The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 1, No 26
Articles in this issue
- The editor reports Brooklyn wheelmen (B.B.C., K.C.W. and L.I.W.) protesting Chief Consul Bidwell's mishandled ballots and the centralized League constitution, urges forming a Long Island Cyclists' Roads Improvement Association instead of seceding, and previews a 'mammoth' edition opening Volume II.
- Dr. W. H. Emery of Roxbury defends the new L.A.W. constitution against The Wheel's attack, point by point on quorums, State Boards and decentralization, closing that he prefers building up to tearing down and will not reply further.
- The Aurania brings home the American team of Ralph Temple, Wm. M. Woodside and 'Senator' W. J. Morgan after eighteen months abroad, together with foreign riders Fred W. Allard, Jack Lee and Jules Dubois, all bound for the Buffalo tournament.
- A dated calendar of late-August to October race meets and tournaments, including the Buffalo Grand International Tournament (Sept. 4-8), the Hartford Wheel Club meet, and New Jersey Athletic Club competitions at Bergen Point.
- Henry E. Ducker reports the New York State Division parade at Buffalo on September 5 promises to be the largest in cycling history, with three divisions, nearly fifty lady riders, and Stillman G. Whittaker recovered enough to enter the world's tournament.
- Chief Consul G. R. Bidwell's circular to Division members detailing the Buffalo annual meeting (Sept. 4-5), parade arrangements, reduced railroad fares and Niagara Falls excursions, followed by the full staff roster of parade officers.
- The Hartford Wheel Club's September 12-13 tournament at Charter Oak Park, with revised races and a one-quarter-mile home straight, has drawn most of the best riders from both sides of the water; entries close with Joseph Goodman.
- Ralph Temple, hosted by Mr. Furst of the Long Island Wheelmen, tours the Brooklyn clubs (L.I.W., Kings County and Brooklyn) and at a chop supper at the 'Abbey' expounds his views on training, dieting and path practice to cracks like Miles Murphy and Borland.
- Report of the first heat of the one- and two-mile competitions at Bergen Point, where W. H. Caldwell set a mile track record (3m. 6s.) and S. B. Bowman a two-mile record (6m. 24 2/5s.), plus a preview of the N.J.A.C. Labor Day carnival.
- The Waiontha Bicycle Club's first tournament at Richfield Springs, N.Y. (Aug. 15) drew a sixty-five-rider parade and races won largely by W. W. Windle of Lynn, with E. W. Harter judged handsomest rider.
- A benefit for Princeton trainer James Robinson at Cape May (Aug. 17) saw match races between S. Wallis Merrihew of Wilmington and E. Irving Halsted of New York, Halsted taking both mile events.
- Summary of the Toronto, Ont., Bicycle Club meet of August 13, with W. Windle of Lynn winning the half-mile, mile-handicap and five-mile scratch, and Midgley ruled out of the one-mile safety in favor of Johnson.
- Final arrangements by the Mercury Club for the August 25 bicycle tournament at Minnehaha Driving Park, Minneapolis, with the full race programme and prize-donor list.
- The Maine State Fair trustees consider offering purses for races among the 100-plus wheelmen meeting at Lewiston during Fair week (Sept. 11-14), Charles Greenwood having donated $25; 'Senator' Morgan also offers to arrange professional appearances on a gate basis.
- On the Long Eaton track, S. G. Whittaker of Chicago set a world quarter-mile safety record (36s.) on his Rudge with Jack Lee pushing off, and Lee then set a world quarter-mile tricycle record (35 2/5s.) on his Humber.
- A correspondent (H. G.) chronicles the Second District wheelmen's growing inclination to secede from the L.A.W. over centralized power and the 'bolted' constitution, and the fraternal 'love feast' between the Brooklyn Bicycle Club, Kings County Wheelmen and Long Island Wheelmen.
- Philadelphia notes on the Tioga Athletic Association race meet, the spread of Ivel safeties among Pennsylvania Bicycle Club members, a rained-out club run, police warnings on pavement riding, and the small ballot allotment to Philadelphia.
- E. J. Shriver writes to challenge Dr. Emery's account of the Baltimore convention, citing Dr. G. Carleton Brown's instructed 'no' vote as evidence that the administration marshaled the Jersey members through Consul Cooley to defeat his motion to consider the constitution by sections.
- Seven members of the Prospect Wheelmen rode their first club century from Brooklyn via Jamaica and Amityville to Patchogue and back, with Newman and Newbourg completing the full distance.
- John A. Wells climbed Eagle Rock nine times without a dismount on a Rambler (Aug. 23) in 2h. 23m., beating Fred Coningsby's previous record of three; a column of trade and club squibs follows.
- Short paragraphs noting Howell's reported sailing on the Etruria, Frank S. Ives rumored training privately for Buffalo, the Rhode Island Division race programme, and the invitation-only Ladies' North Shore tour (Oct. 4-6).
- W. S. Bolton of El Paso and Wm. J. Clayton of Silver City match a horse against a bicycle for a $2,500 purse over the fifty-five miles from Silver City to Deming, N.M., with R. S. Dimmick to ride the wheel.
- Dr. Kendall, Captain Robinson of the Charlestown Rovers and Perkins of Cambridge organize a Labor Day union run and races on Holmes' field from the Cambridge Club House, where forming an officers' association will be considered.
- A reprint from Bicycling News in which a woman writer, formerly prejudiced against feminine bicycling, agrees with The Wheel that there need be no loss of femininity in riding a light safety rather than a heavy tricycle.