The Referee, Vol 10, No 3
Articles in this issue
- Leading editorial arguing the L.A.W. racing board under Raymond is vindicating Henry E. Ducker's 1886 American Cyclists' Union plan for a 'promateur' middle class, recalling Abbot Bassett's expulsions and quoting Luscomb's two-class proposal for Zimmerman & Co.
- Editorial defending league handicappers against charges of excessive fees, urging that handicappers be appointed in large cities at intervals and citing the Schofield/Pembroke Coleman timekeeping dispute in England.
- Feature on Chicago wheelmen paying off lost election wagers after Cleveland's victory, with Miss Alice Poole, Harry Leaming, Nicolet, Bob Lennie and J. P. Walters of the Taylor Cycle Company trundling wheelbarrows or sacrificing mustaches; runs into Chicago notes.
- A run of short New York and trade items including the Referee's new eastern trade register, 'They Come High' (a $5,000 racing-man bid for the Sporting Life car), W. B. Curtis of the A.A.U. on the makers' amateur, tariff reform and a Daniel Canary interview.
- Reprinted English press comment on amateur/professional reform, including a Northern Wheeler scheme for the N.C.U. to manage professional racing, A. W. Harris's English season record, and acceptance of Schofield's records.
- Report (via the Cyclist) of a Central Club debate in London where J. J. Glynn, C. P. Sisley and others proposed dividing amateurs into trophy and cash classes and a racing-licence system; also Denver's bid for the 1894 national meet and Col. Pope's sister.
- Begins an extended run of road- and track-race reports: the Kings County Wheelmen 25-mile handicap won by Hawley (Murphy, Wells, Morehouse), plus the Washington Wheelmen, Lincoln (Neb.), Manhattan A.C. and other meets, ending in 'General Race Notes'.
- Coventry trade letter on Schofield and Osmond's Putney records for the Whitworth, the timekeeping row, and returning makers including 'Bill' Starley of Starley Brothers, C. V. Pugh, the Pneumatic Tyre Company and the Reform Cycle Company.
- Recurring profile department, this number sketching an official handicapper, Lincolnite and prominent cycle correspondent.
- Springfield racing man Harry C. Tyler tendered a banquet by his clubmates and presented a $300 watch, chain and charm engraved with his mile record 2:08 4-5; he is to open a Springfield agency for the Union Cycle Company.
- Account of the Lincoln Cycling Club's Japanese smoker at 1 Ogden Front, with a rice-eating contest won by D. B. Southern and a speech by Louis Block of Denver promoting Denver's 1894 meet bid; leads into Buffalo smokers and Chicago club notes.
- Signed correspondent letter ('Donovan', Chattanooga) endorsing J. K. Starley's case against over-light wheels and defending spring frames, warning that the craze for sub-30-pound machines will demoralize the trade.
- Travelling salesman's letter ('La Cote Mal Taile') on the Kansas trade, praising Wichita as a cycling town, noting cheap-grade demand and rampant price-cutting on high-grade wheels, and election-driven dealer uneasiness.
- Inspection of the McCune Cycle Company's Everett, Mass. factory, describing its very light 28-pound aluminum-fitted wheel, dust-proof bearings, $140-$160 pricing and plans to build 2,000 machines.
- Patent department abstracting newly published English specifications (prepared by G. Douglas Leechman of Coventry), including Marriott & Swainston's steering head, Brittle's spring frame and J. F. Palmer's self-healing pneumatic tire.
- List of recently granted U.S. bicycle patents (reported by W. E. Aughinbaugh), alongside New York and abroad trade notes on the Sunol, Union 'P.D.Q.', Monarch 'Copper-Plate' and Thomas Sanders' samples.
- Trade-news department of Chicago, New York and miscellaneous notes—Lozier, Andrae, Marsh-Davis, the American-made Rudge at Peoria, Stover's Damascus-gun-barrel wheels, Eagle elliptical sprockets and many maker movements.