The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 10, No 16

Articles in this issue

• Wheel Gossip

  Regular miscellany column noting it took thirty officials to run the English mile championship, predicting Hendee will ride 2.28 when the Lynn track is fixed, reporting the Chicago Bicycle Club's July 31st race meet programme, and describing the Springfield Wheelmen's handsomely frescoed new clubhouse.
• Where Is the Malfeasance?

  Editorial defending LAW President Beckwith's removal of Massachusetts Chief Consul Henry Ducker, arguing Ducker's role in founding the rival A.C.U. — an organisation born of opposition to the League that attempted to control League racing — constituted genuine malfeasance warranting dismissal.
• The N. C. U. Meeting.

  Editorial commentary mocking two motions defeated at the London NCU meeting: H. Sturmey's entry-fee-and-acceptance system (rejected as unsportsmanlike) and P. T. Letchford's proposal to allow tricyclists a push-off at the start (rejected on the absurd ground it would encourage lighter machine construction).
• The English Racing Path. Furnival Wins the Mile Championship.

  Full results of the NCU one-mile amateur championship at the Jarrow track, Newcastle-on-Tyne, where P. Furnivall of the Beretta Cycle Club beat H. A. Speechley by three yards in 2m. 46s.; Scottish Championship results from Glasgow and Edinburgh also covered, plus F. W. Allard's tricycle mile record of 2.54 at Long Eaton.
• The Illinois Division Race Meet.

  Detailed results of the Illinois LAW Division annual race meet on July 5th at Cheltenham Beach, Chicago, where A. A. Hart of St. Louis and J. P. Heywood dominated; the one-mile scratch was controversially awarded to N. H. Van Sicklen over Hart on a foul claim after Hart twice cut across Van Sicklen near the tape.
• "Ye Champion."

  Sardonic editorial mocking an English cycling paper's overwrought poem by F. F. S. praising Percy Furnivall as if he were a sainted national saviour, arguing the same poet would lavish identical glory on any new champion at the right price.
• Racing at Winona, Minn.

  Results of the Winona Bicycle Club's race meet on July 5th on the Lacrosse grounds, where professional Grant Bell won both the one-mile heats and the five-mile race over R. H. Spear, and H. C. Schroeder took the one-mile amateur and half-mile scratch final.
• The Millville Races.

  Summary of the Millville, N.J. Bi. Club's annual race meet on July 5th before 2,000 spectators, where George D. Gideon (Germantown C.C.) won the one-mile scratch and E. P. Baird (Orange) the three-mile lap race, with J. B. Pearson (Vineland) taking the two-mile district championship in 6m. 24½s.
• National Cyclists' Union Meeting.

  Factual report of the NCU London meeting of June 26th covering new Records Committee rules — seven days' advance notice for record attempts, no Sunday road records under 50 miles — and the defeat of both Sturmey's entry-fee motion and Letchford's tricycle-starter motion by 36 votes to 20.
• The Road vs. The Path.

  Editorial defending road riding against claims that only track racing is scientific, citing Cola Stone's century ride from Coburg to Kingston, Staley and Mead's 90-miles-a-day Ohio-to-Chicago tour, and Ribolla and Bishop's 90-mile sand ride as feats equal to any racing record.
• Through the New Forest.

  First instalment of a touring narrative by T. I. B. describing an Easter cycling journey from a London suburb through Wimbledon Common, Kingston-on-Thames, Hampton Court, and Bagshot Heath, climaxing in an overnight stay for 3d. in a tramps' common lodging-house at Bagshot.
• The Illinois L. A. W. Division Meet.

  Report on the Illinois L.A.W. Division annual business meeting in Chicago on July 3rd, at which B. B. Ayers was unanimously re-elected Secretary-Treasurer, the Sporting Journal adopted as official organ, and a new Racing Board of five appointed including L. W. Conkling and H. H. Munger.
• Hub Happenings.

  Boston and Massachusetts news column covering the ongoing Ducker–Beckwith feud, Dr. Beckwith's selection of Herbert Hayes (Cambridge club) as new Chief Consul, the Columbia team's summer rest (Hendee at the New Marlboro, Knapp and Rowe on the North Shore), and the Boston Bi. Club's preparation for its annual 100-mile road race.
• Spokes.

  Short news column reporting John S. Prince's five-mile victory over the trotter 'High Wind' at North Adams in 16m. 39s., E. P. Baird's Orange Wanderers' road race win, E. J. Halsted's 104-mile ride in 10h. 2m., Abbot Bassett's encouraging conference with H. E. Ducker, and the new Century Wheelmen club formed in Philadelphia with a house at 1612 Park Avenue.
• Fixtures.

  Calendar of upcoming cycling events including the Genesee Bi. Club's tournament at Rochester (July 22), the Pennsylvania Division meet at Williamsport (August 19), the L.A.W. tour from Rochester to Harper's Ferry (September 6–16), the Berkshire County Wheelmen's tournament at Pittsfield (September 10–11), and the Springfield tournament (September 14–17).
• The Orange Wanderers' Road Race.

  Vivid account of the Orange Wanderers' tri-county (Hudson, Essex, Union) ten-mile championship road race on July 10th near Newark, won by E. P. Baird in a course record 36m. 51½s. on a 53-inch Rudge; T. D. Palmer was ejected by the umpire for repeatedly forcing rivals Stenken and Baird off the macadam and causing a collision that wrecked Stenken's and Meyers's machines.