The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 2, No 9
Articles in this issue
- An editorial prompted by the typhoid deaths of Fred Midgley and George Weber argues that racing men who stay perpetually in hard training devitalise themselves, urging riders to develop the muscular and vital systems equably.
- A reply to Wheeling's defence of "loafing" (waiting for a final spurt) in racing, contending that judgement is as great a racing quality as stamina and that the best racing man, not merely the best man at the distance, deserves to win.
- Editor F. P. Prial resigns as L.A.W. Official Handicapper on the appointment of C. S. Davol as Racing Board Chairman; Davol favours appointing a handicapper in each section or State.
- Reports how John W. Schoefer of the Brooklyn Bicycle Club, paced by Fred Coningsby and accompanied by Borland and Schumacher, climbed Eagle Rock near Orange, N.J. on a 51-inch Columbia Light Roadster after a failed first attempt.
- A column of short news items: Oxborrow's kilometre safety record, the Harvard fall handicap road race, brisk demand for Stevens' book, the Albone-Tingey 50-mile tandem safety record on an Ivel, and Hillier's praise of Synyer over Osmond.
- Describes a lively social week for the Rhode Island Wheelmen, including a ladies' club run to Pleasant Bluff in the rain managed by C. H. Hathaway and F. H. Donle.
- Philadelphia correspondence covering a Citizens' B.C. run to Paoli with Captain Fontaine, the Pennsylvania club's 5-mile handicap race won by J. H. Draper with Fuller third after a spill with Al. Kohler, and Theo. F. Merseles' coming wedding.
- The Reading Bicycle Club gives a complimentary banquet to its champion W. I. Wilhelm at the Five-Mile House, organised by John Crawford, Charles G. Willson and Frank Heilman, with the club's silver team-race cup displayed.
- Boston-area club runs on the first fine Sunday in a month: the Somerville Cycle Club to Salem and Peabody, the Roxbury B.C. to Cobb's Tavern, and the Chelsea Cycle Club's 95-100 mile run to Newburyport.
- A letter signed "Jonah" laments the demise of the Alphabetical Road Racing Association now held by the Kings County Wheelmen, urging it be opened to clubs nationwide or expanded into a national association.
- A. C. and W. D. Banker of Pittsburg rode a tandem mile in 2m. 41 4-5s. on Forbes Street against a strong wind, and plan an attempt at 2m. 35s.
- An interview reprinted from Wheeling with English road rider M. A. Holbein on his training—walking 36 miles a day for six weeks—and his plan to beat the Brighton coach record single-handed on a Premier safety.
- Results of the Danvers Cycle Club races on a heavy track, with E. A. Bailey of Somerville winning the mile handicap and two-mile and H. Robson of Salem taking the county championship; referee W. S. Atwell of Boston.
- A correspondent signed "L. M. R." of Chicago argues that handicap races create no spectator enthusiasm and urges meets to run scratch heat races with contestants properly classified.
- The Hudson County Wheelmen hold their first smoker, with banjo and zither solos by Stout and Meyers and souvenir three-foot pipes, and note the wedding of Theodore F. Merseles, Jr.
- Reports fears that Star rider Alfred A. McCurdy, formerly of Lynn, is the deserter who assaulted sentries at Jefferson Barracks, recalling his disputed 24-hour record and a faked match with Stillman Whittaker that ruined backer Tom Roe.
- The Citizens' Bicycle Club tenders a dinner to returning member Simeon Ford at Seighortner's, with George T. Wilson as toastmaster and a comic verse "To S. F." by W. C. Lewis of Boston.
- An essay by Lillias Campbell Davidson, reprinted from the C.T.C. Gazette, tracing the rise of the ladies' safety bicycle from the Stanley Show, its advantages over the tricycle, and the 150 lady bicyclists said to ride in Washington.
- A correspondent who learned to ride the first ladies' Premier safety in her district recounts mastering it in two half-hour lessons under cycle agent G. M. Young and the need for makers to add dress guards and suitable saddles.
- An essay by J. R. Hogg of North Shields, England on cycling's phenomenal growth past older sports, defending cycle racing against the charge of gambling by analogy to a jeweller's tempting window.
- A reflective piece by Karl Kron on his forty days of "walking large with the wheel," the insatiable love of touring in the spirit of Thomas Stevens, and his preference for wheeling over politics.
- A vivid narrative of L. H. Wise, L. F. Ballard, F. M. Tunison and C. C. Alden of the Long Island Wheelmen attempting a century to Patchogue and back through mud and a gale, finishing only 94 miles by rail before completing it on Bedford Avenue.
- Reprints Mr. Page of the St. Louis Spectator on how luxurious club houses, billiards and tennis have sapped the road-riding spirit of the Missouri and Cycle Clubs.
- Describes students of the Royal Normal Blind College starting a cycling tour from Rudge & Co.'s Holborn Viaduct depot on an eight-in-hand built of four joined tandems, bound for Derby via Dunstable.
- A Boston Globe write-up of Sterling Elliott of Newton's quadricycle order wagon, a four-wheeled wooden-wheeled vehicle in service for provision dealer W. H. Brackett, with second-growth hickory spokes.
- A Bicycling News profile (under "Around the World on a Bicycle") of English racer Jack Lee of Clay Cross, who won 206 amateur prizes before turning professional with the Beeston Company and encouraging Herbert Synyer.
- Notes the brisk demand for the two volumes of Thomas Stevens' "Around the World on a Bicycle" from Charles Scribner's Sons, praising the second volume's new matter and its value as missionary and travel literature.