The Bicycling World, Vol 17, No 17
Articles in this issue
- Leader paragraphs rebut the Wheel's claim that the League's new Constitution is "unconstitutional," announce that Manager Morgan's International championship team is available to clubs for race meetings, and refute the Athlete's "inside history" that Chairman Luscomb dashed the document off alone, citing the Buffalo committee meeting attended by President Kirkpatrick, Secretary Bassett, Dr. C. S. Butler and W. S. Bull.
- Interview with "Senator" Morgan at the World office on his return from Europe with the American team, praising Temple for beating Howell four times in four days, rating Jack Lees the fastest man in England, and introducing safety champion F. W. Allard and the French record-holder Jules Dubois.
- The Caviler drops his prejudice against lady riders after meeting Mr. and Mrs. Harry Corey travelling fast on a tandem bicycle, scolds women tricyclists for saddles set too far back and handlebars too high and men for riding bow-legged, and jokes about Dr. Kendall's Scituate fishing party and the Kinery-Prial quarrel in the Wheel.
- "Star" maps two fresh Cincinnati routes — the Harrison pike through Cheviot, Bridgetown and Dry Ridge to Cleves, and the Colerain and Blue Rock pikes through White Oaks and Barnesville to New Baltimore — and reports Barney Klum's header on Race street, a $10 sidewalk fine at Carthage and Hartwell, and a citizen's offer to build the Cincinnati Bicycle Club a three-storey club house.
- "Ariel" reports Wells's indignation at the St. Louis charge that he wired a bogus telegram to escape his match with Greenwood, the Tioga Cycling Club's Sept. 29 race meet under Geo. D. Gideon, the Pennsylvania Bicycle Club's two-week tour to Dingman's Ferry under Lieut. Kohler, and Irv Wilhelm training at Reading for Buffalo after two defeats by Halsted.
- "Mercury" urges visitors to the World's Tournament to bring their wheels for Buffalo's fifty miles of asphalt and the three-mile ride out E. Ferry to the fair grounds, reports the parade put back from Sept. 1 to Sept. 2 with C. W. Adams as adjutant, and notes Geo. Buchheit, Jr.'s serious header coasting Thayer Hill.
- Chicago cycling is quiet before the Division Board of Officers meets on Aug. 25; fourteen clubs exist in the city with a scheme afoot to merge the Chicago, Lincoln and perhaps Fort Dearborn clubs, Davis was elected Chief Consul after Tom Roe split Oliver's vote, and the new Cheltenham Athletic Club organized Aug. 9 with over fifty cycling members under Wm. C. Thorne and N. H. Van Sicklen.
- "Vernon" blames the promoters for rushing the Minneapolis tournament, reports twenty-five riders rode to Conro Hill for St. Paul men who never came, Harry Lackor thrown among the tin cans of a farmer's wagon while coasting, and Leachman and Colie Bell threatening a book on the "Mysteries of the Draw Bridge."
- "Linneus" records Geo. E. Tivy's ride to Alton, Ill. by the North Market street ferry and the C. & A. track, the whole Missouri Division ticket elected as nominated, E. Barnard run down on the Jefferson avenue bridge, and urges St. Louis to ignore Van Sicklen and Roe's Cheltenham Beach team challenge in favour of the Manchester or Clarkesville road.
- "Wing Foot" notes W. F. Murphy's 4,030 miles to Aug. 1, Beasley's Park-to-Babylon run in 5h. 9m. with one dismount, G. M. Nisbett's claimed 2.49 park mile, Ralph Temple's tour of the Brooklyn club houses with Editor Prial, and Mr. Loyd's secret scheme for a track on which 2.29 can be broken.
- "The Jottist" reports the Rhode Island wheelmen's watermelon run to Riverside with ambulance and stomach pumps, hails W. Windle trained by Asa Windle, notes the Somerville Club's banner for the largest turnout at Cottage City, and F. T. Read's 3.42 1-2 practice unicycle mile at Charter Oak Park.
- W. A. Doane writes from Indianapolis at 879 miles needing 67 a day to reach Boston by Sept. 2; entries for the World's Erie-to-Buffalo road race close Sept. 4; the Utica (Ky.) turnpike is opened to wheelmen on toll; the Boston and Albany cuts bicycle carriage to 25 cents for 25 miles; and Fostoria, Ohio disputes Worcester's claim to the first Harrison political bicycle club.
- Horse dealer Joseph Baker whipped Samuel Reed of Lime Rock across the back as Reed coasted Kissel Hill near Lititz, Pa. on June 9 at the head of eighteen cyclers; charged with assault and battery, Baker settled the case by paying all the costs.
- The Cunarder Aurania landed the American team at New York with Jules Dubois, F. W. Allard and Jack Lees after a seven-day passage from Queenstown; in the passengers' sports Dubois won the half-mile handicap from scratch in 2.07 and the half-mile walk, Lees the hundred yards in twelve seconds, and Morgan's men the tug of war.
- Entries for the Bicycling World's 100-mile Erie-to-Buffalo road race are brought forward to Sept. 4 so a full programme can be printed and distributed along the route; Ducker reports nearly forty volunteer checkers and timers, a $2.50 excursion train from Erie stopping at Silver Creek, and Western Union bulletins of the riders' positions in every town ahead.
- Order carrying one wheel free each way for every passenger holding a ticket to the L. A. W. convention at Buffalo, Sept. 4-14, provided pedals are removed, covering the Northern Central, Philadelphia Wilmington & Baltimore, Baltimore & Potomac, Alexandria & Fredericksburg, West Jersey, and Camden & Atlantic railroads.
- At the Toronto tournament of Aug. 13 W. Windle of Lynn won the half-mile dash, one-mile handicap and five-mile race, W. S. Campbell of Niagara Falls was twice second, Midgely of Worcester took the three-mile roadster race, and J. A. Knight of St. Louis was third in the one-mile green race and the roadster race.
- The Hartford Wheel Club's Sept. 12-13 tournament opens with a street parade of home and visiting clubs; Captain Kern reports Charter Oak Park's track in finer condition than ever, and entries close Saturday, Sept. 8 with Joseph Goodman.
- Circular for the Labor Day union run of Sept. 3, meeting at the Cambridge, Mass. club house, 18 North avenue, with races on Holmes field, an impromptu game of baseball and a proposal to form an officers' association; Arthur W. Robinson, George A. Perkins and William T. Roop are the committee.
- In the fourth race of the Louisiana Cycling Club's Renaud medal series over five and a half rutty miles, W. M. Hathorn (1m. 20s.) won in 23.10, cutting the course record by a minute and three seconds, from E. M. Graham and W. W. Ulmer, with scratch men R. G. Betts and M. S. Graham finishing wheel and wheel.
- Howell beat Crocker 23 to 16 in a ten-mile lap race at Wolverhampton, Fred Wood took the fifteen-mile championship in 49.13 2-5, S. G. Whittaker cut the quarter-mile safety record to 36 seconds at Long Eaton and Jack Lee the flying tricycle quarter to 35 2-5, and W. F. Knapp broke the fifty-mile world's record in 2h. 29m.
- A Pennsylvania Division member disputes the Banker Bros.' 2.43 3-5 tandem tricycle mile on Forbes street because the street is asphalt and two thirds of it coastable downgrade; the editor replies that a road record requires an unpaved surface with level or varying grade, so the ride counts only as a good performance.
- The Michigan Division's sixth annual meet at Sweet's Hotel, Grand Rapids on Aug. 18 elected A. B. Richmond Chief Consul and paraded 125 wheelmen; Melville won the club championship in 3.00 2-5 and the ride and run, Lamont the mile open, Hain beat Osborne in a run-off after the five-mile lap race, and 200 sat down to the banquet with Mayor Weston and President Kirkpatrick.
- The new track inside the pole at Fairfield Driving Park was dedicated Aug. 11; G. W. Ames of Lewiston spurted from the rear to beat R. T. Patten of Skowhegan by thirty feet for the one-mile State championship in 3.37 and a $50 gold medal, Patten won the half-mile dash in 1.42, and the Kennebec Ramblers were formed under Captain F. H. Neal.
- C. W. A. corrects "Mercury's" July 27 Buffalo letter: the World's Tournament belongs to the Buffalo International Fair Association, which employs H. E. Ducker as manager and owns the track, while the Buffalo Bicycle Club is the entertaining club and the Ramblers merely fill the petty track offices.
- Fixture list from the Waiontha Bi. Club races at Richfield Springs on Aug. 15 to the Richmond, Va. tournament of Oct. 23-24, taking in the Buffalo championship days of Sept. 4-8, the Bicycling World's 100-mile Erie-to-Buffalo road race on Sept. 7 and the Hartford Wheel Club tournament of Sept. 12-13.
- Table of L. A. W. membership by State to Sept. 1 — 11,022 against 11,939 for 1887, led by New York with 2,301 and Massachusetts with 1,175 — published so Division boards can elect one National Assembly delegate per two hundred members; the Assembly will number 97.
- All 29 votes cast in Virginia went to J. C. Carroll of Norfolk for Chief Consul, with A. K. Schaap of Richmond taking 20 for Secretary-Treasurer; Abbot Bassett acted as scrutineer.
- C. E. Lacom of New Haven beat T. S. Rust of Meriden and L. A. Tracy of Hartford for Chief Consul, with C. L. Brockway of Middletown Vice Consul, E. A. DeBlois of Hartford Secretary-Treasurer, and Squire, Williams, Knox and Post elected Representatives.
- Of 306 votes cast, Geo. A. Jessup of Scranton was elected Chief Consul, W. R. Tucker of Philadelphia Vice Consul and J. G. Carpenter of Wilkes-Barre Secretary-Treasurer, with twelve district Representatives from Osborne of Philadelphia to Van Nort of Scranton.
- Seven clubs name their State Representatives: the Holyoke Bicycle Club, the Baltimore Cycle Club, the Rambler Cycle Club of Baltimore, United Wheelmen of Kansas City, the Middletown Wheel Club, the Owl Bicycle Club of Bordentown and the Orange Wanderers.
- From 193 votes Dr. J. H. Cooley was elected Chief Consul, Dr. G. Carleton Brown Vice Consul and Robinson Pound Secretary-Treasurer, with Lunger, Eveland, Banker, Kinch, Burns and Thomas as Representatives.
- Eighty-one Iowa members voted: R. L. Thompson Chief Consul, C. W. Dibble Vice Consul, H. L. Chase Representative, and H. B. Cropper Secretary-Treasurer with 65 votes to L. C. Parsons's 14.
- W. M. Brewster was elected Chief Consul and F. J. Suda Vice Consul, with J. A. Lewis Secretary-Treasurer, Boswell, Case and Stuart Representatives, and A. C. Stewart, Robert Holm and Walter Wylie chairing Rights and Privileges, Touring and Racing.
- Albert Mott of Baltimore took 156 of the 161 ballots cast for Chief Consul, with Geo. F. Updegraff of Hagerstown Vice Consul, G. W. H. Carr Secretary-Treasurer, and Eisenbrandt, Seabrook of Westminster and Barrington as Representatives.
- The Kentucky Division's election for 1888-89 returned Ed. H. Croninger of Covington as Chief Consul and Al. M. Watcher, also of Covington, as Secretary-Treasurer, reported by the nominating committee of Lamb, Johnston and Adams.
- Wisconsin elected Jay A. Hinman Chief Consul, J. H. Bloedel Secretary-Treasurer and F. K. Bull Representative for the coming year.
- Arrangements for the New York Division annual meeting and World's Championship Tournament at Buffalo, Sept. 4-8: a $10.65 round trip from Boston via the Fitchburg Railroad through A. A. Smith, and West Shore Railroad special baggage and sleeping cars from Jay street and West 42d street arranged by Geo. R. Bidwell.
- List 153 — 106 applicants bringing the League to 11,128 — printed by Division from Alabama to Wisconsin under Article III of the Constitution, with the two-week protest window and the rule that tickets issue seventeen days after publication.