The Cycle, Vol 1, No 11
Articles in this issue
- Henry Ducker, president of the newly formed American Cyclists' Union, publishes his circular defending the A.C.U.'s motto 'Jamais Arrière' and its aim to protect racing men from the League's arbitrary rulings. The Cycle's editorial replies that the Union exists solely to let professionals race as amateurs, citing the Yale Club and Lynn race incidents as proof.
- Full results from the international bicycle and tricycle tournament at the Alexandra Palace, 20–22 May, where W. A. Illston lowered the English half-mile record to 1:16 and Kiderlen of Holland won the five-mile tandem tricycle race. Furnivall took the five-mile international Challenge Shield final in 16:11½, and several new world records were set in tricycle events.
- H. O. Duncan beat the thirty-kilometre record at Frankfurt on 15 May, and at Munich M. V. J. Webber took the ten and five kilometre marks. De Civry lowered the one-kilometre record to 1:41 and Duncan reduced the German mile record to 2:43.
- The columnist 'Daisie' argues that Mrs. Grundy's disapproval is the chief obstacle keeping women off the wheel, and that the Boston Meet's gatherings of lady cyclists did much to confound that prejudice. She notes the Chelsea Club has made her an honorary member and recommends Minna Smith's poetry volume 'In Fruitful Lands.'
- New York correspondent 'Jenkins' reports on the League Meet in Boston, the A.C.U.'s disappointing Lynn races where the audience hissed, and the six-day bicycle-vs-horse race at Madison Square Garden won narrowly by the wheelmen. He argues that makers' amateurs such as Rowe and Hendee should simply declare themselves professionals rather than masking their status.
- A column of short Boston-area cycling items: Rowe's arm still stiff from his Lynn fall, Burnham's unshaken coolness in the smash-up, Kirk Corey's night climb of Corey Hill on a bicyclette, and the amateur photography craze spreading through the Massachusetts Club. Notes on new tricycles at the Reservoir and Ex-President Miller's stereopticon collection also appear.
- J. H. Lester of Philadelphia has sent the Cycle a silver-plated model of the Read Railroad Wrench, which releases its movable jaw instantly by thumb pressure rather than by turning a screw. A compact bicycle-sized version of the wrench is proposed.
- List of cycling patents granted that week, including velocipedes by C. S. Leddell of Morristown, T. N. Petersen of Boston, and J. H. Schulz of Berlin; a bicycle saddle by Jno. Payne of San Francisco; a bicycle by D. H. Rice of Brookline; and a stocking supporter by C. C. Shelby of Paterson.
- The New Orleans correspondent reports keen interest in the Boston Meet's election results and the Racing Board's stand against makers' amateurs, with Missouri's chief consul pledging League loyalty. Results from the Young Men's Gymnastic Club bicycle races of 29–30 May are given, with W. L. Hughes winning all three events.
- The Missouri Bicycle Club, founded in 1884 after its predecessor dissolved, opened its new three-storey brick-and-brownstone clubhouse on Cardinal Avenue, St. Louis, on 2 June before 175 members and their guests. The building's gymnasium, billiard room, locker room and parlour cost $2,700 to furnish, and Shoen's orchestra supplied music for dancing until 11 o'clock.
- A miscellany of short items, verses and exchange paragraphs: a comic poem about a cyclist's courtship tumble, notes on the A.C.U.'s amateur-rule controversy, a tricycle tandem overturn on Salem Street in Maplewood, an account of Hal Greenwood climbing 'Son-of-a-Gun' hill six times without dismounting, and A. L. Atkins's revised Road Book of Boston and Vicinity.
- H. S. Owen of the Capital Bicycle Club, Washington D.C., held his annual birthday run on 21 May with over a hundred wheelmen, this year routed through the city's roughest gullies including 'Header Gulch' near the P Street bridge where many riders were pitched into the mud. The evening continued at a bicycle park with polo, tag on wheels and obstacle riding, Rex Smith, S. E. Lewis and Max Hansmann taking champion honours.
- Race results from late May and early June meetings at Camden N.J., Princeton, New Haven, New York, Brooklyn, Concord N.H., Chester Pa., East Hartford and Pittsburg. Also includes the Racing Board's official warning that Yale Bicycle Club races will be run under A.C.U. rules admitting professionals to amateur events, and the L.A.W. championship programme for June and July.
- New officers of the Chautauqua Wheelmen of Jamestown N.Y. are listed, and the Atlanta Bicycle Club reports its organisation on 28 May with C. H. Smith as president.
- Calendar of upcoming race meetings and tours for June and July 1886, including the Yale races on 12 June, the second Prince–Neilson race at Lynn on 17 June, the N.A.A.A.A. championships in New York on 19 June, the Trojan Wheelmen's meet at Troy on 23 June, the Michigan Division ten-mile championship at Detroit on 24 June, and the C.W.A. annual meeting at Montreal from 1–3 July.