The Cycle, Vol 2, No 8
Articles in this issue
- The editor covers several topics without individual headings: the N.C.U. council's near-unanimous vote (88–12) to retain the amateur law; prohibition's impact on hotel closures in Eastern Massachusetts; the formation of trade associations among Boston and English dealers; and a proposed rule that road records against time require pacemakers for the entire distance.
- Chief Consul Hayes issues the official League hotel list for Massachusetts, naming more than thirty towns with their approved hotels and L.A.W. member rates ranging from $1.00 to $3.00 per night.
- Instalment of W. McIlwraith's epistolary cycling romance (reprinted from the Cyclists' Year Book), in which James Penner discovers his Glasgow sweetheart Agnes Lester is the estranged heiress of a wealthy Scottish admiral, while his friend Robert Lithgow announces his engagement to Bessie Drummond.
- The weekly gossip column gathers short items: Thanksgiving cycling plans in Chelsea; Mrs. Cleveland rumoured to be learning the tricycle at the White House; the Ahl brothers' resignations from the Massachusetts Club; new cycling patents; and miscellaneous club and trade news.
- Daisie recounts a story of a wheelman and a telegraph-office girl whose parents forbid their courtship, whereupon the young woman devises a secret Morse-code whistle system so her suitor can signal to her as he rides past — a scheme that outlasts the parental objection.
- W. C. Herring of the Ixion B.C. proposes in a letter to the Contributors' Club that the amateur definition be amended to remove the prohibition on competing against professionals, arguing this would increase public interest in racing, eliminate the promateur problem, and bring cycling into line with cricket and football.
- R. I. Dyrrh's column reports the resignations of Ralph and Leonard Ahl from the Massachusetts Club, comments on the London Bicycle Club's snub of Wheeling over the amateur question, and notes club affairs including the Jamaica Plain Club's proposed merger with the West Roxbury Club.
- The L.A.W. Racing Board publishes newly accepted tandem tricycle records from Hartford, Springfield, and Roseville, N.J., including times by Crist and Brown and by Johnson and Walcott.
- Track and road racing notes: F. De Civry sets new French tricycle records; Cambridge University's G. F. C. Searle wins the fifty-mile road ride in 3h. 50m.; and Morgan wins the Minneapolis six-day race with 740 miles.
- Club election results and social events: the Vermont Wheel Club elects new officers at Brattleboro; the East Hartford Wheel Club chooses its committee; and the Nonantum Cycling Club of Newtonville announces a series of six sociables through January.