The Bicycling World, Vol 17, No 15
Articles in this issue
- The editors warn that wheelmen who make no early provision for lodging at next month's Buffalo tournament "may have to sleep on the soft side of a plank," and close the row over certain wheelmen's behaviour at Baltimore, consigning some twenty letters of support to the waste basket.
- Elmer P. Junkins, Deputy Registrar of Deeds at Abilene, Kansas, calls at the office after riding 2,000 miles to Boston in forty-one days on a 54-inch Expert Columbia, by way of Kansas City, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Columbus, Cleveland, Buffalo, Syracuse and the Mohawk Valley.
- Writing from Omaha, W. S. Doane recounts a ten-and-a-half-day, 597-mile struggle from Denver over sand and mire, more than 80 miles of it on foot, with help from N. T. Fisk at Plum Creek and S. F. Spafford at Kearney, and about fifty headers on his 50-inch Apollo.
- "Senator" reports Allard and Temple's races against horses at Amsterdam and Scheveningen, Temple's ten-day loss of memory after his fall, F. J. Osmond's loafing win in the N. C. U. five-mile tricycle championship at Paddington Grounds, and a tandem run to Ripley with H. J. Swindley and G. Lacy Hillier.
- "Linneus" reports Hal Greenwood's 6.35 trial climb of Eagle Rock and his verdict that Wells's telegram from E. W. Beach was bogus, the recovery of Walter Wylie and E. N. Sanders from typhoid, and Missouri's slide to tenth largest L. A. W. division.
- "Wing Foot" notes the Mercurys' hop lost to mosquitoes at the College Beach Hotel, Lieutenant Wise's 329-mile run down to Shelter Island, July mileages of 800 by Borland (B. B. C.) and 1,200 by Murphy (K. C. W.), and a New York capitalist negotiating to buy the whole town of Sea Cliff.
- "Ratchet" reports Stenken abandoning road racing for the track, John F. Kilgour thrown over the handle-bar in Passaic street, and D. R. Bassett of the Passaic County Wheeling and Athletic Club, riding brakeless down Eagle Rock, dashed head first into a pile of stones and carried to Memorial Hospital.
- "Mercury" reports Rochester wheelmen entertained by Mr. Ducker and the Ramblers, Dr. Sarah Morris's talk on physical development to the ladies' wheel club, Rowe's arrival, the Ramblers' lantern parade, and Captain Hanenstein's runs to Fort Niagara and Rochester.
- Paragraph news: a call from ex-champion Geo. M. Hendee, now selling for the Springfield Bicycle Company; entries to the Buffalo races closing 27 August; the World's road race moved to 8 September; the Richmond and Danville Railroad's circular carrying tagged bicycles free; and the District of Columbia Division's resolutions against the bell-and-lamp regulation.
- "Ratchet" cables from Newark that Wells climbed Eagle Rock in 9m. 30 2-5s. before the same officials who timed Greenwood, leaving Greenwood the championship and medal.
- An Associated Press dispatch from London reports Temple of Chicago winning the half-mile and ten-mile bicycle championships at Birmingham and beating the English champion Howell four times in succession during the week.
- Lewis A. Howell writes from Millville, N. J. to deny the Wheel's charge of 20 July that he rode unfairly at Cape May, saying he fouled neither Halsted nor anyone else and can produce affidavits.
- Continuing his tour letter, the "Senator" describes the Rhine steamer to Cologne and Rubens's Crucifixion of St. Peter, Rotterdam as the birthplace of the tricyclist Edward Kiderlein, and the American team's meetings on the new quarter-mile tracks at Amsterdam and Scheveningen.
- John A. Wells failed to appear at Newark on 4 August despite Referee Collins's telegram, so the Eagle Rock climb is put off to Wednesday 8 August; Greenwood's time is corrected to 7.37 4-5.
- Secretary Willard H. Forbes calls the Eastern Road Club's executive committee to Dr. Kendall's office, 176 Tremont street, on Monday 13 August to reorganize and arrange a road race.
- The Eastern Traffic Association grants one fare for the round trip to the Buffalo tournament, with special baggage cars from Boston on 2 and 3 September and excursion tickets at $10.65 from Boston down to $7.91 from Pittsfield; pedals must be removed.
- A rate table for the principal Buffalo hotels, from the Exchange at $1.25 to the Niagara at $5.00 and the Tifft at $4.00, all on or near asphalt streets, with advice to lodge without board and eat at restaurants and on the grounds.
- Wheelmen are urged to bring their machines to the Buffalo meet: carriage will be free, special cars provided, and large storage rooms engaged with checks given, since the grounds are awkward to reach by horse or steam car.
- Entries for the Buffalo races close 27 August with Mr. Ducker; the prize list runs from $1,000 cash for the world's professional championship and $100–$300 for other professional events to amateur prizes costing $50–$200, divided 50, 30 and 20 per cent.
- The Erie-to-Buffalo hundred-mile race is moved to 8 September at 6 A. M., amateurs only; Frank Fairbairn takes charge of the Erie end, nearly a hundred checkers and starters are wanted, and the prizes are John Harriot's two-colour gold and blue enamel medals.
- The division's meet at Cottage City reported 1,149 members and a $332.43 balance, lost a ball game 5 to 0 to the Vineyard Herald nine, and stranded a 3 A. M. fishing party including Chief Consuls Hayes and Bidwell and Dr. Kendall becalmed off Cape Poge with one oar.
- Sidelights on the Cottage City meet: Abbot Bassett's crystal wedding day, the guests at W. W. Stall's County Park cottage, and the club banner withheld while Cambridge protests Somerville's count of League members in line.
- A Boston Herald cablegram of 4 August reports Temple of Chicago winning the 20-mile bicycle championship at Leicester over Howell and Wood, and a five-mile race as well; the American team sails for New York on 11 August on the Aurania.
- The Michigan Division meets at Grand Rapids on 18 August: business meeting, hill-climbing contest, photograph, dinner at Sweet's Hotel, parade from Fulton Street Park, races, supper and banquet.
- At the Hudson River wheelmen's tournament of 3 August, Herman Vanderlinden of Poughkeepsie won a mile in 3.25, Edward Merritt of Kingston the half-mile in 1.44, and W. H. Boshart of Poughkeepsie a second mile in 3.26.
- W. D. and A. C. Banker rode 2.43 3-5 on a tandem tricycle down Forbes street from the top of Soho Hill; the World urges a chain measurement of the course before the time is allowed as a world's road record.
- From the Springfield Union: W. M. Haradon of the Outing Club beat E. C. Frese of Armory Hill in 1h. 22m. 30s., riding a 48-inch New Mail against Frese's 50-inch Victor, short of Captain F. A. Eldred's course record of 1h. 19m. 50s.
- W. F. Knapp took all the English records from 30 to 100 miles at Leicester on 17 July, and world's figures from 52 to 61 miles; his 5.55 for 100 miles beat J. Lees's English 6.36.36 4-5 but not Dingley's world's record of 5.38.44 1-5.
- F. G. Brown of the Kings County Wheelmen took the half-mile dash and the mile open, H. P. Mathews of the Brooklyn Bi. Club the 6.45 class two-mile and the three-mile handicap, and S. C. Ebbetts the Huntington club championship; "Wing Foot" questions Ebbetts riding the consolation and F. W. Lincoln being put at scratch.
- From the Milwaukee News: sixty wheels paraded at Racine on 18 July and ran to Kenosha behind Captain Van Arsdale of the Racine Bicycle Club; Jay A. Hinman of Oshkosh was elected chief consul and J. H. Bloedel of Sheboygan secretary-treasurer, and Hinman slipped a pedal and took a bad header racing home.
- The Binghamton Club's first annual tournament at Riverside Park on 2 August, refereed by Mr. Ducker: W. W. Windle of Lynn won the half-mile dash, mile open and three-mile handicap, C. J. Iven of Rochester the novice and the 6.45 class two-mile, and W. S. Campbell the one-mile L. A. W. State championship in 3.16 1-5.
- Portraits and lives of the Gormully & Jeffery principals: Gormully, born Plymouth 1847 and in America since 1868, whose only appearances as defendant were in the Pope Mfg. Co. suits decided by Judges Gresham and Blodgett; and Jeffery, born Plymouth 1845, whose 1879 machines carried Rudge ball bearings, closed head and hollow forks until the Lallement patent stopped them.
- S. F. Booth, Jr. continues his Yosemite narrative with sunrise reflections at Mirror Lake below Mt. Watkins, a soaking waist-deep river crossing on an ill-advised short cut, and the twelve-and-a-half-mile tramp to Cloud's Rest, 10,000 feet up and under four feet of snow.
- Trade paragraphs: the Gormully & Jeffery Rambler safety now on view at J. S. Murray's, 243 Columbus avenue, Boston; 109 of the 186 wheels in line at the Ohio Division meet at Toledo were Columbias; Spalding & Bros.' bargain in Holmes' Self-Supporting Stockings; and the Bay State Bicycle Club's Walnut Street hill climb at Worcester.
- Fixture list from the Waiontha Bi. Club races at Richfield Springs on 15 August through the Buffalo national, State and world's professional championships of 4–8 September and the Bicycling World hundred-mile road race to the Richmond, Va. tournament of 23–24 October.
- Clubs 202–207 entered on the League books: the Jamaica Cycle Club, Nursery Wheelmen of Franklin, Penn., No. Easton Wheel Club, Quixote Cycle Club of Haverhill, Star Bi. Club of Detroit and Carrollton Wheel Club.
- Chief Consul George A. Jessup appoints Martin Rudy of 9 East King street, Lancaster, as League Repairer.
- Chief Consul J. E. Palmer reports a Delaware Division meeting of 2 August with 25 members present, at which William F. Kurtz of Wilmington was elected Sec.-Treas. in place of Charles W. Todd, who has removed to Washington.
- On Local Consul F. R. Webb's recommendation, Chief Consul J. C. Carroll appoints Chichester and Stewart's hotel at Stribling Springs the L. A. W. hotel for that vicinity, at $1.50 a day to members, thirteen miles from Staunton by an excellent dirt road.
- J. D. Herndon declines the nomination for Secretary-Treasurer of the Tennessee Division for want of time, and L. A. W. No. 17936 nominates B. A. Patch of Nashville in his stead.
- The Illinois Division elects W. A. Davis Chief Consul, Charles Hansel Vice Consul and Thomas Sheridan Secretary, with Harry G. Rouse, Charles Sieg, C. F. Gross, W. H. Osman and T. C. White as representatives.
- The election of 1 August returned George S. Atwater Chief Consul, Edward A. Demaray Vice Consul, E. T. Pettengill Division Representative, Edson B. Olds Sec.-Treas. and George R. Ide club representative of the Washington Bicycle Club.
- Sec.-Treas. Otto H. Wulfekuhler circulates a mail vote to amend Sect. 1, Art. 2 of the Kansas by-laws so that the Board of Officers, rather than the Chief Consul, fixes the time and place of the annual division meeting.
- Blanks for the Kansas Division's mail vote for Chief Consul, Vice Consul, Secretary-Treasurer and Representative must be signed and returned to Otto H. Wulfekuhler by 13 August.
- L. A. W. No. 1614, L. B. Graves, nominates T. M. Slosson of Minneapolis for Chief Consul, C. A. Roach of St. Paul Vice Consul, A. D. Laird of Winona Secretary-Treasurer and A. M. Welles of Redwood Falls Representative.
- Chief Consul James R. Dunn reports the nomination of T. J. Kirkpatrick of Springfield for Chief Consul, Frederick Boice of Toledo for Vice Consul and Joseph W. Spahr for Secretary-Treasurer, with seven representatives, and congratulates the division on Kirkpatrick's consenting to stand.
- Meeting at the New Haven Bicycle Club on 26 July under Chief Consul Tracy, the division reported a $210.10 balance and a $16.43 profit on the road book, gave Mr. Huntington 20 copies for compiling it, and nominated C. E. Larom of New Haven for Chief Consul.
- List 151: 115 applicants bringing League membership to 10,959, arranged by division from California and Connecticut through Massachusetts and New York's thirty to Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Tennessee.