The Bicycling World, Vol 64, No 10
Articles in this issue
- Walter and Arthur Davidson of the Harley-Davidson Motor Co. visit New York to buy machinery for their new plant and dismiss the 1912 price flurry, Walter arguing the $25 cut was offset by the free-wheel clutch and 'Ful-floteing' spring seat.
- A. G. Chapple of the Miami Cycle & Mfg. Co., Middletown, Ohio, returns from two months in the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana predicting a surprise Southern trade in 1912, with Georgia the banner state and New Orleans police running a squad of 10 machines.
- Following a similar move in Chicago, Tucker of the Tucker Wood Work Co., Sidney, Ohio, leases a New York storehouse for wood rims, with metropolitan distribution handled by the New York Sporting Goods Company.
- An insolvency petition is filed November 22 against the Manhattan Storage Company of David Grinberg and Adolph Morris by the Lovell-McConnell Mfg. Co. and two other creditors; liabilities $3,000 against $500 of assets.
- The Atlantic Blaugas Co. of New York buys an Excelsior twin through T. J. Sixsmith to test motorcycles for its inspectors and repair men against rising railroad expenses.
- The Western Electric Co. of New York, allied with the Bell interests, contemplates buying more motorcycles for telephone service, adding to machines already supplied to the New York Telephone Co.
- Toronto dealers take out certificates as F. A. M. official repair shops, reading the general trend toward affiliation among Canadian clubs and riders.
- The Continental Rubber Works of Erie, Pa., opens a Chicago branch at 31 North Canal street under Fred W. Fee, formerly of the Corbin Screw Corporation's Chicago branch.
- The Elyea-Austell Company, Indian distributors in Atlanta, supplies three four-horsepower machines to the Atlanta Gas Light Co.
- W. B. Glasser is appointed assistant sales and advertising manager of the Reading Standard Co. of Reading, Pa., replacing F. B. Hart.
- The N. S. U. company's managing director tells Prince Henry that fewer than 18,000 motorcycles remain in use in Germany; an Allgemeine Deutsche Automobil Club commission blames the 1911 licensing rules, which impose 13 separate certificates and examinations costing 134.40 marks.
- The G. W. Breed Mfg. Co. is reported moving from Detroit to Bay City, Mich., after the local association subscribed the $15,000 demanded for a plant, with 30 days expected before construction begins.
- Brown Brothers, Limited, of Great Eastern street, London, send the editor a postcard carried by the first United Kingdom aerial post from London to Windsor.
- The Bicycling World Company introduces two new officers with this issue: A. Eugene Bolles as vice-president and general manager, formerly of Advertising and Selling, and Richard F. Kelsey as managing editor, previously of the American Motorist; J. A. Hall continues as associate editor.
- An editorial urging manufacturers and clubs to fund an American team for the 200-mile road race around Lake Malar at the Stockholm Olympic games next July, the only cycling event of the games.
- An editorial praising the Los Angeles deputy city attorney's new ordinance banning muffler cut-outs, which carries a $500 fine or six months in the county jail, and urging other cities to follow.
- Leaks in the inlet manifold from strained unions or disalignment admit extra air and cause surging and skipping; they are found by the plumber's 'smoke test' using tobacco smoke, or by soap suds applied with the motor running.
- A. H. Bartsch explains that no fixed rule governs spark advance, which varies with compression ratio, engine speed, stroke length and plug position, and refutes the published advice to open the plug gap to one-sixteenth inch for slow running, citing Bosch's half-millimetre recommendation.
- The Motorcycle Dealers' Association of Greater New York elects C. Krebs of Newark, the Callwell Motorcycle Agency of Newburg and J. Steele of Midland Park, and takes up ferry rates, a log book and a first annual dinner in December.
- First instalment of a touring narrative: the writer and Joseph Esler of Quincy, Ill., cross on the Olympic's maiden eastbound trip with a five-horsepower Indian and a four-horsepower N. S. U., then ride the Great North Road through Peterborough, York and Durham to Edinburgh, on to Belfast, Dublin and Killarney, and back through Liverpool, Birmingham and Coventry to a collision with a dray six miles from London.
- Louis Camboy, a thrifty 17-year-old German-born rider, has come from Denver to Indianapolis on two sets of tires since leaving August 7 and expects to reach New Orleans, where his mother lives, early in February.
- Joe Thompson, Lloyd Wolf and Frank Thompson of Frankfort, Indiana, pass through Indianapolis on Indian mounts bound for Jacksonville via Louisville, Nashville and Atlanta, placarded 'Frankfort to Florida.'
- The Los Angeles deputy city attorney's draft ordinance requires muffled exhausts, ten miles an hour at busy crossings outside the business district, lamps on all machines and a six-foot gap when halted, with penalties up to $500 or six months.
- Charles A. Van Doren, the Atlantic City dealer, marries Miss Frances D. Hickey of Paterson, N. J., at Wilmington, Del., after a two-week courtship; her views on travelling salesmen prompted his move into the retail bicycle business.
- Harry Long of England covers 40,037 miles in 44 weeks on a 3.5-horsepower Triumph single with Bosch magneto, circumventing the coast of Great Britain and averaging over 1,000 miles a week with 35 idle days.
- O. C. Godfrey, winner of this year's Isle of Man Tourist Trophy, is run into by a taxicab while riding to business in London and lies in Hampstead Hospital with a broken right forearm and internal injuries.
- Chairman Thornley of the F. A. M. competition committee defends the 'stripped stock' class, calling the stock class 'a scandal and a delusion,' and rules that a machine measuring even one-thousandth of an inch off its catalogued piston displacement will be disqualified; he suggests makers adopt a hyphenated minimum-maximum rating.
- Thornley suspends William Staudt of Reading, Pa., for three months for riding in Canada without permission, then rules that F. A. M. members may henceforth compete at events of Canadian clubs affiliated with the F. A. M. and run under its competition rules.
- G. H. Crocker is suspended for a year for retracing the course from a secret control during the Western F. A. M. endurance run of September 8-10, while J. S. Tormey's protest against the winning Indian team of A. H. Crocker, R. W. DuSell and S. W. Nicholson is dismissed and his $5 fee returned.
- Fixture calendar for late November 1911 to January 1912, including the Atlantic City club's 200-mile run, the Madison Square Garden six-day race of December 11-16, the Thanksgiving Day Pelham Parkway handicap, and the New York and Philadelphia shows.
- Chairman Thornley denounces the recent motorcycle races for women, warning that a man who persuades women to race for glory or money should be ostracized and that clubs attempting such events under an F. A. M. sanction will be made an example of.
- E. M. Estabrook's weekly F. A. M. membership bulletin reports the Sacramento club affiliating with 18 men, the Rev. R. J. Mattingly organizing the Cloud County Motorcycle Club at Miltonvale, Kan., and 377 registered repair shops on the books.
- The Motor Car Equipment Company adds an uptown branch at 238-240 West 56th street, New York, to its headquarters at 55 Warren street, opening about December 10 and confined to wholesale trade.
- An Indianapolis rider who struck a pedestrian pleads that he signalled by kicking open his cut-out; the judge fines him and suggests a further penalty for breaching the city ordinance against open cut-outs.
- Five thousand members of the Los Angeles Motorcycle Club mark their first annual meeting at Luna Park on the 26th, with slow pedaling races and an expected crowd of 25,000; Paul 'Dare Devil' Derkum is among those to appear.
- The Toronto Motorcycle Club circulates a set of publicity 'Don'ts' answering the charges that motorcycles are uncomfortable, noisy, hard to keep in order, dangerous and costly, and urging readers to join at $2 a year.
- The Toronto Motorcycle Club opens its winter socials on the 15th before 150 people, its largest attendance, and presents a solid gold medal to 16-year-old Harold Cole for winning the 25-mile Canadian championship of 1911.
- The Atlantic City Motorcycle Club asks police to arrest anyone using an open cut-out in the resort, and reports the nuisance largely suppressed within a month.
- A. B. Coffman, vice-president of the Consolidated Mfg. Co. of Toledo, calls the cut-out fiend motorcycling's worst enemy; the Louisville (Ky.) Motorcycle Club adopts resolutions against its use.
- Wolters and Balke of the Excelsior team break the local five- and ten-mile professional figures at the Elmhurst motordrome's reopening on November 13, Wolters taking three of the four money events at close to 90 miles an hour and clocking 3:27 for five miles.
- At Elmhurst on November 19 tire and mechanical trouble eclipses Wolters, and Armstrong takes two firsts and two seconds after duels with Balke; Seymour wins the two-mile special swathed in bandages and W. Samuelson the six-mile final.
- The Maryland Motor Association issues entry blanks for six motorcycle events plus an Australian pursuit race for bicycles at Electric Park, Baltimore, on Thanksgiving Day.
- Earle S. Eckel of Washington, N. J., who holds the Indian agency, adds to his establishment in anticipation of next year's business.
- A. H. Bartsch, advertising manager of the Bosch Magneto Co., sails November 18 for Bermuda and returns to his desk December 1.
- F. A. Baker & Co., metropolitan distributers in New York City, receive samples of the 1912 standard '4' Indian.
- Eleven American and three foreign pairs are signed for the nineteenth international six-day race at Madison Square Garden, December 11-16; Kramer partners Moran in his debut at the distance, and a new German team of Lorenz and Saldow joins Palmer, Wells, Clark and Georget.
- Floyd A. McFarland signs to manage the Salt Palace track at Salt Lake City for 1912 with an option on two further seasons, having contracted A. J. Clarke, Iver Lawson, E. F. Root and Joe Fogler, and will also take Fogler, Root, Hill and Collins to Europe from December 21.
- D. Kirkham covers the 133 miles of the Goulburn-Sydney road on September 23 in 6:19:31, cutting the course record by 16 minutes; W. Rennie won on handicap in 6:46:42 from 100 starters and 70 finishers.
- C. J. Keenan and A. Kean of Hobart, both off 12 minutes, finish together in 6:22:14 in the League of Tasmanian Wheelmen's Launceston-Hobart race of September 23, a record for the course, Keenan taking the sprint by a length.
- The metropolitan indoor season opens tonight at the Twenty-third Regiment Athletic Association games with a two-mile handicap, veteran flat-floor rider William Van Den Dries on scratch and over 20 entries received.
- The New England Wheelmen of New York City elect C. B. Ruch president and George Polacsy captain, and report J. W. Clement first in the club championship races ahead of Charles Waldo and Polacsy.
- A two-mile bicycle handicap will be held at the Fourteenth Regiment games in Brooklyn on December 8.
- The American Olympic Bicycle Race Committee of the United Cyclists announces a 25-mile handicap on a 1,080-yard Pelham Parkway course on Thanksgiving Day morning with fifteen prizes headed by two $50 racing bicycles, publishes acceptances from newspaper editors including St. Clair McKelvay and John B. Foster as honorary members, and appeals for immediate contributions to the Stockholm team fund.
- The Victorian Traders Association's fifth annual 100-mile handicap of October 7 draws 294 entries and 212 starters; L. Clark (28 min.) wins in 5:23:32 and D. Kirkham takes fastest time from scratch in 5:04:04.
- A. R. W. Collins wins the fifteenth Dunlop Warrnambool-to-Melbourne 165-mile road race of October 14 off 34 minutes in 8:45:11, half a wheel from J. Tebbs; P. O'Shea takes fastest time and the Australian road championship, and the promoters spend about $2,500 feeding the field with sausages, cocoa and Bovril.
- G. W. Prebble, off 35 minutes, wins the Dunlop 112-mile Timaru to Christchurch test of September 7 in 6:00:22 by 24 seconds from co-marker E. Slow; P. O'Shea takes fastest time and the New Zealand road championship.
- W. E. Grigg wins the 100-mile South Australian Dunlop test from Burra to North Adelaide on September 30 from scratch, also making fastest time in 5:39:00 and conceding handicaps up to 43 minutes.
- Gustavus T. Kirby of New York succeeds Everett C. Brown of Chicago as president of the Amateur Athletic Union at the Waldorf-Astoria convention of November 20, which also voted funds toward the Stockholm team and set the 1915 national championships at the San Francisco exposition.
- France leads the Saltonstall Trophy with 8 points from the 1911 world's championships at Rome against England's 6 and Italy's 4, having also topped 1909 and 1910; James F. Moran was the only American entered, taking third in the 100 kilometres paced event.
- Answering W. W. Shiffer of Newark, N. J., the editor gives the details of Paul Guignard's world's motor-paced hour record of 63 miles 189.8 yards, set September 15, 1909 on the 728-yard Munich cement track behind Franz Hoffman's 30-horsepower Anzani three-cylinder pacing machine.
- The Century Road Club Association's mail ballot closes December 16, 1911, with R. Thomas of New York nominated for national president and A. R. Cooley for centurion of the New York State Division.
- A. D. Dawson takes the 1911 club championship series of the Century Road Club of America with 26 points on November 19, ahead of Benjamin Markowitz with 18 and Herman Hintze with 9.