The Bicycling World, Vol 17, No 9
Articles in this issue
- Leaders regretting that a proposal to address President Cleveland on behalf of the L. A. W. and improved highways was allowed to lapse during the League's Washington visit, and condemning the rowdyism of cyclers at a hotel near Salem, Mass., urging clubs and the League to expel members guilty of ungentlemanly conduct.
- A six-stanza poem signed "Whirligig" and dated June 12, 1888, on a young woman tricycling through the dewy roads and morning mist.
- Chief Consul Dr. Cooley and a committee from the Orange Wanderers postpone the New Jersey Division annual meet from 4 July to 14–15 September, with runs, races on the Roseville track and hill-climbing contests; the Wanderers' five-mile handicap on Roseville stays at 3 July.
- The New Castle, Pa., Bi. Club's 4 July card: a Jefferson Street hill-climbing contest at 10.30 A. M., then thirteen events at Wheelmen's Park including state and national L. A. W. championships, a one-mile Rover-type safety race and boys' races, with time limits and a fifty-cent entry fee to C. L. White.
- The Chicago Club is to issue a fifty-cent road book of local routes drawn largely from Burley Ayers's touring; also the disputed timing of the Winship–Van Sicklen Pullman race, the reinstatement applications of Geo. Hendee and Phil Hammel, and a correction crediting Thorne rather than Lumsden with first riding the "Sand Patch."
- "Vernon" reports Fred Bowers and Charles Wicht training for their race at the millers' picnic, and a 90-degree Sunday run by E. J. Hale, Colie Bell, Geo. Bartlett, W. J. Reid, A. M. Buchannan and Chas. Wicht to Wayzata and back by Minnetonka Mills, with a hill-climbing contest that ended in the usual dead heat.
- "Ratchet" relays the Orange Chronicle's account of the Orange Wanderers' century run wrecked by eight-inch mud at Elizabeth and thunderstorms near Trenton, and reports Harry A. Wolcot winning both the one-third-mile and two-mile handicaps from scratch at the Orange Athletic Club games on the Roseville grounds.
- "Wing-Foot" describes the Kings County Wheelmen's lantern parade of nearly 250 riders down Bedford avenue, led by the Brooklyn Ladies' Tricycle Club and Marshal M. L. Bridgeman, with Charlie Schwalbach and Eddie Austin on a lantern-hung tandem; also the Brooklyn Bi. Club's 30 June parade and Fourth of July races on the Queens track.
- "The Jottist" on a Biddeford, Me., journalist whose saddle is pinned and bicycle hidden by local youths, the Columbia Club of North Attleboro's clambake and 78-run ball game, the Springfield parade of over 175 men, and the Wethersfield, Ct., club road race won by C. H. Hanmer in 5m. 45s.
- Paragraphs on sidewalk riding in Rochester, N. Y., Ralph Temple's European tally of 76 races and 62 firsts, the contest for oldest L. A. W. member (No. 2753 of San Francisco, 63, on a fifty-inch Xtraordinary), California Division nominations, and scepticism over Banker and Lenz's claimed 102 miles in four hours between Pittsburg and New Castle.
- A cable report that Ralph Temple fell from his bicycle while practising at Amsterdam, Holland, and lay unconscious for hours; no bones were broken but internal injury is feared.
- The California L. A. W. Division's third annual meet at Stockton on 4 July, with eleven events including a 20-mile state championship, a 5-mile national championship and a Rover-type safety race, plus base ball, trick riding, club drill and an evening dance on a four-lap track.
- "Ariel" concludes his report of the L. A. W. meet at Baltimore: Wednesday's runs to Pikesville Arsenal under Captain Clotworthy and the 113-strong shell road run to a soft-crab dinner at Paine's, then the steamer Columbia's excursion to Annapolis and Bay Ridge, whose prize drawing raised $1951 for the Maryland Division.
- N. L. Collamer describes the D. C. Division entertaining some three hundred visitors from the Baltimore meet: Chief Consul Atwater's tour of the public buildings, a handshaking reception with President Cleveland, and an evening smoker at Willard's Hall with the Capital Club's Kazoo Band led by Hubbard Smith.
- Mr. Ducker's new dead-level, exact half-mile track at the Buffalo fair grounds, built with carte blanche funding on a $450,000 site, is expected to be the fastest bicycle track in the world; the fair offers $100,000 in premiums and spent upwards of $10,000 on the tournament.
- The full three-day programme of the Buffalo World's Tournament for 4–8 September: thirty races (twelve professional, eighteen amateur) including the world's professional championship heats, plus a Rochester versus Buffalo team race, a Crist versus Kluge challenge and fancy riding by Ralph Temple.
- At Roger Williams Park on 21 June, George Hutchins won the one-mile club championship and silver cup in 2.57 1-5, the fastest amateur time made in Rhode Island, beating B. J. Bruce by a second; Bruce and E. R. Phillips tied on nine points in the two-mile lap race and referred the prize to the L. A. W.
- The K. C. W.'s annual meeting on 23 June at the Brooklyn Athletic Association grounds: Kreger of the Long Island Wheelmen took the three-mile state L. A. W. championship in 10.01 2-5, F. F. Storm, Jr. won the half-mile without hands on a Star, and the L. I. W. team won the relay in 5.37 1-5.
- From Bicycling News: at Coventry on 13 June A. P. Engleheart rode a mile on a Brooke's "Record" rear-driving safety in 2m. 33s.; E. Oxborrow took the six- to ten-mile safety records on a Rudge Bicyclette under 20lbs.; and J. B. King and S. F. Edge lowered Gatehouse's tricycle records from nine to twenty-five miles.
- "Rex" previews the Fifth Annual Illinois Division meet at Springfield on 4 July, expecting three hundred riders from Chicago and parties wheeling in from Quincy, Bloomington and Jacksonville, a one-mile unicycle race added by request, and clears the Ottawa Club of deliberately clashing with the date.
- A special letter on sailing by schooner from St. Thomas to Para, Brazil: the captain's tale of the 1878 slave rising off St. Lucia, lassooing Portuguese men-of-war, crossing the equator and buying off "Old Neptune" with a few bottles, and the Amazon's mud discolouring the sea a hundred miles from land.
- Fixture list from the 30 June Wells–Greenwood hill-climbing contest on Kimmswick Hill, St. Louis, through the Canadian Wheelmen's Association meet at Belleville, the Massachusetts Division meet at Cottage City and the Buffalo world's championship heats of 4–8 September.
- Secretary-Editor Abbot Bassett's notice that under the new Constitution adopted at Baltimore each Division must elect its Chief Consul, Vice-Consul, Representatives and Secretary-Treasurer between 15 July and 15 August, with a membership table by state (New York 3153, Pennsylvania 1288, Massachusetts 1115).
- Chief Consul Robert M. Welch sets out the California Division's mail ballot: signed ballots to Secretary-Treasurer N. A. Robinson at the S. F. Stock Exchange, none counted after the first delivery of 16 August, with the Committee on Rights and Privileges witnessing the count that evening.
- League List 145 of 58 applicants, bringing the total to 10,292, printed under Article III of the Constitution with its two-week protest window; names run from the Alabama and California Divisions through Illinois, Maryland and Massachusetts.