The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 2, No 8
Articles in this issue
- Editor F. P. Prial comments on the postponement and likely disintegration of the New York and New Jersey Road Racing Association, the predicted glut of second-hand wheels, the new Racing Board under chairman Davol, and Senator W. J. Morgan's distorted account of the Buffalo tournament and the Temple-Rowe affair.
- Correspondents' columns from Jersey City ("Coaster"), Brooklyn (H. G.), and "Notes from the City of Brotherly Love" (Philadelphia), covering the Hudson County Wheelmen's clubhouse and smoker, Long Island Wheelmen hare-and-hounds, the Pennsylvania Bicycle Club cup race, and South End Wheelmen century rides.
- "Verax" of Chicago writes a memorial of editor George Darrow of the Indianapolis Wheelmen's Record and Gazette and the death of his adopted son Bob, plus notes on John A. Wells, Arthur Lumsden's wins at Quincy, and the Lincoln Cycling Club debenture bonds.
- Short paragraphs of news: Maltby to Brazil, Ducker possibly moving from Buffalo to Boston, George M. Hendee's marriage to Edith M. Cordwell, P. A. Nix's 281-mile ride on a Geared Facile, C. W. Newbourg's Prospect Park header, R. Milthorpe's embezzlement case, and the editor's grievance over the Bicycling World copying his Coningsby timing table.
- Fixtures list of forthcoming meets followed by race reports including A. H. Meyer's letter on the Richmond tournament postponement, the wind-and-mud-spoiled Wilmington (Del.) Fair meet, and detailed results from the Mott Haven and Y. M. C. A. games.
- Programme and prizes for the Berkeley Athletic Club's tournament at Morris Dock, New York, on October 27, with entry details (F. P. Prial / G. R. Bidwell), admission fees, and transport directions to the grounds.
- Editorial condemning American professional cycling as a series of fakes, urging the Racing Board to bar amateurs from professional meets, in the wake of the Rowe-Temple match races.
- Affidavits of W. M. Woodside, W. A. Rowe and F. L. Alley exposing how Ralph Temple (alias Friedburg) and manager W. J. Morgan arranged the fixed Rowe-Temple championship races at Lynn and Hartford, including the secret "hippodrome" agreement and the betting scheme.
- W. J. Morgan's long statement to the Boston Globe giving his own account of arranging the Rowe-Temple match, the forfeit guarantees, and how Rowe "turned the tables" at Hartford to win, ruining Morgan and Temple financially.
- Report of the Maine Division L.A.W. championship races at Fairfield, with Patten of Skowhegan taking the one- and three-mile titles, Baker the half-mile, and Windle of Lynn winning the free-for-all.
- Account of the ten-mile Citizens' Cup road race at Baltimore on October 10, won by Kingsland (Rambler) ahead of Tyler and Clotworthy, with the Maryland Club retaining the cup over the Ramblers, Baltimores and Centaurs before 5,000 spectators.
- The Louisiana Cycling Club's final Renaud medal contest from Lee Circle to Carrollton, won by Hathorn with M. S. Graham second, the medal becoming the permanent property of Lieutenant Elliott M. Graham after a tie run-off at Audubon Park.
- Secretary L. H. Wise reports the C.U. of L.I. election of officers (Howard Greenman president), a membership of 206 across the L.I.W., K.C.W., B.B.C. and other clubs, and votes of thanks including one to F. P. Prial for offering space in The Wheel.
- Howard L. Pyle of the Wilmington Wheel Club broke the local 100-mile road record on an ordinary Springfield Roadster, riding the Market Street bridge course in 8h. 25m. 26s. actual time, witnessed by C. P. Daniels and W. H. Weldin.
- List of recently granted cycling patents reported by C. A. Snow & Co., including a monkey-wrench (O. C. White, Wichita), brakes, locks and velocipedes, with detail of H. H. Holtkamp's clip-and-runner bicycle attachment.
- Miscellaneous notes including the Hudson County Wheelmen's joke over Thos. F. Merseles's wanted-a-lady's-bicycle notice, the funeral of Robert S. McCombie of the Dorchester Bicycle Club, and "Patrolmen on Cycles," reprinting a London Evening Standard proposal to mount plain-clothes constables on bicycles amid the Whitechapel murders.
- "California" correspondent reports West Coast indignation at Eastern treatment of Ralph Temple, followed by an account of the Bay City Wheelmen's 51-mile picnic run to Lake Pilarcitos via Lake San Andreas.
- Reprinted from The Cyclist, Manager W. J. Morgan's bitter screed blaming Henry E. Ducker for the failure of the 1888 Buffalo tournament, the poor stone-bed track, the biased officials, and Temple's shabby treatment, defending Temple and the English riders.
- Five members of the Washington Cycle Club ride toward Manassas through muddy red-clay Virginia roads, turning back at Fairfax Court House because the roads were impassable and returning to Washington by train via Springfield.
- Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Johnson of the Orange Wanderers lowered the cycling record between Plainfield and Orange to 1h. 55m. on a Premier safety tandem geared to sixty inches.
- The Wheel reproduces a Birmingham (Ala.) News appeal, forwarded by L. D. Aylett, advocating a macadamized boulevard to encircle Birmingham and raise suburban property values, commending cyclists' use of local papers to push road improvement.
- Note that Maine held its first L. A. W. meet at Fairfield Park on October 11, where Columbia-mounted riders of the Pine Tree State carried first and second place in every event.