The Bicycling World, Vol 7, No 17
Articles in this issue
- The editorial urges L.A.W. state consuls to keep choosing the best available country hotels as club headquarters rather than bargaining down room rates, quoting past correspondents "Stella" and "Kol Kron"; closing notes describe Brookline police clearing carriages for the Corey Hill contest and the mix of Ordinaries, Stars, a Facile and several tricycle makes seen there.
- Recently issued U.S. bicycle patents reported by solicitor Henry W. Williams, including Charles H. Warner's convertible crank-and-clutch driving gear (assigned to the Pope Manufacturing Company), an Overman and Hadley tire-fastening method, Henry Kellogg's air-cushioned backbone, and P. J. Branham's children's velocipede.
- A detailed technical review of D. Rudge and Company's Light Roadster, imported by Stoddard, Lovering and Company, covering its ball bearings, Clement hollow rims, tangential spokes and $135 price, and noting that Corey Hill was climbed and the 1883 League championship won on the machine.
- A Kings County Wheelman defends fellow club member Alex. Schwalbach against an attack printed in The Wheel, explaining that Schwalbach had resigned some months earlier and was unanimously reinstated to active membership before the disparaging item appeared.
- "De Kelle" describes a Star rider barred from the amateur races at Medina, Ohio, on 17 August after judges ruled the American Star ineligible, arguing the L.A.W. racing board should not let local clubs exclude machines admitted under League rules.
- President Bates rebuts a Chicago correspondent's criticism of the American Star, drawing on his own 400-mile Canada tour to argue the Star is a fair road machine but dangerous in close-order company because its speed control depends solely on the hand brake; he also notes breakages among several first-class English machines on the same tour.
- Report on the Boston Bicycle Club's Corey Hill hill-climbing contest, in which Burt Pressy (riding a Star) alone reached the summit and won the club's medal, with distances given for the other nine entrants including Stall, Prince, Smith, Dean and Midgely, and officers Abbot Bassett, W. E. Gilman and C. W. Fourdrinier named.
- Mr. J. W. M. Brown rode a 55-inch Invincible, or Yale, 231.5 miles in twenty-four hours despite rain and headwinds, breaking Mr. Lennox's 229-mile record set the previous week.
- Henry W. Williams gives a turn-by-turn 63-mile route ridden with F. W. Freeborn and W. S. Slocum of the Massachusetts Club, from Warren, R.I., through Pawtucket, East Attleboro, Foxboro, Walpole, Norwood and Dedham to Massachusetts Club headquarters in Boston.
- "Krank" reports the Montreal Bicycle Club's road race to St. Rose (won by J. G. Darling, ahead of W. McCaw and W. J. Farquharson), new racing classifications for the club's 1 September meet, and comment on L.A.W./C.W.A. relations prompted by a Wheel editorial.
- "Bison" previews the Buffalo Bicycle Club's 13 September tournament offering $450 in prizes ahead of the Springfield meet, and recalls the club's July visit from the touring Chicago wheelmen.
- "B.b.a." reports Chicago Bicycle Club gossip: Sam Vowell's new secretaryship, the president and Mr. Wilkinson switching from a Standard and an 'Xtra to Expert bicycles, ruined tour photographs by Mr. Richardson, and the club's Springfield delegation of Valentine, Crawford, Shortall, Sturges, Sharpe and Cowles.
- First instalment, by "Gesshe," of an account of a bicycle tour through Maine and New Brunswick, listing all twenty-nine participants and their machines, including Karl Kron on a 46-inch Standard Columbia and Henry W. Williams on a 52-inch Expert.
- Miscellany column covering the Missouri Wheel Company's takeover of Richard Garvey's St. Louis agency, the $1,500 silver-and-bronze Columbia trophy cup by Shreve, Crump and Low, John Keen's planned American tour with Raneleigh Harriers rider Mr. Robinson, the new Rhode Island Bicycle Club's officers, and other brief club and road notes including a stolen Standard Columbia and a costume pledge by Missouri Bicycle Club members.
- Trade notes reporting that Lowndes is no longer employed by Rudge and Co., that Henry Sturmey struggled to master the American Star while maker M. D. Rucker rode it easily, and describing Hendee's newly imported twenty-nine-pound Rudge and a novel four-wheeled Brown's Quadricycle.
- Full three-day programme for the Springfield Bicycle Club's tournament (18-20 September), listing the race schedule, camp arrangements at $2.50 a day, and officers including referee Fred. Jenkins and general director/starter Henry E. Ducker.
- Race-result roundup including Frank Lamkin's win at Findlay, Ohio, H. W. Higham's 20-mile victory over John S. Prince in Washington, D.C., the Woodside-Shock-Morgan Peoria match race, the new Chicago track's opening programme, and the Atwood/Pettus-Hall costume dispute that cancelled races at Pittsfield.
- Notice of the League of Ohio Wheelmen's third annual meet in Columbus (3-4 September), to discuss forming a permanent L.A.W. division, plus the Massachusetts Division L.A.W.'s standing committee appointments.
- C.T.C. department covering membership dues, the 1884 Harrogate annual meet date, ordering photographs and cloth for the new C.T.C. uniform, and new member applications from E. E. Du Bois, G. F. Marsden and Chas. W. Spooner.
- Answers-to-correspondents column advising on racing saddles, the pending expiry of the Lallement bicycle patent, ordering custom cycling shoes from C. H. Kennedy, and fitting a rawhide washer to fix a loose wheel cone.
- Calendar of club runs and race meetings from 1 September through 6 October, including the Kings County Wheelmen's Brooklyn meeting, the League of Ohio Wheelmen's Columbus tournament, the three-day Springfield Bicycle Club tournament, and the Boston Bicycle Club's hundred-mile road race.