The Referee, Vol 9, No 16
Articles in this issue
- Leading editorial arguing that Zimmerman, hailed as world champion after beating the English cracks and the Canadians, cannot truly claim the title until he meets and defeats Tyler, Berlo and Windle; with the companion leaders 'Try the Flying Start' and 'Look Out for Sanger' alongside.
- Signed letter from T. W. Eck advocating a national track association and class/handicap races to spread prizes beyond a few cracks, plus entry-fee reform and the flying start in scratch races.
- Morgan's New York column gathering several items: women cyclists touring without escorts (Brooklyn's Mitchell, Becker and Stout to Albany), the comic Ben Bianchi office-boy story at the Gendron company, the Brooklyn Citizen's agitation for a Prospect Park-to-Coney Island cyclists' path, a rumored A. G. Spalding ball-grounds racing-track scheme, and an interview with J. F. Friedenstein of the Anglo-American Iron Metal Company on his European trip.
- Morgan's eastern trade department covering the New York Belting & Packing Company's S. P. protection tire plans, George R. Bidwell's strong season and new Chicago factory, Charles Schwalbach's Flatbush avenue store, Marsland's Hobart negotiations, Raleigh's Bowden and Angois sailing home, and T. Henry Sweeting's failure.
- Recurring biographical-sketch department profiling William Sheldon 'Billy' Bull of Buffalo, famous race referee, former chief consul and L. A. W. vice-president, now a bicycle manufacturer.
- The run of signed city letters: Paul Berwyn on Philadelphia century medals and announcers, Willie Dunn on the Buffalo Ramblers and east-side club consolidation, Hal on Grand Rapids, Club Mascot on the new Wayne County Wheelmen at Richmond, Jack Royal on the Milwaukee Wheelmen's track project and the Nessel time dispute, Juda on Des Moines and Edmonds' Iowa championships, and Seck on a good-roads banquet at Fort Scott, Kas.
- London correspondent's feature on the sixteen-year-old Harrogate cyclists' meet and camp in Yorkshire, presided over this year by Cyclist editor Henry Sturmey with E. H. Godbold, and attended by the Referee's E. M. Jaffray.
- Report of Nancy Hanks' 2:07 1-4 mile behind a pneumatic sulky driven by Budd Doble at Washington Park, Chicago, and the rapid spread of pneumatic-tired sulkies among trotting-horse owners, with the Toledo Cadets military-cyclist item and Chicago road-touring squibs alongside.
- Morgan reports that W. W. Windle confirms by letter he will race this fall, including Manhattan Field on the 27th, with W. S. Warriner's account of Windle's fast half-mile at Hampden Park and notes on the clashing August 27 tournament dates.
- Paul Berwyn previews several Philadelphia-area meets: the Quaker City Wheelmen on the Tioga track Aug. 27, the Associated Cycling Clubs Sept. 17, the Park Avenue Wheelmen Sept. 24 and the Wilmington Wheel Club road race Oct. 1.
- W. C. Sanger of the Milwaukee Wheelmen plans to attack the twenty-five-mile world's record on the White Fish Bay road, with notes on the North Side C. C. century, the Sanger-Nicel-Schmidtbauer championship race and a National Park field day Sept. 10.
- Report and full summaries (continuing to page 11) of the Mt. Vernon Wheelmen's first race meet at the Rosedale track, with Carl Hess winning the one-mile 'piano race' over Taxis and Rich, and Taxis cutting the track record to 2:20 1-5.
- Consolidated run of meeting reports and previews including Zimmerman's three firsts at Toronto, Zimmerman and Sanger at Sarnia, the Iowa state meet at Sioux City, Cutting's disputed Chicago-Aurora record, the western circuit (Peoria, Louisville, Jacksonville, Evansville), and meets at Saco, Chattanooga, Monticello, Danville and the Cook County Wheelmen at Parkside.
- Departments of Chicago and general race squibs covering club road races (Austin, Lake View-Kenwood, Englewood, Lincoln, Calumet, Montgomery Ward employes), Nessel's planned 100-mile attempt, the Manhattan Athletic Club carnival, the Buffalo exposition races, Harry Hull's Madison-Sun Prairie win, the York Cycle Club programme and a California Los Angeles-San Diego relay.
- Report of an Answers interview in which Mr. Gladstone praises cycling as a manly, healthful sport that gives businessmen the advantages of travel and study of the countryside.
- Good-roads essay (credited to John Gilmer Speed in Christian Union) contrasting France's nationally supervised highways with America's neglected common roads and crediting the League of American Wheelmen with reviving the good-roads movement.
- Preview of the Century Road Club of America's second annual century run Sept. 4 over the Elgin-Aurora course, with chief marshal Herrick organizing starters at Washington boulevard and Halsted street, alongside the Peoria-to-Chicago tour and the Chicago world's-fair track rivalry.
- Laukel's Chicago trade department covering March-Davis safety orders, the Humber-Rover championship record, the Halladay-Temple Scorcher, A. H. Radell's cycle-thief detections, the Moffat Cycle Company fraud petition, the Phoenix Cycle Company rising from the Sweeting wreck, and discussion of price-cutting agreements.
- Patent department: abstracts by G. Douglas Leechman of recently applied-for English cycle patents (Michelin's pneumatic tire, Illingworth and Bush's variable-speed gears, J. F. Palmer's tires) plus John Magennis' driving gear, James Imlah's patented unicycle and a list of recently granted U. S. patents.
- Trade miscellany including J. J. Prial of the Wheel sailing for England, Van Vrevart winning the Antwerp B. C. road championship on a James racer, Dubois beating world records at the Buffalo track Paris on Michelin tires, A. M. Scheffey's recovery, and a list of books and catalogues received.
- Report of W. C. Sanger's racing before nearly 8,000 at National Park, Milwaukee, on St. Andrew's Society day, winning the two-mile and five-mile open events, with Terry Andrae losing a pedal in the five-mile spurt.
- Captain Van Sicklen's scheme to take in 500 non-resident members and house visiting wheelmen on cots at $1 a day in the Chicago Cycling Club's old club house during the World's Fair, projected to profit the new home.