The Canadian Wheelman, Vol 4, No 9
Articles in this issue
- Editorial jottings on the Brantford meet, electric timing, George Hendee, the Wanderers-Torontos fifty-mile challenge, the suspension of clubs that fail to enroll members in the C.W.A., and the loafing tactics of Foster and Davies in the five-mile championship.
- Toronto correspondent "Pete" reports his injuries from a Wanderers-vs-Torontos baseball match and comments on a Toronto Telegram bicycle-syndicate advertisement, the unattached riders of Toronto, and Sunday riding by the Wanderers.
- A letter signed "Dealer" protests that wheelmen wrongly regard cycle agents as sharpers ready to defraud the innocent cyclist over a missing wrench or oil-can.
- Reports of the one-mile bicycle and twenty-five-mile tricycle championships at Birmingham (Illston, Osmond, Mecredy, Gatehouse), Engleheart's safety records at Coventry, the Synyer-Furnivall scandal, and Howell's and Mills's record rides.
- A humorous imaginary interview reprinted from the Wheelmen's Record satirizing cycling-paper editors' recurring fabricated stories, including the impending publication of Karl Kron's "X.M. Miles."
- Official lists of June applications for C.W.A. membership by club and the consul appointments for the Huron, Niagara, Toronto and Midland districts with their hotels.
- Full account of the Canadian Wheelmen's Association's fifth annual meet at Brantford on Dominion Day, including Secretary Hal. B. Donly's report showing 849 members, the business meeting, the parade, the races, and the evening Board meeting.
- Detailed account of the hundred-mile road race near Clarksville, won by Robt. Neilson (Victor) over W. A. Rhodes by fifty feet after Rhodes had led for eighty miles, with a Trade Note on Chas. Robinson & Co.'s Rudge bargains.
- Newmarket Bicycle Club notes report a supper at the North American Hotel honouring Capt. Alex. Binns, who was presented a copy of "Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle" before leaving to join the Toronto Wanderers.
- From the Montreal Herald: Master Bertie Lane, son of A. T. Lane, rode up the steep Cote des Neiges hill in 10m. 20s. to beat his father, Robertson, Barlow, Scott and Baird and win a medal presented by Sport.
- From the Bicycling World: W. A. Rhodes (Victor) won the hundred-mile road race near Crawfordsville, Ind., in 7h. 57s. over Crocker and Hollingsworth, with G. H. Hill setting an American 50-mile safety record on an Apollo.
- A letter from Karl Kron reporting that he has despatched some 2,900 copies of his book "Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle" from the Springfield printing works to agents and subscribers in the U.S. and Canada.
- Announcement of the Ilderan Bicycle Club of Brooklyn's annual 1,300-mile tour leaving July 9th via Buffalo, Niagara, Toronto, Belleville, Kingston and the Thousand Islands to Montreal.
- Bicycling News describes the commotion caused at Ripley by an American "Star" rear-driving safety, judged a perfect safety but fearfully complicated and hideous in appearance.
- From the Wheelmen's Record: criticism of the so-called American team in England for racing on English wheels after being fitted out with American racers, with relief expressed for the Pope Manufacturing Company.
- A column of brief news paragraphs on Howell, Rowe, Woodside, Fred Wood's Australian championships, Munger's Clarksville tricycle record, the Ottawa A.A.A. games, the desire to send Rowe to England against Howell, and English-track opinions from Wheeling.