The Referee, Vol 9, No 19
Articles in this issue
- Lead editorial on how cyclists should resist farmers and teamsters who force them off the road, citing Chicago-area cases (C. H. Larsen, A. P. Park, F. E. Spooner, Miss Lucy Porter, and the Sam J. White / George Colbeck assault).
- Editorial arguing invitation races fail because they are placed last on tournament programmes when riders are tired, citing poor turnouts at Parkside and in England; followed by short editorial paragraphs on cement vs. board tracks and the Manhattan A.C.'s grievance over Zimmerman.
- Special telegram from Springfield, Mass., reporting Zimmerman's successful attempt to lower Berlo's two-mile record, timed by E. C. Robinson, C. F. Shean and A. O. McGarrett.
- Preview of the Jacksonville, Ill., tournament of October 3-4, describing the half-mile track and grounds, the entries committee under Arthur D. Black, and the city's institutions.
- W. J. Morgan's signed weekly editorial column (running to page 4), opening on how the McKinley tariff and Harrison's cholera quarantine will hamper visiting English trade men, then covering the Zimmerman / Manhattan A.C. non-appearance dispute (with the Moneypenny and McDermott letters), Sturmey's proposed international world's championship, the Graves professional ruling, Irish cycling-paper notes, the H. Crowther / Bicycling World move, and the Park Avenue Wheelmen's 'coffin as a prize.'
- Reply to correspondent 'Marion' citing a recent New York supreme court decision that bicycles have the same road rights as other vehicles and carriages must turn out for them.
- 'Stanley' London trade letter describing front-driven and light safeties for next season, including the New Popular Rover, the Quadrant Jennet, the 30-pound Crypto front driver, Rickard's Westminster light roadsters, and the original Rudge-triplet professionals Whittaker, Oxborrow and Lee.
- Report of the Hartford Wheel Club's annual meet at Charter Oak Park, with Zimmerman's record quarter and half-miles, Windle defeating Tyler and Taylor, and full event summaries over two days of racing.
- Profile of Joseph Goodman, proprietor of the American Cyclist, credited with promoting and managing cycling's first relay race (Hartford to the New York Sun office).
- Report of the Passaic Athletic Club's first meet at Clifton, N.J., before 5,000 people, where Zimmerman won the two-mile and mile-and-a-half handicap, with Berlo and Banker also figuring.
- Report of the Columbian cycling tournament at Columbus, O., where Sanger, Lumsden and Berlo dominated, Bliss was repeatedly disqualified, and a bad spill injured Thomas D. Morrison; followed by the Indianapolis races where C. W. Davis broke the quarter-mile competition record at 32 1-2 sec.
- Preview of Philadelphia's two meets on Sept. 17 (Associated Cycling Clubs) and 24 (Park Avenue Wheelmen, $4,500 prize list), with Windle and the Chicago team expected.
- Preview of the Peoria races of Sept. 27 (Kroeger piano first prize) and the settled western circuit dates through Peoria, Louisville, Jacksonville, Evansville and Chicago; also reports the Crescent Cycle Club meet at Birmingham, Conn., where Zimmerman and Tyler each beat Windle, and Carlisle's Edinburgh-to-London record.
- G. Lacy Hillier's Herne Hill correspondence column (continuing to page 16) answering Morgan on English bookmakers and amateurism, with the Koppelow/Schulte tandem quarter record and praise for Zimmerman; appears amid reports of the Milwaukee race news, the Harrisburg meet, and Windle's defeat of Tyler at Rockville.
- Roundup of upcoming tournaments at Ishpeming, Toulon, Boston, Somerville, Cincinnati, Toledo, Baltimore, Poughkeepsie, York and Lansing, followed by 'Race Notes' folding shorter results and items (Taxis, Munger, Bliss's Relay Columbia mile, California records).
- Account of the Century Road Club's annual Elgin-Aurora run, won among the women by nineteen-year-old Miss Hattie Bickers of Chicago, with Spooner, Furner and Wescott leading the men.
- London letter on a quiet racing week: the Wase/Newland tandem-safety record attempt, C. Lucas's Liverpool-to-London record, Golder bringing New Howe samples, and 85-year-old Major Knox Holmes's 100-mile tricycle attempt.
- Trade-news department covering Kirkwood, Miller & Co. (Telephone wheels, R. R. Steensen's hiring), Kingman & Co.'s geared ordinary, the Rouse-Duryea Sylph 1893 model, and the transfer of $50,000 of Sercombe-Bolte stock to Milwaukee with Casper M. Sanger as president.
- List of recent U.S. bicycle patents reported by W. E. Aughinbaugh (machines, cyclometer, pneumatic tires, valve, unicycle, carrier attachment); appears among new-machine notices for the Victor, Tower No. 5 and Marriott racers.
- G. Douglas Leechman's abstracts of newly applied-for English patents, including a compressed-air-assisted velocipede, McDougall & Carroll's tire cover, Robertson's wheel rim, Brooks' eccentric cycle brake and Dame's spring-mounted wheel rim, followed by 'Trade Jottings' of shorter trade items.