The Referee, Vol 9, No 17
Articles in this issue
- Leading editorial on whether the L. A. W. racing board can tolerate paid makers' amateurs racing on even terms with true amateurs, arguing the amateur rule must be rewritten by convention rather than tinkered with; accompanied by shorter leaders 'Classifying Racing Men' (a paid racing-board secretary to keep race records) and 'Arranging a Circuit' (endorsing Tom Eck's trotting-style circuit plan).
- Argues Chicago-area road records (Milwaukee, Elgin, Aurora) are unreliable without official courses and timers, recalling the Associated Cycling Clubs' 1891 committee and Ulbricht's planned Sunday attempt on the Elgin-Aurora century course; the preceding 'Last Sunday's Tours' rounds up club century and touring runs naming the Misses Stahl, Herrick, Moxam, Powell and Spooner.
- W. J. Morgan's eastern correspondence column running across several pages, covering chairman H. E. Raymond's unsigned racing-board circular to manufacturers (with Sporting Life editor H. Crowther's criticism and Raymond's reply), the pneumatic-tired sulky craze with Robert Bonner and Sterling Elliott, the M. A. C. 'gigantic' meet advertising the absent Zimmerman and Tyler, and a plea for paid L. A. W. referees and timers.
- London letter on English road racing: Osmond's improving form, Clark and Arnold's tandem twelve-hour record, M. A. Holbein's 359-mile twenty-four-hour safety record on a Swift, the North Road Club's coming 24-hour race, and Dunlop's new unpuncturable tire.
- London trade letter on the slump in the British cycle trade and great preparations for the November Stanley Show, including the Singer-versus-Wooster lawsuit over the 1891 Crystal Palace show and a visit to the Wenham Company's works; followed by 'Sanger Showing Great Speed' on Milwaukee's Walter Sanger beating the world's champion at Sarnia, Ont.
- Report that the Chatham Fields track scheme has collapsed for lack of elevated-railway access, leaving Chicago without a track or hotel plan for the league meet pending the Associated Cycling Clubs' inquiry into the rival Windsor Park concern; surrounded by Chicago club squibs (new clubs, runs, George Colbeck prosecution) and 'Gotham's Cycling Reporters' mocking eastern daily-paper inaccuracy.
- Describes a $5,000 electric road carriage being built at the Chicago Bicycle Company's plant on Jackson boulevard, with Morgan & Wright tires and Mr. Saulsbury as electrician, for World's Fair exhibition; the page also carries 'Besieged by Commission Sharks' and 'To Care for Fair Visitors' on the National Columbian United Wheelmen's planned lodging near the fair grounds.
- Preview of the Chicago Cycling Club's two-day Parkside meet, with the rebuilt cement track, full programme and prize list (Walker cup, Humber cup) and officials including referee T. F. Sheridan; the same pages report the South Bend (Ind.) tournament won largely by Rhodes and the C. C. C. team, plus Lake View, Lincoln and Englewood club road races.
- Preview of the ninth consecutive annual Hartford Wheel Club fall tournament Sept. 5-6 at Charter Oak Park, with a $900 Hallet & Davis grand piano heading the invitation mile and officials including Col. Charles L. Burdett and Abbott Bassett.
- Run of race-meeting reports: the Pennsylvania Bicycle Club's postponed club races (Frank Nelms, M. Meredith), the first annual Batavia, N. Y. tournament with its plow boys' race (Banker, Callahan, Le Messurier), and several Chicago and Milwaukee road races including Leonhardt winning from scratch.
- Tournament managers Rouse, Paine, Tileston, Black and Miles & Young meet at the Palmer House to arrange the western circuit (Peoria, Louisville, Jacksonville, Evansville) offering $11,000 in prizes; with notes on Louisville's track and Milwaukee race chat.
- Buffalo exposition races where Zimmerman and Taylor both beat Munger's mile record, but a track with no seating drove 5,000 spectators onto the horse course; full summaries plus the half-mile crash injuring Carl Hess, Wells and others, and shorter reports of Rochester, Detroit and Berlo's two-mile record at Springfield.
- Previews of the Baltimore tournament on the new quarter-mile record-breaking track and the Columbus Cycling Club's Labor Day meet, both expecting the best eastern men (Berlo, Hess, Lumsden, Ballard, Sanger).
- Department rounding up upcoming meets (Bethlehem, Fort Smith, Fargo, Mobile, Quincy, Rockville, St. Johns, Pittsburg Keystone, Manhattan B. C.) followed by 'Race Chat' miscellany: George K. Barrett sick, Peoria's $900 piano luring Zimmerman, and the Columbia Wheelmen's '93 team race.
- Describes the new $100,000 half-mile Parkway Driving Club track on Ocean parkway, Brooklyn, and its prospect of hosting King's County Wheelmen meets and a league meet, with W. F. Murphy to manage much of it.
- Trade and patent department covering the solicitor-general upholding the Dunlop tire patent on appeal by eight rival makers, a proposed cycle dealers' board of trade under Isaac B. Potter, Foreign Trade Notes (Stanley Show dates, Birmingham-district exports topping $890,000), recent U.S. bicycle patents reported by W. E. Aughinbaugh, and Chicago trade jottings including the James Company's 22-pound South Road racer.
- Patent-abstract department from Coventry engineer G. Douglas Leechman (Hughes' epicyclic speed gear, Davis' rubber-band driving gear, Holt's self-repairing tire) alongside a profile of E. D. 'Pete' Loane's three-ounce pneumatic pump, the new 26-pound Swift racer, and trade notes on the Lyndhurst and Raleigh agencies.
- Profile of Colonel Albert A. Pope of the Pope Manufacturing Company (Columbia), cycling's most liberal patron, recounting his Hartford origins and reputed control of the racing men, league and journals.
- Review of Henry J. Sayers' farce comedy 'Cupid's Chariot' in Kansas City, whose plot hinges on a bicycle race, featuring trick rider Barber and the Powers brothers; with the anecdote 'Couldn't Fool the Fair Nellie' about G. & J. instructor Ike Johnson teaching Nellie Bly.