The Bicycling World, Vol 64, No 1
Articles in this issue
- A. B. Coffman, vice-president and sales manager of the Consolidated Manufacturing Co. (Yale), interviewed at Savannah, Ga. while working the Southern trade, calls the past season a "hummer" and promises a surprise 1912 announcement backed by heavy trade-paper advertising.
- P. W. Herbert of the Birmingham house of Eugen Baedeker argues that American cycle makers are losing Japan and other export markets to English and German rivals because they will not build free-wheel, mudguard and hand-brake "English style" machines nor cut their prices on parts and accessories.
- C. H. Lang of Chicago offers $25 reward for a confidence man posing as his brother, who took $7 from Chadman of the Economy Cycle Supply Co., Detroit, and $10 from Albert Scherer, the Harley-Davidson agent at Benton Harbor, Mich.
- A Long Island syndicate handled by Cassidy, Van Nostrand & Chapman plans a larger "Madison Square Garden" west of Broadway between Thirtieth and Fifty-ninth streets, ready by October 1912; George Carlton Comstock says the old Garden comes down on 5 February for a 24-storey commercial building.
- Detroit police superintendent John J. Downey circulates a description of William Schmidt's stolen seven-horsepower blue Indian twin, engine No. 72C059, Michigan licence 1385, with a $25 reward.
- The Prest-O-Lite Co. of Indianapolis markets a small steel gas tube with puncturing valve and metal hose connection that inflates one flat tyre in about a minute.
- At its meeting of 18 September the Motorcycle Dealers' Association of Greater New York, under president H. A. Gliesman, tightens the Motor Finance Co. instalment terms, appoints a credits committee of Jenkins, Widmayer and Brazenor, and admits Joseph Buckingham of the Weaver-Ebling Automobile Co.
- "Speedo," an air-injecting intake attachment from the International Accessories Corporation of New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, is claimed to add 20 per cent to engine power and to double as a kerosene decarbonizer; listed at $3.50.
- H. F. Turner of the Alco Manufacturing Co., Syracuse, rides a Reading-Standard on Fisk tires from Syracuse through Rochester, Niagara Falls, Buffalo, Erie and Ashtabula to Cleveland, keeping his business trousers grease-free with Alco hip leggings.
- S. A. Falor, motorcycle tire sales manager of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, describes the Blue Streak launch in "Rapid-Fire Tactics in Marketing a New Tire" in the September Judicious Advertising.
- Leader on the teaming scandal at the Newark Velodrome: Kramer admitted teaming with Alfred Goullet, the N. C. A. board declined to throw out the races and appointed three referees, and Macfarland's plea for Clark is met with the reminder that two wrongs never made a right.
- Leader arguing that American cycle and accessory makers are losing distant export markets to European factories on price and on refusal to fit the product to the buyer's preferences, not through any falling off in demand.
- Fixture calendar from late September to January, including the Minneapolis Motorcycle Club's three-day endurance run (29-30 September, 1 October), the Alabama State Fair races at Birmingham, the Olympia show in London on 20-25 November and the twelfth New York automobile show.
- Correspondent "M. T. A." defends the open cut-out as a warning device under elevated structures and at trolley transfer points, comparing motorcycle noise with automobiles and locomotives, while conceding it is wrong on Riverside Drive.
- J. W. Adams of Willard, Ga. asks how to time the valves on his 1911 four-horsepower chain-drive Indian; the editor replies that the motor base must be taken apart to reach the timing gears and warns a novice off the job.
- Troop No. 7, Boy Scouts of America, Newark, N. J., closes entries for the third six-hour team bicycle race of its troop championship, with William Gilman leading on 13 points from Clement Honess on 10.
- Before 15,000 spectators at the Columbus (O.) Driving Park, George E. Evans on an Emblem claims a world 100-mile dirt-track record in 1:53:09 3/5 and Frank Hart cuts the mile track record from Don Klark's 54 4/5 to 50 4/5 seconds; Birkenbach takes the club challenge cup and "Shorty" Mathews dislocates a shoulder.
- Three thousand people watch Cogburn beat Cassidy, Wales and Patterson in four professional races at the old fair grounds in Boulder, Colo., with H. Beck winning both amateur events.
- At Riverview Stadium, Chicago, Jake De Rosier on a new Excelsior wins every race he enters and covers the kilometre against time in 23 2/5 seconds, two seconds inside the world record; Albright beats William Samuelson in a one-mile run-off after a dead heat.
- The New York City police motorcycle squad is relieved to learn that Miss Dorothy Rice, daughter of Mrs. "Anti-Noise" Rice and a familiar figure on a motorcycle, has gone abroad for several years to study art.
- P. J. Kline, Louisville (Ky.) Harley-Davidson agent, rides home from the Milwaukee factory, covering 142 miles to Orchard Grove, Ind. in a day and 304 miles to Louisville the next.
- William Newcomer of Waynesboro, Pa. leaves his motorcycle as security for want of ready cash and later pays a $10 fine and costs, $15 in all.
- J. B. Meinell (Merkel) and D. Molin (N. S. U.) take the gold medals with perfect scores in all three Motorcycle Touring Club of New York trials, the 17 September Newburgh run deciding the "same make" team cup for the Merkel singles trio of Meinell, Schultheis and Buechner with 8,955 points of 9,000.
- Poe Poisson on an Indian wins both motorcycle events in the mixed programme at the West Michigan State Fair, Grand Rapids, on 11 September.
- Six of the 13 starters in the Rome (N. Y.) Motorcycle Club's 138-mile reliability run earn perfect scores.
- Dr. J. P. Thornley, chairman of the F. A. M. competition committee, backs an exclusive board-track franchise for Chicago's Riverview Stadium-Motordrome and proposes taking half of one per cent of gross receipts; Will R. "Happy Days" Pitman agrees, citing the ruin of Manhattan Beach, Berkley Oval and Ambrose Park.
- Wolters and De Rosier, both on Excelsiors, share the honours at the first daylight meeting at Riverview Stadium on 16 September, De Rosier taking the five-mile professional in 3:33 2/5 and Wolters the University of Chicago Sweepstakes after De Rosier's tire exploded.
- Harold Cole on a Reading-Standard wins the 25-mile Commerford trophy marathon in 30:56 1/2 at the second Dominion championships before 9,000 at Toronto; M. E. Amoss (N. S. U.) is protested as over size in the lightweight event and Barnes breaks a shoulder in the belt-drive race.
- The Hendee Manufacturing Co., F. A. M. president G. H. Hamilton and F. B. Hart of the Reading Standard Co. all endorse the paper's campaign against the open muffler, though Hart argues the cut-out cannot be dropped because a carbureter cannot be adjusted without it.
- Percy Drummond beats John Constant in a two-mile match race and again in the ten-mile handicap at the New Jersey Motorcycle Club's Olympic Park meet, Newark, while William Pierson (Excelsior) and "Billy" James (Indian) land two events each.
- C. W. Fisk of Beloit, the "mysterious stranger," wins three of the four races he enters at the Oshkosh (Wis.) Motorcycle Club's diamond race meet, while Karl Oaks takes the two closed club events and the miss-and-out.
- J. J. Cox on a seven-horsepower Reading-Standard wins the five-mile free-for-all and the ten-mile trade rider handicap at Guttenberg, N. J., while M. C. Wright on a 7 Indian survives the trade rider miss-and-out.
- Huntsbery of Cleveland and Fletcher of Elyria share the wins in five motorcycle races run in connection with the Erie county fair at Sandusky, Ohio, on 13 September.
- Edgar Jones cuts his leg on a fence in practice and Schenck somersaults over his handlebars in the belt-drive event at the Newark, Ohio, fair ground track on Labor Day; Charles McGrew on a big Yale takes most of the honours.
- Don Klark of Detroit wins three events and local rider L. F. Kissig three more at the North Randall Park mile dirt track, Cleveland, Klark taking the fifteen-mile 61 open in 14:00 3/5 and a one-mile time trial in 50 seconds.
- F. A. M. membership chairman E. M. Estabrook reports the new organisation literature at press and five clubs affiliated in the week to 9 September, with 1,257 members taken in during July and August, double the same period of 1910.
- Ed Nelson wins five of the six races at Manitowac, Wis. on 10 September, while imported Chicago Thor rider P. Wenk spills twice trying to follow him and is carried off to the doctor.
- Earl Brown wins two motorcycle races at Morrison, Ill. on the 8th and 13th, where the club's series of meets has left so many riders speed-struck that the local police are hauling them in for street speeding.
- Circular letters sent out from Elwood propose an Indiana racing circuit linking the clubs at Richmond, Peru, Newcastle, Anderson, Marion, Muncie, Kokomo and Logansport, with Hamilton, O., and a meet in each city monthly.
- A board of three referees — Walter Bardgett, John Valentine and N. C. A. chairman R. F. Kelsey — disqualifies A. J. Clark and Joseph Fogler for teaming in the one-mile professional championship and Loftes and Cavanaugh in the five-mile amateur, leaving Kramer and Frank Blatz with the titles; Floyd Macfarland is suspended indefinitely and fined $50.
- Thirty-five uniformed Century Road Club Association members ride from Columbus Circle to Grant City, Staten Island, on 17 September; S. Segal wins the two- and five-mile handicaps and Jos. G. Kopsky takes the ten-mile unpaced Bieregel Trophy time trial in 26:37 4/5.
- With protests over outside pace disallowed, the newly formed Houston Bicycle Club distributes prizes for its 14-mile Labor Day race to Harrisburg, Tex.; J. A. Schuddemagen won a Rambler racer in 46:15 from 39 starters, with further prizes grouped by make of machine.
- Otto Meyer wins the 1,000-metre German championship at Dresden on 10 September in 1:50 4/5, beating Walter Rutt by half a length with Peter third, the last 200 metres in 12 2/5 seconds.
- The Century Road Club of America, New York State division, sets its annual fall century run for 1 October from the Park Plaza, Brooklyn, with Fred E. Mommer pacing the fast division and Emile E. Fraysse the slow.