The Bicycling World, Vol 5, No 19
Articles in this issue
- Editorial answering the Louisville Argus's complaint over Charles H. Jenkins's 3m. 8s. mile, examining how American trotting courses and athletic tracks are measured and proposing the English standard of three feet from the pole for bicycle records. It allows Jenkins his outdoor time but notes that if the Buffalo track is reliable, Ahl, Gideon and the rest must yield to Mr. Place.
- Club fixtures and news: the Boston Bicycle Club's September runs and twenty-mile race at Beacon Park, the Rutland (Vt.) Bicycle Club's annual run to the Springfield tournament, and officer elections at the Atlantic Bicycle Club of Salem, the Citizens' Bicycle Club of New York (Dr. N. M. Beckwith, captain), the Holyoke Bicycle Club, and the Nashua Wheel Club. Also reports the formation of the Owl Wheeling Club in Chicago, with E. P. Runyon president and C. C. Reid captain.
- Coming events plus full race reports: V. C. Place of Greenville, Pa. wins the Manhattan Athletic Club fifty-mile race in 3h. 27m. 11.5s. (Sanford second, Hamilton third) and sweeps the Canton, Pa. tournament; Frank Moore of Birmingham, England takes six straight heats at the Worcester fair; C. K. Alley wins the Buffalo club's three-mile championship; C. R. Garrard wins the twenty-mile professional championship of the world at Leicester; Waller beats Keen at Romford; and a 24-hour London-to-Bath road race on Facile safety bicycles is announced.
- The first American hundred-mile club run is successfully carried out by the Boston Bicycle Club: six members under Second-Lieut. W. B. Everett, with invited guests, ride 102.5 miles from Northboro' via South Framingham, South Natick, Dedham, Stoughton, Brockton, Quincy and Waltham back to the club-house, leaving at 4.38 A.M. and finishing at 9.30 P.M. in 12 hours 6 minutes of running time.
- The third annual meet and parade at Worcester under the Worcester Bicycle and Aeolus Wheel Clubs on 5 September is the largest of the series, with some 200 riders from over two dozen New England clubs parading to the fair grounds before thousands of spectators. E. C. Hodges of Boston and C. A. Hazlett of Portsmouth captain the two divisions, and Fred. S. Pratt chairs the general committee.
- 'Chic' reports Mr. McClure's visit ahead of the new Wheelman magazine, Capt. Hill of the New Orleans Club riding the Riverside, and the arrival of V. C. Place with his Buffalo '2.58' record; a postscript describes Place's astonishing victory in the Manhattan fifty-mile race and lists Beckwith, Pitman, Sanford, Jenkins and other New Yorkers booked for the Springfield tournament.
- 'Geesee' of Marblehead replies to Vice-President Parsons, arguing that the Marblehead Club's League ballots — one list of candidates individually signed by each voter because the official blanks were too small — were perfectly legal and that simple justice demands the committee on rights and privileges count them even at this late date.
- 'London W.' notes the Cyclist's endorsement of 'bike' and 'trike', Albin's extravagant Forepaugh circus advertisement, the Boston Club's successful 'Century' run and rumored 120-mile sequel, the Coventry Rotary tricycle (Lowndes's record 6m. 41s. two miles), unresolved League election ties, and defends Frank Moore, the English winner of six straight heats at Worcester, against mean-spirited remarks.
- 'Chic' of New York takes issue with London W.'s remark on Will R. Pitman's admission to the B.T.C., arguing that if a recognized athletic club and the N.A.A.A. accept his amateur claims, only prejudice keeps the League of American Wheelmen from doing likewise.
- Alfred Nixon of the London Tricycle Club rides a Premier double-driving tricycle from John o' Groat's to Land's End, reversing Keith-Falconer's famous route, covering 995 miles in 13 days, 23 hours, 55 minutes between 16 and 30 August.
- League of American Wheelmen department: membership invitation and fee details from corresponding secretary Kingman N. Putnam of 54 Wall Street, New York, followed by published applications including S. H. Libhart of the Marietta Bi. Club and unattached riders from Rochester, Laramie City (Wyoming Territory) and Holyoke.
- Short notes ahead of the Springfield tournament: the Marblehead Club's run to the Swampscott fire, the Champion City Bicycle Club of Springfield, Ohio winning the silver buglet at the Columbus state meet, W. R. Pitman's protested Worcester placings, the Rockingham Club's two-day Portsmouth meet, praise for English flyer Frank Moore, Philadelphia's planned bicentennial meet of wheelmen, and Consul Wilkins of Manchester, N.H. escorted home by the Chelsea and Lawrence clubs.
- Third in a series of cycling verses signed Ninon Neckar, in which a club line sweeps past the 'Crescents'' rowing shell to the bugler's rally of 'Ho, lads; yo ho, lads; on we go!'
- Quoting a Cyclist editorial that 'pleasure on wheels' cannot be defined, the paper argues the bicycle appeals to the racing man, the tourist, and the young man fond of 'pottering about', and pronounces from personal trial that touring affords the greatest pleasure on wheels, while confessing a yearning towards the tricycle.