The Referee, Vol 9, No 18
Articles in this issue
- Editorial leader questioning whether referee and judges could make a special rule disqualifying riders for looking around at Parkside, alongside companion editorials on favorite scratch men and reopening league championships.
- Profile of the Columbia Wheelmen of Chicago, an Aeolus offshoot now ~200 strong moving into a $15,000 club house at 311 West Division street, highlighting road riders Emil Ulbricht, Fred Nessel and L. Tagholm.
- Signed "Morgan" correspondence covering Frank Egan and C. A. Dimon's new editorial posts at Sporting Life and Cycling, Zimmerman's non-appearance at the M. A. C. carnival, the Hudson County (New Jersey) boulevard, Frank Hall's Paris seven-day race scheme, and whether Colonel Burdette will seek re-election.
- Survey of New York wholesalers' and retailers' opinions on the proposed Cycle Dealers' Board of Trade, quoting George R. Bidwell, Bridgeman of the Ormonde company, the Raleigh, Gendron, Pope and Remington representatives, with Barney Whymper alone opposed.
- Recurring character sketch of L. A. W. treasurer "Pop" Brewster of St. Louis (now St. Joseph), "the Bill Nye of cycling," praising his wit, hospitality and pen-war with R. D. Garden.
- London letter (Aug. 20) reporting J. H. Adams's 100-mile path record at Herne Hill, Lawrence Fletcher's Land's End to John O'Groat's record, English tire-trade news, and Henry Sturmey's three-race world's championship scheme.
- Milwaukee correspondence (signed Jack Rotal) on the crowd that gathered to welcome Walter Sanger home from the Chicago meet only to have him stay over, plus Milwaukee track-building schemes and Julius Andrae's trip to Germany.
- Denver letter (signed Higgins) describing the new Colorado Wheelmen, a racing-men's club, and the Overman Wheel Company's employee club, and Denver's growing "cycle row" at Eighteenth and Stout.
- Reflective essay (signed D.) arguing that road-racing supremacy, illustrated by the Waukesha-to-Milwaukee contest, is won by brains and will as much as by muscle.
- Report of Emil Ulbricht riding the 104-mile Elgin-Aurora course in 7:13:00 2-5, with details of his relay of pacers and a tire fixed mid-ride before 500 spectators at the finish.
- Major report on the Chicago Cycling Club's two-day Parkside meet, with crowds of 3,500-4,000, poor Illinois Central transport, and full Friday and Saturday summaries featuring Sanger, Lumsden, Munger, Githens and Tagholm.
- Account of the rain-affected Associated Cycling Clubs meet at Philadelphia, with Tyler, Taxis, Smith and local man Howard Wunder prominent, plus full summaries.
- Report of A. A. Zimmerman dominating the Cleveland meet, distancing the field in the three-mile lap race, with first- and second-day summaries against Banker, Dorntge and the Johnsons.
- Report of the M. A. C. Manhattan Field meet before 10,000 spectators where George Taylor starred and won the five-mile eastern championship over Berlo, despite disappointment at Zimmerman's absence.
- Department gathering shorter meeting reports and announcements -- Norristown, Montreal (Hyslop and Smith), Winona, Stockton (Waller's 24-hour attempt) and Rochester -- with forthcoming race-meet programmes and sanctions.
- Trade-news department on Peoria houses (Kingman, Rouse Hazard, Kirkwood Miller, Luthy) and their repair capacity, the coming Peoria race meet with its $900 Kroeger piano prize, folded with the issue's racing and sanction squibs.
- Trade department covering the Raleigh company's new Greenwich and Bank streets factory under George S. McDonald, Bidwell's cemented-tire ideas, Gendron, Monarch and Featherstone plans, and assorted importer and dealer movements.
- Illustrated profile of the Newark sundry-and-wheel house Howard A. Smith & Company, sketching Smith and key employes E. J. Decker, Wilson K. "Kirk" Kirkpatrick, Miss S. E. Kandle and L. C. Crondal.