The Canadian Wheelman, Vol 2, No 8
Articles in this issue
- The editor announces that The Wheelman will be issued twice a month during May to August, defends the value of club membership over riding unattached, and notes A. C. Beasley's 2,000-mile tricycle tour of England and France, Karl Kron's request for Ontario and Quebec road maps, and a quoted Bicycling World defence of the C.W.A.
- A profile of twenty-one-year-old Toronto rider Fred J. Campbell, tracing his races from 1882 onward, including beating Lavender, Davies and Doolittle in the Newcastle five-mile and setting the Canadian three-mile record of 10.9 against G. S. Low of Montreal; he rides a 56-inch semi-racer Invincible.
- Officer lists and notes for the newly organized Cornwall Bicycle Club, the Montreal Bicycle Club, the St. John (N.B.) Bicycle Club, and the Rota Bicycle Club of Toronto.
- Reviews A. S. Atkins's 'Cyclists' Road Book of Boston and Vicinity' and the May Outing (with Thomas Stevens's 'Across America on a Bicycle' and Joseph Pennell's tricycle paper), then describes the Columbia Two-Track Tricycle, a $160 two-track machine from the Pope Manufacturing Company.
- Official Canadian Wheelmen's Association department listing district consuls and representatives, new membership applications (Simcoe Club), and President Horace S. Tibbs's letters appointing W. A. Karn to the Membership Committee and reconstituting the Racing Board under the Chief Consuls.
- News of professional riders Prince and Morgan racing down South, John S. Prince's Springfield medal, a Bell-Frazier five-mile race at Minneapolis, the Memphis Cycle Club's meet, a new Chicago track, and detailed Prince-versus-Polhill and Morgan-versus-Bismarck race results at Macon, Georgia.
- Karl Kron writes from New York on seeing Thomas Stevens off for his round-the-world ride on a 50-inch Expert Columbia, reviews H. S. Wood's Pennsylvania Division road-book and other League road-books, and details the slow progress of his own 'Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle.'
- A long letter from A. C. Beasley, written at Montpellier, advising Canadian cyclists to join the Cyclists' Touring Club, buy a tricycle in Coventry, and tour from Dieppe through Paris to Bordeaux, with notes on French roads, hotels, railways, customs and resident English cyclists.
- A fixture list of forthcoming meets including the Woodstock Amateur Athletic Association championship races and Newcastle Bicycle Club tournament (May 25), the C.W.A. meet at Woodstock (July 1), the L.A.W. meet at Buffalo, and the Springfield tournament; plus notes on a Knox Holmes versus Hillier race and Hedge's mile record.
- Short news items, including P. D. Ross moving to the Montreal Star, the Victor bicycle's Pacific Coast record by Fred Russ Cook, Wanderers' Bicycle Club members serving in the North-west (George E. Cooper wounded), Prince beating the trotter 'Douglas' at Pensacola, and subscribers to Karl Kron's book from Australia.
- A notice from Wm. Payne of London apologizing for non-delivery of National and Traveller bicycle orders due to delayed deliveries from Singer & Co., promising cases No. 80, 81 and 82 will arrive shortly.