The Bicycling World, Vol 3, No 22
Articles in this issue
- Lead editorial addressing the contested distinction between professional and amateur cyclists, examining the legitimacy of competitors who receive financial backing or prizes while competing under amateur status.
- Touring narrative of a forty-two-mile bicycle run along canal roads with challenging terrain and changeable weather, ending when the rider took the train from Springfield home through rain and darkness after a long day in the saddle.
- Account of a solo bicycle tour starting Wednesday September 7 on a 52-inch wheel through charming countryside with views of the Green Mountains, continuing through the Crawford Notch and concluding with a train ride from Fabyan's to Rochester, N.H. after the rider's ankle began to pain him.
- Club news reporting plans to inaugurate a series of weekly handicap races open to club members for medals, with Messrs. Stall, Dean, and Dalton organizing the handicapping; notes Louis Harrison entering active training and Mr. Morris and Billy Bernhardt quietly preparing for competition.
- Race results including the Missouri state championship one-mile race held September 24 in St. Louis, won by G. G. Bain on a 54-inch wheel in 3:20½ ahead of Fred Beckers and Arthur Young, with comparison to the best English amateur record of 5m. 36 3-5s. by I. Keith Falconer of Cambridge University.
- Letters from readers including an account of a Halifax Bicycle Club run of thirty-two miles to Hubbard's Cove, departing at 7 A.M. with eight riders covering the first eight miles in fifty minutes before tackling sandy roads to the Lakeside Hotel.
- Miscellaneous notes including a report on a cycling party's warm reception by Jefferson citizens and the comic misadventures of a rider named Oscar, who sustained a bump on the head from high-kicking, scratches from a thorn-apple tree, a hole in his stomach from a fence board, and burns from a header into a ditch.
- Short notices including a tribute to a cycling pioneer's contributions to the development of the modern bicycle and tricycle, and an announcement for 'Over the Wheel,' a neatly illustrated ten-cent booklet containing practical hints for riders, published by P. T. Bartlett of Boston.