The Bicycling World, Vol 5, No 8
Articles in this issue
- Answers to Correspondents fields queries from F. J. F. of Lynn on slow-race rules, "Jehu" of Newmarket, Canada on bicycle handicapping, F. P. S. of Lexington, Ky. on H. L. Cortis's forthcoming training book, and H. L. B. of Warsaw, N.Y., who is directed back to earlier "How It Stands" articles.
- Wm. Ford & Co. of Wolverhampton, England, rebut an earlier "Caution" notice accusing them of mishandling a Pennsylvania customer's bicycle order, explaining a dispute over locknutted versus direct spokes and inviting American wheelmen to order instead through Stoddard, Lovering & Co. of Boston.
- Reviews the July Century (including Geo. E. Waring Jr. on Muybridge-style horse-motion photography and Emma Lazarus on Emerson), St. Nicholas, and Our Little Ones, and notes that Wescott Norman of the Germantown Bicycle Club, with three Philadelphia wheelmen, rode from New York to Boston, breaking a rear fork near Springfield.
- Under "Sign-Boards," argues the League should erect distinctive guide-boards at crossroads for touring wheelmen; reports that seven Massachusetts Bicycle Club members, three tied to the Pope Manufacturing Co., moved to oppose E. C. Hodges's election as Massachusetts chief consul; and defends Weston's low-value pewter-tankard prizes as fitting for true amateurs.
- Announces the new Cincinnati Wanderers Bicycle Club (pres. F. W. Scarborough) and Grand Rapids Bicycle Club (pres. W. Fred Avery), reports the Buffalo Bicycle Club's new constitution and fifty-nine members under pres. F. F. Williams, and carries notes on a Cazenovia club, the Hudson (Mass.) club's Great Barrington excursion, and a query about the Hamilton, Canada club.
- Lists coming races at New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Utica, Springfield, Brooklyn, Louisville, and Baltimore's fifty-mile Druid Hill Park road championship; foreign racing reports H. L. Cortis breaking the mile record at the West Kent Bicycle Club's Crystal Palace meet before C. D. Vesey won the handicap final ahead of P. J. McKinlay and W. F. Fisher.
- The Springfield club's secretary reports a successful public bicycle drill at the skating rink that netted about $100, describes member Hendee's one-wheel trick riding, and previews the club's Fourth of July races on Hampden Park for prizes worth $700.
- A correspondent signed "P. P." of Salem praises the Essex County meet at Lawrence, recounts a fifty-one-mile round trip from Salem tested with a McDonnell cyclometer, and argues that League race representatives should be apportioned across Massachusetts regions rather than concentrated near Boston.
- A writer signed "Doubtful Racers" of New York asks whether the League should publish members' dues-renewal status as the Bicycle Touring Club does, and questions whether the League's racing board sanctions county-fair bicycle races that could jeopardize riders' N.A.A.A.A. amateur standing.
- Correspondent "F. C. H." reports the Scranton club's first-anniversary run and drill followed by a reception at Capt. George Sanderson Jr.'s home, notes Burt Pressey's exhibition of the American Star, and previews a Fourth of July visit to Elmira.
- Writing as "Fair Play," a New York correspondent defends the Crescent Club of Boston's contested delegate votes at the Chicago annual meeting, arguing the new League constitution's wording permitted the arrangement and that no dishonor should be imputed to the Boston or Crescent clubs without investigation.
- "Scribe" describes the Manchester Bicycle Club's visit to the Nashua Wheel Club, led by Capt. Gilman, complete with a Roman-candle procession, and the Nashua club's return visit to Manchester hosted at the City Hotel by Hon. G. B. Chandler.
- Albert S. Parsons of Cambridgeport rebuts the World's editorial account of the League meet's credentials dispute over the Crescent Club's votes, defends his own conduct as a member of the rights-and-privileges committee, and announces his resignation from it; the editor appends a rebuttal footnote standing by the original account.
- Frank W. Weston details his plan for American wheelmen to sail in mid-July for the Bicycle Touring Club's sixth annual meet at Harrogate, Yorkshire, then tour via Leeds, Sheffield, and Leicester to Coventry, buying discounted English machines on arrival at Bradford.
- Frank W. Weston, replying to a report that the track's pole had been shifted, states that surveyor Luther Briggs originally measured the Casino bicycle track at exactly five laps to the mile and that records made before its alteration for horse racing were reliable.
- Signed "Steno," an account of the League's second annual meet credits it with winning Chicago's respect for wheelmen and opening the West Side boulevard system to bicyclists, then surveys the machines on show at the Exposition Building, comparing Premier, Humber, Yale, Expert, and Centaur bicycles.
- President Bates recounts his overnight train journey from Detroit to the Chicago meet, including a comic exchange with an Indiana farmer who mistakes the wheelmen's party for a travelling circus, and a visit to Chicago's city-archives room with its framed affidavit about the Great Fire.
- English cycling news: the annual Barnes tricyclist meeting drew about 500 riders on 13 May; over 2,300 wheelmen paraded at the Hampton annual bicyclists' meet on 20 May; H.L. Cortis set a new mile record of 2m. 41.5s.; and Alfred Bird and Thomas Marriott completed a 180-mile Derby-to-Holyhead road ride in under 24 hours on Humber machines, the longest tricycle road journey on record.
- Corresponding Secretary Kingman N. Putnam publishes new League membership applications from clubs including Buffalo, Buckeye of Columbus, Omaha, Syracuse, Maryland (many Baltimore members), Woonsocket, Mountain of Johnstown Pa., Brooklyn, Cincinnati Wanderers, and Aeriel of Chicago.
- Treasurer W. V. Gilman prints the dues report of the Cortlandt Wheelmen of Peekskill, N.Y., submitted by secretary D. C. Hasbrouck, as a model of complete and satisfactory club reporting for other club secretaries to follow.
- The full nineteen racing rules as amended and adopted at the League's 30 May 1882 annual meeting, covering amateur eligibility, entries, false starts, fouls, protests, and championship handicapping, signed by the racing committee of E. C. Hodges, A. A. Hathaway, and Clymer White.
- Fred S. Pratt of Worcester writes declining the nomination offered him in the League election as chief consul of Massachusetts, explaining he is unable to attend to the office's duties.
- Editor awaits the L.A.W. election count with impatience; champion Frye returns to the wheel for fall race training including the League mile championship; J.S. Prince beat the horse Leroy in a five-mile Casino track race in 15m. 58.5s.; G.D. Gideon won both bicycle events at the N.A.A.A. championship, taking the two-mile in 6m. 41.5s. and the five-mile in 17m. 19.5s.