Vol 13, No 12
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Articles in this issue
- Paris report of Arthur Zimmerman's defeat by Houben in the final of the 2,000-metre grande internationale at the Brussels velodrome, with heat summaries for Wheeler, Medinger, Huet and Louvet, and Willis B's 10,000-franc match offer.
- Miss Hattie Bicker of the South Side Cycling Club lowers Miss Porter's Elgin-Aurora century record to 8 hrs 54 min, paced by Spike, Dameier and others, with a table of her times.
- Philadelphia report of Miss Nellie Byrne, a novice cyclist, killed when run over by a Guarantee Storage Warehouse Company van at Broad Street and Ridge Avenue.
- J. J. Corwin of Chicago reaches New York in eight and a half days, winning a $1,000 wager for George Hudnut; followed by notes on McDermott and Miles sailing for Europe and the recovery of Lesna.
- Julian P. Bliss sets world records of 1:54 4-5 flying and 2:00 standing mile on Waltham's third-mile track, with tandem pacers Githens, Lumsden, Brandt and McDuffee; also Butler's class A mile, Sanger's unpaced mile and the Haggerty-Williams tandem mile.
- Sanger's unpaced flying mile of 2:11 2-5 at Waltham, a world record, with intermediate times, and Tyler's planned paced attempts.
- Columbia agent F. A. Dopuy of Ironton, Ohio, gives a banquet and entertainment where R. C. Lennie lectures on the benefits of cycling and on Colonel Albert A. Pope.
- Johnson's 1:56 mile was made on a Palmer rear tire and a New York Tire Company front tire, prompting a dispute over which deserves the credit.
- Herrick and Barthel of Detroit break the 25-mile (1:07:46 1-5) and 50-mile (2:21:35 4-5) road records, with a table of times against the English 50-mile record.
- A cycle tubing factory is established at Bilbao, Spain.
- Editorial protesting at the grotesque costumes some women have adopted under the name of rational dress, after a local contemporary's caricatures.
- Editorial retracting criticism of Luscomb's order to rerun a race, after Chairman Raymond explains that the starter fired the pistol without the clerk of the course.
- Editorial on the delayed test between E. C. Stearns & Co. and the St. Louis Refrigerator and Wooden Gutter Company's aluminum-frame wheels, set for Cornell on July 9.
- Editorial on the claims for the new aluminum alloy in cycle frames, citing Professor Thurston's tests at Cornell and the likely effect on the trade.
- Editorial praising Julian P. Bliss's flying and standing mile records on a Gormully & Jeffery Rambler, and Herrick and Barthol's road records; followed by short notes on the '95 show candidates and Zimmerman.
- Two-day Asbury Park, N.J. meet marked by several bad accidents, including Hendricks's broken ribs and a marshal who kept managers from their fallen men; Raymond disqualifies Steenson and Murphy for team work, with Smith improving.
- Clover Bicycle Club of Chicago holds two handicap road races, a two-mile and a ten-mile, both won by W. M. Breckenridge.
- Zimmerman explains his defeat at Florence by Italian tactics and high gearing, naming Posta and Pontecchy as dangerous.
- Philadelphia clubs plan class A meets without the class B men, including the Tioga Cricket Club, Park Avenue Wheelmen at Riverton, Pennsylvania Bicycle Club and Century Wheelmen.
- Correction that Lee Richardson rides his half-mile backward sitting normally and pedalling backward, the earlier picture having been mislabelled.
- Colorado committee's programme for entertaining guests during the six days of the L.A.W. national meet at Denver in August, with Coliseum hall, runs and a ride to Colorado Springs and Manitou.
- Satirical fable of Maiden Amateurism leaping into the puddle of Professionalism, reprinted from Sporting Life.
- Opening trial heats of the Maryland division races at Pack Cycle Track, Baltimore, where Sanger is beaten in the open mile among fifty class B entries.
- Preview of the national circuit meet in Chicago on Aug. 2-4, praising the committee's hard work.
- Zimmerman wins three races against Barden at the Buffalo Velodrome in Paris before 15,000 spectators, and Wheeler also wins.
- Philadelphia notes on club races and record-breaking on the new quarter-mile Riverton track, with M. J. Bailey and medals to its originators; also the Berwick Bicycle Club's race meet (a fifteen-mile road race from Bloomsburg to the fair grounds) and brief items on the Park Avenue Wheelmen's Aug. 11 meet with colored-silk jockey jackets and a large score card.
- Frankfurt report of August Lehr's wins at the Vienna meet, the American Banker's seconds, and professionals now racing in Germany; continues on page 13 with riders barred by the German union.
- Miamisburg 15-mile handicap road race near Dayton, O., won by Clifford Bouch with Earl H. Kiser taking first time prize; includes Harry Croninger's crash.
- Aeolus C. C.'s first road race on the Humboldt Park course in Chicago, won by H. Swenson from the one-minute mark.
- Preparations for the Zig-Zag club's Indianapolis meet, with Tom Eck's team, Johnson's mile record attempt and Sid Black exhibitions.
- Cleveland Lakeside club races under electric light, where L. C. Johnson and A. I. Brown take seven firsts.
- Johnny Johnson wins both his races at the Athenaeum B. C. meet in Toronto and breaks Hyslop's Canadian mile record with 2:05 2-5.
- Ten-mile handicap road race at Independence, Kan., the first held there, with results.
- Tom Cooper wins at the Cyclone Cycling Club's midsummer meet at Bay City, Mich.
- Colorado Springs division meet where Lawton lowers the state mile record to 2:23 and Renshaw wins the state championship.
- Black River Falls, Wis., meet, third in the Wisconsin circuit, with nine races in a gale.
- Denver Wheel Club rolls the new bicycle track at Broadway park on the bank of Cherry creek.
- 100-mile road race from Newark, N.J., to Princeton and back, with 104 of 131 entrants starting in great heat.
- Preparations for the Mercury Cycling Club's Racine-Milwaukee road race, with some $1,200 in prizes and up to 150 starters.
- Chippewa Falls-Eau Claire road race at Eau Claire, won by E. E. Haskell of Menominee.
- Neillsville races slowed by heavy wind, with results.
- Marinette, Wis. race results, including W. J. Anderson of Chicago.
- Short racing items including a Davenport, Ia. road race and hill climb, George D. Gideon of the racing board joining Eldridge & Bro., and the Hartford Wheel Club.
- The Referee's account of the Cornell conference where Stearns made excuses for not being ready for the Lu-Mi-Num test with Grayson of the St. Louis company; judges fix the following Monday, with Professor Thurston.
- The St. Louis party breaks camp at Cornell and Stearns & Co. are asked for a statement, with the St. Louis Refrigerator and Wooden Gutter Company's letter and Conkling's challenge.
- Board of judges' letter to E. C. Stearns & Co. calling a preliminary meeting on bicycle tests and setting the final test for Monday July 23.
- Parallel Wheelman statement and Lu-Mi-Num challenge offering $500 to charity if the judges do not find the aluminum frame the stronger.
- Irving E. Dorland of Kearney, N.J. is whipped by a carriage driver at midnight and has him arrested and fined $10.
- Account of the two foreigners who lowered the twenty-four-hour record at over nineteen miles an hour.
- Secretary Templeton of the Century Road Club corrects a report that he has resigned; his term expires July 30.
- If Buffalo holds a 1895 cycle show it will be run by the local trade association, whose members include Sweet & Johannot and Queen City Cycle Company.
- New York Tire Company shows pneumatic tires fitted to carriage wheels, with Mr. Bidwell's claims.
- R. F. Bunting's first season selling Monarch bicycles across Tennessee, the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana.
- Chicago Tribune on the folly of Warman & Schub mechanics who struck to support the Pullman strikers, and what they lost.
- London letter of July 7 on the electric carriage built by Taylor, Cooper & Bednall at Coventry; continues on page 21.
- English comment on whether the Giraffe has caught on, answering Cycling Life.
- The writer tries Byron's sliding-seat safety, whose saddle frame swings on a hinge at the bottom bracket.
- The trade has neglected the tandem bicycle in recent years and light ones are hard to buy.
- S. F. Edge and R. L. Philpot resign from the Rudge Cycle Company.
- Riders adopt small-diameter pneumatics such as one-and-a-quarter-inch Palmers for road use.
- Doig's pneumatic hub reappears on E. Dance's safety in the Surrey 100-mile scratch race.
- Justice Romer rules against Singer & Co. in the steering-lock action against the Rudge Cycle Company.
- The Irish Cyclist says American makers are ahead of foreigners, under the caption 'Will America Invade Us?'
- A maker complains that tire guarantees cost $20 to $100 a day and are abused; continues on page 23.
- John Griffiths, Alfred Du Cros and George S. Macdonald deny that the Raleigh Cycle Company is leaving the American market.
- Sterling and Eclipse steel frames are tested at Cornell and each bears 4,000 pounds.
- Short Philadelphia trade items including Harry Goodman of the Hartford Cycle Company and W. M. Perrett leaving Raleigh.
- Profile of C. K. Anderson, 'Andy,' salesman of the Ariel Cycle Manufacturing Company, with portrait.
- Jack Prince gives up his six-day race between himself and Albert Schock on bicycles against Alexander and Brulinninger on horses.
- Milwaukee Wheelmen plan to move the start of next year's road race from Waukesha to Twenty-eighth and Grand Avenue.
- G. W. Anderson of Rockford, Ill. sets out on a 22-pound Monarch.
- Weekly trade items: bicycle insurance in Mannheim, a bicycle rink at Madison Square Garden, business changes including Rochester Cycle Manufacturing Company and Erie Rubber Company, and recent American patents.