The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 1, No 16
Articles in this issue
- Details the arrangements for entertaining L.A.W. members visiting Washington, D.C. on June 21, including tours of the Treasury, White House, Smithsonian and Capitol, plus notes on the Ladies' Cycle Club and the annual election of the Capital Bicycle Club.
- Chief Consul G. R. Bidwell's notice of reduced-fare arrangements via the Pennsylvania Railroad for wheelmen attending the L.A.W. annual meeting at Baltimore, June 18-20.
- E. P. Hayden's appeal to club captains to muster their members for the parade at the Ninth Annual L.A.W. Meet in Baltimore, describing the route from Charles Street through Druid Hill Park to Arlington track on June 19.
- Account of forty Kings County Wheelmen riding to Lake Success on Long Island, including Mr. Brown being knocked down by a horse near Jamaica and a rain-interrupted picnic at 'Aunty's' house.
- Cabled report that Ralph Temple won the 2,000 metres race at Berlin's Bruckemille course in 3m. 19s., beating the Continental record, while Loehr of Frankfurt took the amateur championship of Europe ahead of W. E. Crist of Washington.
- Preview of the July 4 opening of the New Jersey Athletic Club grounds and quarter-mile track at Bergen Point, and a note disputing The Athlete's claim that the Wells-Halsted contest details were already arranged.
- Notes on racing trials at Lloyd's grounds, Queens, where T. L. Wilson and W. C. Marion of the K.C.W. held the medal record, and on upcoming Brooklyn Club championship events for the Fourth.
- Humorous Bicycling News item about a 'mad cycling family' whose daughters want brother Tom to act as a livery page for their tandem rides, complicated by his contract to grind a dynamo for brother Guy.
- Reprints Bicycling News' critical inspection of W. A. Rowe's heavy racing machine with its weak neck, with The Wheel rebutting G. Lacy Hillier's disparagement of American wheels.
- Chief Consul Herbert W. Hayes' two travel parties from Boston to the Baltimore meet, plus club news from the Chelsea Ramblers, Columbia Bicycle Club of North Attleboro and Worcester's 24-hour record attempts.
- Long interview (via the Lynn Bee) with W. A. Rowe and trainer W. F. Allen on Rowe's return from England, recounting his broken collar-bone in the Jarrow race with Wood and his views on Dick Howell and English riders.
- Bicycling News and Cyclist assessments of the American riders abroad—Crist, Barber, W. F. Knapp, H. G. Crocker and S. G. Whittaker—plus race results from the Sport and Play tournament, Molineux Grounds and the Anfield B.C. 24-hour road race.
- Bicycling News' regretful account of W. A. Rowe cancelling his English engagements after breaking his collar-bone in the 5-mile race with Wood at Jarrow, with reflections on his racing style and sportsmanship.
- 'The Stroller' reports on New Jersey cycling—the Elizabeth Wheelmen, Orange Wanderers' century run, the Hudson-Kings County team tie, and John Wells' celebrated six ascents of Eagle Rock Hill on a pony Star.
- 'Cycle' reports the Hudson County Wheelmen's visit to the Pennsylvania Bicycle Club, John Wells' Eagle Rock climbs, and the election of George T. Laing as Pennsylvania Club president after Frank Read resigned the Century Wheelmen presidency.
- Rutherford correspondent relays gossip about the road hog vanishing before the Pennsylvania delegation, P. S. Collins for Century Wheelmen president, and Westfield race plans.
- Rutherford Wheelmen news—a club run to Eagle Rock Hill, members entered in the K.C.W. races, Van Harding's 107-mile day for a Dyckmann Brothers gold medal, and the new Pittsburg Cycle and Athletic Club grounds.
- 'Keystone' notes on the new Philadelphia clay track, club excursions to Baltimore and Washington, the Brown-Garrigues road race, and John Wells mounting Ford Hill fourteen consecutive times in 1h. 9m. 30s.
- Editorial rebutting Senator Morgan in the Bicycling World over Rowe's defeats, reprinting the 1887 'racing man of the future' cartoon dispute between The Wheel/Hillier and the World on muscular versus mental-muscular racing.
- Reprinted Brooklyn Times survey of Brooklyn cycling history—pioneer Charles Koop, Charles Schwalbach, and the Brooklyn Bicycle Club, Kings County Wheelmen, Long Island Wheelmen, Universal C.C. and the Brooklyn Ladies' Cycle Club.
- 'Free Lance's' touring sketch of a tricycle trip from Portsmouth across to Ryde, then through Brading, Sandown, Shanklin, Bonchurch and Ventnor along the Isle of Wight coast; concluded next week.
- Reprinted Knox County Independent piece advocating horse-drawn road machines to widen and smooth roads, and Pennsylvania's new cash road-tax law as the path to better wheeling surfaces.
- Henry E. Ducker's letter offering to bring G. Lacy Hillier to Buffalo as an official timer—posting $200 security—to witness Rowe's records being broken, dismissing Hillier's doubts about their genuineness.
- Karl Kron's whimsical letter on the unveiling of the Garibaldi statue in Washington Square, which he had jokingly supposed honored his own '10,000 Miles on a Bi' book-selling fame.
- Karl Kron defends Henry E. Ducker against English sheets blaming him for the bankruptcy of the Springfield Printing Company, detailing the firm's $50,000 bonded debt, reorganization and the printing of Kron's book.
- Report of the 5-mile match at Jarrow for £100 in which W. A. Rowe narrowly beat W. Wood by a foot in 15m. 57s. before falling at the post—suspected by some to be a deliberate 'plant' by betting interests.
- Calendar of upcoming race meets, road races and hill-climbing contests from June through September 1888, including the Baltimore League meet, K.C.W. races and the Grand International Tournament at Buffalo.
- 'Coaster' recounts the Hudson County Wheelmen's club run with the Pennsylvania Bicycle Club through Fairmount Park to Wayne, the 'Three Sisters' coast, and Dr. Johnson's admired calves.
- 'Independent' reports Brooklyn Bicycle Club and Long Island Wheelmen runs to Babylon, Patchogue and Coney Island, century runs by Schumacher, Kreger and Schmid, and the month's May mileage leaders.
- 'Headers' describes the Bay City Wheelmen's victory over the Oak Leaf Wheelmen in the California Road Racing Association's second road race over the San Leandro course, won by Elwell despite Turner's bad header.
- Detailed report of the June 9 Lancaster Driving Park meet, with E. I. Halsted of Philadelphia sweeping the 1-mile open, half-mile State championship (over Wilhelm and Keene), one-legged race and 3-mile lap race.
- 'Outing's' letter sketching the fifteen-member Outing Cycling Club of San Francisco, its captain S. F. Booth Jr., season tour plans, and the postponed Bay City races.
- Charles J. Brown of Florence, Mass. rode up South Street Hill to Grand View Cemetery and back without a dismount on a Springfield Roadster, plus a note on the newly organized Zigzag Bicycle Club of Buffalo.