The Bicycling World, Vol 17, No 20
Articles in this issue
- Leader on the Buffalo meet, blaming cold weather, a poor track and Van Sicklen's accident for its failure, and printing H. D. Corey's letter denying Manager Morgan's charge that he favoured Rowe while judging the professional races.
- "Novis Homo" praises the Fayette County roads (50 miles to Dayton, 38 to Columbus), reports Hartman's 800-mile ride through Indiana and Illinois to Peoria, and gives the late races won by D. H. Hegler, F. M. Hartman and L. B. Perin of Cincinnati.
- Resolutions of the Bay City Wheelmen, signed by Charles C. Moore, Robert A. Smyth and J. E. Bauer, defending retiring California Chief Consul Robert M. Welch and warning the editor against the "Sparrow" and "Achorne" correspondents.
- Cincinnati's "Star" on the unseemly Latonia combined meet, R. C. Taylor's arrest for testing the Cincinnati and Covington Suspension Bridge Co.'s ban on wheelmen, and scorching as the ruin of the Avondale, Newport, Brighton and Kenton club runs.
- "Salina" on the spreading popularity of the R. D. safety, a framed Baltimore-meet photograph hung in the Syracuse Cycle Club rooms by Bugler Yale, Captain Chapin's 25-mile ride to Auburn in two hours, and E. Rice's marriage.
- "Ali Baba" jokes about his new nom de plume, counts nearly nine hundred visitors at the Buffalo Bicycle Club house during tournament week, salutes Dampman's win in the rain-soaked hundred, and describes the ladies' reception for seventy-five guests.
- "Wing Foot" corrects last week's slight on the Manhattan Bicycle Club's Buffalo delegation, gives the Long Island Wheelmen's August records (L. H. Wise 1,437 miles), and notes W. E. Hunter of the Toronto Wheelmen visiting Brooklyn.
- The "Goat" tells how Capt. J. L. Spiers's Rhode Island Wheelmen run to Warren for the band concert was rained off but for one man, and reports the club's lantern parade planned for the night of the Sept. 25 Division meet.
- "The Jottist" finds a dozen riders taking "Caviller's" imaginary Commonwealth avenue scorch personally, reports a dozen sidewalk-riding arrests in Olneyville, "Papa" Weston's tandem spill at Milton, and the Rhode Island Division's Sept. 17 run through the Boston suburbs.
- Paragraph budget: the fall 25-mile New York and New Jersey Road Racing Association race on Election Day, Poughkeepsie's tournament under Mr. Ducker, Bavarian riders' carriage whips, the Battersea Park boy-tripping racket, and Wesley Pitkin's arrest in Chicago for stealing a dozen bicycles.
- Verdict on the World's Tournament: a field as good as Rowe, Temple, Crocker, Knapp and Neilson wasted on a track Mr. Ducker had promised would be the best ever built, with no records broken and Rowe judged the best man.
- The fifteen who started from Erie at 6.12 on Sept. 8 in a rainstorm, including Kahler, Eldred, Dampman, Harris and Muller on a tandem, Gerwing, McDaniel, Merrihew, Tivy the "mud horse", Lenz, Banks and Metz, with sketches of the leading men.
- Full text of the anti-pacing rule drafted by Charles S. Luscomb after the Morgan protest over Dubois's pacing in the three-mile professional handicap, signed by referee Howard P. Merrill and judges Luscomb, Pyne and Corey.
- Report that the edict has gone forth for the L. A. W. amateur rule to go and that Chairman Jones will withdraw his resignation to see the fight through, with an editorial note that only the National Assembly can change it.
- The checkers' cards for the Erie-to-Buffalo hundred: the numbered starters and seven non-starters, then the running order at Harbor Creek, North East, State line, Ripley, Westfield, Portland, Fredonia, Silver Creek and Irving.
- Notes on the road race: the Overman Company's delight that first, second, fourth, fifth and sixth all rode Victors, W. S. Doane's record left safe, and C. H. Metz of Utica persisting in giving his number as "No. 62."
- Buffalo's last day, run on the trotting track: W. A. Rowe took the one-mile world's professional championship in 2.52 2-5 from Crocker and Knapp, Windle won the half-mile and the one-mile open, and Lumsden the ten-mile amateur.
- Willard H. Forbes calls a meeting at George A. Perkins's office, 3 Pemberton Square, on Sept. 14, and sets out the course from Faneuil House, Brighton, through Newton Centre, Wellesley Hills and Needham back to the Reservoir.
- "Senator" Morgan wires from Buffalo that he is dissatisfied with the so-called world's championship and will match Ralph Temple against W. A. Rowe or anybody else for one thousand dollars.
- The R. I. Wheelmen vote a lantern parade and a team for the Sept. 25 Division races; Geo. R. McAuslan reports the closely matched Hutchins-Scott three-mile special and 28 medals to be given as prizes.
- The Nashville Bicycle Club's thirty-mile handicap of Sept. 21 from Chestnut street to the West Side Hotel, Lebanon, first prize an American Champion roadster presented by the Gormully & Jeffery Mfg. Co.
- The Youngstown club's Aug. 31 meeting at the fair grounds, C. W. Davis taking both club races from L. H. Bannister and W. I. Wilhelm the one-mile and half-mile open from P. Stambaugh.
- M. A. Holbein of the Catford Cycling Club rode a Premier rear-driving safety one hundred miles in 6h. 20m. 26s., a world's record for the distance.
- A. F. Wyman writes that he went over the course of Anthony's record ride and made the distance twenty and one-sixteenth miles, hoping to satisfy Dr. Sweet and the Taunton Club.
- On a Lynn Cycle Club trip to Portland, J. H. Shurman rode up the supposedly unridable Spurwick Hill and then took Park street Hill six times without a dismount on his Springfield Roadster.
- A. Jos. Henley, "3507," of the Wichita Wheelmen offers to ride the Kansas hundred-mile record this fall in eight to eight and a half hours, for a medal rather than money.
- A Kansas correspondent points out that McPherson to Arkansas City is 111 miles by rail, not 136, and that "385" could have found company for the trip at Newton or Wichita had he given notice.
- W. L. Sperry of Champaign, Ill., answers C. C. Hopkins's attack on Central Illinois roads, describing the route he laid out to Columbus, Ohio, and 54-mile runs to Bloomington in six hours.
- W. S. Doane's ride from Denver to Boston on a 50-inch Singer Apollo, 1,903 miles of which 174 were walked, through Nebraska and Iowa mud, a header near Erie that knocked him insensible, and arrival in Boston on Sept. 1.
- Division-by-division list of the Chief Consuls, Vice Consuls, Secretary-Treasurers and representatives elected and appointed for 1888-9, from California and Connecticut through New York and Pennsylvania to West Virginia.
- President T. J. Kirkpatrick appoints Horace Beddo of Denver Chief Consul for Colorado, to assume the duties of the office at once.
- President Kirkpatrick appoints S. Wallis Merrihew, 906 Jackson St., Wilmington, Chief Consul for Delaware.
- President Kirkpatrick appoints Howard P. Wilkinson of Wheeling Chief Consul for West Virginia.
- With twenty-five League members in Texas on September 1st, President Kirkpatrick is obliged to appoint a Chief Consul and asks the members for nominations.
- Otto H. Wulfekuhler announces that the Kansas Division meet will be held at Topeka on October 4th, with one-cent railroad fares and $150 in prizes for the bicycle races.
- Chief Consul Albert Mott names the standing committees: Rights and Privileges under Clymer Whyte, Improvement of Highways under S. T. Clark, and Transportation under Jason B. Reed.
- The Louisiana Division re-elects Harry H. Hodgson Chief Consul and elects Harry W. Fairfax Secretary-Treasurer, with local consuls appointed at New Orleans and Shreveport and the Hotel Vonderbanck named League hotel.
- Minutes of the fourth annual meeting at Arlington: membership up from 231 to 450, a $1,158.14 balance left from the Baltimore League meet, a $250 legal fund voted, and Albert Mott installed as Chief Consul.
- Chief Consul T. M. Slosson appoints local consuls for Brainerd, Duluth, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Stillwater, Winona and seven other Minnesota towns.
- J. F. Rall's final financial report for the term ending Aug. 31, showing $96.20 received and expended and a $9.10 balance transferred to H. B. Cropper, Secretary-Treasurer-elect.
- List 156, sixty new names bringing the League to 11,343, covering the California, Connecticut, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas and Virginia divisions.