The Bicycling World, Vol 17, No 5
Articles in this issue
- Leaders on the Maryland Division's prize-subscription scheme for the Baltimore meet, on W. A. Rowe's broken collar bone and internal injuries in England, and on Racing Board chairman Gerry Jones warning an amateur that racing a professional on the road would cost him his standing — a reversal of the Board's stated refusal to recognise road racing at all.
- Letter from the Gormully & Jeffery Mfg. Co. denying a Boston Globe paragraph: the Duryea saddle patent case against the Pope Mfg. Co. was never heard in Chicago, only the question of whether Pope could force suit into another district, and a further suit on the Smith ball-bearing and Lillibridge saddle patents is already under way before Judge Blodgett's court.
- Ex-Captain Elmer G. Whitney of the Boston Club reappears at 36 St. James avenue after months on his sheep ranch near Socorro, New Mexico, reporting the trail through Colorado and New Mexico as fine cycling ground and having just taken delivery of his Victor Safety.
- "Senator" writes from Coventry of a Sunday ride to Kenilworth Castle with Rowe, Allard and Oxborrow, of Jules Dubois's first attempt at an English letter and his "muttong and porach" diet in Scotland, and of Berlin's authorities finally permitting tricycles in the streets before the June tournament there.
- "Mercury" reports work begun on the Buffalo fair-grounds cycling track, the Ramblers' planned July 4th "pony tournament" and their Gormully & Jeffery Light Champion raffle, F. A. Brinker's climb of Silver Creek Hill, and the Buffalo Club's new dark blue uniform from F. A. Hodge.
- "Ratchet" recounts Hudson County Wheelman W. G. Wilson riding into the Morris Canal at the Pacific avenue bridge and being hauled out by policeman Mulcox; Charley Stenken's 35.20 for ten miles on the Irvington-Milburn course; and W. H. Caldwell of the Elizabeth Wheelmen covering twenty-five miles in 1.37.15.
- "Wing-Foot" on the Queens Athletic Club's mile-record medals: N. V. Waters of the Brooklyn Club opens with 3m 26 1/2s, beaten on the 23rd by R. H. Davis of the Harvard Athletic Association in 3m 21s on an Ivel safety in a high wind; also a Corby-Jones ten-mile match at Orange.
- "Duquesne" reports nine men have now ridden Irwin's hill — Seidell, Woods, W. M. Justice, A. C. and W. D. Banker, McGowin, then Murray twice without dismount and Coleman; T. B. Lee measures it by aneroid at 734 feet with a rise of 1 in 6 7/8; O. H. Allerton sets off on a 2,000-mile southern tour on his safety.
- "Direct Spoke" on the West Side boom: the Illinois Club's new club house, the Fort Dearborns (formerly the Owls) with nearly 200 members, the Aeolus Bicycle Club renewing its quarters, and Harry Corey appointed judge for the Pullman road race.
- "Bi." reports Lieutenant E. M. Graham winning the first of the Louisiana Cycling Club's President's medal series over two and a half miles in 8.32 from R. G. Betts and M. S. Graham off scratch, and Prof. Alphonse King crossing the Mississippi on his water bicycle in 24 minutes.
- "The Jottist" notes the Springfield Bicycle Club's June 21 field day at Whitman's Grove, Agawam; Will Parker of the Park City Bicycle Club, Bridgeport, rigging an incandescent electric lamp run off a storage battery under his saddle; and Berlo, Porter and Alexander all climbing Corey Hill.
- Howard A. Smith of Newark collects $50 from the Fidelity and Casualty Co. for a riding injury; L.A.W. member No. 5040, fifty-nine years old on a fifty-inch Columbia Expert, challenges any older League rider; and Gard and Hopkins of the Denver Ramblers plan a 1,400-mile ride east along the Kansas Pacific to Kansas City and Columbus.
- Verse signed R. G. B. answering the "Pedals" column and George Lacy Hillier, defending W. A. Rowe's records against British sniping and arguing that leg-work needs head-work after Dick Howell's win.
- Programme for the League's ninth annual meet, June 18-20: Board of Officers and constitutional convention at the Academy of Music, a parade over asphalt to Druid Hill Park and ten events including the one-mile L.A.W. bicycle and tricycle championships at Arlington Driving Park, a Grand National Smoker at the Concordia Opera House, and a steamer excursion on the Columbia to Annapolis and Bay Ridge.
- Special telegram: Shurman climbs Fords Hill, Philadelphia, seven consecutive times without a dismount on a Springfield Roadster, finishing fresh and stopped only by darkness.
- J. H. Shurman rides from Broad and Market streets to the summit of Eagle Rock, Orange, and back three times without dismounting before a thousand spectators, the last round trip taking 12 3/4 minutes; timed by Frank Brock and watched by E. J. Decker, C. L. S. Walker and others.
- A. Lumsden of the Fort Dearborn Club wins the second annual Chicago-to-Pullman road race from eighty-six entries in 54m 47s off an 11-minute handicap, from J. Sage and H. E. Loveday; H. R. Winship makes fastest time at 53m 20s and W. A. Rhodes fails to break the course record on a Springfield Roadster.
- Over the Irvington-Milburn course before four thousand spectators, the Kings County Wheelmen and Hudson County Wheelmen tie on 34 points; C. E. Kluge, E. P. Baggott and H. L. Bradley all beat American record inside 1.30.01, Pennell is carried off insensible after a header, and Thomas Stevens acts as referee.
- Only one entry — C. H. Stone of St. Louis — has been received for the proposed aged men's race at the Baltimore meet; at least half a dozen names are wanted by June 13.
- At Coventry on May 12 F. W. Allard, on a Coventry Machinists' "Swift" safety and paced by W. A. Rowe and W. J. Morgan, beats A. P. Engleheart's one-mile safety record of 2m 39s with 2m 37 1/5s.
- Robert Gerwing wins W. L. Van Horn's handicap from scratch on a 55-inch Apollo in 1h 30m 40s over four laps of a six-and-a-quarter-mile sandy, sixteen-hill course — claimed as American amateur record until Kluge, Baggott and Bradley beat it in New Jersey.
- C. Union Brewster corrects the March 23 account of the San Francisco Bicycle Club's February run to San Jose — 22 1/2 miles to Centreville, 42 1/2 in all in 3h 20m riding — and announces a fresh daylight attempt on May 26 with Austin and Mathews, documented by conductors' signatures and cyclometer readings.
- A Kansan answers "Detroit Twinkler"'s taunt that Easterners do not know what fun means, inviting correspondents to Wichita to see the wheelman's paradise and its thirty-strong Wichita Wheelmen, and complaining that National meet rates stop at St. Louis.
- Rain forces the Massachusetts Division to swap its picnic for a smoker at New Era Hall; at Waltham Victor Kuhn beats A. H. Hale in a $50-a-side match and E. T. Bigelow wins the 12 1/2-mile race after falling; at Portland G. M. Worden makes the first bicycle ascent of Clark St. Hill on a Springfield Roadster before 3,000 people.
- A table from the St. Louis Spectator giving the hill as 1,144 feet long with a rise of 108 1/4 feet, averaging 1 in 10 1/2, measured and certified in December 1883 by Cola E. Stone, E. M. Starr and T. J. Reynolds.
- Cable to the Globe from London: William A. Rowe breaks his collar bone and receives internal injuries in a contest at Jarrow, having beaten Wood, the North of England champion, by two feet.
- Tourmaster W. S. Bomberger asks League members wanting a place on the League tour to apply before June 9 so final arrangements are not delayed.
- Plan for the New York to Philadelphia century of June 16: rendezvous at Newark, a 4 a.m. start via Elizabeth, Plainfield, Somerville and Trenton to Philadelphia, 92 miles, under Captains L. A. Clarke, F. L. C. Martin and W. M. Crozer, with a bugle and whistle code and twenty-one New York and New Jersey clubs taking part.
- Directions for the new Brooklyn-to-Flushing route: Bedford avenue to Howard avenue, the macadamized extension of Myrtle avenue to Glendale, then by "White-Pot" and "Ireland Mill" — a short eight miles from Ridgewood, ignoring the "road closed" sign at the meadows.
- A Boston policeman orders a well-known dealer — "Davie," i.e. Harry Drummond — and his New Mail pupil off the street and up to the Common, prompting a call for the Police Commissioners to instruct their roundsmen that a bicycle has the same rights as a horse and buggy.
- The World tries the 1888 Victor Safety, finding its steering much improved, and the specially light Marlboro' Club tricycle lent by Mr. Stevens of the Coventry Machine Co.; Will Harradon climbs Union Hill seven times without dismount on a 48-inch New Mail, beating Worden's five.
- Chief Consul J. H. Cooley reports the New Jersey Division road book is not ready yet but will be forwarded to every member who has sent in his name and postage.
- J. E. Palmer, Chief Consul for Delaware, appoints the National Hotel at Middletown the League Hotel for wheelmen going to Baltimore by the Tolchester route, at 40 cents a meal and $1.00 a day against regular rates of 50 cents and $1.50.
- Chief Consul A. E. Mealy appoints C. Henry Eisenbrandt of 424 E. Baltimore street, Baltimore, sixth Representative of the Maryland Division.
- List of Pennsylvania Division consuls for the term expiring Sept. 1, 1888, from Jas. Trethaway at Alden Station and A. L. Biery at Allentown through to W. P. Swartz at York.
- Chief Consul G. R. Bidwell's List No. 7 of New York consuls appointed to Sept. 1, 1888, with business and residence addresses from Hoosick Falls and Cortland to Ithaca, Ellenville and East Springfield.
- List 141 — 111 applicants taking League membership to 9,886 — set out by division and club from California to Rhode Island, with the Article III rules on candidacy, the two-week protest window and the membership application blank.