The Canadian Wheelman, Vol 2, No 9
Articles in this issue
- The Canadian Wheelman offers the paper to clubs at seventy-five cents a year per member where every member is required to take it, or for twenty subscriptions sent in together, an offer already taken up by the St. Thomas club.
- Vigorous preparations for the C.W.A. annual meet at Woodstock on July 1st are described, noting the town's new track and rail links and the nearby L.A.W. meet at Buffalo on July 4th expected to draw American riders.
- Editorial squibs note the English paper Wheeling's confusion over Canada's geography and the Clerical Wheelmen's tour, plus new celebrity photographs of Prince, Morgan, C. F. Lavender, Westbrook and Hacker, and lady fancy rider Annie Sylvester added to the Wheelman's collection.
- A prospectus from Rev. Sylvanus Stall of Lancaster, Pa., announces a three-week clerical wheelmen's tour of Ontario beginning August 5th, with nearly one hundred clergymen expected to join.
- A profile in the "Our Racing Men" series of Toronto rider H. P. Davies, formerly of the Wanderers' Club and now a promoter of the new Rotas club, listing his race placings through the 1884 season at Newcastle, Woodstock and Toronto.
- Corrects a false report that Thomas Stevens abandoned his round-the-world bicycle ride, confirming he sailed from New York on the City of Chicago and resumed riding from Liverpool through London, Dover and across the channel toward Constantinople as Outing's representative.
- A reprint from The Bicycling World arguing that descending steep, rough hills is safer with legs over the handles and two fingers on the brake than with feet on the pedals and back-pedalling.
- A reprint from Wheeling giving practical instructions for wheelmen on applying bandages and splints for broken legs, forearms, collar-bones and ribs, and for treating head injuries and concussion until a doctor arrives.
- A trade note drawing attention to Charles Robinson & Co.'s readable new cover advertisement, their booming Rudge Safety sales, a new sporting-goods department, and word that Clarke and Biette of Woodstock will ride the Rudge this summer.
- Reports the C.W.A. district elections of Chief Consuls and Representatives, mostly by acclamation, with a contest in District No. 1 where W. A. Karn of Woodstock defeated J. G. Hay for Chief Consul.
- A calendar of fixtures including the C.W.A. annual meet at Woodstock (July 1), the L.A.W. meet at Buffalo (July 3-4), the Big Four Tour, the Cobourg-to-Kingston century road race, the Clerical Wheelmen's tour, and the Springfield (Mass.) Bicycle Club tournament.
- A detailed report of the Woodstock Amateur Athletic Association's second annual sports on May 25th, where H. W. Clarke beat C. F. Lavender in the one-mile open and won the five-mile Ontario championship before a crowd of over 3,500.
- Results of the Ramblers' Wheel Club of Belleville's second annual tournament on May 25th, with wins by Foster, Cooper, George Davis and others across green, handicap, obstacle and fancy-riding events.
- Results of the largely-attended Newcastle sports on May 25th, where H. P. Davies of the Rotas took the open one-mile and F. J. Campbell of the Torontos won the five-mile handicap, the Torontos taking the silver bugle for largest club turnout.
- Reports the Carleton Place Bicycle Club's well-attended annual meeting on May 14th, electing W. H. Munro president and adopting the new name "Beaver Bicycle Club."
- Reports the St. Thomas Bicycle Club's annual meeting on May 6th, electing J. J. Teetzel captain, changing to light-colored knickerbockers, joining the C.W.A. and supplying The Canadian Wheelman to every member.
- Race news noting Prince's world-record mile (2:35.5) at Charlotte, N.C. after beating four trotting horses, and the twenty-mile English championship at Leicester on the Belgrave Road grounds, where Lees and Howell dead-heated.
- Summarizes Dr. Dudley A. Sargent's lecture at the Boston Y.M.C. Union on "The Best Clothing for Health and Cleanliness," advocating woollens for warmth, loose well-ventilated garments, and weight carried on the hips.
- A reprint from Breeder and Sportsman describing L. D. Copeland of Phoenix, Arizona's benzine-fired steam bicycle built on a "Star" frame, weighing eighteen pounds and exhibited at the Mechanics' Pavilion in San Francisco.
- A column of cycling news notes covering the L.A.W. touring committee, Sanders Sellers and Charles Frazier turning professional, L. D. Copeland's steam-bicycle rink exhibitions, the Ridout brothers' Yosemite mishaps, and a fatal accident to St. Geo. Matthews near Waterford.
- An extract from Thomas Stevens's article in Outing for May recounting how he forded the Humboldt's streams in Nevada by using his bicycle as a vaulting-pole and floating it across on fence-posts near Be-o-wa-we.