The Referee, Vol 10, No 5
Articles in this issue
- Editorial leader charging that amateurs openly flout the L.A.W. amateur rule daily, citing a southern record-breaking team traveling at a maker's expense and Chicago men boarded and loaned money at the Milwaukee tournament, and challenging chairman Raymond to enforce the rules on his return from abroad.
- Editorial answering British Sport's objection to annual world's championships, arguing that since nearly all leading racing men (Zimmerman included) are makers' amateurs they could travel to Paris, Chicago or Shanghai as easily as anywhere.
- Editorial on the Century Road Club's struggle to fill offices, noting R. G. Betts's withdrawal leaving William Herrick to nominate Crowther of the Bicycling World against himself for chief centurion.
- Department reprinting British cycling-press comment (Wheeling, British Sport, Scottish Cyclist) on the demise of the ordinary in championship racing and skepticism over Zimmerman turning professional, plus notes on a proposed World's Fair cyclists' clubhouse.
- Feature contrasting Colonel Albert A. Pope and A. G. Spalding on the cash-prize question, with an extended interview in which Spalding endorses cash prizes, denies backing any cash-prize league, and offers his ball grounds for cycle tracks; alongside notes on the Potter-Luscomb good-roads alliance.
- London report that the conference at the Stanley show fixed the first world's amateur championships for Chicago in the fall of 1893, recounting H. E. Raymond's scramble from Queenstown by special car to reach the meeting in time.
- Nashville dispatch on the Rudge racing team — John S. Johnson, W. A. Rhodes, E. W. Ballard and Bert Myers, with local riders Newsome, Gardner and Anderson — quartered at historic Hamilton Place under A. L. Atkins and trainer T. W. Eck, preparing to attack Windle's records.
- Report that the Chicago Tribune will return Sercombe's $500 check binding the Sanger-Zimmerman match, with Zimmerman (through Troy) demanding $20,000 side stakes and not fit to ride before June.
- Race-and-track department covering the Evansville record-prize dispute (Lumsden vs. Munger), Emporia (Kas.) race summaries, a planned Milwaukee diamond tournament, Buffalo and Minneapolis track schemes, and the farcical Crescent C.C. Belle Isle 'race' at Detroit.
- Consolidated club-social department reporting smokers, receptions, balls and entertainments from Buffalo, Rochester, Chicago, Louisville, Detroit, Brooklyn and other clubs, including the Lincoln Cycling Club reception attended by Willis B. Troy.
- Reflective piece warning that overtraining kills, citing the deaths of cyclists Weber, Midgeley, Stout and Lafferty and oarsmen Searle and O'Connor (O'Connor's typhoid after racing at Orillia).
- Report on a fire at Morgan & Wright's West Lake Street rubber and tire factory in Chicago causing $15,000-$30,000 damage, confined mainly to offices and shipping rooms with the factory proper saved.
- London correspondent's review of the Stanley show, dominated by pneumatic tires (the new Dunlop detachable, Seddon 'red' tire, North British Clincher, and the Turner & Fernhead Duplex taken up by Pope), plus geared ordinaries and accessories.
- Trade column on Chicago's revived 1893 season, a stroll down Cycle Row with J. O. Blake meeting Stokes, Troy, Merrill and others, praising new western roadsters (Thoroughbred Phoenix, Sterling Scorcher, Rambler No. 4) and the rise of the geared ordinary.
- Reprint from the Northern Wheeler arguing that Cleveland's election victory over the McKinley tariff promises to reopen American markets to the English cycle trade, though benefits will be slow to arrive.
- Patent-abstract department, prepared by consulting engineer G. Douglas Leechman, summarizing recently published British specifications for tires, frame-pump arrangements and anti-vibration devices for velocipedes.
- Trade profile of L. B. 'Barney' Whymper, eleven-year manager of Schoverling, Daly & Gales' cycle department and editor of the Kings County Wheelmen's Announcer, alongside the Gormully & Jeffery reply defending its Kenwood tire infringement suit and other trade notes.
- Department listing recent U.S. bicycle patents (reported by patent attorney W. E. Aughinbaugh) to Tillinghast, Lewis, Kimball and Staples, with a note on the Coventry Machinists' Company's American incorporation at Richmond, Ind.
- Large trade-news department on makers and dealers active in Chicago — Kennedy-Child (Warwick), Golder (New Howe) — plus the Tillinghast and Shelby Steel Tube refutations of tariff-doom reports and dozens of agency, factory and personnel items running into page 17.
- Continued trade department of agency and factory items, including Mecredy and Du Cros ordering Raleigh racers, the Raleigh-Dunlop Ireland agency, Royal safety contracts, the Illinois Cycle Works incorporation, and St. Nicholas and Snell Cycle Fitting Company news.
- Preview of the 1893 Philadelphia cycle show, describing Elliott's electric trial-against-time track and chronograph and Budd Doble's pneumatic-tired sulky, with a complete list of exhibitors to date.
- Partial contents list for the forthcoming Christmas issue, promising U.S. trade and club directories and cycling stories and trade articles by Murphy, Patterson, Henry Sturmey, Ernest H. Godbold and F. W. Morgan.