The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 2, No 6
Articles in this issue
- Editorial warning that reckless 'scorching' by a few New York City riders, mainly Driving Club members, in Central Park risks losing wheelmen their hard-won park access and may revive efforts to repeal the Liberty Bill.
- The Berkeley Athletic Club will inaugurate its new Morris Dock grounds with an athletic exhibition Oct. 13 and a grand bicycle tournament Oct. 20, managed by G. R. Bidwell and F. P. Prial, alongside an editorial on the N.A.A.A.A. versus A.A.U. amateur-governance war and its effect on wheelmen.
- Department of regional notes opening with the Albany Wheelmen's first Chinese-lantern parade (with Troy, Hoosick Falls and Hudson riders under Captain Joseph L. Adrien) and California's Road Race, where the Bay City Wheelmen enter a novice team of Chas. Hammer, J. E. Bauer and H. A. Pogue at San Leandro.
- Account and committee circular for the 1888 four-day Newburyport-to-Boston ladies' tour (Oct. 4-7), with Mrs. Abbott Bassett as chairman and a running joke that every gentleman is referred to only as somebody's husband.
- The Passaic City Wheeling and Athletic Association's annual lantern parade of Sept. 28, after which Robert Blake and A. E. Sengstack won prizes for most original and most handsome lantern displays, presented by President Granger.
- Chicago correspondent's letter on Bob Ehterl's return from a Buenos Ayres railroad post, Tom Eck's pleasure at Knapp's seven Hartford wins and his Minneapolis divorce suit, and the six-day race being promoted by the Referee.
- Philadelphia correspondent reports the Pennsylvania Bicycle Club's visit to the Hudson County Wheelmen, the successful Tioga Cycling Club races of Sept. 29, and club gossip on Captain Fleming, Edwards' mileage record, and Fuller's betting loss on Halsted at Tioga.
- Boston letter describing Ralph Temple's fast riding around Chestnut Hill Reservoir before a large crowd, plus a tandem record attempt by Peter Berlo and Clarke of the Dorchester club and club runs by the Cambridge and Middlesex clubs.
- Correspondent's notes on the Barker-Ayres match race at the fair, the Waionthas' successful meet, and flyer W. D. 'Billie' Shoemaker's records around Canadrago Lake on a New Mail.
- Over two hundred wheelmen from Orange, Bloomfield, Newark, Montclair and Elizabeth joined the Plainfield B. C.'s seven-mile Chinese-lantern parade on Saturday evening, the Elizabeth Club making an imposing showing.
- Racing department opening with a list of fixtures (race meets, tournaments and Temple-Rowe match races through December) followed by detailed event summaries.
- Race results from the Agricultural Society's annual fair and the cold East Hartford tournament (where James, Forster and Dauchy took events), plus races at Carlisle, Pa. between Crist and Halsted, and a further editorial note that wheelmen may safely compete under A.A.U. or N.A.A.A.A. rules.
- Detailed description of the Berkeley Athletic Club's $15,000 Morris Dock grounds and its Forty-fourth Street Lyceum buildings ahead of the Oct. 20 cycle tournament, naming directors including John S. White and Chauncey M. Depew.
- Profile of the 600-member Orange Athletic Club, its Halsted Street club house and planned grounds, ahead of the bicycle races at Roseville where Crist and Rich are at scratch in the handicaps.
- Report and full summaries of the Tioga Cycling Club's successful Sept. 29 meet at Westmoreland Station, with Samuel T. Clark as referee and events won by Van Deusen, Kingsland, Wilhelm and Halsted.
- A two-mile bicycle race added to the Plainfield Bicycle Club's all-round athletic competition, won by W. H. Caldwell of the N. J. A. C. over S. B. Bowman in 6m. 37 2-5s.
- The Dallas Wheel Club's two-day State Fair meet (Oct. 11-12) on a new eight-lap track, with the full programme of novice, club, championship and handicap events.
- Charles Terront of Bayonne won the 100-kilometre French bicycle championship at the Bois de Boulogne in 3h. 28m. 15s. on a Humber, with seventeen-year-old Fol of Paris taking the long-distance tricycle race.
- Full summaries of the Pittsburg Cycling and Athletic Club's Sept. 24-26 meet, where W. W. Windle, W. A. Rowe, H. G. Crocker, W. F. Knapp and W. D. George dominated the amateur and professional events.
- Godfrey R. White broke the English 50-mile road record on Sept. 18, finishing in 2h. 57m. 47s., 16m. 19 2-5s. inside A. Pellant's mark, on a 54-inch ordinary.
- Cold, windy races at J. D. Lloyd's Queens Athletic Grounds, with A. A. Zimmerman, F. G. Class and Schoefer among the winners and Harry Hall riding a 27-lb. Star.
- Notable performances at Long Eaton on Sept. 18, including C. E. Taylor's tricycle hour records and American S. G. Whittaker's marvellous 33 2-5s. flying quarter-mile on a Rudge 'Bicyclette,' timed identically by four watches.
- Long travel narrative by C. A. S. of the Manhattan Bicycle Club describing his trio's tour after the Buffalo tournament, the hospitality of the Buffalo, Detroit and Chicago clubs, and praise for Pope Manufacturing manager R. D. Garden.
- Announcement of the Twelfth Regiment Athletic Association's military games and reception at the Armory on Dec. 17, including a two-mile bicycle race handicapped by W. G. Hegeman.
- Concluding instalment of 'Traveler's' essay arguing that British ordinary riders are unpractical, using oversized machines and never coasting or riding hands-off, and defending the ordinary against the safety.
- Column of trade and racing items including F. J. Osmond's Surrey B.C. wins, W. D. Allen & Co. taking the Chicago branch of the New York Belting & Packing Co., and J. P. Hall's 400-mile Oregon mountain trip on a Columbia Light Roadster.
- Dr. Kendall of the Boston Bicycle Club proposes an annual 'record race' around Chestnut Hill Reservoir to settle which scorcher can circle it fastest, with championship medals.
- C. H. McConnell's six-day rowing-tricycle (Roadsculler) contest opens at Madison Square Garden on Oct. 7 with fourteen champion oarsmen entered and $10,000 in cash prizes.
- Messrs. Newbourg of the Prospect Wheelmen and Newman of the Kings County Wheelmen recount their wheel trip from Staten Island to Philadelphia, made in 12 1/2 hours' riding time at a cost of $2.35.
- Reprinted notice of the death of 78-year-old Colonel Salisbury Simpson of Portishead, who died on his Cripper tricycle at Moffat after a day's railway journey, with argument that cycling was not to blame.