The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 2, No 5

Articles in this issue

• It's "Go."

  Lead editorial diagnosing the failure of the autumn race-meet "boom" started by Henry Ducker, laying out the factors—transportation, grounds, programme, promptness, theatrical effect and officials—that make a meet a success, citing the Buffalo, Springfield, Hartford, Poughkeepsie and Roseville tracks.
• A PROMINENT WHEELMAN SAYS.

  Editorial retort to a Bulletin item claiming the wheel papers harm cycling, ridiculing the anonymous "prominent wheelman" as a gas-bag and defending cycling journalism, with a nod to Abbot Bassett.
• EASTERN ROAD CLUB'S TWENTY-FIVE MILE RACE.

  Report of the Eastern Road Club's annual 25-mile road race round the Chestnut Hill Reservoir, won by J. P. Clark of the Dorchester Club over Benson and Fay, with the Dorchester and Cambridgeport clubs tying on points; includes the supplementary tricycle and tandem race won by the Bailey brothers over A. S. Hill.
• PENNSYLVANIA AND HUDSON COUNTY WHEELMEN.

  Account of a joint outing of the Pennsylvania Bicycle Club and Hudson County Wheelmen from Newark through Orange to South Beach, Staten Island, with Dr. Elliott Johnson's banquet antics, a 100-yard dash won by Griffiths, and Captain Supplee's appetite; signed Sand Snite.
• JERSEY CITY.

  Hudson County correspondence describing the same Pennsylvania Club visit—the comic Windsor Hotel menu, the South Beach foot-race won by "Lengthy Jack" Griffiths, and the farewell at Jersey City—signed Coaster.
• SUNDAY CYCLING AT "THE HUB."

  Boston club runs of the day: the Boston Bicycle Club to Squantum under Capt. Kendall, plus Cambridge, Charlestown Rovers, Somerville, Jamaica Plain and Roxbury club excursions; reprinted from the Boston Herald.
• NEWSPAPER NOTICES AND SUBSCRIBERS' OPINIONS OF "TEN THOUSAND MILES ON A BICYCLE."

  Review of Karl Kron's 150-page advertising pamphlet promoting his book "Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle," noting its 3,600 advance subscriptions from 852 towns and offering it free from his Washington Square, New York address.
• OSMOND'S GRAND MILE.

  F. J. Osmond of the Brixton Ramblers set a new amateur mile record of 2m. 31 4-5s. at the Crystal Palace track, paced by Douglas McRae, F. P. Wood and Sydney E. Williams, beating Furnivall's mark; from Land and Water.
• THE RACE PATH.

  Racing department opening with a Fixtures calendar of forthcoming meets and the Temple-Rowe match races, ahead of the day's detailed race reports.
• THE POUGHKEEPSIE TOURNEY A FAILURE FINANCIALLY.

  Manager Henry Ducker's two-day Poughkeepsie tournament drew under 2,000 spectators and left him heavily out of pocket; full event summaries list Neilson, Knapp, Rowe and Crocker among the professionals and Wilhelm, Crist, Foster and Van Benschoten among the amateurs.
• NEW JERSEY DIVISION RACE MEET.

  The Orange Wanderers' New Jersey Division meet at Roseville was nearly ruined by a fifty-yard stretch of nine-inch mud; Bowman, Baggot, Caldwell and Halsted feature, and a hill-climbing contest at Eagle Rock followed, won by Fred Coningsby in 7m. 43s.
• PROVIDENCE RACE MEET.

  The Rhode Island Division L.A.W. meet at Providence, with Scott, Berlo, Clark, Davis and one-legged rider J. West of Birmingham, and Abbott Bassett among the judges; the unrelated "Jersey Race Notes" column sits beside it on this page.
• TRACK NOTES.

  Short racing items: Rowe-Temple race dates, Whittaker's safety records, Woodside's recovery from rheumatism, English record revisions, and forthcoming handicaps at Wilmington and Mott Haven.
• TIOGA MEET HANDICAPS.

  Handicaps for the Tioga Cycling Club meet at Philadelphia, listing Crist, Kingsland, Halsted, Wilhelm, Brown and others in the tricycle and safety events.
• WHITTAKER MAKES WORLD'S RECORDS ON A SAFETY.

  S. G. Whittaker beat the safety records from two to eleven miles at Long Eaton on September 11, bettering Rowe's and Crocker's world's records from four to eleven miles, with a comparative table.
• CRIST AND HALSTED AT CARLISLE, PA.

  W. E. Crist of Washington beat E. I. Halsted of New York in both the 3-mile and 10-mile open races at the Carlisle fair, the latter for the $125 Arnold silver cup.
• BROOKLYN.

  Brooklyn correspondence (signed H. G.) on the League–Union controversy, answering F. W. Loucks of the Kings County Wheelmen and the League Bulletin in defence of the Cyclists' Union of Long Island; continues over the page with the Brooklyn Bicycle Club Union meeting and a Staten Island club run.
• DETROIT.

  Detroit club notes (signed Be Be): W. K. Bush's hospitality at Gaines, the abandoned minstrel show, and a collision between John Hanley and A. D. Boulby.
• ODDS AND ENDS.

  Miscellaneous trade and club paragraphs: the A.A.U. games, Mrs. T. T. Roe's bicycle in Detroit, John A. Wells's hill-climbs, the Berkeley Athletic Club tournament under George R. Bidwell, W. F. Murphy's bad header, and the second volume of Stevens's "Around the World on a Bicycle."
• WHEEL GOSSIP.

  Column of brief notes: Gerry Jones resigning the Racing Board chairmanship, the Swift Safety chosen by the Russian army, the New York Athletic Club fall games at Travers Island, and a jibe at the Pittsburg Bulletin's cycling scribe.
• A NEW CYCLING MONTHLY.

  Notice of Vol. I, No. 1 of The Cycler, a 24-page monthly published at Stamford, Conn., which reprinted three pieces from The Wheel's Buffalo number.
• THE CYCLING CURE.

  Dr. Oscar Jennings, a Paris physician, tells Galignani's Messenger how taking up the tricycle made him lose fourteen kilos and promote mens sana in corpore sano, predicting doctors will prescribe cycling as a cure.
• AN ENGLISH VIEW OF KARL KRON.

  The Cyclist's tart appraisal of Karl Kron and his "Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle" pamphlet, pitying the "harmless, laborious crank" while conceding his tenacity.
• A DUEL ON CYCLES.

  Reprinted item (from The Cyclist) on the Berlin tricycle craze after the police lifted their ban, culminating in two duelists charging at each other on tricycles five miles north of Berlin.