The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 10, No 25
Articles in this issue
- Miscellaneous cycling news including Sidney Lee's 50-mile bicycle road record (3h. 9m. 15s.), W.F. Knapp's discharge from the Columbia team, a collision at Freehold where racer Joseph Powell was knocked unconscious by a police marshal's startled horse, and a report that French professional 'Baby' rode the 660-mile Pau-to-Calais route in 5 days 10 hours.
- Editorial on the spiralling bicycle mile record, noting Rowe's 2.38 and Wood's 2.33 at Hartford, and predicting Rowe will approach 2.23 at Springfield's inter-class race if he can sustain his final-quarter pace.
- The Wheel pledges to donate half of all new and renewed subscriptions received during September to the victims of the Charleston earthquake, urging readers in arrears to pay up and thereby benefit both the printer and the homeless South Carolinians.
- Anecdote from Hartford about Samuel L. Clemens attempting to learn cycling in a long linen duster; when the coat caught in the wheel and threw him, he cut it short with a penknife and declared he would buy a Norfolk jacket—but never fully mastered the bicycle.
- The Ixion B.C. announces a grand one-day amateur handicap tournament at Roseville on Saturday October 16, offering $1,500 in prizes—silver cups, oxidized plaques, and bronzes—across five events from quarter-mile to three-mile, arranged in heats so every competitor can enter all events.
- Results from the bicycle races held in conjunction with the Baltimore County Fair on September 9: R. Whittingham won the mile in 2:42½, and J.H. Cunningham took the three-mile handicap in 11:38½, both on a heavy clay-loam track made sticky by rain.
- Detailed report of Tuesday September 14 at Hampden Park, covering the World's Championship heats won by Rowe (2.38) over Kluge and Burnham over Ives, George Hendee's 10-mile A.C.U. championship victory in 29:28, Neilson's win in the 5-mile professional handicap, and the Washington tandem pair of P.A. Brown and W.C. Crist setting American amateur records in the tandem tricycle.
- Result summaries for Wednesday at Springfield, showing wins by Fred Wood, George M. Hendee, W.A. Rowe, and A.B. Rich, with a note that rain postponed Thursday's races to Friday and Saturday, preventing full particulars from reaching New York in time.
- Full results from the Harlem Wheelmen's September 11 meeting at the Manhattan Athletic Club Grounds, covering 17 events; A.B. Rich of the S.I.A.C. won the 3-mile New York Division L.A.W. championship and a 2-mile lap race, while E.L. Halsted took the 3.10 class final in 2:38.
- New York cycling column by 'The Owl' covering Ixion B.C. members' evening training runs around Central Park, Frederick Jenkins's reshuffling of Roseville meet events after the N.C.U. barred English amateurs from racing American promateurs, A.B. Rich's scratch-race dominance at Roseville, and St. Louis winning the L.A.W. national meet for the following year.
- C. Potter of the Surrey Bicycle Club rode alone at Surbiton on August 28, setting records from 28 miles onward and finishing 50 miles in 2h. 41m. 40⅗s., beating Keith-Falconer's record by 2 minutes 18 seconds and also establishing a two-hour record of 37 miles 1,010 yards.
- Results from the fourth annual Elmira Club meet of September 6: John C. Zimmerman of Elmira won the 2-mile 6.50 class in 6:35½, S.P. Hollingsworth of Russiaville, Indiana took the one-mile open in 2:52, and W.H. Barber of Rochester, world's unicycle champion, exhibited with a mile in 3:40.
- S.G. Whittaker broke the 10-mile road record by three minutes, riding a Gormully & Jeffery American Champion; full details had not yet reached the office at press time.
- F.B. Mirick of the Algonquin Wheelmen was struck by an intoxicated buggy driver racing on the Coney Island Boulevard, fracturing his jaw in three places and lacerating his face; the Brooklyn L.A.W. board planned to petition Park Commissioners to police the Boulevard against reckless drivers.
- Two-day report on the Berkshire County Wheelmen's annual meet at Pittsfield, Mass.: Rowe won the one-mile promateur in 2m. 48s. on day one, Ives beat Rowe in the 5-mile promateur handicap on day two (17m. 02½s.), and Woodside won the 5-mile professional record race in 15m. 37s.
- Calendar of upcoming cycling events for September–November 1886, including the L.A.W. interstate meet at St. Louis (Oct. 1–3), the Ixion B.C. grand meet at Roseville (Oct. 16), and the Inter-Club Road Racing Association 25-mile road race at Roseville (Nov. 2).
- Touring account by L.B.G. of a six-day, 210-mile solo cycling tour in August 1886 through Milwaukee, Waukesha, Oconomowoc, and Winona on a Yale bicycle, ending when a crack in the machine's backbone at Winona forced the author to abandon riding and travel home by train.
- G. Gatehouse of the Cambridge University Bicycle Club rode his Beeston Humber tricycle 20 miles 360 yards 6 inches in one hour at Long Eaton, finishing just four seconds behind the 20-mile bicycle hour record and beating the previous tricycle mark by 9m. 31½s., with trainer Harry Leeming and N.C.U. timekeeper P. Coleman officiating.
- The L.A.W. Big Four Tour reached New York with some 30 participants from Toronto, Chicago, Buffalo, and Philadelphia, but was overshadowed by a serious accident near Ithaca in which George B. Dakin of Buffalo suffered concussion and a possible skull fracture after a header at high speed down a hill.
- A.P. Engleheart of the Croydon Cycle Club covered 20 miles on his Kangaroo safety bicycle at Coventry Cricket Grounds on August 27, finishing his last mile in 2m. 48s. and prompting The Cyclist to believe he could exceed 21 miles in the hour on an ordinary bicycle.