The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 3, No 20
Articles in this issue
- A column of press endorsements of The Wheel reprinted from the Providence Sunday Journal, N.Y. Sporting Times, Philadelphia Item and Newark Sunday Call, with editor F. P. Prial's notes on the Windle expulsion controversy, a Star rider's crash that wrecked L. L. Clarke's wheel at the Hagerstown meet, and an Englishman's new variable-gear patent.
- The Birmingham, Ala., Bicycle Club met June 24 to plan incorporation and a fall race meet inviting Southern clubs, and adopted resolutions (moved by L. D. Aylett, seconded by W. C. Swem) thanking the Jefferson County Commissioners for road improvements and a proposed Elyton boulevard.
- Judge Blodgett of the U.S. Circuit Court at Chicago denied Pope Mfg. Co.'s motion to enjoin Gormully & Jeffery Mfg. Co. from using the Copeland patent, with Coburn & Thatcher for Pope and Offield & Towle for the defense.
- The Springfield Bicycle Mfg. Co. announces the Speedwell, a crank version of its Volant safety fitted with ball-bearings and Fish's patent hammock saddle, priced at $115.
- Correspondent 'Atol' reports on Brooklyn wheelmen's evening rides to Brighton Beach and Coney Island, the clubs' thin showing at the Hagerstown L.A.W. meet, the B.B.C.'s new race-entry by-law, and Fourth of July touring mishaps including Masterson and Raymond storm-bound near Westfield, N.J.
- Correspondent 'Safety' describes a Sunday club run from Cincinnati to Oakley won by Walter Wise, a 64-inch wheel rider's fall on the way home, and a push to have Spring Grove Avenue paved with asphalt.
- Correspondent 'Ram Lal' reports on Kings County Wheelmen racers (Miles Murphy, Brown, Hesse) training under Beazley and Harry Hall at the Brooklyn Athletic Club track, the dispute over the Hagerstown team race, and President Bridgman's stand to keep The Wheel as New York's official organ.
- Correspondent 'N.' reflects on Elwell's tourists abroad and on Erie's wheelwomen, joking about husbands who outride their wives, and asks what has become of Erie's Cycling Club.
- A history of the Buffalo Ramblers Bicycle Club, founded January 1885, recounting its near-collapse after the 1886 Armory fire and growth to 157 members under Ducker, plus Miss Rummill and Miss Prince's 50-mile ride to Niagara Falls and back.
- A second Cincinnati letter giving a friend's account of the Cincinnati Club's 14-mile race won by Thos. Wayne despite a broken backbone, and noting A. C. Banker's planned attempt on the Irvington-Milburn record.
- Correspondent 'Ithuriel' reports the Missouri Division meet at Sedalia, where Robt. Holm was elected Chief Consul, the St. Louis Cycle Club (Barnard, Harding, Sanders) swept the races over the Missouri Club, and Capt. L. L. Bridges spoke on the bicycle in the eyes of the law.
- Recent cycling-related patents dated July 9, 1889 (reported by C. A. Snow & Co.), including bicycles and velocipedes by E. Mohrig, O. Hanson, T. B. Jeffery, and A. H. Overman's velocipede brake.
- Fire and water damaged the Pope Mfg. Co.'s Boston stock by about $3,000, leaving some Columbias for cheap sale, and the New York Club mourns member Frank C. Leeper, drowned while bathing at Coney Island.
- Trade rumors for 1890 point to a booming safety market, including a new company formed by two New York gentlemen, Western agents planning their own manufacture, and Rudge & Co. to be represented under a different name.
- Correspondent 'Pioneer' of Washington, D.C., recounts a nine-person party's tour to the L.A.W. Meet at Hagerstown and sightseeing in Washington (the Capitol, Smithsonian, Washington Monument, Cabin John Bridge and Arlington), urging more ladies to ride the safety.
- The rained-out Lancaster (Pa.) bicycle races are rescheduled for July 18 and 19 with a three-mile club team race added and a lantern parade under Capt. John B. Miller, headquartered at the Stevens House.
- The Hartford Wheel Club's two-day tournament programme for September 4–5, listing novice, championship, tandem-safety and Rover-type R.D. Safety events, plus a 20-mile road race open to all L.A.W. members on the second morning.
- A 10-mile road handicap on the Mount Holly road near Peoria, witnessed by 1,000 people, was won on time by scratch man Bert Myers in 37m. 10s., breaking his own record over the same fourteen-hill course.
- Full results of the Missouri Division L.A.W. races at Sedalia, with wins by J. R. Pomerade, E. Barnard, R. Hurck, E. N. Sanders, A. G. Harding and V. P. Ring, and the St. Louis Cycle Club taking the team race by walk-over.
- A description of the unsurveyed Pullman road race-course of about 15.5 miles, its sand hill and rough middle miles, with the best time of 53m. 19 1-5s. held by N. H. Van Sicklen.
- John W. Schoefer writes for the Berkeley Team disputing 'Ram Lal's' K. C. W. Notes and offering the Kings County Wheelmen a rematch; an editor's note agrees the K.C.W. men were tired before the team race.
- Correspondent 'Tam O'Shanter' chronicles the American touring party's farewell to England via Brighton, the Channel crossing to Dieppe, fine French roads, French cyclists' peculiar road races, and a reception by the Cercle de la Pedale at Versailles and Restaurant Dehouve hosted by M. de Baroncelli.
- Edward Saarbach & Co. relay an invitation from the Frankfort and Mayence bicycle clubs for Elwell's American tourists to ride to the Rhine via Strasburg, Heidelberg and Darmstadt, promising a grand reception.
- Reprinted from the New York Herald, an account of the American cyclists in Paris attending Buffalo Bill's Wild West show at Colonel Cody's invitation, riding round the camp and being shown the stables by Major Burke.
- Advice on summer cycling dress, recommending light merino or balbriggan underclothing with long or half sleeves under a flannel outer shirt and light trousers.
- A column of trade and racing notes: Wilhelm's safety geared to 87, the Batson trophy race at New Orleans, the New York State Division nominations, a French cyclist-messenger corps, club elections, the N.C.U./C.T.C. amalgamation talk, and a Louisville Cycle Club tour.
- A calendar of forthcoming American and European cycling fixtures from July through October 1889, including N.C.U. championships at Paddington, the Massachusetts Division meet at Cottage City, and the Hartford Wheel Club meets.
- Results of the Bridgeport Wheel Club's Connecticut Division meet at Seaside Park, with J. W. Schoefer and W. G. Class of the Berkeley A.C. and L. L. Clarke prominent, a hill-climb won by W. B. Clough, and Chief Consul C. E. Larom appearing in minstrel make-up afterward.
- Full results of the postponed St. Catharines tournament at Fairvale Driving Park, with wins by W. S. Campbell of Niagara Falls, Bert Brown of Toronto and J. H. Gerrie, marred by collisions involving Rassicoe, Connolly and Carman.
- Two-day results of the Kansas Division L.A.W. races at Ottawa, Kansas, with Colie Bell, A. J. Henley, A. B. Mulvane and H. S. Hale to the fore, and Bell's unsuccessful attempt on Windle's half-mile record.
- A critical report of the July 4 races at Franklin Park, Boston, faulting the League handicapper for over-handicapping the scratch men (including the Clark brothers in the tandem), with wins by P. J. Berlo, A. W. Porter and others.
- Five races on Lynn Common starting at 8 a.m., with Morris Greenwood winning the one- and two-mile handicaps and Taylor losing the two-mile after dropping his wheel before the line.
- The Pittsburg delegation swept the Brownsville races, George Banker winning every event he entered and H. H. Willock two firsts, with F. G. Lenz taking the 2-mile State championship.
- R. Billson of Leicester lowered the fifty-mile amateur record on the Belgrave Road track on June 22, timed by A. Searson ('Cyclist'), superseding C. Potter's 1887 Surbiton figures.
- The one-mile tricycle, five-mile tricycle and one-mile safety championships run June 22 in Scotland, won by John Carrick (Bellahouston), Alex. Wills (Dundee Northern) and Chas. Ebsworth (Edinburgh Northern).
- The Fort Dayton wheelmen's July 4 tournament on the Herkimer driving park drew a smaller crowd than hoped, with C. H. Metz of Utica and others among the winners.
- Reprinted from Bicycling News, a sardonic note that L.A.W.-suspended rider R. H. Davis plans to race in England, with an editor's comment that the N.C.U. is likely to recognize his suspension.
- Supplementary notes on the K.C.W. meet at Hagerstown, praising the officials (refereed by Luscomb, handicapped by Prial) and assessing riders Hesse, Steves, Banker, Clarke, W. F. Murphy, Brown and Taxis, and concluding a two-day Brooklyn meet cannot pay.
- Preview of the Minneapolis Bicycle Club's 25-mile state road race at Lake Harriet on July 25, with a gold medal for the champion 25-mile rider of the state over nine laps of the lake.