The Bicycling World, Vol 17, No 22
Articles in this issue
- The editors note the racing season is nearly over and promise more space for tours and runs, protest the barring of Foster, 'the plucky Canadian,' from taking further firsts in the United States, and preview the Temple–Rowe series for the world championship, urging a fair reception for Temple after the hostility shown him at Buffalo.
- The Middlesex Cycle Club, formed to promote tricycling among the ladies and gentlemen of Wakefield, Malden, Melrose, Everett, Maplewood and Medford, adopted a constitution at Jerome Milbourne's Melrose house; bicycle riders are admitted only if they bring a lady friend, and the club now has over sixty members under President J. M. Gorrie.
- Prints the articles of agreement signed at the Bicycling World office on 20 September 1888 by Ralph Temple of Chicago and William A. Rowe of Lynn for $500 a side and the bicycle championship of the world — one, five and ten-mile races at Lynn on 6 October, Hartford or Springfield on the 10th and a decider on the 13th, with S. S. Merrill as stakeholder and referee.
- 'Salina' reports the Syracuse Cycling Club's third annual 'Corn Roast' in a quarry near Darwin Springs, where seventeen men turned out and Mr. Park's basso and Arthur Stone's tenor featured in the open-air concert, and relays the comic song naming White, Harris, Chapin and Denny sung to club members at the Alhambra in Rome.
- 'Ali Baba' commends October riding on Buffalo's asphalt streets, notes the Women's Wheel Club's two weekly runs and first country run to Lancaster, gymnasium activity at the Buffalo Club, and the tour to Brocton and Fredonia taken by Messrs. Russell, Daniels and Clark.
- 'Wing Foot' previews the medal races at the Queens track, reports the improved roads from L. I. City to Flushing, large club delegations going to the Plainfield Bicycle Club's lantern parade, and Captain Palmer's October run of the Bloomfield Cyclers to Greenwood Lake.
- The 'Stroller' describes the Lincoln Cycling Club's opening night, Van Sicklen back from Buffalo forty pounds lighter, the Fort Dearborns still waiting for the picture their team won at Buffalo, and argues for the proposed Fort Dearborn–Chicago club consolidation against the Referee's objections.
- Weekly news budget: a fifty-word romance in which F. A. Gillam takes a header avoiding Miss Amelia Bedford in the Orange mountains and marries her; Windle sent home with a bad cold and Woodside down with pleurisy; a thirty-inch chronograph built in England for the Racing Association of Australia; and J. W. Hopely's Bucyrus velocipede built from battlefield ramrods and gun barrels.
- Accidents spoiled the Dorchester–Chelsea–Cambridgeport team road race: a dog upset Beazley at Needham and brought McCune down with him, and McCombie was thrown on Beacon street with concussion of the brain. Clarke, Benson and Fay finished within twenty feet of each other, tying Dorchester and Cambridgeport at 17 points, Clarke's time 1.36 1-4.
- Results of the Rhode Island Wheelmen's meet: W. A. M. Scott won the one-mile State championship, R. H. Davis the one-mile safety, and the Rhode Island team beat the Bristol County Wheelmen 1-2-3; afterwards W. Van Wagoner climbed College Hill ten times without a dismount for record, doubling the previous mark, and a 200-strong lantern parade closed the day.
- R. Patten of Skowhegan sends the St. John Telegraph's report of his one-mile win in 3.07 1-8, claiming the Maine record and the one-mile championship of Maine and the Maritime Provinces.
- 'Senator' Morgan's two-day report from the Hudson Driving Park: fewer than 500 spectators left Manager Ducker some $500 out of pocket, but Rowe won the one-mile professional scratch in 2.41, Crocker and Neilson took the professional tandem mile in an American record 2.49, and W. I. Wilhelm of Reading beat W. E. Crist in the amateur opens.
- The seventh annual New Jersey Division meet at Newark and Orange drew nearly three hundred riders: S. B. Bowman won the one-mile bicycle championship, F. N. Burgess the two-mile State championship, a tandem tricycle race had to be part walked through the mud, and Fred Coningsby climbed Eagle Rock on a Victor Safety in 7m. 43s.
- 'Duquesne' wires from Pittsburg that John A. Wells, on an American Rambler geared to 48 inches with 7 1-4 inch cranks, failed on Murder Lane Hill and twice on Sycamore Street, getting less far than local wheelmen had.
- At Long Eaton H. Sansom cut the tricycle quarter and half-mile records, and seventeen-year-old H. E. Laurie took the safety hour records from 2 to 21 miles and then the safety mile in 2m. 36 3-5s., with full comparative tables.
- Oxborrow cut safety and ordinary records from 22 to 30 miles on a Rudge on 11 September; afterwards A. H. Robb, on a Rudge ordinary paced by Howell and Vale, took Howell's English professional mile record in 2m. 33 4-5s.
- H. D. Corey of Boston replies to W. J. Morgan that the paper he signed as Judge was drawn up after the races were over and intended only as future guidance for racing men, having nothing to do with the close finishes he was off duty for.
- John Reginald Blake (L. A. W. 17,899) of New York argues the opposition to the new L. A. W. Constitution will come to nothing while its leaders only publish jeremiads, citing Mr. Shriver's absence from the New York State Division meeting at Buffalo, which left the floor silent.
- A correspondent describes the 50-mile Silver City to Deming match in which N. G. Kennedy of Denver, on a 53-inch Columbia Light Roadster, lost to a Spanish-bred pony in 4h. 43m. against the horse's 3h. 47m.; the mounted escort left the stage road and galloped ahead of the rider raising dust, so the race was protested. Stakes were 250 head of cattle a side.
- Post-office addresses of every Chief Consul and Secretary-Treasurer by State, from Edwin Mohrig of San Francisco to Jay A. Hinman of Oshkosh; Nebraska is recorded as not elected.
- Chief Consul Robt. L. Thompson announces that all Local Consuls' terms expired on 1 September under the Division's new constitution and asks members to send him names of men they wish appointed for their cities.
- Chief Consul A. B. Richmond of Grand Rapids appoints W. H. Hayden of Tecumseh a representative of the Michigan Division.
- Chief Consul J. H. Cooley appoints T. D. Sensor of Millville a representative of the New Jersey Division.
- The Ohio Division's Board of Officers chose James R. Dunn of Massillon, H. S. Livingston of Cincinnati, H. B. Hane of Marion and George Collister of Cleveland as delegates to the National Assembly.
- Chief Consul Chas. S. Davol lists seven Rhode Island Local Consuls, including Chas. E. Doe of Providence, Chas. F. Gladding of Warren, H. L. Dyer of Newport and J. H. Cross of Westerly.
- Chief Consul Jos. R. Wilson, Jr. asks Tennessee members to send him the names of non-League wheelmen of their acquaintance and offers recruiting circulars, a supply of which goes to every Local Consul, to build up the L. A. W. in the State.
- Jos. R. Wilson, Jr. names six Tennessee Local Consuls, among them Robert W. Slusser at Memphis, Ed. D. Fisher at Nashville, J. D. Herndon at Clarksville and G. A. Wilkinson at Chattanooga.
- Secretary-Treasurer N. H. Gibbs reports that the Rhode Island Division's Board of Officers, meeting on 22 September, elected Geo. L. Cooke delegate to the National Assembly.
- The Rhode Island Wheelmen of Providence have elected Geo. L. Cooke and Chas. H. Howland as their State Representatives.
- The Osceola Wheel Club of Osceola, Iowa, has applied for admission as a League Club and is numbered 208.
- A. B. Richmond lists the Michigan Division's 1888–89 Local Consuls from Allegan to Ypsilanti — including W. K. Kellogg at Battle Creek and C. H. Lightner at Detroit — with the Races, Rules and Regulations, Rights and Privileges, Membership and Transportation committees.
- List 158, totalling 52 applicants and 11,443 members, giving numbers, names and addresses by Division from Arizona to Texas, prefaced by the Article III terms of admission and the rules for protesting a candidate.