The Referee, Vol 10, No 1
Articles in this issue
- Editorial leader charging the L.A.W. national racing board with enforcing trivial rules (the bare shoulder/knee dress rule) while ignoring grave amateur-law violations, citing the suspension of Roy Keator of Chicago while eastern men's expenses went unpunished.
- Signed editorial column by 'La Cote Mal Taile' reflecting on the unsatisfying close of the 1892 season, the failed New York lantern parade, the cholera scare and Columbian Exposition, and Tom Eck's claim to have 'perpetrated his last fake.'
- Feature debating the McKinley tariff's effect on cycle prices, quoting the Springfield Republican and Union editorials, an Overman letter offering Victor bicycles abroad at a discount, and opinions from Centaur maker Edward Mushing and lamp maker Samuel Snell of Birmingham.
- Commentary on President Burdette's outburst against the 'iniquitous divisible cash prize scheme,' reproducing a manufacturer's letter inviting a racing man to join the Sporting Life California trip on its bicycle and arguing the amateur rule is openly flouted.
- Department of short personal and trade items: Mrs. M. L. Peck's new mixed-sex cycling club in New York, A.A.U. handicapper E. C. Carter's grievance over fees, 'Doc' Schwalbach of Brooklyn, Achille Philon's West Indies exhibition tour, and Sullivan's American Sports Publishing Company.
- Report of the Dallas Wheel Club's first annual meet, the largest yet held in Texas, with W. A. Parker of Waco dominating; full summaries of both days' races included.
- Bert Harding of the St. Louis Cycling Club lowers Hal Greenwood's De Soto round-trip record by 2 hrs 31 min on an Imperial light roadster, with full timing splits.
- The Milwaukee Wheelmen prepare a ten-laps-to-the-mile indoor track at the Exposition Building for a Thanksgiving-week tournament, designed by Martin Palitz, with hopes the Sporting Life racing car (Zimmerman, Windle, Tyler, Taylor) will appear.
- Sparsely attended two-day Capital City C.C. meet at Cumberland Park, Nashville, where J. S. Johnson of Minneapolis won the five-mile handicap from scratch in 13:28 1-2; full race summaries given.
- Department of brief race and road-race notes from Madison Square Garden, Baltimore, Lincoln (Neb.), St. Paul (Fred Hatch's hundred-mile record), and a youths' century race by Worth & Sterner of Chicago won by Harry Geer.
- Reprinted from Sport and Play, a sympathetic appraisal of F. J. Osmond as the disappointment of the past English season, contrasting him with Zimmerman's triumphs and 'plucky little Harris.'
- Illinois legislative candidates record their views to Secretary Prime of the Illinois Highway Improvement Association, nearly all favouring convict labour on the highways, state aid and road bonds; many full replies and a long list of names printed.
- Birmingham trade correspondence reporting a wave of small-maker failures (Basford Cycle Co., Maxim Steel Tire, Orient, Cornbrook, Frankenstein & Co.) alongside firms doing well, and previewing front-driver safeties and two-speed gears ahead of the Stanley Show.
- Department of brief Chicago trade items: the Taylor Cycle Co.'s U.S. agency for Psychos, Stokes Company's branch closures, Gormully & Jeffery's $150,000 tire order, the new Worth ladies' wheel, plus traveller and dealer movements along cycle row.
- List of recent U.S. bicycle patents reported for the Referee by patent attorney W. E. Aughinbaugh, including tires, bicycle supports and a 'Bicycline' lubricating-oil trade mark.
- Department of national trade and club items, including Pawtuxet Valley Wheelmen's tournament profit, Fort Wayne and Detroit trade reports, the Austrian 100-kilometre championship won on a Raleigh, and Scottish twelve-hour records on New Howe machines.
- Milwaukee correspondence defending W. C. Sanger against press 'roasts,' arguing his over-zealous friends rather than Sanger himself lodged the protests, with further Milwaukee Wheelmen and racing notes signed Jack Royal.
- Department abstracting newly published English patent specifications (Lovelace, C. S. Stone, J. B. Dunlop, Renouf, Kennelly) on frames, chain adjustments, tires and wheels, prepared by patent expert G. Douglas Leechman of Coventry.
- Department of miscellaneous club and personal items: Fred Patee's prediction that Peter Duryea will fly, the death of Henry H. Hollister at Manchester, Conn., and new clubs forming in Omaha, Minneapolis and Denver.
- Revival of the scheme, attributed to Peter Gendron, to build a thirty-to-thirty-five-foot asphalt cycle road from Chicago to New York, funded by makers, wheelmen, merchants and Congress and managed toll-free by a board.