The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 1, No 23
Articles in this issue
- A lengthy editorial tearing apart the L.A.W. constitution adopted at Baltimore as incomplete and chaotic, attacking its definition of the League as a confederation of State divisions, the close-corporation National Assembly, and the danger of 'ringocracy' under the President.
- Editorial publishing Lewis A. Howell's denials of charges that he intentionally fouled E. I. Halsted at the Cape May races, alongside the correspondent 'Terrapin's' reply reaffirming the fouling was deliberate and citing Referee Watson and Senator Reyburn as witnesses.
- Members of the Cambridgeport Cycle Club return to Boston aboard the yacht Fleur-de-Lis after being entertained at St. John, N.B., by local bicycle, cricket and athletic clubs, with Captain William T. Roop among the party.
- A Boston Herald dispatch from Great Barrington reports that Brooklyn lawyer Joseph M. Greenwood's party of six was injured when their carriage horses, frightened by a bicycle, overturned the carriage down an embankment near Sheffield.
- A calendar of upcoming race meets and tournaments for August and September 1888, including the Massachusetts Division meet at Cottage City, the Buffalo Grand International Tournament, and the Richmond, Va., Southern Tournament.
- Reports on the World's Tournament at Buffalo September 4-8 in connection with the International Fair, with Henry E. Ducker announcing $6,500 in prizes, a fifth day of racing, the 100-mile Erie-to-Buffalo road race, and reduced railroad rates for Eastern and New York wheelmen via G. R. Bidwell.
- The full two-day programme of races for the Old Dominion Wheelmen / Virginia Division L.A.W. tournament at Richmond, with entries to Alex. H. Meyer, including novice, professional, tandem, steeplechase and championship events.
- The cycling and athletic programme for the New Jersey Athletic Club's Labor Day carnival at Bergen Point, combining bicycle, running, rowing, canoeing and baseball events, signed 'Jonah.'
- A report of the five-mile amateur race at the Caledonian club's games July 25, won by Bell over Hale and Lackon, with Stahl pacing and Bickley dropping out, on a poor turf-block mile track; signed L. B. G.
- Synyer wins the five-mile amateur bicycle championship decided July 14 at North Shields, narrowly holding off P. P. Kilkelly of Dublin and J. J. Carruthers in 15m. 4 3-5s.
- Manager Morgan writes to the Newcastle Chronicle defending W. Wood and Rowe in the Rowe-vs-Wood affair, praising Tynesiders as sportsmen and contradicting Rowe's published statement.
- A Bicycling News critique by Hillier of Synyer's narrow five-mile championship win over Kilkelly, judging Synyer unwise to cut it fine and assessing Kilkelly as a big, raw youth with awkward steering but the makings of a champion.
- The Melbourne Bicycle Club arranges a two-day cycle race meeting for November 17 and 24, headlined by the Austral wheel race (a two-mile handicap) and a ladies' bracelet race, with prizes valued at hundreds of pounds.
- 'The Stroller's' New Jersey column covering the Orange Wanderers (resignation of Captain Charles W. Freeman), Eagle Rock hill-climbing attempts, a Star rider's harrowing runaway coast down Northfield Avenue, the Elizabeth Wheelmen's moonlight runs, and the new Capital City Bicycle Club of Trenton.
- A report of the Pittsburg Cycling Club's races on the 25th won mostly by A. C. Banker (with Lenz badly hurt in a fall), plus J. F. Wilson's 1,000-mile ride from St. Paul, the Pittsburg Bulletin's hill-climbing medal offer, and 'Scrabble Hill' climbs; signed Keystone.
- Philadelphia notes on a planned State Fair race meet under Kirk Brown, Mrs. Dr. Martin's first lady's bicycle in the city, the Germantown Cycling Club's resignation from the Associated Cycling Clubs, and the Century Wheelmen's annual tour to the Shenandoah Valley; signed Cycle.
- A Boston Herald survey of Sunday runs by area clubs—Chelsea Cycle Club, Somerville, Cambridge, Dorchester, Charlestown Rovers and Massachusetts Bicycle Club—to the beaches, Cobb's Tavern, Nahant and Middlesex Falls.
- Philadelphia correspondence praising The Wheel, discussing road-racing politics versus the Bicycling World, Frank M. Dampmann's new twenty-mile Lancaster Pike record, and the anticipated Wells-Greenwood Eagle Rock contest; signed Westfield.
- Detailed account of how the Wells-Greenwood Eagle Rock hill-climbing contest fell through after John Wells took a severe header near Short Hills, with Greenwood making a trial ascent in 7m. 37s. before Referee E. R. Collins; witnesses included L. H. Johnson, Howard A. Smith and F. P. Prial.
- A Nashville American account of Jo B. Northern and Ed D. Fisher's 24-hour ride from Lynchburg through Fayetteville, Shelbyville, Murfreesboro, Lebanon and Nashville, covering 138.5 miles for a new Tennessee long-distance record on New Mail wheels.
- A letter from W. B. Greenleaf of Englewood, Ill., offering his record of roads, distances and hotels from Chicago to Buffalo through Canada, in response to an L.A.W. member's enquiry in The Wheel.
- Victor R. Pyle of Wilmington, Del., corrects The Wheel's report that only one rider had climbed Point Lookout Hill before Elliott and Jefferis, naming Geo. Moore, Herbert Mayne, himself and Stanley Tuchton as others who had made the ascent.
- Publication of George M. Nisbett's (New York Bicycle Club) daily log-book, recording 1,059 miles in June and 1,487 in July around the city, Tarrytown, Yonkers, Orange and Long Island.
- Masterson and Wickes of the Universal Cycling Club, Brooklyn, make a century run between Jamaica and Patchogue on July 29, eating four pies at Islip and finishing the last eight miles in total darkness; the club has hired rooms at 701 Atlantic Avenue.
- A Memphis correspondent ('Chickasaw') corrects The Wheel's account of the Memphis road race, giving the true result—Whitmore first in 23m. 2s., Hampton second, Wilcox third—over a 5.5-mile out-and-back course.
- A Boston Globe preview and Boston Herald first-day report of the Massachusetts Division L.A.W. meet at Cottage City, listing arriving officers and clubs (Cambridge Bicycle Club, Jamaica Cycle Club, Rhode Island wheelmen) and the programme of clambakes, parades, races and a hop.
- A. M. Welles of Redwood Falls recounts deliberately riding through Tracy's anti-cycling 'prohibited district' to provoke arrest and force repeal of Ordinance No. 33, confronting Mayor H. M. Workman; the obnoxious ordinance is reprinted verbatim.
- A column of short trade and personal items: Col. A. A. Pope sailing for Havre, the Warwick Cycle Company readying its Springfield factory, Maryland Division's nominations (Albert Mott for Chief Consul), the Prial-vs-Pittsburg Bulletin feud, and a London cycling comedietta 'Cycling' by Albert Chevalier.
- An Athlete report of experiments at Kirk Brown's Philadelphia store comparing the gearing and stroke of Wells' 45-inch Star, the Springfield Roadster and a 54-inch ordinary, concluding that gear figures mean little without crank length.
- A gossip column noting Karl Kron's 'Newspaper Notices' book, the Wheelmen's Gazette puzzle won by L. B. Graves, Old Colony Railroad free bicycle transport for the Cottage City meet, remodeled cycling adages from Bicycling News, and Thomas A. Edison's interest in an electric cycle.
- Wm. H. Frisbie writes that his stolen No. 15 Quadrant Tandem was spotted by Mrs. Frisbie on Seventh Avenue with two boys aboard and recovered through a mounted policeman, after a 'good-looking man' had sold it to a Mr. Cassady for $7.
- Trade items including Cushman & Denison's pocket oiler, George R. Bidwell's new ladies' safety bicycle, large wrench orders to Billings & Spencer from Pope, Gormully & Jeffery, Overman and Springfield, and Howard A. Smith & Co.'s second-hand bargains at Oraton Hall.