The Bicycling World, Vol 17, No 19
Articles in this issue
- The unheaded leader reports that Buffalo's racing has put the old-time stars back — Crist, Hall Jr., Brown and Foster beaten by Windle, Midgeley and McCune — while Temple, Allard and Lee disappointed among the professionals; a late note postpones the fourth day's races to Monday 10 September.
- John A. Wells rebuts the St. Louis correspondent "Linneus's" charge that he forged a telegram from E. N. Beach; comparing both copies the editors find the telegraph office turned "We need Greenwood here" into "Meet Greenwood here," and apologise for printing the accusation.
- "Charter Oak" reports the Hartford Wheel Club's tournament ready under Joseph Goodman, with Rowe, Jules Dubois, Jack Lee, Allard, Woodside, Temple, Crocker, Neilson and Knapp entered as professionals, Foster, Crist, Brown, Kingsland, Windle and Midgeley among the amateurs, and W. S. Maltby to ride fancy each day.
- Joseph Goodman, chairman of the race committee, lists the Hartford and New Haven boats and the 11 A. M. Grand Central train for New York wheelmen, plus New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad rates of $1.50 from Springfield and $1.00 from Meriden including admission to the Park.
- Dr. W. G. Kendall of the Boston Club is fitting out an excursion car to be side-tracked at Hartford from the evening of the 11th, with Cambridge, Chelsea and Boston club men already joining; a few berths remain at 176 Tremont street.
- The Caviler regrets missing the Buffalo meet and describes Dr. Emery's special car party — Chief Consul Davol of Rhode Island, Charles F. Joy of the Pope Mfg. Co., Larry Overman, E. W. Pope and Charley Howard of the Globe — and blames Buffalo's gales for the dull racing.
- "Linneus" reports the Cycle Club at 105 members, Walter Wylie's resignation, A. A. McCurdy enlisted at Jefferson Barracks, the St. Charles rock road in its best condition for years, and the county court's extension of Lindell avenue boulevard six miles to Clayton.
- "Bi." reports the Louisiana Division race meet put back from the 14th to the 28th of September with a ten-event programme and a championship medal donated by Chief Consul Hodgson, and a keen contest between W. H. Renaud and H. W. Fairfax for the Division Secretary-Treasurership.
- "Star" relays Cincinnati gossip: "Toot" High's hill-climbing challenge, Joe Hosea's 300-point billiard run, A. B. Norton's "Air Brake" initials, Tom Schultz's prior claim to Forest avenue on a safety, and the Paddack Road through Bond Hill as a route to Carthage.
- "Wing Foot" records the founding of the Cyclists' Union of Long Island by Huggins, Mabie, Bradford, Bridgman, Raymond and others at a dollar a year, the New York club's move into an unfinished house, and the Jamaica to Babylon road now ridable without a dismount.
- "Ariel" previews the State Fair inter-club championship of Philadelphia and expects Halsted to win, notes thirty to forty safeties now in the Pennsylvania Club and the South End Wheelmen doubled to seventy members, and criticises the League for leaving the Pennsylvania Bicycle Club without a representative.
- Paragraphs of club and trade news: the Powelson Gallery to photograph the Buffalo meet and parade, Windle hailed as a new star, Joseph Goodman's "World's Cycling Records" reviewed, "Senator" Morgan's International team open to engagements, and the marriage of Washington's E. F. Pettingill to Miss Addie S. Clark.
- Opening report on the World's Bicycle Tournament: a gravelly, wind-swept track described as the poorest ever ridden in this country, Crocker's day Tuesday and Knapp's Wednesday, Windle far the best amateur, and criticism of Prial for repeatedly altering the handicaps in the five-mile professional tandem.
- Lists the tournament staff: general director Henry E. Ducker of Buffalo, referee Howard P. Merrill of Springfield, starter George M. Hendee, and judges including T. J. Kirkpatrick, George R. Bidwell, W. S. Bull, C. H. Luscomb and Thomas Stevens.
- Schedules the money: $1,000 for the professional world's championship and $100 to $300 for the other professional races, with amateur prizes costing $50 to $300, both doubled for tandem events.
- Nine hundred and thirty cycles from nearly eighty clubs across seventeen states and Canada made the largest parade on record; the Ramblers turned out sixty-one of seventy-six members with their mascot "purp" in club colors, and a six-year-old boy rode the whole route on Bull's staff.
- Tuesday's summaries: Lee and Allard walked over in the one-mile professional tandem, Kenneth Brown of Cambridge took the novice, Windle won the ten-mile L. A. W. championship in 31.37 1-5 after Van Sicklen quit, and Crocker beat Rowe by a fraction in the first world's championship heat.
- Wednesday's racing: Knapp won the half-mile professional from Rowe and Temple, W. S. Campbell the five-mile State championship, Morgan the three-mile professional handicap, Crist the five-mile tricycle championship after Foster's loose tire upset them, and Kingsland the one-mile handicap when Windle refused his six yards and rode from scratch.
- High winds and accidents: McCune's fall left Van Sicklen of Chicago carried off unconscious, and Temple was disqualified for fouling Rowe in the five-mile world's championship; Windle won the three-mile L. A. W. championship and the one-mile amateur, and the Bankers took the half-mile tandem.
- Special telegram from Erie: fifteen men including Kohler, Eldred, Harris, Muller, Gerwing, Merrihew, Tivy, Lenz, Berlo and Metz started at 6.12 A. M. in drenching rain, and Frank M. Dampman of Honey Brook beat McDaniel of Wilmington into the Buffalo fair grounds in 9 hours 56 minutes, Lenz third and Merrihew fourth.
- Rain having spoiled the track, the fourth day's Buffalo races are put off to Monday at 10 A. M.; many wheelmen and several prominent professionals leave for Hartford, and the doctors cannot yet say whether Van Sicklen has internal injuries.
- Jottings on the Buffalo meet: the old favorites played second fiddle, Prial says a handicapper's lot is "not a happy one," Morgan objected to the judges giving Rowe second over Temple, and a three-day tally credits Crocker four firsts and Windle four firsts and a second from five starts.
- Wheelmen of Louisville, New Albany and Jeffersonville have accepted the Travelers Protective Association's invitation to parade on 18 September; non-residents are invited, with information from Huber and Allison, 448 W. Main street, Louisville.
- The Boston train carrying Vice Consul Emery's party to Buffalo ran into the New York train's stranded sleeper near Rochester; the engineer's air brake stopped the engine at the smoking room, and though the car of Boston cyclists' wheels was smashed no wheels were injured.
- Bert Myers upset every unicycle record from two to fourteen miles at Lake View Park, Peoria, riding the front wheel of a Light Champion and covering fourteen miles in 60.07 — the greatest distance ever ridden on one wheel without a dismount.
- A supplementary ten- or twelve-mile race for single and tandem tricycles, with gold and silver medals, will follow the Eastern Road Club's twenty-five-mile race on 22 September; entries with Dr. W. G. Kendall, 176 Tremont street.
- Over 200 cyclists formed at the Cambridge Club's house on North avenue and rode to Holmes' field, where J. P. Clark won the one-mile open and A. P. Benson the three-mile, with prizes given by W. Read & Sons, the Cambridge Tribune, W. B. Everett & Co., the Overman Co. and the Pope Mfg. Co.; dinner followed at Woodlawn Park Hotel.
- "Ratchet" reports the annual meet moved to Friday 21 September because the Roseville Athletic Club leased its grounds for baseball; the Orange Wanderers take charge, adding club championships, a Chinese lantern parade and a smoker, and elected Charles A. Lindsley captain.
- From the Pittsburg Commercial Gazette: 4,000 saw the New Castle wheelmen's fall meet, where Windle won the National L. A. W. half-mile in 1.19 1-5 and the quarter-mile open, W. D. Banker the two-mile State championship, and Lenz's bicycle ran seventy-five feet up the track after his header.
- Cheltenham Beach races of 25 August: Tom Roe won the novice, A. C. Fordham the Illinois club championship, Lumsden beat Van Sicklen by a foot in the two-mile State championship in 5.33 3-5, and Thorne was crowded into a post in the two-mile handicap taken by W. B. Greenleaf.
- The Minneapolis Club's first annual meet of 5 August: W. W. Heffelfinger won the one-mile and the 3.30 class, Grant Bell beat F. E. Dingley in the professional heats for $25, and Colie Bell took the five-mile club championship, the three-mile open and the 3.10 class.
- Minneapolis jottings: Colie Bell won every race he started, Heffelfinger rode the tricycle race on a Quadrant with the brake on, no accident occurred, and the lantern parade behind Captain Fred Coffin's mounted police and Millard and Thyle's band drew about 200 riders and some ten to fifteen thousand onlookers.
- West End Club races taken from the Rochester Herald: Midgley won the half-mile dash, the five-mile open and the one-mile open in 2.44 1-2, beating the track record, C. J. Iven took the three-mile Monroe County championship, and W. H. Barber's unicycle record attempt failed on a loose pedal.
- Rochester jottings: a big day for Midgley and the Springfield Roadster, the West End Club a generous host, Barber's trick riding a taking feature, and H. H. Loder winning a 200-yard foot race in 26 seconds.
- Captain W. M. Tehan describes the Juniata Wheelmen, organized last May from the 150 riders between Hollidaysburg and Duncannon under a code barring sidewalk riding, and their first annual meet and five-mile road race of 29 August, won by J. E. Patterson on a Star in 20m. 48s.
- A New England mechanic's patent-pending "nickel-in-the-slit" box clamps to a tricycle axle near the sprocket and locks the wheel an hour after each half dollar is dropped in — a blessing to renters, though at present the bolt shoots out and stops the machine dead.
- Chief Consul H. W. Hayes calls a meeting of the Massachusetts Board at Young's Hotel, Boston, on Saturday evening 15 September, with dinner at 7.30 P. M.
- Secretary-Treasurer E. A. De Blois summons the Connecticut Board to the parlors of the Connecticut Bicycle Club, Hartford, at 8 o'clock on the evening of 12 September to elect delegates.
- Chief Consul J. H. Cooley announces the meet at Orange on 21 and 22 September, with the races at Roseville on Friday afternoon, a lantern parade that evening, the business meeting Saturday morning and a hill-climbing contest and Jersey Smoker to follow.
- Cooley explains that the new Road Book is being published by the Pennsylvania Division, which promised through Mr. Wells to have it out by the opening of the riding season; copies will be forwarded to New Jersey members as soon as they come to hand.
- Chief Consul Geo. A. Jessup reports that other State Divisions failed to come forward to help publish the Road Book, so no date can be given, but every member of the Pennsylvania Division will receive a free copy when it is ready.
- District returns certified by E. J. Shriver and the Rights and Privileges Committee: of 375 votes, G. R. Bidwell had 362 for Chief Consul, W. S. Bull 363 for Vice Consul and G. M. Nisbett 360 for Secretary-Treasurer, with representatives elected in all six districts and 140 late votes rejected.
- The Kansas mail vote carried the by-law change 81 to 1 and elected W. C. Bradley of Ottawa Chief Consul with 45 votes over A. J. Henly of Wichita, C. S. Davis of Junction City Vice Consul, Otto H. Wulfekuhler of Leavenworth Secretary-Treasurer and W. Taylor of Topeka Representative.
- Secretary-Treasurer A. L. T. Cummings reports the Maine vote closes 15 September on the Portland Wheel Club's nominations, ratified by other clubs: Dr. G. E. Dow of Portland for Chief Consul, C. D. Batchelder of Sanford Vice Consul and James O. Whittemore of Fairfield Representative.
- Of 286 legal votes, A. B. Richmond of Grand Rapids beat B. J. Holcomb of Detroit 153 to 132 for Chief Consul, Wm. Seyffardt of East Saginaw was elected Vice Consul and C. A. Conover of Coldwater Secretary-Treasurer over A. F. Peck; division dues were fixed at $1 a year at the Grand Rapids meet.
- Junius E. Beal reports the Michigan Division's most prosperous year, moving from a good-sized debt to a balance of $11.15 after paying for printing road books, meet programmes, circulars and postage, with his own $25 December advance repaid and twenty road books and their plates still in hand.
- Chief Consul James R. Dunn announces the Ohio result: T. J. Kirkpatrick of Springfield Chief Consul, Fred J. Boice of Toledo Vice Consul, Joseph W. Spahr Secretary-Treasurer, with Mergenthaler, Moses, Griffin, Eastman, Harmony, Ham and High elected Representatives.
- W. M. Brewster, Chief Consul, appoints Dr. G. A. Sparling local consul for Kirksville and vicinity and H. A. Miller for Lancaster and vicinity.
- Names the League representatives elected by their clubs: Frank L. C. Martin for the Plainfield Bicycle Club, Clarence H. Smith for the Detroit Bicycle Club, A. J. Street, E. J. Roberts and C. B. Gibson for the Illinois Cycling Club, and E. J. Shriver and J. M. Audrieni for the New York Bicycle Club.
- Chairman B. B. Ayers reports baggage rulings: the Santa Fe carries bicycles free when the owner travels on the same train, the Boston and Albany cuts its charge to 25 cents for 25 miles and half a cent a mile beyond, the Fitchburg carries free against a signed release, and he cites damage claims against the D. G. H. and M. and an overcharge on the West Jersey.
- Chief Consul Ed. H. Croninger has mailed the Recruiting Circular to members of the Kentucky Division and asks them to distribute it among unattached riders.
- Chief Consul H. P. Wilkinson appoints C. G. Dunbar consul at Parkersburg, West Virginia.
- Application list 155, of 51 names against a League total of 11,283, quotes the Article III eligibility rule and runs from Alabama to West Virginia, including the Los Angeles Wheelmen, Stamford Wheel Club, Illinois Cycling Club, Minneapolis Bi. Club, Essex Bi. Club and Wheeling Wheelmen.