes the Minneapolis Bicycle Club's fourteen-mile Thursday run to Diamond and Pearl Lakes and the new Lake Harriet pavilion, C. R. Aldrich and Geo. Bartlett's spill from a Rudge tandem on Nicollett avenue, and training for the 25 July races.
- "The Jottist" notes the Cambridgeport Bicycling Club's fifteen-day cruise on the schooner Fleur-de-Lis to Grand Manan, Digby, St. John, Mt. Desert and Vinal Haven, and the Springfield Bicycle Club's newly organized eight-piece orchestra.
- Paragraph news: colored caps instead of numbers at Ducker's Buffalo tournament, a 108-mile straightaway ride by Jo. Northern, James Lillie, Ed. D. Fisher and C. R. Vanderford of Nashville, Chase's thirty days and $200 for running down Prof. Paul, and brick-and-cinder track building at Scheveningen and Amsterdam.
- F. S. Robinson writes from Sydney that the New South Wales Cycling Union's strict amateur rules are damaging the sport, names H. Bassett of Melbourne as Australia's only genuine maker, and reports his profitable six-day race in Melbourne and L. E. Myers's benefit.
- John A. Wells of Philadelphia answers Harris's challenge, offering to ride a Quadrant tricycle against the Springfield Roadster over a ten-mile stretch of the Lancaster pike, the loser to give the winner a $50 gold medal.
- L. A. W. No. 770 blames President Kirkpatrick for refusing to address President Cleveland during the League's Washington visit, and reveals he stayed away from the capital after Treasurer Brewster was insulted returning from the Bay Ridge excursion.
- The Courier-Journal's account of about twenty-five riders, marshalled by Chief Consul J. Fred Probst of Terre Haute and Captain George P. Davis of Rushville, riding Indianapolis–Rushville–Cincinnati–Blue Lick–Lexington–Bardstown into Louisville, 8–15 July.
- At Leicester, England, on 14 July, Crocker lost a twenty-five-mile match race to Fred Wood by about two feet.
- At Leicester Knapp cut the professional 30-mile record by 1m. 5s., the 50-mile by 8m. and the 100-mile by 41m., though his hundred miles was still 5m. 15 3-5s. slower than the best amateur figure.
- "Ariel" reports Louis Hill and John Fuller on an Ivel tandem covering the ten-mile Wayne Hill to toll-gate course in 30.44 2-5, paced by Minger, McClosky and Liesen, while Jno. A. Wells's racing Quadrant tricycle beat Kluge's American record of 36.59 2-5 by 26 seconds.
- At Amsterdam on 14 July, Temple, Woodside and Allard beat the horseback rider Bellow, riding twenty-five miles in 1h. 15m. 50 2-5s. to his twenty-two; the horse fell and slightly injured its rider.
- E. I. Halstead of the Pennsylvania Bicycle Club took four firsts at the Cape May races, beating Howell, Lamb and Young, with 1.41 for the half-mile, 3.29 for the mile and 12.10 for the three-mile lap race.
- Hill and Fuller's Ivel tandem took the five-mile Lancaster pike record in 15.22 and Wells's Quadrant went the distance in 18.01; an editorial note rules the tandem marks stand only as tandem-bicycle records.
- Detroit Bicycle Club races of 14 July: A. F. Peck won the slow race and the team mile, W. K. Bush the quarter-mile hurdle, C. H. Smith the coasting contest and C. A. Lightner the four-minute race.
- The tied "Alphabetical" Decoration Day road race between the Kings County and Hudson County Wheelmen was rerun over the Milburn course, H. J. Hall finishing first in 1h. 36m. and Stenken of the Hudsons failing to finish.
- At the meeting of 15 July the Eastern Road Club elected W. A. Seward president, E. R. Pillsbury vice-president and Willard H. Forbes secretary-treasurer, and empowered the executive committee to arrange September and October runs.
- The Manchester (N. H.) club's annual handicap over the 6 11-16-mile East Manchester course fell to A. E. Eastman off three minutes, while Jno. E. Newton cut his own course record to 33m. 46s. and won a pair of bicycle shoes.
- The World announces its 100-mile annual road race for 7 September, amateurs only, over New York road-book route 56 from Erie, Pa. through Ripley, Fredonia and Silver Creek to Buffalo; entries $1 to H. E. Ducker.
- J. Harry Shurman climbed Corey Hill ten times on a Springfield Roadster in 1h. 15m. 16 2-5s. before a stone threw him on the eleventh, while Jno. A. Wells failed to appear for the agreed hill-climbing comparison, disappointing 400 to 500 wheelmen.
- Programme and $2500 prize list for the two-day Hartford meet of 12–13 September, headed by the one-mile professional championship of America and open amateur bicycle, tricycle and rear-driving safety races.
- Nearly three hundred wheelmen paraded at Stockton for the California Division's third annual meet, where F. D. Elwell of the Bay City Wheelmen beat W. G. Davis for the one-mile State championship in 2.48 1-2 and took the five-mile L. A. W. national championship, with coast records to A. W. Allen and A. S. Ireland.
- A cable to the Record reports the English Government's acceptance of an amendment to the local government bill taxing each wheel two shillings and sixpence, an outrage to owners since carriages are exempt.
- Programme for the Binghamton tournament of 2 August: cinder-path ride, parade, opera house entertainment and fourteen events including a one-mile L. A. W. State championship, a one-mile Rover type race and three Von Blumen–Oaks half-mile heats.
- Preamble and resolutions protesting Judge Montgomery's sentence of one month's imprisonment and $200 on Chase, convicted of manslaughter for killing Prof. Paul, as inadequate to deter reckless driving.
- L. A. W. 16827 details 250 miles of Kansas road by way of Williamsburg, Emporia, Strong City, Elmdale, Marion, Hillsboro, McPherson and Lyons, with hotel rates, the hilly Emporia road and three miles of sand at Ellenwood.
- Charles W. Hartung in the Cyclist weighs the Alliance Aluminium Company's £500,000 prospectus and concludes pure aluminium is unfit for tubing, felloes or spokes and aluminium bronze weighs as much as steel, so Hermann Vezin's ten-pound safety must be abandoned.
- Trade paragraphs on the Pope Mfg. Co.'s new Surprise tricycle, the Warwick Cycle Company beginning the Warwick Perfection, the Coventry Machinists' Swift safety tandem, the Gormully & Jeffery Challenge tandem, and Elliott and Jefferis's Wilmington–Philadelphia century.
- Fixture list from the Ohio Division meet at Toledo (23–25 July) and the Wells–Greenwood Eagle Rock hill climb through the Buffalo national and world's championships and the Bicycling World's 100-mile Erie-to-Buffalo road race on 7 September.
- League Headquarters have moved to 12 Pearl street, Room 27, the same building as the office of the Bicycling World Co.
- B. B. Ayers of Chicago submits nominations for the Illinois Division - Edwin Oliver of Chicago for Chief Consul, Chas. Hinsel of Springfield for Vice Consul and Thos. F. Sheridan of Springfield for Secretary-Treasurer - chosen to help secure passage of a Liberty Bill at the next session of the Legislature.
- The Holyoke (Mass.) Bicycle Club adopts resolutions of sympathy on the death of E. H. Meader, its Secretary-Treasurer and L. A. W. Representative, signed by W. W. Carl, Sec. and Treas.
- Notice of the Great Industrial Exposition of Virginia at Richmond from October 3d, with a new half-mile track and prizes arranged through Director General Jones, and of the Third Annual Meet of the Virginia Division called for October 23d and 24th at Richmond by J. C. Carroll, C. C., with the Old Dominion Wheelmen hosting and details from Secretary-Treasurer Schaap, 617 Broad street.
- A meeting at the Missouri Bicycle Club house on Wednesday, July 11th, nominated W. M. Brewster for Chief Consul, F. J. Suda for Vice Consul, J. A. Lewis for Secretary-Treasurer and Geo. W. Boswell, Geo. A. Case and H. G. Stuart as Representatives, and named the Rights and Privileges, Touring and Racing committees.
- Sanford Lawton tells members of the 2d District, Massachusetts Division, that he cannot accept nomination for Vice Consul and asks that they cast their ballots for Dr. W. H. Emery.
- A special meeting of the Maryland Division at the Maryland Bicycle Club on Tuesday, July 10th, with Chief Consul Mealy in the chair and 50 members present, appointed a committee of five on Mr. Bartlett's motion to nominate candidates for Chief Consul, Vice Consul and Secretary-Treasurer.
- The Alameda Scorchers, Outing Cycling Club, Ariel Bicycle Club and San Francisco Bicycle Club jointly nominate Harrison Houseworth of San Francisco for Chief Consul, J. Phil. Percival of the Los Angeles Wheelmen for Vice Consul, A. S. Ireland for Secretary-Treasurer and J. D. Arkison, H. G. Toll and Geo. H. Frost as Representatives, ballots to go to Norval A. Robinson at the S. F. Stock Exchange before 15 July 1888.
- Chief Consul J. H. Johnson promulgates the Michigan Division's election rules under Section 5 of its Constitution: voting blanks mailed by 15 July, signed ballots returned by 15 August and counted by a Returning Board, League clubs of twenty or more electing their own Representatives, and the poll list closing with the applications published in the Bulletin of 27 July.
- Chief Consul Francis Bloodgood, Jr. and Secretary-Treasurer Jay A. Hinman set out the Wisconsin mail ballot: a blank printed in the L. A. W. Pointer during July, signed ballots sent to Hinman at Huggins House, Racine, none counted after the first postal delivery of Friday morning 20 July, and the votes opened before three members named by the Chief Consul at the Division meeting.
- The Old Dominion Wheelmen of Richmond, through Secretary E. Burnett, nominate J. C. Carroll of Norfolk for Chief Consul and A. K. Schaap of Richmond for Secretary-Treasurer of the Virginia Division.
- Chief Consul J. H. Johnson, writing from Detroit on 12 July 1888, moves the Michigan Division meet at Grand Rapids from Saturday 11 August to Saturday 18 August.
- The Norfolk Cycle Club, through Secretary R. M. Barrett, separately nominates the same Virginia ticket - J. C. Carroll of Norfolk for Chief Consul and A. K. Schaap of Richmond for Secretary-Treasurer.
- Josh. Zimmerman nominates a ticket for the Indiana Division: J. Fred. Probst of Terre Haute for Chief Consul, W. H. Pontious of Crawfordsville for Vice Consul and Nick Smith of Terre Haute for Secretary-Treasurer.
- Chief Consul J. C. Carroll announces that, the Virginia Division's rules being incomplete, nominations for Chief Consul and Secretary-Treasurer may be made through the Bulletin, votes going to Secretary Abbot Bassett at Box 5267, Boston, with the election to fall between 15 July and 15 August.
- Chief Consul H. P. Wilkinson appoints Wm. B. Prickett Consul at Huntington and A. S. Crittenden Consul at Rippon, and names League hotels at Blue Sulphur Springs, Huntington and Parkersburg, each at $1.50 to L. A. W. members against a $2 regular rate.
- Chief Consul S. F. Heath asks Minnesota Division members to send him nominations for Chief Consul, Vice Consul and Secretary-Treasurer by 5 August, and states that his business affairs oblige him to decline the nomination some of his friends wish to make.
- The Illinois Division votes by mail to Secretary-Treasurer A. J. Street at 80 1-2 Seeley avenue, Chicago, on a blank printed in the World and Bulletin of 20 July and postmarked by 28 July; W. C. Thorne, C. E. Randall and T. Sloan are appointed to canvass the vote at Room 9, 103 Adams street at 8 P. M. on Wednesday 1 August.
- Chairman Gerry Jones awards the three-mile and ten-mile bicycle and five-mile tricycle national championships to the New York State Division for Buffalo on 4, 6 and 8 September, and reinstates C. P. Adams, Geo. M. Hendee and Wm. C. Hull as amateurs.
- List 148 — 136 new applicants, bringing League membership to 10,629 — arranged by Division and club from California and Colorado through Massachusetts, Michigan and New York to Wisconsin.