The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 10, No 13
Articles in this issue
- The opening gossip column offers sardonic observations on cycling personalities and events, including the N.C.U.'s wavering stance on the amateur rule, John S. Prince's contagious smile, Kluge's convenient accident insurance after his fall at Lynn, and Mr. Bassett being compared to a gallows rope because he is a great suspendor.
- Short news items cover R. Howell's new mile (2:39 2/5) and half-mile records at Leicester, the N.A.A.A.A. four-mile bicycle championship on Staten Island, the Brooklyn Bicycle Club's annual dinner at Hotel St. George (H.H. Koop Jr. recalling his gold cup won in Berlin in 1881), and the Meriden Bi. Club's upcoming 20-mile Connecticut championship road race.
- The weekly news department covers club and L.A.W. affairs: Hendee assigned to the Springfield races, Rowe to Lynn, the Hartford Club's preliminary twenty-mile road race for Meriden team selection (A.F. Judson first in 1:29:16), the Avondale Bicycle Club's race meet at Chester Park, and editorial sparring with the Bicycling World over The Wheel's coverage.
- Full race report of the third annual K.C.W. meet at the Brooklyn Athletic Club grounds, where A.B. Rich won four first places — the two-mile handicap (6:07), three-mile handicap (9:31 1/5), one-mile tricycle scratch, and five-mile New York State L.A.W. championship (16:17 1/5) — amid a controversy over his temporary suspension for competing at the Yale races under A.C.U. rules.
- Chief Consul George R. Bidwell calls a regular meeting of the State Board of Representatives for Tuesday evening June 29th at the Grand Union Hotel, New York City, for organizational matters of importance to the Division's future work.
- A touring narrative by "Independent" recounts a two-day, 126-mile ride by four Independent Wheelmen from Brooklyn to Babylon via Eastern Parkway, Jamaica, Hempstead, the South Side road, and Patchogue, with only J.W. Schoefer and H. Hornbostel completing the full return journey on wheel while rain drove the others to the train.
- S.P. Hollingsworth of Russiaville, Indiana scored 281 9/10 miles in 24 hours at Greenfield on June 19th, surpassing the American record of 259½ miles (Munger of Detroit) and the English record of 266 miles; the editors question whether the L.A.W. Racing Board has jurisdiction over road records and argue a straightaway course would carry more comparative value.
- In a practice spin at the Lynn track, George M. Hendee reportedly rode five miles in 14 minutes 4 2/5 seconds, beating the world's record by three seconds; Rowe covered ten miles in 29:18 2/5 and Knapp in 29:58.
- Boston correspondent C.S.H. reports on how Massachusetts wheelmen spent the June 17 holiday — club runs by the Massachusetts and Cambridge clubs to Downer's Landing and a race meet at the Lynn Cycle Club's Glenmere track — then sharply criticizes the meet's officials (umpires who refused to leave the finish line, scorers who made racers ride an extra lap) and analyzes the A.C.U.'s growing membership and rivalry with the L.A.W. Racing Board, calling for a "promateur" third class to resolve the amateur dispute.
- Full results from the June 19 meet at the Glenmere track: W.A. Rowe won the one-mile scratch in 2:37 2/5, T.W. Eck set a new professional quarter-mile tricycle record of 42 2/5 seconds (beating Howell's 44 2/5 at Springfield), Hendee won the three-mile lap race, and Prince defeated Woodside and Neilson in the ten-mile professional sweepstakes in 30:08; the two-mile handicap was won by F.S. Hitchcock (5:19 2/5) with Rowe third from scratch.
- Report on the City Bicycle Club's first-ever race meet in Brockton on June 16th, featuring events for Plymouth County riders: Severance won the half-mile (1:30 1/5), Holmes took the two-mile professional race (6:35 3/5), Pierce won the one-mile 3:30 class, Hunter of Salem won the five-mile amateur race (16:57 1/5), Prince beat Eck over five miles (16:02), and Randall won the mile tricycle; an evening dance at Armory Hall closed the programme.
- As part of Passaic's bicentennial celebration on June 16th, the Passaic County Wheelmen organized a lantern parade through the principal streets, commanded by Captain Rice of the Rutherford Wheelmen, with three divisions drawn from the Arlington B.C., Ixion B.C., Brooklyn B.C., Paterson Bi. Club, and Passaic Co. Wheelmen.
- Results from the Cleveland Bicycle Club's spring races on June 14th: Geo. Snyder won the five-mile in 16:20, T. Boggis took the quarter-mile in heats (40s.), W.P. Sargeant won both the two-mile handicap (6:50 4/5) and the one-mile 3:15 class (3:45), and F.P. Root won the half-mile (1:30) and the one-mile 3:10 class (3:13).
- After nearly three years and roughly $10,000 per side in legal costs, Pope Manufacturing Co. and the Overman Wheel Co. reached a court-sanctioned compromise settlement over seventeen velocipede patents; senior counsels convened their clients in Springfield to broker the agreement.
- Calendar of upcoming cycling events including the Connecticut twenty-mile championship road race at Meriden (June 26), the Canadian Wheelmen's Association annual meet in Montreal (July 1), L.A.W. tour from Rochester to Harper's Ferry (July 5–16), Trojan B.C. meet at Rensselaer Park Troy (July 23), and Hartford Bi. Club annual races (September 8–9).
- Day-by-day itinerary for the Clerical Wheelmen's Tour (August 3–14), an eleven-day route from New York City through the Hudson Valley to Poughkeepsie, Rhinebeck, Hudson, Albany, Troy, Saratoga, and Cooperstown.