The Bicycling World, Vol 17, No 24
Articles in this issue
- Leader columns hold that W. A. Rowe's two-out-of-three win over Temple settles the world championship, remark on Danish ladies openly betting at the Copenhagen race meeting, and rebut the visiting English professionals' complaints about the Buffalo prize money and track.
- The Berkeley Athletic Club's rain-delayed tournament at Morris Dock is put back to October 27, with gold and silver watches, stop watches and diamond rings for first, second and third; racing wheels are allowed in all events and safeties in the open events.
- The annual Ladies' North Shore tour ran from Wolfe's Tavern through Essex Woods, Gloucester, Cape Ann, Rafe's Chasm and Magnolia to Salem, Abbot Bassett presiding over the evening entertainments and C. R. Dodge and C. T. Chapman coming to grief on a Traveller tandem.
- "Hawkshaw" on the six-day road-sculler tricycle race at Madison Square Garden, Wanamaker underbidding all rivals to furnish the New York Bicycle Club's new club house, and William Coyne, Jr. breaking a leg when a road wagon struck him in Central Park.
- "Duquesne" denies "Rectus's" claim that two-thirds of the Forbes street course can be coasted, and reports Jno. A. Wells failing twice on Murder Lane while A. C. Banker climbed Irwin's Hill nine times without a dismount.
- "Star" of Cincinnati jokes that Confucius, a Pharaoh's tomb and the Finnish Kalevala all anticipated the rear-driving safety, then reports the Cincinnati Bicycle Club's annual run to Miamitown with the Kenton Club and its election of H. W. Longley as president.
- "Ali Baba" on the sudden craze for beards among Buffalo wheelmen, Hall's group picture and Rumnell's etchings of the State Division meet presented to the Buffalo Club, the Ladies' Wheel Club's monthly meeting, and H. E. Ducker's coming move to Boston.
- "Mentor" defends the United Wheelmen, barely fifty strong, for taking over the state tournament after the Exposition dropped it, and notes D. B. Thomas leaving for the Argentine Republic, Lee Patrick's 111 1-2 miles in 11h. 20m., and a four-lap track sought in Troost Park.
- Paragraphs on McCombie's recovery and the Dorchester Club's $50 purse for his family, an erratum crediting Hamley's third place at Nashville to a Victor, a cycle cab started in Washington, E. J. Shriver's marriage in Baltimore, and Mr. Fisher abandoning the New Haven to New York cinder path.
- Interview with the singer at the Thorndike on learning to ride at Bidwell's in New York, her slate-coloured ankle-length riding costume lined with red flannel, her advice on saddle position, and the Royal Salvo ladies' safety she keeps beside her piano.
- Henry E. Ducker defends the Buffalo tournament officials — Geo. R. Bidwell, W. S. Bull, Chas. A. Payne, Corey, Luscomb and referee S. S. Merrill — against "Senator" Morgan's and Temple's claim that Temple was robbed of the race against Rowe.
- J. Fred Midgeley of Worcester, taken with typhoid fever after complaining of illness at Hartford, died at 11.30 P.M. on Friday, Oct. 5, in his 23rd year; the funeral at No. 2 Lowell street drew friends from Boston and Hartford.
- Captain Jack Crawford's comic seasickness ballad dedicated to Col. A. A. Pope, in which a wretched passenger answers every question from the ship's rail with the same cry.
- Godfry R. White of the North Road Club took the world's fifty-mile road record on September 18 in 2h. 57m. 47s., riding a 29-pound ordinary and beating L. G. Whittaker's 2h. 59m. 50 3-4s.
- Fred Graves of the Smith & Wesson Co. climbed Springfield's Union Street Hill fifty times without a dismount in 1h. 45m. on a 48-inch Light Victor Roadster, about 6 3-4 miles of travel against Harradon's previous best of fifteen times.
- F. H. Burrill won the Wakefield (Mass.) Bi. Club's annual twenty-five mile race in 1h. 56m. from F. C. Patch and N. S. Rogers, taking the championship medal for a second time; Pope Mfg. Co. and Wm. Read & Sons gave the second and third prizes.
- Asa Windle climbed Lynn's Stickney's Hill twice on a Veloce Columbia geared to fifty-five inches, the first crank machine other than the Springfield Roadster ever ridden up its one-in-four pitches.
- S. G. Whittaker, riding a Rudge Bicyclette on Saturday 22 September, set world's safety records from 2 to 25 miles, tabulated mile by mile and finishing at 1h. 11m. 5 1-5s.
- Wired results of the meet's first day on an unprepared track: J. Henley won the one-mile Kansas state championship, Percy Stone the three-mile handicap after the referee reversed his decision against N. T. Haynes, and Haynes the United Wheelmen championship.
- Two events preceded the Rowe-Temple match: J. P. Clarke won the one-mile handicap in 2.47 3-4 after R. H. Davis's saddle came off, and Davis, on a Swift racing safety, took the three-mile scratch from Clarke by a few inches in 9.41 3-4.
- "Ramshorn" reports the Terre Haute Bicycle Club tournament, ruined financially by a political meeting at Paris, Ill., in which W. F. Knapp twice beat the trotting horse Skinner Dick and Crocker and Neilson divided the professional events.
- Before 700 spectators on a rain-slicked Lynn track, Rowe beat Temple by a length and a half over five miles, taking the pole at the dangerous lower corner; T. A. Carroll started and S. S. Merrill refereed, the first mile being the fastest at 2.53 1-4.
- In the second match, at Charter Oak Park, Hartford, Rowe ran away from Temple over the last hundred yards to win by 20 feet in a slow 3.14 3-4, settling the championship; Kennedy-Child's revolver missed fire and the men were started by word.
- At Hartford on Oct. 10 Ludwig Forster won the one-mile handicap in 3.00 1-4 from M. Gorman, G. L. Bacon being distanced, and also the one-mile scratch in 3.47 from C. R. Brewer and Bacon.
- "Ratchet" traces the Eagle Rock Hill climbing record from R. D. Mead and Chas. E. Kluge through John A. Wells's six trips and J. Harry Shurman's twelve, to 18-year-old Fred Coningsby's thirteen round trips in 3h. 17m. 57s. on a Victor safety geared to 48 inches.
- Gerry Jones having resigned, C. S. Davol of Warren, R. I. is appointed Chairman of the Racing Board, and Alfred Ely of Cleveland, Ohio succeeds Davol on the Membership Committee.
- All local consuls and League hotels in Pennsylvania are re-appointed to hold their positions for one year by the Chief Consul.
- Chief Consul H. W. Hayes appoints Prof. R. C. Sweetser of Worcester to the State Board in place of the resigned F. P. Kendall, and adds Chas. S. Howard of Boston as a further representative.
- Rhode Island Division members who have not yet received a Road Book may obtain one free by writing to Secretary-Treasurer N. H. Gibbs, 239 Westminster St., Providence.
- At the Sherman House, Chicago, on Sept. 29, Chief Consul W. A. Davis presiding, the division reported a $231.13 surplus, elected Ed. A. Oliver, H. G. Rouse and Thos. F. Sheridan to the National Board, and accepted $30 returned by the Capital City Cycling Club.
- Norval A. Robinson's closing accounts show $780.53 on deposit with the San Francisco Savings Union and $539.90 profit from the Stockton meet, and a membership of 381 headed by San Francisco with 182 and Los Angeles with 48.
- Mr. Tucker's constitution and rules were adopted section by section, fixing the division's officers, one-dollar annual dues, and a $1,500 bond and $100 salary for the Secretary-Treasurer; seven delegates were nominated to the National Assembly.
- List 160 publishes 65 new applicants, bringing League membership to 11,566, including fifteen Buffalo Ramblers and fourteen Pennsylvania names from the Century Wheelmen, Pottstown Bi. Club and York Bi. Club.