The Bicycling World, Vol 17, No 16
Articles in this issue
- The leader grumbles that half a dozen correspondents have begged off with "gone to the country" postals, then salutes "Senator" Morgan's professional team returning from England — Ralph Temple's some ninety-five firsts and four wins over Howell inside a fortnight, and Woodside's solid path work — with a later note that the Cyclist reports them sailing on the 22d. Closes with a Brooklyn paper's description of K. C. W. road rider W. T. Murphy, who is "trying to raise a mustache."
- Manager Henry E. Ducker answers the Springfield Union's objection to part of the Bicycling World's Erie-to-Buffalo race being run on a track, saying at most 2 1/2 miles will fall on the trotting track plus four unavoidable miles of city parkway. The World backs him, calling the Union's insistence that a half mile of track voids a road race "straining at a gnat."
- The paper's new Boston item-hunter, sent out to find fault, ends up defending New England instead — arguing that road men like Roop and Carmen and the Jamaica Bi. and Dorchester clubs can still make the best in the land hustle, even if club runs no longer take. Also Hayes's touchy silence about the fishing off Cape Poge, Charley Howard home bearded and seasick from the Azores, and Dr. Emery breathing fire at a certain New York editor over "the Constitution."
- "Sparrow" reports California cycling dull but for the Consular election between Mohrig and Houseworth, captain of the San Francisco Bicycle Club; Nightblue, Australia's long-distance champion, has arrived to attack American records over 100 miles, and retiring Chief Consul R. M. Welch is condemned for calling three groans for Secretary-Editor Bassett during a League run.
- "Vernon" reports the Minneapolis Bicycle Club endorsing a division ticket headed by Chief Consul T. M. Slosson, with Chas. Roach as Vice Consul and A. M. Wells for Representative. Also Geo. Bartlett training hard on his tricycle, W. Monash back after illness, and a three-mile team race on the 25th with sides picked "scrub"-fashion by E. J. Hale and Colie Bell, the losers paying for supper.
- "The Jottist" opens with a Rhode Island youth training a goat to drive a rear-driving safety, then covers the Danbury, Bridgeport, Stamford, Norwalk and Waterbury joint Labor Day parade, expressman P. H. Collins's arrest for running down W. M. Leavitt at Providence, George Darling of Waterville, Me., gashed by a reckless buggy driver, and a forty-strong "Republican Cycle Corps" formed at Worcester.
- Percy Harris calls at the office to pronounce the rear-driving safety a passing fad, which the World flatly disputes; entries are coming in for the 100-mile road race and John Harriot has the medal contract. Also Louise Armaindo out of matrimonial retirement wanting a 142-hour straightaway match, C. H. Lamson back from California, and a warning that Wolever's $10 Lafayette-to-Indianapolis wager forfeits his amateur standing.
- A. J. Henley of the Wichita Wheelmen puts the Kansas five-mile State record at 18.45 on a heavy track, despite a header that disabled his racer and forced him to finish on an oversized road machine carrying lamp and tool bag.
- Programme for the club's meeting on Admission Day, September 10 — half-mile dash, one-mile novice on ordinaries, one-mile scratch, a one-mile Rover-type safety race with a medal only if a record is made, club handicap, two- and three-mile handicaps and the five-mile L. A. W. State championship, entrance $1 with 50 cents returned to starters.
- Captains of the Boston, Cambridge, Cambridgeport, Somerville and Dorchester clubs plan a Labor Day "Union Run" open to every club in the State — assemble at Harvard square at 10 A. M., dinner at the Medford House, then races on the college track and a scrub base ball game; details from Dr. Kendall, 176 Tremont street.
- Geo. R. McAuslan of the R. I. Division racing board announces the annual meet at Narragansett Park, Providence, on September 25 — eleven events from the one-mile R. I. championship to a two-mile safety handicap, one-mile tandem and a three-man team race, all prizes gold and silver medals.
- Delegates from the Boston, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridgeport, Dorchester, Newton and Chelsea clubs, meeting at Dr. Kendall's office, vote a twenty-five-mile road race for September 22, probably starting from the Faneuil House, Brighton, with Perkins, Pillsbury and Forbes to lay out the course and a tricycle and tandem race also proposed.
- "Vernon" reports the Minneapolis Bicycle Club's racing committee — E. J. Hale, Chas. Barwick and Colie Bell — fixing a fourteen-event tournament at Minnehaha Driving Park for August 25, preceded by a club-furnished lantern parade, the proceeds to build the club a track of its own.
- The Hartford Wheel Club votes a lantern parade for September 12 and lists its best-ever prize list — a Columbia Light Roadster, diamond pin and Colt's sporting gun among them; entry blanks from Joseph Goodman, entries closing September 8, while F. T. Reid rides a practice unicycle mile at Charter Oak Park in 3.42 1-2.
- Chas. H. Sieg announces the Illinois Division's tournament at Cheltenham Beach on August 25 with seven championship events, three of them State titles, and club championships for the Chicago, Fort Dearborn, Illinois and Lincoln clubs; Van Sicklen, Winship, Lumsden, Horsford, Greenleaf and Fordham are expected, entries closing August 22 to S. A. Miles of the Referee.
- From the Cyclist: on a rain-soaked track Ralph Temple leads Leicester's Fred Wood from the gun and holds off his challenge to win the quarter-mile match by half a yard in 40 1-5s, then takes the half-mile half an hour later by three yards in 1m. 33 2-5s.
- The full three-day programme of the Kansas City National Exposition Inter-State tournament, September 27-29, at which Chief Consul Brewster brings the Missouri Division's annual meet — Kansas and Missouri State championships, hurdle, hands-off and hundred-yards-slow races, prizes running from a half-carat diamond to a gold-headed silk umbrella, with a new quarter-mile clay-and-gravel track to be built and L. S. C. Ladish chairing the racing committee.
- Corrected programme for the four days of September 4-8: eleven races daily, 16 professional and 28 amateur, including the three world's-championship heats, L. A. W. and New York State championships, a Rochester v. Buffalo team race and the first tandem-bicycle race ever held in this country, closing with the Bicycling World's 100-mile road race from Erie at 6 A. M. on the 8th; entries close August 27 to Henry E. Ducker.
- J. W. Dodge of the N. O. Bi. Club rides 178 miles to beat the local 24-hour record of 166; R. G. Betts and J. W. Jay then take the hundred-mile local record in 9h. 43m. elapsed (8h. 18m. riding), and Betts alone rolls up 226 1/2 miles in 24 hours despite an exploding lamp, the longest record made south of the Ohio — all on American Champion bicycles.
- A letter signed "L. A. W. No. 5527" protests that the World's list of special rates to Buffalo omitted the Hoosac Tunnel Route, the only line out of Boston still carrying bicycles free on any train, whose General Passenger Agent J. R. Watson offers a free special train with baggage cars for wheels if the party is large enough.
- H. J. Hall, Jr., replies to Geo. Nellis, Jr., insisting Wilson was deliberately fouled in the three-mile race at Herkimer and that after Mr. Metz of Utica protested Hall's entry the judges kept him standing twenty minutes, then started the C. N. Y. championship while he was still in the dressing room; his quarrel is with the judges, not the Fort Dayton Wheelmen.
- Associated Press dispatch from Richfield Springs, N. Y.: W. W. Windle of Lynn, Mass., wins the half-mile open, the three-mile record and the one-mile dash at the Waiontha Bicycle Club's tournament on the driving park.
- A visit with Messrs. Yost and McCune through the company's Worcester factory — drop forges for heads and gearing, brazing forges, the polishing room and a machine, said to be unique in the country, that automatically bores rims and hubs and stops itself. The firm has also bought a factory property at Newton Highlands, eleven miles from Boston, expected in operation by the first of October.
- Chief Consul G. R. Bidwell calls the annual meeting of the New York State Division for September 4 and 5 at Buffalo, the general business meeting at 8 P. M. on the 4th at the Genesee House.
- A second notice from Geo. R. Bidwell: the Division Board of Officers holds its annual fall meeting at the Genesee House, Buffalo, on the evening of September 4, immediately after the general business meeting adjourns.
- Chief Consul W. M. Brewster accepts the United Wheelmen of Kansas City's invitation and fixes the division's fall meeting there for September 27, 28 and 29, in connexion with the Exposition Inter-State Bicycle Tournament.
- Abbot Bassett lists newly elected club Representatives: Wm. A. Mosman (Jamaica Cycle Club), John B. Seward (Chelsea), Theodore Walter (Hyde Park Rambler), Waldo S. Reed (Capital City, Springfield, Ill.), Irving E. Moultrop (Roxbury) and George A. Perkins (Cambridge).
- Chief Consul Chas. S. Davol asks Rhode Island members intending to visit Buffalo to notify him at once so he can arrange trains, transportation of wheels and sleeping cars — reduced rates being obtainable only from Boston — and refers them to the hotel list on page 300 of the August 10 World.
- Chief Consul A. E. Mealy calls the annual business meeting for 8.30 P. M. on August 31 at the Town-hall, Arlington, members to gather with hub-lamps at the Druid Lake tower in Druid Hill Park and wheel out in a body; officers will be installed in open meeting and a new constitution and by-laws submitted.
- Report of the annual meeting at Town Hall, Cottage City, on August 2, Chief Consul Hayes presiding: membership 1,152, receipts to August 1 of $1,607.53 against $1,374.10 expenditure, three constitutional amendments passed, Sanford Lawton elected Secretary-Treasurer, and Bassett's motion carried to give the road book free to every person joining until the edition is exhausted.
- List 152, 63 names, carrying the League roll to 11,022 — applicants from the Arkansas Travellers C. C., Oak Leaf Wheelmen, Peoria and Rockford clubs, Skowhegan Wheel Club, Kings Co. Wheelmen and the Alert, Lancaster, Philadelphia and Wilkes Barre Bi. Clubs — printed with Article III of the Constitution and the quarterly fee scale.
- Fourth instalment of the paper's engraved serial: a full-width panorama of a long file of wheelmen on ordinaries strung out in column, standing for the parade that will open the Buffalo tournament.