The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 10, No 19
Articles in this issue
- Wide-ranging news notes covering Col. Pope and George H. Day's return from England, racing at Crystal Palace and Alexandria Park, Karl Kron's bell-and-lamp ordinance controversy, and a fatal accident to cyclist Pausey near Ripley.
- Editorial analysis of the L.A.W. mail vote on two amendments — particularly the proposed liberalisation of the amateur definition and abolition of Rule H on expense payments — arguing neither amendment as written will prevail and suggesting specific revisions.
- Reports the departure from New York of over twenty clergymen of various denominations on their annual cycling tour, setting off from the Citizens' Bicycle Club house on 60th Street toward Yonkers, listing the full party including Rev. J. P. McCurdy and Rev. William Pittinger.
- Full prospectus for the L.A.W. annual tour organised by Tourmaster Burley B. Ayers, detailing the two-week route from Buffalo via Niagara Falls, central New York lakes, and Watkins Glen to Old Point Comfort and down Virginia's Shenandoah Valley to Harpers Ferry, with organisation, uniform, and $50 coupon ticket expenses.
- Open letter from Henry E. Ducker, Chief Consul of the Massachusetts Division L.A.W. (under suspension), challenging League President N. Malon Beckwith to produce documented proof that Ducker's removal was requested by prominent Massachusetts wheelmen.
- Programme and committee listings for the New York State Division meet in Buffalo, including a full race card — novice, open, handicap, and L.A.W. five-mile championship events — scheduled for September 3–4, with entries closing September 1st to J. H. Otterstatter.
- Letter from Karl Kron protesting the publication of his real family name by a Boston cycling paper, asserting his preference to be known only by the pen-name 'Karl Kron' under which he has worked for three years as a prospective publisher.
- Reprints a Bicycling News exposé revealing that the prize cups won by Furnivall and Engleheart at the 1885 Springfield tournament are made of base Britannia metal worth only a few pounds, with a detailed account from the London workshop of cup-maker R. T. Bowman.
- Announces a grand three-day race meeting at the New Jersey Cycling and Athletic Association's new three-lap-per-mile track at Roseville, N.J., scheduled for September 30 – October 2, with $2,000 in prizes under A.C.U. rules, managed by Frederick Jenkins.
- Announces the first open-air race meeting in New York City, organised by the Harlem Wheelmen at the Manhattan A.C. grounds on 86th Street on September 11, featuring nine events including a two-mile New York State championship, with entries to F. L. Bingham by September 4.
- Details the Orange Wanderers' hill climb competition up Eagle Rock Hill — one mile from Harrison Avenue to the summit — open to all L.A.W. members except tricyclists, with 50-cent entries to E. P. Baird before August 10.
- Publishes resolutions passed by the New York Bicycle Club, submitted by Edward J. Schriver, protesting bell-and-lantern ordinances in the Orange riding district as illegally discriminatory against cyclists and calling on the Orange Wanderers and the L.A.W. to seek their repeal.
- Report on the fourth annual race meet of the Alleghany County Wheelmen at the Driving Park, Friendship, July 29, where George H. Camehl won the half-mile county championship for the third consecutive year and C. J. Conolly took the one-mile open from P. J. Dukelow of Rochester.
- Results of the annual meet at Youngstown, Ohio, July 29, where W. A. Crawford swept the half-mile, one-mile, and two-mile inter-state championships, and W. H. Barber rode a unicycle mile in 3.41, a new record.
- Publishes the prospectus for Burley B. Ayers's Lake Geneva weekend tour from Chicago on August 14–15, riding 40 miles via Burlington and Richmond to Lake Geneva and back via Fox Lake under Marshal W. G. E. Pierce.
- Reports on the arrival in Springfield of the Columbia team — Hendee, Rowe, Burnham, and Knapp — for pre-tournament training at Hampden Park, with Rowe confident of lowering the mile record to 2.30 and both he and Hendee training on 55–56 inch Columbias.
- Calendar of forthcoming race meetings from August 17 through October 3, including the Weedsport, New Castle, Scranton, and Cleveland meets, the Springfield tournament (September 14–17), and the L.A.W. interstate meet at St. Louis.