The Referee, Vol 9, No 20
Articles in this issue
- Lead editorial paying tribute to Springfield, Mass., as cycling's greatest race-promoting town on the eve of the 1892 diamond meet; the editorial column continues with shorter leaders 'Improvements in Wheels,' 'The Trotter Still Leads,' 'Big Words These, My Masters' (rebuking Colonel Burdette over throwing the L.A.W. championships open), 'Extraordinary, If True' (the Columbus Wheelmen / Sanger dispute) and 'Needs a Training School' (poor officiating at Louisville).
- Correspondent's travel sketch on how the Corbett-Sullivan New Orleans prize fight obsessed every Connecticut traveler until Zimmerman and Windle's records turned attention back to cycling; runs into 'How Zim's Records Were Made,' a detailed account of the Hampden Park rides where Zimmerman did a mile in 2m. 6 4-5s. (beating Nancy Hanks), Windle a half in 1m. 1-5s. and Taylor a mile in 2m. 8 1-5s.
- Sketch of W. C. Marion, Jr., of Hartford as announcer, toastmaster and stage manager of the 'Cupid's Chariot' show, criticizing its county-fair bicycle race in which Barber's professional wife beat Zimmerman, Taylor and Banker.
- Human-interest sketch of Miss Minnie Brockway, who took over her late brother's Columbia agency in Middletown, Conn., sold over a hundred wheels (Columbias, New Mails, Western Wheel Works) and managed a successful local road race.
- Milwaukee correspondence on the Columbus Wheelmen / Sanger prize dispute, Sanger skipping Springfield, the rained-out Milwaukee Wheelmen's meet rescheduled to Sept. 17, and the new fast 'gradual curve' State Fair track designed by J. J. Boyd.
- W. E. Bedell on the flourishing Asbury Park Wheelmen, home club of Arthur A. Zimmerman, its delegation to Springfield, and G. Carleton Brown's proposal that the club host the 1894 national L.A.W. meet.
- Multi-day report of the Springfield diamond tournament (Sept. 13-16): 750 entries and Zimmerman's 2:16 2-5 competition mile on the first day, the rain postponement, Zimmerman twice beaten by Tyler and Windle, and his win in the climactic world's-record race for a carriage and pair (2:31 3-5 over Windle, Taxis, Taylor and Tyler), with Tyler's record standing-start mile of 2m. 8 4-5s.
- Chicago C.C.'s near-arrangement of Washington Park for Oct. 21-22 with Zimmerman, Taxis and Tyler expected (programme listed); appears amid shorter page-5 race notes on Ludwell Cox defying the league, Stephane's new 24-hour record (421 miles 437 yards at Paris), the Columbia Wheelmen of Chicago road race won by H. L. Nelson, and Zimmerman's easy two-mile championship win at Manhattan Field, New York.
- Department of race-meeting reports and short items: the St. Johns, Mich., Wheelmen meet (Charles Parker of Goshen winning the sixteen-mile road race), Kalamazoo's tournament, open events at Elgin, a Wanderers' B.C. (Toronto) programme, plus Chicago, Davenport and Wisconsin meets and Morrison hospitalized at Columbus.
- Milwaukee letter by 'Jack Royal' on scorching wheelmen as a nuisance, A. Cressy Morrison and F. S. Hart touring east, Cyrus Williams and Elmer Gray wheeling through France, and the Sercombe-Bolte Company's planned 1893 racing wheel.
- Peoria letter by 'Laurel' on the Peoria Bicycle Club's runs and second annual century, the Toulon B.C. tournament where Steensen beat Bert Myers, and H. G. Rouse delaying an England trip over the cholera scare; followed by 'General Notes' on the new Illinois division road book and the Des Moines Cycling Club's incorporation.
- Coventry correspondence reporting that the English Cycle Manufacturers' Protective Association will hold its own London trade exhibition in early 1893 (possibly at Crystal Palace), separate from the Stanley Show set for the Agricultural Hall, Islington, Nov. 18-26.
- Correspondent's column debating road-rights squibs reprinted from the Bicycling World, Sacramento Bee and Findlay Republican on whether cyclists or carriages have the better claim to the road, with a confession of converting from the ordinary to a Crypto geared ordinary.
- Trade department on World's Fair-year preparations: Hartford Cycle Company's new building, Pope's rubber and tube works (and rumored athletic ground), the Eagle Bicycle Company's 1893 thirty-pound safety, parts makers Pratt & Whitney and Billings & Spencer, and Providence and New Haven notes on Whitten & Godding, the Tillinghast Tire Company and others.
- Travel feature by E. H. Godbold describing England's Great North Road as the chief racing and record-breaking ground, from Hitchin through Biggleswade (Dan Albone's Ivel Hotel), Eaton Socon and Buckden to the Peterboro finishing points.
- Trade report (from the Springfield Union) that Charles D. Rood, former Hampden Watch Company head, succeeds George D. Chamberlain as president of the Warwick Manufacturing Company, whose capital stock rose from $150,000 to $200,000.
- Retrospective on the Hartford meet, where Zimmerman did 1:01 4-5 for the half and George C. Smith of New York upset Tyler with a 31 1-2s. standing-start quarter, plus the trackside waltzing of Abbott Bassett and the racing-board chairman.
- Recurring profile department, this number featuring C. W. Fourdrinier, editor of Bicycling World, official organ of the League of American Wheelmen.
- Trade account of the Eclipse Bicycle Company moving from Indianapolis to former cutlery buildings at Beaver Falls, Pa., now the fifth-largest bicycle plant in the United States and ready for 1893 production by mid-October; followed by Buffalo trade notes including dealers organizing against the 'prize system' of begging for race donations.
- List of recently granted bicycle patents reported by patent attorney W. E. Aughinbaugh, including a 'useless' shoulder-suspender power device by Openshaw and Carr of Bury, England (with a 'Useless Patent' note), plus Peoria trade affairs by 'Laurel.'
- Trade department of short items running across pages 18 and 20: the Silvertown self-healing tire, Cyrus Kehr's patented integral-arch fork and crown, the Bretz & Curtis '93 Scorcher saddle, Coventry Machinists' cabling for more Holbeins, Morgan & Wright's 17,500-pair tire output, the dissolution of Stokes & Leeming, and the Raleigh holding records via Zimmerman.