The Bicycling World, Vol 7, No 19
Articles in this issue
- The unsigned lead editorial examines why bicyclists take 'headers' over the front wheel, contrasting the balancing technique of the trick rider Scuri with ordinary riders, and advises pedaling hard rather than back-pedaling or lifting the feet when the wheel strikes an obstruction.
- Miscellany column noting President Beckwith's fall and sprained wrists, editor S. S. McClure of the Wheelman marrying Miss Hurd at Galesburg, Ill., a Clipper profile of Louise Armaindo, and preparations by Woodside, Corey, Burnham and Saben for the Springfield meet.
- Report on the sixth race for the professional twenty-mile championship belt at the Belgrave Road Grounds before 12,000 spectators, won by F. Wood by fifteen yards in 59m. 41s. over Howell and Lees, with the belt's full run of winners since April 1883.
- Covers the Surrey Bicycle Club's fifty-mile amateur championship at Surbiton, in which H. F. Wilson set a new amateur fifty-mile record of 2h. 52m. 55s. ahead of C. D. Vesey and G. R. Oxx, with mile splits reprinted from the Sportsman.
- J. Fred. Adams replies to a letter from 'Telzah' of Portsmouth, insisting the direct roads toward Exeter are genuinely sandy while praising the beach roads and lamenting the poor local roads that keep wheelmen away.
- Will R. Pitman, captain of New York's Ixion Bicycle Club, defends the officiating of the disputed Kings County Wheelmen race won by Midgley over Corey; an editor's note adds that the K.C.W. judges have since affirmed Corey's position and that he has accepted the second medal under protest.
- Roundup of race meetings nationwide: the New England Fair at Manchester, N.H. (Midgley, Wattles and Jenness among the winners), Prince's defeat of Higham at St. Paul, the League of Ohio Wheelmen meet at Columbus, J. M. Harper's sweep at the Genesee Bicycle Club races in Rochester, the Rutland (Vt.) Bicycle Club's first meet, George S. Blakeman's bicycle-versus-trotting-horse match at Hamilton Park, and notices of coming meets at Germantown, Baltimore, Chicago and Detroit.
- Report on the League of Ohio Wheelmen's annual meeting in Columbus, where President H. S. Livingston reported strong growth, the League voted to become the Ohio Division of the L.A.W. under a constitution drafted by Hutchinson, Miller and Krag, and Krag and D. E. Barnum were nominated secretary and treasurer.
- Notes that the Nashville Bicycle Club will fund a Julian Spence memorial medal for its late member and elected Alfred E. Howell as League consul for Tennessee, and carries Prof. W. D. Wilmot's open challenge to any double/fancy bicycle riders in America for a gold medal at the Springfield meet.
- Reader-query department in which A. W. Ballou asks for information on the roads from Needham, Mass., to Nashua, N.H., and northward along the river valley.
- Calendar of upcoming runs and races, including the Maryland Bicycle Club's run to Springfield, the Worcester Aeolus Wheelmen's ten-mile handicap, Boston and Newton Bicycle Club moonlight runs, the three-day Springfield Bicycle Club tournament, and race meetings at the Des Moines County fair and the Albany Bicycle Club.