The Bicycling World, Vol 17, No 25
Articles in this issue
- Leader on the Rowe-Temple 'fake' championship, calling it a mortal wound to professional racing; the paper, which had vouched for both Temple and 'Senator' Morgan, holds Rowe the worse offender for selling out his fellow conspirators.
- R. S. McCombie died on Wednesday afternoon after an unsuccessful operation for injuries taken in last month's Eastern Road Club race, leaving a young wife and two children; the Dorchester Club turned out in a body at the funeral and sent a floral offering.
- Further subscriptions to the McCombie fund from Suffolk Wheel Club men of South Boston: J. F. Charnoch, F. R. Davis, John S. Beaney, H. A. Thayer and A. G. Collins at $1 each, and G. S. Locke 50 cents.
- Prize list for the Berkeley Athletic Club meet - alligator traveling bag, Columbia cup, French clock, bronze figures and diamond scarf pins across the novice, inter-scholastic, Rover-type, scratch, inter-collegiate, handicap and tricycle events; entries close October 22 with G. R. Bidwell or F. P. Prial.
- The tie between the Cambridgeport and Dorchester Clubs will be run off Thursday, Oct. 25, starting from the Faneuil House at 2.30 sharp over the same route; a club not on the mark promptly forfeits.
- Satirical column inventing books for the Rowe-Temple conspirators - Morgan's 'Diamond Cut Diamond,' Temple's 'Tommy Tiddler's Great Race' and Rowe's 'The Double Cross' - and answering Dr. W. G. K. on the spelling of 'Caviler' and Kirk Corey's challenge to ride with his club.
- 'Hawkshaw' on the six-day road-sculling hippodrome at Madison Square Garden won by Jake Gaudaur with 465 miles, E. J. Shriver's spread at the New York Club, the death of Henry Monett of the New York Central who won free bicycle carriage for wheelmen, and J. W. Powers's slow N. A. A. A. two-mile championship out-timed by Frank G. Brown's handicap.
- 'Ariel' corrects the disputed one-mile finish at the Tioga races - officially Kingsland first, Crist second, Wilhelm third after Halsted waived his place for fouling - and notes the Mount Vernon Wheelmen's new enameled silver badge and the Wilmington Wheel Club's $25 deposit for a road race with the Reading Bicycle Club.
- 'Linneus' on Sloan Tracy securing the Gentlemen's Driving Club track at Forest Park for a Cycle Club meeting, Joplin ranking third in Missouri League membership with 15, a run to Clayton over fine roads, and the Greenwood-Wells expense quarrel with Referees Collins and Brewster denying Wells's account.
- 'The Stroller' on Lumsden of the Fort Dearborns beating Percy Stone at the Quincy meet, Spooner of the Lincolns taking the Chicago twenty-four-hour record with 231 miles, Riggs still weather-bound for a Milwaukee-Chicago try, and the Chicago-Fort Dearborn consolidation stalled over club debts.
- 'Salina' on the Syracuse Cycling Club's plan for a four-man tour through Pennsylvania to Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington and home by New York and Albany, a new Room Committee for the club rooms, and Rice the 'Diamond King' lending the club his billiard table.
- Paragraph budget: J. S. Dean home from Europe a Benedict, Geo. M. Hendee married to Miss Edith M. Cordwell, Richmond's meeting postponed to Oct. 29-30, H. L. Pyle's 100 miles in 8h. 35m. on a Springfield Roadster, C. S. Davol made Racing Board chairman, a Veloce safety stolen from R. L. Edgett of Bradford, and Tom Eck eloping with his own wife to stop the divorce suit.
- Trade note welcoming the Birmingham makers of the New Rapid, whose advertisement in this issue was placed direct from the English home office - cited as an instance of enterprise and a tribute to the paper as an advertising medium.
- Full expose of the Rowe-Temple 'Big Four' fake, printing the triplicate crooked agreement signed by W. J. Morgan for Ralph Temple and F. L. Alley for W. A. Rowe naming S. S. Merrill of Lynn stakeholder and referee, with Morgan's and Alley's mutual accusations and Temple's account of Rowe's double cross at Charter Oak Park.
- The Orange Wanderers' postponed ten-mile handicap on the Milburn-Springfield course was won by Charles A. Lindsley in 45m. 20s. from Edward J. Decker (scratch) and Frank P. Jewett; L. H. Johnson timed and started.
- The South End Wheelmen's annual ten-mile road race went to E. G. Kolb in 42 minutes, with Dimon second and L. J. Kolb third; only three of the five starters finished, the trio staying together until Kolb spurted in the last quarter.
- Races under the Bedford Agricultural Society drew 3,000 spectators: J. E. Patterson of Williamsburg won the half-mile in 1m. 24s. and the five-mile Juniata Wheelmen championship in 17m., and F. M. Bolinger of Huntingdon the two-mile novice; medals by John Harriott of Boston.
- In the New Haven Bicycle Club's annual ten-mile from the Four Corners to Branford's Green, F. E. Weaver won in 40m. 54s., nearly two minutes inside last year's record; the Larom-Weaver-Bacon team took the points 12 to 9.
- Colie Bell of Minneapolis won the half-mile dash, half-mile safety, one-mile scratch and two-mile lap, while A. J. Henly of Wichita took the three-mile Kansas State championship in 10.27 1-2 and A. B. Mulvane of Topeka the mile novice.
- Ten-mile team race for the Citizens' cup at Druid Park before over 5,000 people: Kingsland of the Ramblers led home in 31.20, but the Maryland Club took the cup on points with 61 to the Ramblers' 57, Baltimores 51 and Centaurs 41.
- Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Smith's tandem tricycle ride at Long Eaton, timed by Pembroke Coleman of the National Cyclists' Union, took records from six miles up and world's figures from 26 to 30 miles, the thirty in 1h. 40m. 24 1-5s.
- 'Linneus' reports the Quincy meet: Lumsden won the half-mile dash and Percy Stone the mile, Crocker beat Grant Bell in the three-mile professional in the remarkable 8m. 1s., John Stout won the hill climbing, and Bert Meyers took a one-mile unicycle race.
- First annual Maine Division L. A. W. meet at Fairfield, Oct. 11, under Chief Consul F. A. Elwell: R. T. Patten of Skowhegan won the one-mile and three-mile championships, Baker of Skowhegan the half-mile from Barnes, and Wm. Windle of Lynn the Pope cup dash off 100 yards in 3 minutes.
- Visit to the Warwick Cycle Co.'s Springfield factory with President Geo. T. Warwick and Treasurer George K. Tapley, describing the Swedish-steel drop forgings, gauge-varied backbone and handle-bars, direct-action plunger brake, screw-nipple tangent spokes replaceable without stripping the tire, vertical dust-proof bearings and rubber anti-vibration spring, plus a preview of their forthcoming geared-steering safety.
- Chief Consul W. M. Brewster appoints the Arcade House at Higginsville, Mo., a League Hotel at $1.50 a day and 35-cent meals to L. A. W. members.
- Chief Consul Albert Mott appoints E. P. Hayden representative to the State Board and makes the Barton House at Hancock, Washington Co., a League Hotel at the L. A. W. rate of $1.25.
- Geo. A. Jessup names W. D. Supplee of 505 Market St. and Thomas Hare, both of Philadelphia, as representatives for the Pennsylvania Division.
- Brewster appoints Local Consuls for Columbia, California, Fredrickstown, Grant City, Farmington, Mexico, Jonesburg and Unionville, Mo., including Prof. H. C. Penn at Columbia.
- At Hartford on Sept. 29 the board voted delegates' expenses, elected Stephen Terry and Henry C. Ward delegates with Huntington and Brockway as alternates, appointed a committee to get terms for adopting the Cycler as division organ, and voted the Secretary-Treasurer $15.
- Clarksville, Oct. 10, under Chief Consul J. R. Wilson, Jr.: standing committees named on touring, finance, rules, improvement of highways and rights and privileges, with a special committee of five to investigate issuing a Tennessee road-book and Local Consuls instructed to put up sign boards.
- Wilson appoints the road-book committee - C. J. Scherer of Memphis chairman, with Fisher, Wilkinson, Hessler and Patch - to price a road-book with maps, and makes L. C. Hessler Local Consul for Knoxville.
- Chief Consul C. E. Larom names the division's committees on highways, rights and privileges, touring, racing and rules, and lists Local Consuls for some forty towns from Hartford and New Haven to Willimantic.
- Chief Consul Geo. R. Bidwell's annual report: membership grown from about 800 in 1885 to 2,318, 175 Consuls appointed, a 2,150-copy road book issued for over $600, the 'Liberty Bill' passed and Central Park opened to wheelmen, plus recommendations on clerical duties, a $400 clerk-hire allowance and a revised road book and state map.
- The board adopted the new By-Laws, voted $400 to the Chief Consul's office, and balloted eleven delegates to the National Assembly - Gulick, Butler, Luscomb, Share, Gallien, Dakin, DeGraaf, Adriance, Graves, Potter and Jones - with John C. Gulick made third member of the Executive Committee.
- Chief Consul Bidwell regrets the delay and promises the division's full financial report, embodied in the Finance and Audit Committee's report for '87 and '88, in the next issue of the Bulletin.
- List 161, 68 names, running total 11,634, with candidates from the District of Columbia, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia and Wisconsin Divisions, including ten Plainfield Bi. Club men and nine of the Syracuse Cycling Club.