The Cycle, Vol 2, No 10
Articles in this issue
- A narrator recounts how his friend Volney, while walking in the Middlesex Fells on election day, predicts that a pretty woman will arrive on a tandem — a prediction that comes true, explained not by supernatural materialization but by an earlier chance encounter Volney had with the woman near Maplewood.
- A new club member named Fairley, pressed to tell an adventure story, spins a suspenseful tale of groping through the darkened club-room in search of matches — only to reveal the anti-climax that the mysterious object his hand touched was the wall-mounted match-case itself.
- A collection of humorous verses and rhymes copied from the visitors' book at English cycling inns, submitted to Wheeling Annual by a touring wheelman, covering themes of bad roads, hearty meals, headwinds, and the quirks of inn life.
- A correspondent signing as "Vet" disputes the claim circulating that McCurdy's amateur status was compromised because young Wiswell paced him on his last twenty-four-hour ride, arguing that Wiswell served only in an inferior capacity and was not a trainer; the editor adds that because no gate money or prize depended on the result, the A.C.U. Racing Board confirms the pace-making is irrelevant.
- The column's author "Daisie" shares a letter from a male correspondent who visited Washington, D.C. and found its lady cyclists two years behind the times — riding at night to avoid censure, wearing unsuitable costumes, and lacking the modern machines and confident style he admired among Eastern Massachusetts women riders.
- A New Orleans correspondent reports that fine weather has spurred local cyclists to venture beyond their usual shell-road circuit, with C. M. Fairchild leading in mileage as he compiles a state road book; the fifty-mile medal challenge remains uncontested, and Mr. Franklin is contemplating a push at the Southern twenty-four-hour record.
- A Boston correspondent surveys the local cycling social scene — recent club balls, the Massachusetts Club's gym evening with sparring bouts, notes on the trade's quiet winter season, Pierre Lallement joining the Overman Wheel Co., and skepticism about Rowe's road records compared with what Howell could do in a direct race.
- The secretary of the Citizens' Bicycle Club writes to Outing editor Poultney Bigelow tendering a complimentary banquet to Thomas Stevens on his anticipated return from his round-the-world bicycle journey, praising the feat as worthy to rank among the most remarkable of modern times.
- Brief notice listing the executive officers of the new Brookline Cycle Club: G. M. Stearns (president), H. A. Cushman (vice-president), F. M. Seamans (secretary), F. A. Singleton (treasurer), and W. K. Corey (road captain).
- Race results from Memphis (road race under Memphis Cycle Club auspices, 3½ miles and return, won by R. W. Slossen and Wade Hampton in 32:32) and New Bedford (first local bicycle race, four and a third miles, won by Kempton Tripp in 19:10); also notes that Morgan and Woodside have been matched for one hundred miles at a dollar a mile.