The Canadian Wheelman, Vol 2, No 10
Articles in this issue
- Editorial anticipating the third annual C.W.A. meet at Woodstock on July 1st, praising the asphalt track and predicting Canadian records will fall as Ross, Lavender and Clarke face visiting United States flyers; it also notes July's clustering of the C.W.A. meet, the L.A.W. meet and the Big Four Tour.
- Short notes urging readers to attend Woodstock and then Buffalo on July 2nd-3rd, and flagging the Big Four Tour's Century Road Race from Cobourg to Kingston on July 10th, with Manager Ayers inviting four or five Canadian road riders to enter.
- Notes on Woodstock meet arrangements: a midnight special train to Buffalo for the L.A.W. meet, tricyclist E. P. Burnham of Newton, Mass. competing, Burley B. Ayers as referee, and the open five-, one- and ten-mile prize events offered to American riders.
- Club correspondence (signed X. Whitehead) on Montreal Bicycle Club doings: Billy Ross and Bunny Low training for Dominion Day, a new cap and badge, Capt. McCaw's 95-mile Island ride, and the election of Prof. C. H. McLeod of McGill as the club's new president.
- An invitation extracted from the C.W.A. race programme urging L.A.W. and American C.T.C. members to stop at Woodstock on July 1st en route to the Buffalo L.A.W. meet, describing the town's hotels and its quarter-mile asphalt track.
- The day-by-day programme of the Big Four Tour through Canada from Cobourg via Belleville and Kingston to the Thousand Islands, July 8th-13th, followed by a calendar of the season's chief cycling fixtures.
- A practical guide, prompted by readers' letters, on building a bicycle racing path: elliptical shape, three or four laps to the mile, banked curves, layered gravel and cinder construction, costing around $1,000 for a four-lap track to the L.A.W./C.W.A. standard.
- Official notice from W. A. Karn appointing R. C. H. Wood (Tilsonburg) and E. C. Coleman (Seaforth) as Consuls and listing C.W.A. hotel headquarters across Ontario, including the O'Neill House at Woodstock.
- Canadian Division notices for the C.T.C. under Chief Consul Horace S. Tibbs of Montreal: dues, several membership applications from Sherbrooke, Montreal and Belleville, and uniform prices from the Richards Merchant Tailoring Co.
- A profile in the "Our Racing Men" series of Montreal flyer George S. Low, tracing his career from the Montreal Bicycle Club races through his 1884 two-mile world-open win at the C.W.A. meet and his 1885 Shamrock games victory.
- A "Racing Notes" report on the Springfield Bicycle Club's Decoration Day spring meeting at Hampden Park, where Hendee broke the half-mile record in 1.17 2-5, Brown and Miller lowered the tandem record, and Hunter and McGarrett took further events.
- An appeal for the best Canadian roadsters to enter the Big Four century road race from Cobourg to Kingston on July 10th for a $60 gold medal, with entries limited to twelve and made through Abbott Bassett or Canadian tour manager W. Kingsley Evans.
- A reprinted essay (signed Daisie, from the Bicycling World) on women's cycling, recounting the health it restored to the writer, the courteous "freemasonry of the wheel," and the Boston difficulty of finding stabling for ladies' machines.
- A humorous reprint (from Puck) lampooning the bicycle as a swifter, stronger substitute for the horse, joking about headers, brakes, second-hand machines and the newly appeared tricycle.
- Brief miscellaneous items: the Torontos becoming the largest C.W.A. club, fancy rider Hurst turning professional, Eugene M. Aaron made L.A.W. secretary-editor, W. H. Nourse's return from the Nile, a Rochester club visit to Toronto, and the Coventry Cyclist's note on Canadian pioneer rider Mr. Moody.
- The official programme for the C.W.A. annual meet at Woodstock on Wednesday, July 1st, 1885, listing thirteen bicycle and tricycle events with prizes (including world-open five-, ten- and one-mile races and Dominion championships) and entry conditions via D. A. White.