The Cycle, Vol 1, No 17
Articles in this issue
- p. 1
F. W. Allard wins the N.C.U. five-mile championship on a Marlboro Club machine, beating Furnivall and Gatehouse, and also takes the one-mile tricycle record at 2 minutes 54 seconds, all advertised by the Coventry Machinists Co. of 339 Columbus Avenue, Boston.
- p. 3
The Cycle defends its practice of publishing Racing Board official notices, explaining that a newspaper distributed on Friday morning reaches New England cyclists far faster than the Bulletin mailed on a Monday, and that the Board's chairman always notified the Bulletin first.
- p. 3
Dr. N. Malon Beckwith, president of the League, is arrested on a criminal libel charge brought by D. H. Renton of Broadway, the same man expelled from the League for threatening an officer, with former chief consul Edward F. Hill also arrested and later released on his own recognizance.
- p. 7
The Cycle notes that despite certain A.C.U. officers laughing at the suggestion, Robert Todd's letter confirms the N.C.U. will not recognise the A.C.U. as a legitimate rival organisation, vindicating The Cycle's earlier prediction.
- p. 4
The Worcester Gazette reports that Mrs. Herbert Moulton and Mrs. Charles Hopkins rode tandem tricycles from Medford to Worcester alongside their husbands, with Mr. Hopkins predicting that tandem machines will become very popular, though the makers have currently cancelled all new orders.
- p. 3
The editorial observes that a wave of new small clubs is forming, because riders now prefer the sociability of knowing every member personally over the superior facilities of large suburban clubs that attract too many scorchers who abandon companions on the road.