The Bicycling World, Vol 20, No 1
Articles in this issue
- Unsigned leader endorsing Niagara Falls for the 1890 L. A. W. annual meet after the Niagara Falls Bicycle Club's unanimous invitation, reprinting the New York Sun's expose of New York athletic clubs quietly finding places for "amateurs" such as James S. Mitchell, urging Wisconsin and Minnesota wheelmen to hunt for the missing W. P. Robinson, and promising a review of Robert P. Scott's "Cycling Art, Energy and Locomotion."
- Reprints a letter from H. W. Swartz of 15 Tsukiji, Tokio, Japan, who saw Llewellyn H. Johnson's Catford Premier Safety advertisement in the Bicycling World and wrote asking for a catalogue and a price.
- Mock-biblical sketch signed "Kay Bee" of two Harvard riders speeding down Mt. Auburn street, the second running down a small boy who threw his cap under their wheels and then swore at him when he proved unhurt.
- "Toney" reports fifteen Somerville cyclists organising the Nifty Cycle Club on Meade street, the Charlestown Rovers' closing run to Chestnut Hill Reservoir, the Beacon club's dinner debate on "Roads and Highways" at which ex-Superintendent Charles Harris said Boston had not one well-paved street, and P. W. Davis's two-mile win at Harvard.
- "Hawkshaw" argues that parcelling L. A. W. championships out locally makes champions in name only, and proposes State championships as trial heats with Divisions paying their champions' expenses to the nationals; he also wishes for a self-steering sociable and urges the League into politics.
- "Kay Bee" reflects on "Jack" of the Wheelman's Gazette, who wished to die racing rather than of old age and whose wish was soon granted, on Holden's tackle for Harvard against a gigantic Princeton back, and on racing men who excuse a last place by saying "I took a header."
- "Anchor" attacks the management of the 100-mile road race run on the Raleigh road on October 20 over a two-mile course requiring a dismount at every turn, and gives the long-distance medal score with Julius Seelig leading on 3,347 miles from A. F. Alberts's 1,796.
- "Linneus" describes the Cycling Club's annual run to Indian Cave with Geo. Tivy smoking the members' names on the roof, its new Garrison avenue club house built by Dr. Engelman, Chief Consul Holm's League hotel scheme, and a coming row in the Missouri Club over non-riding members.
- "Ariel" previews Van Wagoner's attempt on Wilhelm's Lancaster Pike record from Paoli to 52d street, the South End and Pennsylvania clubs' rival bids for the twenty-four-hour record, Wilson and McDaniel's fifty miles on the Passyunk Square asphalt, and the Wilmington Wheel Club's run to Willow Grove.
- "Corn Stalk" describes wheeling in a remote north-western Connecticut village of bad roads, and a 136-mile four-day tour through the Berkshire Hills by way of Great Barrington, Stockbridge, Lenox, Pittsfield, Hudson and Poughkeepsie.
- "Salina" bids farewell to Secretary Cherry, who has gone to Toronto, notes Harry L. Curran's return from Chicago after a year's illness, and reports that influential citizens are meeting to build a bicycle race track in Syracuse next season.
- "The Stroller" disputes Rouse of Peoria's claim that Myers has always beaten Winship, recalling Winship's win over Myers in the Illinois vs. Chicago road race, and notes the Illinois Club's annual ball, the Lincolns' smoker and the Douglas Club ball at Apollo Hall on November 14.
- "Star" reports Chief Consul M. A. High's letter-writing campaign to Local Consuls after Illinois passed the Ohio Division in membership, and the October 26 Cincinnati meeting of Avondales, Crescents, Kentons, Athletics and Cincinnatis to prepare next July's State meet.
- "Nitram" previews the Plainfield Bicycle Club's fall games at Crescent Rink on November 14, records the Atalantas' growth from 21 to 53 members, and describes the Elizabeth Wheelmen's smoker for 150 riders after rain postponed their lantern parade, where Chief Consul Dr. G. Carleton Brown announced the New Jersey road book for December 1.
- "Nostaw" reports the Rambling Wheelmen's fifteen-mile road race fixed for November 6 at Seaside Park, with a third prize given by Joseph Wilkinson for the Pope Mfg. Co., and Captain Arthur B. Smith's sprained wrist after his wheel caught in the Stratford avenue horse-car track.
- Editorial notes on the steam tricycle seen at Kirk Brown's in Philadelphia, W. F. Murphy's 2.59 3-5 Queens County mile, the collapse of the Lancaster (Pa.) Bicycle Club, J. A. Dubois's disbelieved 1.58 mile on a high-wheel tandem built by E. Alsdorf & Co. of Newark, and the Racing Board's award of the Bristol scarf pin to Charles H. Wood of Hartford.
- "Dash" reports the $10,000 suit brought against Jas. H. Barham of Nashville after a mule he dismounted to help hold near Lebanon bolted and wrecked its wagon, and Chief Consul J. R. Wilson, Jr.'s pledge of Tennessee Division support in the first such case in the State.
- Helen Grey on the escaped bear terrorising eastern Massachusetts, which chased wheelmen near Highlandville; she asks lady riders for their season's mileage records and costume hints, and wonders why Buffalo women ride without a brake.
- The Chicago Herald's transcontinental tourist had covered some 1,450 miles to Watrous, N. M. by October 26 despite a lame knee, describes losing and regaining weight across the Mojave, and reached Trinidad, Col. on October 27 a day ahead of schedule; he is chasing Gregg's claimed fifty-nine-day record.
- Albert Mott of Baltimore rebuts Shriver's claims that modern artillery has made fortifications useless and that Gen. Sheridan favoured rifle pits only, and defends national interstate highways funded on the model of river and harbor appropriations.
- Detailed description and reward notice for William Platte Robinson of Richmond, Ind., a Wheelman's Club member missing from Lake City, Minn. since September 6 and now thought to be wandering in Wisconsin after a partial sunstroke.
- Circular from James B. Reed, chairman of the Maryland Division's Highway Improvement Committee, putting three questions to Baltimore city council candidates on laying only the highest grade pavements and on the city bearing the whole cost of repaving.
- A Peoria gentleman insists Bert Myers really rode a mile in 2.13 on a surveyed course with a gale behind him; the World replies that on a 60-inch wheel the cranks would have to turn two and three-fourths times a second, and asks the timers how it was done.
- B. Taylor Bruce of Providence itemises a $20 two-day trip to the Hartford races and argues the L. A. W. racing rules should require entrance fees to be refunded to every man who starts.
- Wm. J. Corcoran, a Boston bicycle and athletic trainer, answers Davol, Mott and Miles by proposing Eastern and Western district championship series that would feed three men per class into three national one-mile races on July 4.
- Judge Barnard of Poughkeepsie awards the bicyclist Goring $500 against Kennedy, holding him liable for harboring a vicious dog owned by his son-in-law Hoolohan after being warned of earlier attacks.
- 2d Lieut. E. K. Pritchett's account of five Minneapolis Bicycle Club men riding 102 miles to Northfield and back on September 29 against a head wind that forced them to abandon Faribault as the turning point, the longest club run on record in Minnesota.
- Racing roundup led by Deupree's 8h. 11m. win over Whitemore in the Memphis 100-mile road race and C. J. Iven's ride into Rochester with a broken wrist to win the Buffalo-to-Rochester team race for the West Ends, with Greenleaf's 5.59 1-4 Harvard two-mile record, Andrae's win over Tuttle at Milwaukee, and Road Record Association claims by Holbein, Bidlake and Goulding.
- The 100 mile road race of October 20 over a two mile course started at 8 o'clock instead of six; Deupree cut out the pace ahead of Dick Whitemore, Sawyer, Dougherty and Scott, Dougherty came to grief at ten miles and Scott quit at 84, leaving Deupree to win in eight hours eleven minutes with Whitemore second in eight hours fifty-two. Signed "Anchor."
- Eighteen men, six each from the Genesee, West End and Buffalo Bicycle Clubs, rode the 74 miles from Buffalo to Rochester; C. J. Iven of the West Ends passed the line first in five hours forty-five minutes after riding the twenty miles from Byron with a broken right wrist and a broken saddle, Lewis of Buffalo second, and the West End Club won the point score from the Genesee. Signed "Ali Baba."
- W. B. Greenleaf, '92, broke the Harvard College two-mile record in 5.59 1-4, paced by T. Barron, K. Brown and E. A. Bailey at the Freshman's Athletic Association games; the two-mile bicycle race that opened the programme went to P. W. Davis in 6m. 58 3-4s. from J. E. Tweedy.
- Two bicycle races at the Driving Park last Saturday afternoon: G. Cole won the one mile in 4m. 20s., and E. Phinney the five miles in 22m. 44s. with J. Lindsley only two seconds behind.
- At the Columbia College Athletic Association's annual fall games on the Manhattan Athletic grounds, October 25th, 1889, Robert B. Kimber, '91, won the two-mile bicycle race in 6m. 57 1-5s. from G. R. Van Ripen, '93, by twenty yards, with R. L. Scott, '93, third and W. H. Hall, '91, off scratch fourth.
- The Centaur Club's ten mile championship road race, postponed from October 10, was run around Druid Lake on Thursday, October 24th, before few spectators and with only two starters; G. C. Wedikind beat F. B. Eisebrandt by twenty feet in 39.30 and holds the jewelled medal for a year, the pair narrowly missing a trotting horse on the fifth lap.
- The ten mile handicap road race at Milwaukee last Saturday went to the local man Terry Andrae in 38 1-4 minutes over the Chicago crack F. H. Tuttle, who reached the line at 39, both riding from scratch; E. H. Paige took 41 minutes off two minutes, and W. C. Wegner, G. F. Smith, Fred Schmitz, H. P. Andrae and C. Price followed.
- The Road Record Association met at 27 Clement's Lane, Lombard street, E. C., on the 3d inst. with H. T. Arnott in the chair and passed claims including M. A. Holbein's 175 1-2 miles in 12 hours and 324 miles in 24 hours on a safety, H. R. Pope's London to York tricycle ride in 21h. 4m., W. C. Goulding's 280 tricycle miles in 24 hours and F. T. Bidlake's 100 miles in 6h. 55m. 58s.; the Smith and Osborne claims were adjourned.
- A young Frenchman, M. Fol, is reported to have ridden 180 1-2 miles in 12 hours, bettering M. Mousset's 177 3-4 miles on a safety, but the World rules the claim cannot stand as a road record because the course is only about 1 1-2 miles round and as good in surface as the best racing path.
- At Bristol, Mr. H. H. Sansom rode a flying quarter in 34 2-5s., which is amateur English record.
- The Capital City Cycling Club of Springfield, Ill., ran off its ten-mile handicap road race last week; H. Johnson won from scratch in 45m. 52s., with Temple Smith (5 min.) second and R. Matlock, scratch, third.
- Mr. F. T. Birdlake, of the North Road Club, has established a tricycle record of exactly 199 miles in 18h. 28m. over the route from York to London by way of Tadcaster.
- The 72-hours' bicycle race at the Mutual street rink closed at 11 o'clock last Saturday with only W. A. Rhodes and Desmond left in and Dingley, the overnight leader, absent; Rhodes finished on 919 miles to Desmond's 832, which the Herald called a record, though the editor notes J. S. Prince's 1042 1-8 miles at Minneapolis in May, 1886, still stands.
- The Jno. Wilkinson Co. of Chicago, U. S. agents for the Rover, certifies that Bert Myers's 2.13 mile was made on a regular stock New Light Rover safety weighing 36 pounds with pedals and geared to 60 inches.
- Unheaded trade column praising the Pope Manufacturing Company for keeping its Saturday half-holiday, announcing Gormully & Jeffery's new Boston branch at 178 Columbus avenue under Albert E. Schaaf, and quoting the Union on Charles F. Stokes's $50,000 order from the Warwick Cycle Mfg. Co.
- The League's officers for the year: President Chas. H. Luscomb, 280 Broadway, New York; First Vice President James R. Dunn of Massillon, Ohio; Second Vice President Sanford Lawton of Springfield, Mass.; Treasurer W. M. Brewster, 309 Olive Street, St. Louis; Secretary Abbot Bassett, 12 Pearl Street, Boston.
- Committee rosters for Membership (A. E. Mealy of Baltimore, F. L. Casselberry of Mansfield, Ohio), Rights and Privileges (A. Moore Berry, George A. Perkins, Isaac B. Potter), Rules and Regulations (Dr. Wm. H. Emery, W. A. Davis, Chas. L. Brockway), Improvement of Highways (Dr. Chas. S. Butler, Wm. W. Share, Junius E. Beal), Racing (C. S. Davol, George S. Atwater, Harry H. Hodgson, George Collister, Robt. A. Smyth) and Transportation (W. M. Brewster).
- A. A. Dean of Danielsonville, chairman of the Improvement of Highways Committee, asks every Local Consul and member to forward lists of their towns' Selectmen in order of rank with post office addresses.
- Chief Consul Robt. Holm lists nine appointed League hotels, from the Hotel Steele at Kirksville to the Jacobs Hotel at Carrollton, with reduced member rates allowed only on presentation of a membership card.
- Chief Consul G. Carleton Brown appoints F. L. C. Martin of Plainfield as New Jersey Division correspondent to the Bulletin and asks club secretaries and captains to send him local items.
- Chief Consul Robt. Holm appoints Geo. E. Tivy of 620 W. 3rd street local consul pro tem for St. Louis during J. Harold Child's absence in the East.
- J. E. Eberly of the Eberly-Akurst Arms Co. is appointed local consul for St. Joseph and reinstated as a member of the Missouri racing committee.
- List 213 prints 68 new applicants, bringing L. A. W. membership to 11,620, grouped by Division from California and Colorado through the Syracuse and Hartford clubs to Texas and Alabama.