The Canadian Wheelman, Vol 3, No 12
Articles in this issue
- Reprints a circular from J. E. Atkinson of Port Hope proposing a bicycle club spanning the district between Whitby and Cobourg, which the editor hopes the Midland wheelmen will carry to a successful issue.
- Comments on English riders capturing the records, the Springfield tournament's decline against Lynn, Hartford and Roseville, and Fred Foster of Toronto being hailed as the fastest amateur on the continent after Hartford and Springfield, while protesting the American Cyclists' Union's attempt to place Canada in its Eastern District under H. E. Ducker.
- Reports the Gormully & Jeffery gear fitted to a 54-in. American Champion, T. Fane & Co.'s display of the "New Rapid," "Club Safety" and "Boys' Comet" at the Toronto Industrial Exhibition, and praise for L.A.W. official Hurley K. Ayers reprinted from the Bicycling World.
- A grumbling Montreal correspondent ("Growlings") laments the dullest bicycling summer since 1878, blaming pot-hunting racers, dwindling road-race entries to Valois and the M.B.C.'s inability to raise a quorum.
- Detailed four-day summary of the annual Springfield tournament, including world records, Fred Wood's mile championship, the Rowe-Wood and Rowe-Hendee finals, and disqualifications of Neilson and Wood for loafing.
- Account of the September 25 bicycle races at Lynn before 3,000 spectators, with Frazier, Rowe, Hendee, Rich and Foster among the contestants across professional, promateur and amateur events.
- Describes Engleheart and Buckingham's August 6 attempts on the Coventry track to lower the safety and tricycle records, with Engleheart eclipsing all amateur records and Webber's American world's amateur five-mile mark.
- Lists the C.W.A. officers (President W. A. Karn of Woodstock, Sec.-Treas. Hal B. Donly of Simcoe) and the consul/hotel appointments for the Huron and Midland Districts.
- Tabulates Wm. A. Rowe's world's records at distances from a half-mile to ten miles against the previous best marks.
- Reprints the Cyclist's account of G. Gatehouse of the Cambridge University Bicycle Club riding twenty miles in the hour on a tricycle at Long Eaton in world's-record time, alongside Furnivall's 2m. 30s. bicycle mile.
- Reprints the St. Louis Post-Dispatch description of Chas. E. Duryea's spokeless, hubless 52-inch one-track bicycle ridden in Peoria, claimed as the first such cycle a lady could ride as easily as a man.
- Roundup of English and American record-breaking, including Engleheart and Gatehouse at Coventry and Long Eaton, G. P. Mills's Land's End to John o'Groats tricycle ride, the British championships, and Fred Wood's record mile at the Connecticut Bicycle Club tournament at Hartford.
- Reprints "A.P.B." from the L.A.W. Bulletin recounting a Coventry Rotary tandem tricycle trip from Fort Erie through Stevensville, New Germany and Chippewa to Niagara, Queenston Heights and the old city of Niagara.
- Column of short cycling news items: Thomas Stevens reaching Delhi, the death of Star rider George Weber, Foster's and Crist's Springfield results, a new Quebec club, club formations at Ingersoll, and varied British and American notes.
- Humorous first-person travel sketch by "Pete" of a cycling tour through Ireland and England, meeting Nairn, Harry Etherington, Billy Hurst and Henry Sturmey and touring the Coventry bicycle factories.
- Stage-by-stage account of G. P. Mills's Land's End to John o'Groats tricycle ride from August 15, covering 861 miles in 5 days 10 hours and beating the previous time by nearly 30 hours, plus a Toronto-to-Niagara sketching run by Mr. Matthews of the Royal Canadian Academy.