The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 1, No 13
Articles in this issue
- A reader's letter ('L. A. W. 2,449') describes a hitherto unreported cycling route to Westchester and the Sound via Fordham and Bronxdale, and argues horse-car tracks should be laid at roadsides to spare the Southern Boulevard.
- Cable dispatches report Temple and Knapp scoring at a ten-mile race at Birmingham (won by Wood) and Temple beating Wood at North Shields in 30m. 1 2-5s.
- Account of Lumsden's matches at Hawkhill, Edinburgh: he beat Woodside at ten miles but Rowe beat him at five miles, with P. H. Keen also winning the two-mile race at the University of Pennsylvania.
- Programme of events for the seventh annual K.C.W. meet on June 23 at the Brooklyn Athletic Club Grounds, with entries closing June 16 with R. W. Stines.
- Calendar of forthcoming race meets and runs from May 24 through the September Buffalo tournament, including the Pullman and Irvington-Milburn Decoration Day races and the L.A.W. meet at Baltimore.
- W. A. Parker climbs Elmer Hill and Canterbury Hill near Rome, N.Y. on a 51-inch Star, reported by correspondent 'Will Wapp.'
- Editorial praises W. McCandlish and reprints Wheeling's defence of the genuineness of Rowe's records despite his defeats by Richard Howell in England.
- Report of the Orange Wanderers club's rapid growth to sixty-three members, plus the Wheel Gossip column noting the Columbia College race won by E. I. Halsted, the new Fort Dayton Wheelmen at Herkimer, and G. Lacy Hillier's barbs at H. E. Ducker and Rowe.
- Details the Decoration Day team road race start and lists the entries from Kings County Wheelmen, Brooklyn B.C., New York B.C., Hudson County Wheelmen and Elizabeth Wheelmen.
- Correspondent 'Verax' gives the handicaps for the eighty-six entries in the Pullman Decoration Day road race, with Van Sicklen on scratch and named officials including Phil. V. Stanley and R. Philip Gormully.
- Correspondent 'Keystone' reports Seidell, Wood, Justice and the Banker brothers conquering Irwin's Hill on May 20, plus the forthcoming Oakes-Von Blumen championship races at Exposition Park.
- Correspondent 'Independent' covers a 25-mile race over the Irvington-Milburn course won by Borland over Waters and Hornbostel, Schumacher's placing at the N.Y.A.C. games, and Brooklyn club road riding and bowling.
- Correspondent 'Gad-fly' reports the Hudson Countys beating Harlem 1,575 to 1,485 at bowling, defends Halsted's Philadelphia racing form, and notes a Mercury Wheel Club invitation to Flushing.
- Correspondent 'Coaster' covers Hudson County Wheelmen preparations for the Decoration Day road race, a planned run to the Pennsylvania Bicycle Club, and C. E. Kluge's training amid snow at Woodstock, Ont.
- Correspondent 'Toiler' reports the Wheelmen's prosperous season under captain Joseph L. Adrien, the final dissolution of the Albany Bicycle Club, and the malicious running-down of young Schimpf in the park.
- Correspondent 'W. H. Eel' notes a 36-mile run to Bridgeport, T. A. Edge's visit, and admiration for the new Connecticut Road Book.
- Correspondent 'Westfield' reports the New Haven Club five-mile road race handicaps, a New York-to-New Haven cycle path scheme, S. Wallis Merrihew breaking the 20-mile Lancaster Pike record, and John Wells declining Editor Prial's hill-climbing medal offer against Halsted.
- Correspondent 'Ralph' gives full details for visitors to the ninth annual L.A.W. meet at Baltimore June 18-20, covering railroad rate certificates, the reception committee, and the three-day programme of business, parade, races and bay excursion aboard the steamer Columbia.
- Members of the Wilmington Wheel Club, including Victor R. Pyle and Thomas J. Jefferis, break the Third Street hill record riding Springfield Roadsters.
- The Allegheny Cyclers will travel via the B. & O. on June 16 to the League Meet, visiting Washington en route, with further information from W. D. Banker.
- Borland and Meeteer climb Brooklyn Heights Hill on the club's return from the 25-mile race; also S. G. Whittaker's report from Long Eaton on Manager Eck's team and Rowe's win over Lumsden at Edinburgh.
- An illustrated historical and descriptive sketch of Baltimore for cyclers attending the June meet, covering its monuments, 'Star Spangled Banner' associations, the first American railway at Mt. Clare, and the tours, runs and through-car routes via the B. & O.
- A profile of A. Kennedy-Childe, 'The Man of Mystery,' tracing his cycling career from 1878, his work for the Pope Mfg. Co., and his interest in Henry George's economic ideas and Irish politics.
- Cable report that William Rowe won the one-mile bicycle championship at Birmingham in 2m. 45s. and Temple won the one-mile handicap.
- Correspondent 'Bi' gives a horsey summary of the Louisiana Cycling Club's first race for the Renaud Medal won by E. M. Graham, plus plans for the Baltimore meet delegation and a Bay St. Louis excursion.
- Correspondent 'Aur.' describes a ride from New York to Tomac-on-the-Sound near Stamford, sketching the old tar, the wrecked boats and shell-strewn shore of the little Connecticut harbor.
- Correspondent 'Racket' surveys the New York lawn tennis season, profiling the Harlem, Fifth Avenue, Crescent and Monona clubs and players such as Jack Lefferts and Miss May Bell.
- A trade write-up of the New York Bicycle Company of 8 Warren Street, run by the Irving brothers, sole agents for the New Rapid and Quadrant wheels and dealers in lightly-used second-hand machines.
- An interview with Henry Zenke, who comes to introduce the Rothgiesser safety, reporting on the Deutsch Radfahrer Bund's 12,000 members, the dealer Henry Kleyer of Frankfurt, and Duerkopp & Co.'s factory.