The Referee, Vol 9, No 21
Articles in this issue
- Editorial reprinting an anonymous maker's cost sheet showing an $89.04 build cost and a $2,869 yearly loss, with a trade expert's line-by-line rebuttal blaming wasted material and cheap labor, and predictions that high-grade wheel prices will drop $10 in World's Fair year.
- Leader disputing W. R. Pitman's claim to amateur standing and tracing early American professional racing through W. E. Harding, David Stanton and W. M. Wright and Pitman's 1878-79 races at Brockton, Lynn and Boston Common.
- Editorial notes warning racing men that the L. A. W. racing board can suspend non-members, criticizing over-long tournament programmes and too few handicappers, and questioning Zimmerman's Birmingham and Clifton records made on mismeasured tracks.
- Eastern correspondent 'La Cote Mal Taillee' attacks John C. Kerrison and the Boston Herald for advertising Zimmerman and Tyler at the Saugus/Franklin Park meet when both raced in New York, calling the club's accident excuse a barefaced falsehood.
- Long signed report on the Springfield diamond tournament at Hampden Park, covering Ducker's return and views on amateurism, the L. A. W. recruiting by Bassett and Charlie Howard, Whittaker's pranks, and trade men present (Pope, Overman, Lozier, Stokes).
- Reprint from the Chicago News of sixty-three-year-old Dr. Wardner's account of learning to ride in four lessons and losing weight, amid talk of Chicago doctors forming a cycling club.
- Further Springfield notes on Tyler's 2:08 4/5 mile ovation, Zimmerman's dual defeat by Tyler and Windle, Lumsden's resolve to beat 'the Jersey skeeter,' Bliss and Rhodes riding well, and the wild record-race finish before 15,000 people.
- Signed reflective column by 'La Cote Mal Taillee' welcoming a proposed veterans' society of old-timers and marveling at the record-breaking pace from Sellers and Rowe down to the New Jersey lad approaching 3:08.
- London correspondent's Sept. 10 letter on the rival National Cycle Show and Stanley Show, the new 1893 Dunlop tire, professionals Willie Wood and the Robbs in court, and English firm men (Golder, Pugh, Bowden) heading to America.
- Reports from the Inter Ocean and News-Record on John S. Johnson of Minneapolis smashing standing-start records at the Independence, Iowa kite track, riding a mile in 2:04 3/5 paced by C. W. Williams's running horse Ned Gordon, then a half in :58 3/5.
- Editorial condemning Judge Thompson of Louisville for discharging Dr. Hendricks, who admitted driving on the wrong side at illegal speed and injuring two riders, on an 'ignorance of the law' defense.
- Detailed report of the Tioga A. C. meet at Westmoreland where Zimmerman won his eighth piano before 6,000, with George Smith, Lumsden, Taxis, Munger and Bliss racing, a bleacher collapse breaking a spectator's leg, and full summaries.
- Report of the first exclusive bicycle meet in the 'Cream City,' a triumph for the Milwaukee Wheelmen with W. C. Sanger the hero beating Gus Steele in the five-mile for the Andrae trophy; folds in the Buffalo, Denver, Manhattan S. C. and Woodbury meet reports with summaries.
- Skeptical editorial on John S. Johnson's reported Independence records, noting Tom Eck's training and demanding fuller timing details before the horse-paced kite-track marks can be accepted; surrounded by short meet items from York, Baltimore, Springfield (O.), Peoria entries and 'Race Chat.'
- Boston trade column profiling dealers including Kirk Brown's Airtite tire, Drysdale's Brookes shipment, 'Major Billy' Atwell's New Mails, Underwood's Quadrant depot and the Ames Co.'s Boulanger unicycle, plus New York and Buffalo trade notes, 'Prices and Politics' and 'The Brookes in America.'
- Patent department abstracting newly applied-for English cycle patents (Seddon, Busby, Michelin, Swindley, Green on tires, spokes and pedal brackets) prepared by G. Douglas Leechman, with a list of recent U. S. patents granted and 'Trade Trottings.'
- Editorial and full letter from referee Bernard V. H. Schultz of Zanesville defending his disqualification of Sanger at Columbus after his starter Wegner stepped over the tape, recounting the Chicago men's protest and Sanger Sr.'s abusive conduct.
- Recurring biographical sketch of Isaac B. Potter, chairman of the L. A. W. committee on improvement of highways and editor of Good Roads; the page also carries 'Cyclist Lost in the Arctic Regions' on John Verhoeff and 'The Country is Safe' on the Chicago colored club.