The Bicycling World, Vol 64, No 22
Articles in this issue
- The Motorcycle Manufacturers' Association met at the New Southern Hotel, Chicago, February 7, under President A. B. Coffman, condemning indiscriminate use of the muffler cut-out in cities and voting to meet every two months, the next at the Hotel Statler, Buffalo, April 10. Committees were named on freight rates west of the Mississippi and on a proposed national F. A. M.-run tour.
- Employees of the Pope Manufacturing Company crowded Foot Guard Hall, Hartford, February 9, for the 15th annual concert and dance of the Pope Company Mutual Benefit Association, where M. F. Conway's grand march formed dancers into the company's initial and into a wheel of hub, spokes and rim.
- The Minneapolis Motorcycle Company priced its new De Luxe twin at $275 with rigid frame and $290 with spring frame, and sold the light delivery car shown at Chicago to the Peerless Motor Car Company of Illinois.
- The Pittsfield Spark Coil Company of Dalton, Mass., emphatically denies show-week reports that it was in financial difficulty, blaming confusion with the magneto maker Jacobson & Brandow of Pittsfield, Mass., which is in a receiver's hands.
- W. S. Williams of Stockton, Cal., rigged his Harley-Davidson to drive a saw through a cord of wood rather than face the backache, and may put in a claim for record.
- W. F. Walker leaves the sales force of F. A. Baker & Co., New York, for the Weed Chain Tire Grip Company of Bridgeport, Conn., which will manufacture the motorcycle tire chain he designed; he becomes its general travelling representative.
- Racing man and salesman Ray Pascal takes charge of central western district sales for the Reading Standard Company, travelling Illinois, Indiana and Michigan.
- Praise for the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.'s 1912 motorcycle booklet, whose cover shows Balke and Hasha racing neck and neck on Blue Streak tires at the Buffalo F. A. M. meet, photographed by a son of war correspondent James Hare.
- Hendee Mfg. Co. sales manager Weschler closed orders for three carloads of Indians at the Chicago show; the Springfield factory now employs 1,000 hands and runs overtime four nights a week.
- Sales manager Ferguson reports the Eclipse Machine Co. of Elmira, N. Y., running day and night shifts, taking an order for 1,000 clutches on the Tuesday of show week; clutches are built for flat belt, V belt and chain drive.
- R. K. Holmes, former F. A. M. vice-president for the Pacific Coast District, sold his interest in Holmes & Kittle to Mr. Kittle and has taken the Harley-Davidson agency at San Diego, retaining James Urquhart.
- Emblem machines will be shown at the Baltimore automobile show by F. W. Sandruck for distributors Henry Keidel & Co., including the racer on which George Evans took the unofficial 100-mile dirt-track record; Fred P. Ames moves to larger Kansas City quarters and Fred T. Kerr takes the London, Ontario agency.
- The Bosch Magneto Company notes that Hasha's new Indian racer carried a Bosch ignition system when he slaughtered records at Los Angeles on February 11, covering a mile at 92.78 miles an hour.
- L. P. Birkenbach & Co. of Columbus, O., local Yale agents, have taken the Thor agency formerly held by the Franklin Cycle and Supply Company.
- John Zucker, local Thor and Excelsior representative, has reserved 330 square feet for 10 machines at the Cleveland automobile show, with souvenir flags for visitors.
- The paper explains that its fund for sending a bicycle team to the 200-mile Olympic road race at Stockholm will be controlled by the American Olympic Committee, with team selection resting with that committee and the National Cycling Association handling the sport.
- Citing its London correspondent and German export figures of eighteen and a quarter million dollars in cycles and motorcycles, the paper urges American makers to join the Motorcycle Manufacturers' Association in developing export markets; American exports rose 29 per cent.
- An argument that the F. A. M.'s draft racing-track franchise rule fails to guarantee permanent rights and sets too high a fee, citing three rival applications for one eastern centre and the National Cycling Association's ten-year-old franchise law as a model.
- The London correspondent reports about 90,000 machines now registered in Britain and factories booked into 1913; Tourist Trophy dates fixed for June 28 and July 1 in the Isle of Man, saucer-track schemes in Birmingham and Manchester, C. R. Collier weighing a American trip, Billy Wells barring cut-outs on Indians sold in England, and sidecars being exported to America.
- Delayed descriptions of the Chicago show motorcycle exhibits, maker by maker, covering Wagner, Yale, Harley-Davidson, Henderson, Iver-Johnson, Minneapolis, Indian, Edwards-Crist, Excelsior, Thor, Eagle and M-M, with their 1912 changes, factory representatives and claimed features.
- Show-week anecdotes from the New Southern lobby, including the paging of "Mr. Jug O. Whiskey", Krackowizer's pranks on Squier's recitations, Spotswood sleeping through a typewriter, and "Thor" Freeman talking 53 Thor employees past the ticket taker.
- An alphabetical review of the accessory exhibits at the Coliseum, Annex and Armory, from Atlas Specialty and Ajax-Grieb through Goodyear, Herz, Splitdorf, Stewart, Timken, United States Tire, Veeder, Warner and Wheeler & Schebler, noting new spring seat posts, automatic stand lifts, enamelled lamps, the 29 x 3 inch tire and the new standard rim.
- Chairman Estabrook plans a four-month club recruiting contest from March 1, after the Hawthorne Mfg. Co. of Bridgeport offered 50 "Old Sol" No. 8 lamps worth $7.50 each as prizes; 14 newly registered F. A. M. repair shops are listed for the week ending February 9.
- The Portland Motorcycle Club packed its rooms for a January smoker and is pressing the street railway company and Jack Prince for a third-mile saucer track at Oaks Park; 14 new members were admitted.
- The New Jersey Motorcycle Club settled that its Memorial Day endurance run will again be a 24-hour contest, with Road Captain Stevens proposing a 300-mile route from Newark via Trenton, Camden and Cape May, returning by Atlantic City.
- The Invincible Motorcycle Club of Brooklyn will run combined single and double centuries on Long Island on Sunday, May 5, starting at Bedford Rest and turning at Patchogue and Southampton, with gold and silver pins for finishers in private owner, trade rider and professional classes.
- The National Capital Motorcycle Club opened its 906 Pennsylvania avenue headquarters on February 8 with a smoker and buffet, addressed by President Yowell and by Sergeant Headley of the police; an F. A. M.-sanctioned endurance run was agreed.
- The Chicago Motorcycle Club's smoker on February 8 drew 150 guests and members, with addresses by S. A. Miles of the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers, P. B. Whitney for the F. A. M., and A. Eugene Bolles of New York.
- The Sydney (O.) Motorcycle Club hung its F. A. M. certificate No. 210, elected Mayor Duncan an honorary member, and heard Alfred Yarber read a paper on ignition and electrical appliances for motorcycles.
- The Motorcycle Club of San Diego, three years old, reports 125 members, a club house at 1400 Twenty-ninth street, fortnightly runs averaging 50 riders, and officers headed by President Chas. E. Osborne.
- Forty members and visitors rode the Los Angeles club's semi-monthly run to Pomona on February 3, followed by a reception; the club is remodelling its quarters at 449 West Jefferson street.
- At its annual election on February 13 the Concourse Motorcycle Club of New York chose W. A. McClellan president, George Heinig vice-president and M. P. Sullivan captain.
- Thirty-two members of the Reading (Pa.) Motorcycle Club held their first annual banquet at the Spring Valley Hotel, with addresses by President John F. Hartmon, William Schaeffer, James Mayo, A. E. Keyport and John G. Nuebling.
- The Dubuque Motorcycle Club elected Dwight Curtiss president, William C. Imhoff vice-president and Hermann E. Eschen, Jr. secretary-treasurer, and has arranged a summer cottage club house and a February 14 banquet.
- The Worcester Motorcycle Club drew a large attendance to its midwinter dance at the club house, the winter dances being popular with women who ride tandem in summer.
- W. E. Hasha of Waco, Tex., riding an Indian, took three world's records at the opening of Jack Prince's new Los Angeles Stadium before 8,000 people, beating De Rozier, Wolters, Balke and Seymour over two miles in 1:19 3/5, three in 2:01 3/5 and four in 2:40 4/5; Al Ward won the class B events and the closing handicap.
- The Savannah Motorcycle Club will hold its first F. A. M.-sanctioned meet, about ten races on the half-mile dirt track, on February 22, while protesting a proposed city ordinance banning two riders on a motorcycle.
- The paper drops the United Cyclists and will work directly with the American Olympic Committee under Col. Robert M. Thompson, with editor R. F. Kelsey holding the fund; try-outs of 150 miles are set for New York, Chicago, St. Louis and Buffalo ahead of a 200-mile final elimination race, and subscriptions are listed from Frank B. Mihlon, the St. Louis Cycling Club, J. W. Grady & Co. and others.
- The Atlas Bicycle Club's first annual spring century on Sunday, April 14 will include one or two fast divisions for riders testing Olympic form, with enamelled silver medals displayed at A. G. Spalding & Bros. and V. J. Lind's Brooklyn shop.
- Abbot Bassett's 25 years as League of American Wheelmen secretary were marked by the Newton Bicycle Club with a silver fruit bowl filled with gold coin at its January 18 dinner, and by the Boston Bicycle Club's thirty-fourth anniversary banquet on February 10 with a purse of gold and a hundred dollar bill handed over by Arthur P. Benson.
- Home trainer races of the Bay View Wheelmen at the South Sixth Street club house, Newark, started by Frank Mihlon of the Newark Velodrome, were won by Henry Faiss, Aug. Rupple, Fred Weber, Ernest Pofah, Frank Harenburg and Tommie Smith, who later rode an exhibition mile in :54.
- Paul Smith, Victor J. Lind and J. Mangels took the high averages in the Atlas Bicycle Club's bowling tournament and challenge any three-man bicycle club team in the metropolitan district.