The Referee, Vol 9, No 15
Articles in this issue
- Lead editorial urging the U.S. and Canadian cycle trade to form a dealers' association, citing three trade failures in ten days and ruinous price-cutting amid a glutted market; followed by editorials on moving the L.A.W. Bulletin west ("Eastward the Course of Empire") and the racing board's move to control road racing.
- "Vee" column questioning whether Graves really passed Crooks in the unmeasured Buffalo twenty-five-mile race of May 30, debating what "recognizing" road racing means, and weighing the racing board's circular asking makers whether they pay racing men; also reports the Lake View C.C. road races at Thorndale (Helmich, Steele, Fox).
- "Morgan" New York correspondence reporting George F. Taylor's 2:11 mile at Springfield and urging sprinters down to a 64-inch gear, plus folded news items: the "For Good Roads" Pope/Rice Memorial to Congress, Chairman Raymond's road-racing ruling, the racing board "Shaking the Amateurs Up" and Graves's suspension, a visit to ailing racer "Billy" Murphy in Brooklyn, and two N.Y.U. students jailed for bicycle larceny.
- Consolidated run of dated city letters opening with "Morgan" defending writer Frank Egan, then Philadelphia (Tioga track rumor, Mayor Stuart's silver urn), Portland (Gargan-Lawrence match race), Buffalo (Wanderers and Ramblers club doings), St. Louis (Retail Grocers' picnic races, Wilder's military cycle corps) and Peoria (Y.M.C.A. and Peoria club news).
- "Club News and Notes" department of Chicago club paragraphs: the Columbia Wheelmen's new $30,000 club house, the North Chicago Wheelmen's formation, Lincoln Club century runs, Plzen Cycling Club officer changes, and a suit against the Cicero police over the Guinea-Piatt clubbing.
- "La Cote Mal Taile" trade commentary predicting 1892 will rival 1891 as a disastrous year and warning the World's Fair will drain money to Chicago; folded with notes on the coming New Howe machine, Charlie Cutting's Elgin-Aurora record claim, mismanaged seaside race meets, and B. V. White enrolling non-league Illinois cyclists.
- "Morgan" column on Manager Bowden taking Zimmerman to Hamilton, Ont., trick rider C. Fred Coope of the Common Sense company, Tyler and Windle training, and a debate over English amateurism with George Lacy Hillier; folded with the St. Johns (Mich.) and Rochester meet notices and Holbein's 359-mile twenty-four-hour road record on a Swift.
- Detailed report of the Asbury Park Wheelmen's two-day meet where Arthur A. Zimmerman swept his events before 4,000-8,000 spectators, with George F. Taylor, Carl Hess and W. W. Taxis prominent; full summaries of both days.
- Report of Frank Shorland's 413 miles 1,615 yards in twenty-four hours at Herne Hill on a Crypto front-driver for the Cuca Cocoa cup, with Holbein retiring and J. M. James finishing on a New Howe; a follow-up on page 11 analyzes front- vs. rear-driver.
- "Paul Berwyn" column on the Asbury Park crowd hissing George Taylor, the Park Avenue Wheelmen's threat to offer cash prizes, and W. W. Taxis's plan to leave the navy club; folded with the Toledo (Sept. 10) and Columbus (Sept. 5-6) tournament notices, "Professor" John West's failed Elgin twenty-four-hour attempt, the Jacksonville meet, the Hueffner fraud disqualification, Zimmerman's Hamilton sweep, and Chicago race notes.
- Roundup of forthcoming meets and tournaments—Canton, Grand Rapids, Harlem and Manhattan, Minnesota division at Winona, the Austral at Melbourne, South Bend, Crescent C.C., Batavia and Buffalo; followed by "Race Chat" short notices and assorted Buffalo and Rochester club road-race results (Comrades B.C., Buffalo Ramblers, Won by Hewitt).
- Report that the Moffat Cycle Company's plant sold at auction to Mark W. Hill for $6,000, the retail-store fixtures going for $30; also notes Walpole of Ames & Frost answering the racing board's salary inquiry, the St. Paul bicycle ordinance, and the new Menotomy Wheel Club at Arlington Heights.
- Trade report on the disastrous Sweeting failure in Philadelphia (with "Paul Berwyn"'s account of the sheriff's sale at 815 Arch Street and a Warman & Hazelwood correction), the Manchester Cycle Company's heavy loss, and "Dull Trade in the East" blaming hot weather and early-season supply shortages, with comments from Howard A. Smith and George S. McDonald of the American Ormonde Company.
- Description of Arthur J. Battersby of Nottingham's New Loco chainless safety, patented August 2 and geared to eighty inches, with detailed specifications of its two-axle bracket gearing.
- List of recent U.S. bicycle patents reported for the Referee by patent attorney W. E. Aughinbaugh (velocipede, saddle, spring tire and lamp grants to Sager, Smith, Battersby and Overman), with "New English Inventions" abstracts by G. Douglas Leechman of puncture-resisting tire patents.
- Trade department on Elliott Mason's strong Pope house season, Rochester rider William Le Messurier's road-race wins, the Schwalbach brothers' Brooklyn and New York successes, pneumatic sulky-wheel experiments, and Milwaukee, Peoria and Chicago trade jottings (Sercombe-Bolte time-keeper, Bidwell's new tire shop).
- Description of Edward Lisle's (Sharratt & Lisle, Wolverhampton) newly patented detachable, rigid bottom bracket, now used by Singer & Company, with detailed drawings; folded with the Eclipse factory's move to Beaver Falls, Pa., a dealer's prediction of more small-maker failures, and the James proving a successful light wheel.
- "Stanley" London letter comparing the geared ordinary and chain machine after Shorland's front-driver feat, with notes on the new Premier racer's scroll tubing, Raglan and Sunbeam wheels, the latest Dunlop racing tire, and Gamage's shop; also "Pneumatic Sulkies" promoted by Budd Doble.
- W. C. Thorne of the racing board announces sixty-day suspensions of Cutting, Schmitt, Larsen, Cooper, Olson and Bennett for competing in the unsanctioned Y.M.C.A. race at Parkside July 23; folded with the Peoria one-day tournament, a mishap-filled Lincoln club century to Fox Lake, and the nearly-ready Illinois division road book.
- "Miscellaneous Notes and Paragraphs About Wheelmen" department: Anderson, Ind. cyclists, the Louisville C.C. tournament, the Montana division meet at Helena, sidewalk-riding ordinances at Winona and Logansport, a coast-to-coast ride pledge, and a filthy Chicago club house.