The Bicycling World, Vol 17, No 23
Articles in this issue
- The leader mocks the epidemic of Japanese lantern parades and attacks Buffalo and Pittsburg for letting prize-winners Kenneth Brown and W. D. George start in "novice" races by rewriting the L. A. W. rule from "date of event" to "date of entry."
- The "Ohne Hast" three-day tour runs 4-7 October with Mrs. Charles Hopkins pacing and Mrs. Stall as whipper-in, and the editor laments that his single state bars him from joining.
- The writer of the 31 August article on "Bigotry" retracts his charge about the San Francisco Bicycle Club's by-laws, admitting he was misinformed, while standing by his contempt for the individual members who object to the race in question.
- An unnamed Western reader signing himself No. "1842" asks fellow readers to write to the Baltimore correspondent "Secretary" thanking him for his reminiscences of the "Order of the Bushwhackers."
- The Boston columnist ridicules a cycling notable who could not see what "Caviler" had to do with cycling, defends being a fair-weather rider, blames the officials for not postponing the muddy Eastern Road Club race in which McCombie was hurt, and needles ex-Chairman Abbot Bassett for being passed over as referee.
- "Ariel" reports Kingsland's surprise defeat of Crist at the Tioga races and Chairman Gideon's success, Lewis and Bement climbing Conshohocken Hill, Mr. Sweeting's new cycle store at 639 Arch street, and the arrangements for the Wilmington-Reading road race.
- "Linneus" describes the Quincy Bi. Club and Ramblers' visit and their brewery trip, road reports from Henry and Boone counties, Chief Consul Brewster's cheap Kansas City rate, and eight Cycle Club men climbing Son-of-a-Gun Hill.
- The "Stroller" on Stevens of the Fort Dearborns swapping a light roadster for a tandem, Van Sicklen's slow recovery, Riggs of the Illinois Club going for the Chicago-Milwaukee and 24-hour records, the Chicago-Fort Dearborn consolidation scheme, and the Illinois Division board meeting at the Sherman House.
- "Hawkshaw" asks what became of J. Purvis-Bruce, welcomes the $750,000 to be spent on city park roadways, reports Theodore Carroll losing an ear in a Riverdale avenue collision, and defends the Buffalo judges over the Temple-Rowe foul on the ground that only the referee may rule on fouls.
- "Salina" records the season's last club run, attended by only eight members behind Capt. Chapin on a 53-inch Columbia, and the mock trial before Judge Wilson of the club man accused of breaking the club's 32-inch bicycle.
- "Star" of Cincinnati disputes the Commercial Gazette's claim that the season is over, notes a teamster fined for driving on the Race St. asphalt, Allsup's Sycamore Hill climb, warns against cotton clothing and park coasting, and recounts the C. B. C.'s battle with a snake on the Alexandria run.
- Weekly budget of paragraphs: the Medford (Mass.) Cycle Club organized with fifteen members, Berlo and Clarke's record 3.11 3-4 tandem circuit of the reservoir, the $1,000 Martel-Neil bicycle-versus-mare match from Hartford to New York, and W. A. Ross fined $7.63 for sidewalk riding in Holyoke.
- C. C. Hopkins writes from Denver retracting nothing of his June criticism of Illinois roads, while thanking his escorts Bert Meyers of Peoria and Messrs. Sperry and Nicolet of Champaign.
- Portrait and statistics of the 23-year-old Galesburg professional on the eve of his match series with Rowe: 125 races abroad in 1887-88 for 103 firsts, world championships at half, 10 and 20 miles, a 21-pound 53 1-2-inch Humber, and a training method of short bursts borrowed from Hillier and Howell.
- A companion sketch of the Gloucester-born, Lynn-based champion: beating George Hendee in 1886, world records from a quarter-mile to 22 miles, the unfit English campaign against Howell, the broken collar bone against W. Wood, and his recent wins over Temple at Buffalo and Hartford.
- Correspondent "Duquesne" telegraphs from Pittsburg that Jno. A. Wells climbed Sycamore street hill (average grade 1 in 6 4-5) on an American Rambler geared to 48 inches, going 300 feet beyond any previous rider at his third attempt.
- E. Taylor's tricycle records of 19 September: 6 miles in 17m. 25s., 8 miles in 23m. 1s. and 9 miles in 26m. 14s.
- S. G. Whittaker put the one-mile safety record at 2m. 31 4-5s. on 18 September and rode the quarter on a safety in 33 2-5s. the following day.
- W. Wood took the 20-mile championship for £40 and the belt at the Belgrave grounds from A. H. Robb and R. Howell, while Tom English won the 15-mile at North Shields ahead of W. Wood and R. H. English.
- The club voted on 27 September to refer its disputed twenty-five-mile race to referee Dr. W. H. Emery, who is expected to order the Dorchester and Cambridgeport clubs to run it off.
- A fund opened in every Eastern Road Club member club for the rider seriously injured in the twenty-five-mile race; Dr. Kendall, Dr. Emery, John B. Seward, Willard H. Forbes and Lieutenant Newman each gave $5 and the World adds its own $5.
- Results of the East Hartford Club's chilly Saturday meeting: W. James took the one-mile club championship in 3.24 and the three-mile handicap, L. Foster the one-mile open in 3.22, and J. E. Dauchy the half-mile handicap final.
- The San Francisco Bicycle Club's 10 September meet: A. U. Brown won the novice, A. S. Ireland walked over for the five-mile L. A. W. State championship, and C. P. Fonda won the one-mile Rover type in 3.16 1-4, short of the 3.10 3-4 Pacific coast record.
- Fifteen men started the Nashville Club's 30-mile handicap; J. D. Herndon won from scratch in 2.21 1-2 on a 56-inch Victor, taking the American Champion roadster given by Gormully & Jeffery, while Hamley crashed into a pile of stones.
- The Berkeley Athletic Club's new $15,000 grounds at Morris Dock on the Harlem River, with a four-lap banked track twenty feet wide, open on 20 October with nine events managed by G. R. Bidwell and F. P. Prial of the Wheel; the Pope Mfg. Co. gives a silver cup.
- Second day of the Missouri Division meet before some 500 shivering spectators: Percy Stone won the one-mile handicap and half-mile open, A. J. Henley the Kansas State championship and Jno. M. Hodgen the Missouri; the first day's report never reached the office.
- Two hundred and seventy-five wheelmen rode decorated machines to Kansas City's Exposition Building behind Signor Liberati's mounted bugle corps, were welcomed by Judge J. T. Philips, and watched John Stout ride his Star up a flight of stairs.
- Some 1,500 spectators braved a heavy track and cold weather; Kingsland beat Crist, Wilhelm and Halsted in a blanket finish to the one-mile open, Isaac Van Deusen, Jr. won the 3.20 class, and S. T. Clark of Baltimore refereed.
- Three frigid days of poorly attended racing: W. W. Windle swept the amateur opens, W. D. George the class events, A. C. and W. D. Banker took State records in the Pennsylvania L. A. W. championships, and W. A. Rowe beat Crocker and Knapp for the professional championship series.
- W. K. Corey recounts riding a high-geared safety into a Santa Barbara sand storm, meeting Spiers and Arthur L. Atkins, the San Francisco Bicycle Club's hospitality and Golden Gate Park's red-rock road, being towed home on a tandem tricycle by three riders' knotted suspenders, and six days among the Yellowstone geysers.
- A dialogue verse by "Whirligig" in which Susie asks what restored Jennie's health and the answer turns out to be not a patent medicine but Singer's Straight (bar) Steerer.
- Chief Consul Albert Mott announces the Voshell House of Chestertown as a League Hotel at $2 a day, with a special rate of $1.50.
- Minutes of the 15 September Board of Officers meeting at the Maryland Bi. Club House: Clymer Whyte and J. Kemp Bartlett elected delegates to the National Convention, a $1,000 sinking fund created, and every rider asked to carry a lantern at night before compulsory regulation is sought.
- Albert Mott reappoints twenty-one Local Consuls, among them H. McStouffer of Hagerstown, Carl Sykes of Ellicott City and Frank Keating of Centreville, and names A. C. Willison for Cumberland.
- The Cyclists Touring Club of Albany, N. Y., with John A. Paterson as president, applies for admission as League Club No. 209.
- List 159 of 59 candidates brings the League to 11,503, including Geo. M. Hendee of the Springfield Bi. Club and entries from the Colorado, Illinois, Texas and Virginia Divisions.