The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 2, No 15
Articles in this issue
- Reprints and answers the American correspondent of the Irish Cycling and Athletic News, who likens editor F. P. Prial to Dick Mecredy but concedes The Wheel is the best cycling paper in America; surrounding editorial notes weigh in on Hawkshaw's attack on mileage medals and a Sporting Life dispute over Pennsylvania's loyalty to the League.
- Delegates from the New York Bicycle Club, K.C.W., Hudson County Wheelmen and Harlem Wheelmen meet at the N.Y.B.C. house to form a bowling league, electing J. R. Blake president and E. C. Parker secretary-treasurer, with the Harlem club to play the N.Y.B.C. on December 21.
- Willie Windle announces he will not race next season, expecting challenges from rival racing men; The Wheel thinks him wise, regretting the absence of so brilliant and modest a performer.
- Thomas Stevens gives a crowded illustrated stereopticon lecture on his round-the-world tour at Association Hall in the Worcester Y.M.C.A. course, recounting anecdotes of Turkey, Persia, India, China and Japan.
- Reports the St. Louis Cycle Club's Natatorium races of November 29 (events won by E. Barnard, Will Carlin and Dick Hurck) and Omaha's new $30,000 Coliseum, where John S. Prince and Marve Beardsley will run a bicycle school and a six-day professional race featuring Prince, Dingley, Eck, Whittaker, Woodside, Morgan and Schock.
- A handicap meet promoted by Charles P. Daniels of the Boston Y.M.C.A. at the Reservoir, where R. H. Davis of Harvard set a Reservoir record of 3m. 19 3-5s. and later lapped it on a Swift tandem with Harry Cornish; George M. Hendee refereed.
- Fred Coningsby of the Brooklyn Bicycle Club rides his Victor Light Roadster ordinary up Eagle Rock seven consecutive times, raising the ordinary record from four to seven round trips despite an upset and an injured wrist on the ninth ascent.
- Correspondent Supris reports the Memphis Amateur Bicycle Road Racing Association's first two ten-mile handicap road races, with W. A. Whitmore and G. W. Hess prominent, and notes the local Victor (C. J. Scherer) and Gormully & Jeffery (S. A. Godshaw) agencies.
- A calendar of forthcoming wheelmen's receptions, theatre parties and races through February 1889, including M.A.C. games at Madison Square Garden and the postponed South End Wheelmen's housewarming.
- Datelined club-correspondence columns from Reading (Vortex, on the Wilhelm machine works and pool tournament), Jersey City (Coaster, on the Hudson County Wheelmen's smoker and the mileage-medal debate with Hawkshaw) and New Orleans (the Louisiana Cycling Club's six-race Batson medal series).
- Full summary of the Wilmington Wheel Club's second annual Thanksgiving tournament, with S. W. Merrihew, B. F. McDaniel, Thomas E. Jefferis and G. M. Gregg figuring in the events including the Delaware 3-mile championship for the Sherwin prize.
- Correspondent Westfield recounts a swindler calling himself H. H. Carlisle (alias Rogers) of Terre Haute who skipped his board at the Eldon Hotel, Chestnut Hill, and the pawning of Harry Mayer's stolen Veloce Columbia by the Pennsylvania Club.
- Reports the Elizabeth Wheelmen's burst of off-season activity, their season mileage over 407 ahead of last year, and the committee's plans for an exhibition and a December 14 theatre party at the Academy of Music, Jersey City.
- A column of trade and club squibs: Devlin & Co. win the New York Bicycle Club uniform contract, Thomas Stevens to lecture at the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, Wizard Edison declines a cycle electric-lamp request, and Dr. Emery succeeds Hayes as Massachusetts Chief Consul.
- Bicycle patents reported for The Wheel by C. A. Snow & Co., dated December 4, to Sands Forman (Nevada), Hiram F. Henry (N.Y.), Geo. Kibbe (N.Y.) and F. L. Roecicl of Germany (velocipede crank).
- A humorous column pairing literary quotations with named wheelmen and racers such as F. P. Prial, Abbott Bassett, Karl Kron, Thomas Stevens, Ralph Temple, W. A. Rowe, Will Windle and Col. Albert A. Pope.
- A reprinted Cleveland humour piece (via the Wheelmen's Gazette) urging Cleveland girls to take up the tricycle and tandem tricycle, with farcical accounts of a couple's spills down Woodland hills.
- Correspondent Traveler narrates a ride from Stratford via Edge Hill, Banbury, Oxford, Henley, Maidenhead and Windsor into London, with reflections on a C.T.C./N.C.U. 'dangerous hill' sign and his first impressions of the capital's streets.