The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 2, No 7
Articles in this issue
- Editorial arguing the League should leave the amateur definition alone rather than legalize money prizes or maker-paid expenses, warning that mixing amateurs and professionals would invite betting and crooked riding on the American path.
- At the Pennsylvania Division Board of Officers meeting at Harrisburg, Sept. 27, the new L.A.W. constitution was adopted and delegates including L.J. Van Nort, C.H. Holly and Kirk Brown were elected to the National Assembly.
- Report of the three-day Missouri State Division meet at Exposition Park, Kansas City (Sept. 27-28), with race summaries dominated by Percy Stone, Harry Gordon and Joseph Henley, plus a 260-rider torchlight parade and the closing banquet of the United Wheelmen.
- Eighteen-year-old Fred Coningsby of the Brooklyn Bicycle Club, on a 51-lb Victor Safety, made repeated ascents of Eagle Rock near Orange, N.J., surpassing the hill-climbing records of Wells and Shurman.
- Review of the second and concluding volume of Thomas Stevens' narrative of his round-the-world ride, published by Charles Scribner's Sons, covering his journey from Teheran to Yokohama.
- Column of trade and club notes including S.G. Whittaker holding all safety records, Willie Wood winning a 20-mile championship at Leicester, the Medford Cycle Club's organization, C.B. Hill's exposed bogus 'Geared Facile' road ride, and the Long Island Wheelmen voting to leave the League.
- Editorial (credited to the L.A.W. Bulletin) condemning non-officials crowding the track and judges' stand at race meets, citing a recent Providence meeting where police repeatedly failed to clear the course.
- Reprinted Minneapolis Tribune item on trainer Tom Eck returning from Europe and, instead of fighting his wife's divorce proceedings, eloping with her a second time.
- W.A. Rowe of Lynn beat Ralph Temple of Chicago in the first two of their three $1,000-a-side match races, taking the five-mile at Lynn and the one-mile at Charter Oak Park, Hartford.
- Race meet at Audubon Park, New Orleans, Sept. 28 drew 4,000 spectators, with C.B. Guillotte carrying off first prizes in all four events he entered over a poor, wind-swept track.
- Report of the English North Road Club's 100-mile road ride of Sept. 22, where S.F. Edge won on a safety and G.R. White set a new ordinary road record, beating the old mark by 18m. 4s.
- Games at Roseville held Wednesday afternoon after a weather postponement, with E.I. Halsted winning both bicycle handicaps easily and S.H. and A.B. Rich giving disappointing rides.
- Correspondence from Columbus, Ga., describing how the yellow-fever scare shifted Georgia fair dates and detailing novel handicapping, cannon starts and the full programme planned for the Nov. 21-23 Columbus tournament.
- Announcement of the Berkeley Athletic Club's cycle tournament at Morris Dock, New York, Oct. 27, with entries through G.R. Bidwell or F.P. Prial; includes notes on the Racing Board chairmanship and a description of the club's grounds and history.
- Portrait and profile of New England amateur crack Willie W. Windle of Millbury, Mass., rider of a Columbia racing wheel, who won 33 firsts in 35 starts in 1888.
- At Long Eaton, Sept. 29, S.G. Whittaker on a Rudge bicyclette rode twenty-one miles and over 400 yards within the hour and set world's safety records from two to twenty-five miles.
- Obituary of racing man J. Fred Midgley of Worcester, Mass., dead of typhoid fever at twenty-three, with an account of his funeral attended by Boston and local wheelmen.
- Account of the New York Bicycle Club's reception at its new club house at Seventy-second Street and West End Avenue, given to mark president Edward J. Shriver's coming marriage; followed by the Wakefield Bicycle Club's rainy 25-mile road race won by Frank H. Burrill.
- Reprinted Pittsburg Herald report of A.C. Banker climbing Pittsburg's Irwin's Hill nine times without dismounting on a Victor safety, shattering John A. Wells' record of three.
- Letter from 'J.M.A.' defending wheelmen against charges of misconduct in Central Park and blaming carriage drivers, with an editorial reply warning new riders against racing and reckless riding.
- Brooklyn correspondence ('H.G.') reporting the first Executive Committee meeting of the Cyclists' Union of Long Island, which enrolled over 200 members, and discussing the Long Island clubs' debates over League membership and the Road Racing Association.
- New Orleans correspondence ('Bi.') on the Fenner-Moody tour to Baton Rouge, the Louisiana Cycling Club's moves toward incorporation, the Renaud medal race, and the annual election of the New Orleans Bicycle Club.
- Philadelphia correspondence recalling a Pennsylvania Bicycle Club tour to Lake George and reporting on local club road races, including South End Wheelmen and Pennsylvania Bicycle Club events.