The Bicycling World, Vol 64, No 3
Articles in this issue
- Fred I. Willis of the Hersey-Willis Co., Indianapolis, and George H. Hamilton, New York representative of the Continental Rubber Co. of Erie, Pa., buy a large block of Kokomo Rubber Co. stock and will join its board under president D. C. Spraker; Hamilton leaves Continental for Kokomo's sales department, with special attention to motorcycle tires.
- Corrects a typographical error of the previous week that gave the address of Charles E. Miller, dealer in motorcycle supplies, as 97-103 Reade street, New Orleans; the home offices are at 97-103 Reade street, New York City, with a branch at 601-603 Baronne street, New Orleans.
- J. S. Tormey, the well-known Thor traveling man, leaves the Aurora concern for the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. on the Pacific coast, stopping a week at the Akron plant on his way; he formerly traveled the same territory for the Excelsior Supply Co.
- J. F. Cox, manager of the bicycle and motorcycle department of the Pope Manufacturing Co. of Hartford, Conn., starts an eight-week selling trip through Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Seattle, Spokane, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Texas, returning about December 1st.
- The 1912 Harley-Davidson line: four-horsepower singles at $225 with magneto and $200 with battery and a six-and-a-half horsepower twin at $275, all carrying the new "Ful-Floteing" seat, with the rear-hub "free wheel" clutch offered for $10 extra.
- Advertising Manager A. H. Bartsch of the Bosch Magneto Co., New York, says an addition to the armature will let 1912 machines start and run at a slower armature speed, and that contracts already in hand will keep the plant going to the limit.
- The Haverford Cycle Co. of Philadelphia, with branches in New York, Buffalo, Washington, Atlantic City and Newark, incorporates under New York law with $250,000 capital under Max Sladkin, and will campaign its new "Big Four" motorcycle alongside its bicycle line.
- The Minneapolis Motorcycle Co. adds a five-horsepower two-inch flat-belt model with idler beside its two-speed chain machine, both on a 55-inch wheelbase with Schebler carbureter and Bosch magneto; the chain model gains saw-blade-steel clutch discs and pea green tank panels.
- The F. W. Spacke Machine Co. of Indianapolis puts De Luxe motors on the market in four and five horsepower singles and seven and nine horsepower twins, with annular ball bearings, one-piece crank shafts, mechanical valves and an enclosed gear-and-lay-shaft Bosch magneto drive.
- The H. and F. Mesinger Manufacturing Co. announces 13 bicycle and eight motorcycle saddles for 1912, among them the slim Racer King, the model "V" Special with universal tilting clamp and the model "A" Superb, with a rebuilt cantle construction on all suspension types.
- The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. predicts about 45,000 motorcycles will be built in the United States in 1912 by 32 companies, all but 1,000 of them by 12 firms, and claims contracts with 11 of the largest makers covering some 15,000 pairs of tires.
- Leader on the Springfield, O. standing-start case, arguing that a pedal-less clutch machine gets away slower than a direct-drive one and carried more weight, so the winner conceded more than he gained and the referee's decision should have been sustained.
- Leader backing the Canadians' own plan to organize a national motorcycle governing body with a working agreement with the F. A. M., rather than the Buffalo offer of a Canadian district, which was read in the Dominion as an attempt at permanent domination.
- The Hawthorne Mfg. Co., Inc. of Bridgeport, Conn. becomes a large stockholder in the Pollock Mfg. Co., Ltd. of Berlin, Ontario, which will make the "Old Sol" lamps, Hawthorne four-cylinder hand air pumps and suction cleaners for Canada; new models include a $1.50 tail lamp and the $2.50 "Old Sol" No. 10 bicycle lamp.
- George C. Smith, six years a traveling representative for the Reading Standard lines and seven before that with the Pope Manufacturing Co., moves to Iver Johnson's Arms and Cycle Works in their New England territory.
- H. T. Roberts resigns as sales manager of the Thor to assist Secretary Brandt at the Troxel Mfg. Co. of Elyria, O., paying particular attention to the sale of motorcycle saddles.
- The D. P. Harris Hardware Co., 48 Warren street, New York, is appointed United States distributor for the Brooks saddles made by J. B. Brooks Co., Ltd., of Birmingham, England.
- At its bimonthly meeting at Stoetzer's Hotel, Brooklyn, the New York Motorcycle Dealers' Association admits George Sorenson, William Vaughn and John Pflieger, and adopts Motor Finance Co. amendments fixing one-third of catalog price as initial payment and $5 per week thereafter.
- Norbert H. Schickel of New York City, inventor of the two-cycle motorcycle shown at the Chicago show, incorporates the Schickel Motor Co. at Stamford, Conn. with $10,000 capital.
- Extracts from the Springfield (O.) Sun, Chicago Examiner and Columbus (O.) State Journal on Chicago's new muffler ordinance, with a long Los Angeles Examiner editorial reporting that only two in ten of some 1,000 motorcyclists on Crenshaw Boulevard rode with mufflers closed, against two in a hundred noisy automobiles.
- Comic verse from the Los Angeles Times in which a townsman driven from his avenue by gas-bike thunder turns farmer, finds the racket still streaming past his door and sets off for the Sahara.
- Fixture list from 5 October to 20 January: motorcycle races at the Alabama State Fair, Birmingham; Detroit Motorcycle Club run and meet; the Providence club's Providence-Boston-Worcester triangle run; the closing Guttenberg meet; the Olympia show in London, 20-25 November; and the Century Road Club Association's fourteenth annual ball.
- F. B. Hart writes for the Reading Standard Co. denying that he acted in any official capacity at the unsanctioned Toronto meet of 9 September, and correcting the report of William Staudt's fall: the machine was a stock 1911 four-horsepower single with auxiliary exhaust ports and 26-inch wheels, not a big twin.
- A. R. Cooley of the New England Wheelmen fractures his skull colliding with a motorcyclist just past the tape on Pelham Parkway during his club's championship series; he lay at Fordham Hospital in a very serious condition.
- The Greater New York Cyclists Association meets on the 10th inst. at 1213 Fulton street, Brooklyn, to hear the Labor Day parade sub-committee reports and complete plans to make the organization permanent.
- Nine start and eight finish the Worcester (Mass.) Motorcycle Club's third endurance run, some 200 miles to Boston and Springfield and back; E. L. Gauthier takes speed honors, A. C. Gowing saves a perfect score riding in one-handed while holding a broken wire to a battery, and I. C. Coombs talks F. L. Kidder through a brake repair.
- Toronto report that the great majority of Dominion riders favour a self-governing Canadian association with a working agreement with the F. A. M.; a meeting is called for Toronto in December or January to end a season of petty jealousies and rival "bosses".
- Garrett and Williams take five of the six events between them at the Zanesville (O.) Motorcycle Club's Fair Grounds meet before 700 people, Williams making Garrett hustle on a four-horsepower machine against a "T".
- Eight women, among them Dollie and Lucile Adelman of Columbus, Viola Culp of Elwood, Ind. and Seda Leslie of Akron, will contest six unsanctioned races on the Columbus (O.) Driving Park mile track on 8 October to decide who meets Lillie Williams of Los Angeles for the world's championship.
- Two photographs of Italian army cycle troops manhandling their machines through sand and rough scrub, captioned "A Difficult Passage" and "Reconnoitering".
- High winds and blinding dust cut the crowd at the Hutchinson, Kan. Fair Grounds meet, where local rider Wells Bennett (Indian) wins the five-mile free-for-all for singles and the ten-mile championship in 12:35 2/5 from Warner and Wilson.
- Rain ends the Concourse Motorcycle Club's annual Motor Parkway races over a five-mile section between the Jericho entrance and Meadowbrook Lodge, with J. B. Niles winning two events by close margins from J. McClellan; the 50-cent parkway toll brought about $25 into the treasury.
- Jay B. Budworth and Everett Revere of Newark, N. J. leave New York on the 15th inst. for San Francisco with a moving picture machine and no money, intending to earn their grub and lodging by odd jobs.
- J. J. Dineen of the Chicago motorcycle squad wins five events and places third in another for 26 points, taking the police department track and field championship for the second successive year at the police-firemen-letter carriers meet.
- A fearfully muddy Exhibition track forces postponement of both motorcycle races at the Ward marathon meet in Toronto on 30 September; Scotty Wilson wins the three-mile handicap by inches and Walt Andrews the ten-mile Dominion championship in 29:55, while Joe Golden laps in under 36 seconds on a stripped Indian.
- Prize-giving, oratory, refreshments and light vaudeville mark the "housewarming" of the Motorcycle Touring Club of New York on 2 October; about 30 attended, the quarters have been refinished on a long lease and a pool table ordered.
- The F. A. M. board of directors will put to a mail vote of the 1911 National Assembly delegates amendments to article V of the by-laws, striking out the national treasurer's quarterly one-quarter rebate of membership fees to the districts and paying district expenses instead on vouchers approved by the district vice-president.
- Local rider Fletcher (Excelsior) takes four of the seven events at the Lorain (O.) county fair meet before a crowd of 5,000; Davis of Altoona, Pa. wins two and Herbert Huntsbery of Cleveland one, with Huntsbery also riding a 1:19 mile against time.
- Unable to secure support after the loose conduct of his meets, promoter Henry Shaffer of the Guttenberg (N. J.) "Motordrome" enlists newspapermen E. F. Korbel and Jerome T. Shaw, who as the "Metropolitan Motor Racing Association" card a seven-event feeler meet for the 15th with Ralph De Palma in a Simplex car.
- Twenty riders form the Pontiac (Mich.) Motorcycle Club after talks by Messrs. McEldowney and Sherman of the Flanders Mfg. Co.; the club meets in the Flanders administration building and sends its notices out on drafting blue prints.
- Dr. W. F. Hunt and R. R. Carsons, chosen temporarily as president and secretary of the Davenport (Ia.) Motorcycle Club, are now elected permanently to those chairs.
- The F. A. M. Competition Committee votes 3 to 1 to sustain its chairman in disqualifying I. F. Jacobs, who won a Springfield, O. Labor Day race on a New Era pushed off with its engine running; first prize passes to the second man and hereafter all riders, machines and engines must be at an absolute standstill at the push off.
- John Sink of Indianapolis wins the fifteen-mile match in 20:23 and the mile time trials at the Vincennes meet he ran himself; Cecil Albright rams a fence post and demolishes his machine, suffering a broken kneecap and a wrenched back.
- An Australian pursuit at the Dubuque (Ia.) Motorcycle Club's Nutwood Park meet runs 26 miles to a draw between Mitchell and Meiscell, who finish exactly a third of a mile apart as they started; Imhoff wins the ten-mile club handicap from scratch and the soda-water novelty.
- B. A. Swenson, "Old War-horse" of Providence, R. I., makes the only perfect score among 17 starters over the Providence Motorcycle Club's 204-mile double course in five hours, then hands his own trophy to runner-up E. G. Luther, who scored 2,998 out of 3,000.
- A wet Fair Grounds track produces sensational spills at Dayton, O.: Ivan Jacobs turns a double somersault and sprains an ankle, Teubner takes a 20-foot head-on slide and remounts for second, and Hart (Indian) takes three of the seven events.
- William Maryauskas and Joseph Baltusis reach San Francisco on the 23rd ult., 55 days and 4,075 miles out from New York on Indians fitted with United States tires and Stewart speedometers, the first pair to make the full trip together; they found the worst roads between Nebraska and Reno.
- Edward Young, a workman at the Standard lumber mill in Austin, Pa., hears the flood coming and rides three miles down the valley to Costello ahead of it, shouting warnings past isolated houses; the town fled almost to a man and only two lives were lost.
- Arthur Dawson wins both the one-mile and the five-mile club handicaps of the Atlas Bicycle Club, Brooklyn, on 1 October, taking a one-point lead in the points score before the deciding three-mile race on the 15th.
- George Collister of Collister & Sayle, Cleveland, O., dies of Bright's disease aggravated by apoplexy; a strong arm of the L. A. W. in its heyday, he was a National Assembly delegate and frequent starter or referee at middle-Western race meets.
- Secretary Gibson reports 557 new F. A. M. members in September, Ohio leading with 71 and California 59, plus 120 renewals; the Lake district gained 131 affiliated members out of a total gain of 458 affiliated and 99 unaffiliated.
- Motorcycle races will be run on the Atlanta Speedway from the 21st inst. as part of the celebration arranged for the Glidden automobile tourists during their stay in Atlanta, Ga.
- The Acme Wheelmen of New York turn out practically in full membership for a club run to Guttenberg, N. J., where Art Eberhardt wins the two-mile in 5:40 from Hal Kaiser and Rich Jones and the eight-mile in 22:01 after running down R. Ford five yards from the tape.
- William Lineaweaver takes four of the six events at the Lebanon, Pa. Fair grounds meet before over 2,000 people, missing a clean sweep only by finishing second to Smith in the novice.
- With Frank L. Kramer's sprint championship already safe, Alfred Goullet heads the all-around professional points table with 151 to Kramer's 122, Fogler's 116 and Clark's 104, with several Newark Velodrome meets still to run.
- The J. D. Williams Cinematograph Co. will promote 142-hour six-day races at Sydney and Melbourne early in 1912, with roughly $3,750, $1,000 and $250 to the first three teams, $500 for beating the Moran-Macfarland record of 2,737 miles 176 yards, and an $8,000 prize guarantee fund.
- The Reading-Standard B. C. of Baltimore runs to Bay Shore and Sparrow's Point and tries its new triplet, manned by Captain Louis J. Seigel, B. Berkowich and William Coddell, over the twelve-mile Racycle B. C. race course.
- Rain wipes out the Newark Velodrome card of a five-team match race and a "gas pony" match between Charley Turville and "Daredevil" Hunter; Manager Chapman declares "no contest" and repeats the programme on the 8th.
- The Western Michigan Cycle Club of Grand Rapids elects Daniel Smith president, Claire Newman vice president, A. Lindberg secretary, Roy O. Dennison treasurer and Robert Sproat road captain.
- Bobby Walthour beats his German rivals in the 100-kilometre "championship of Europe" at Breslau on the 17th ult., winning handily in 1:23:12 from Gunther, Scheuermann and Linart.
- E. K. Buffington resigns as chairman of the F. A. M. Transportation and Facilities Committee; Winfield Graham of Buffalo is appointed in his place and Arthur Davidson of Milwaukee joins the committee.
- The motorcycle races set down for the Illinois State Fair at Springfield on 29 and 30 September are postponed on account of rain.
- E. F. Roof and George W. Coggins of the few-weeks-old Chesapeake M. C. of Baltimore ride 250 miles to Hancock, Md. and back, and the club plans an initial long-distance run to York, Pa.; the Crescent B. C.'s century contest is led by Charles H. Thomas with 35,334 miles and 86 centuries, including the first double century since 1908.
- The Reading (Pa.) Motorcycle Club holds a sanctioned meet on the Reading Fair grounds half-mile track on 14 October, restricted to four-horsepower machines though all events are open.
- There are over 2,697,000 cyclists in France, drawn out by that country's practically perfect highways, each paying an annual licence fee of about 60 cents.
- Illustrated 144-mile all-day tour from Columbus Circle through Yonkers, Tarrytown, Ossining and Peekskill to Cold Spring and Fishkill Landing, ferry to Newburgh, then Vails Gate, Highland Mills, Arden and Tuxedo to Suffern, Spring Valley and Nyack; only the stretch beyond Peekskill over Nelson Hill is in poor condition.
- The Newark News sporting editor prints and answers readers' letters on the teaming row at the Newark Velodrome: one signed "Slops" holds that a cycle race is no more honest than the human race, another asks about Alfred Goullet, Jackie Clark and whether Frank Kramer is a confirmed woman hater.