The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 10, No 3
Articles in this issue
- Editorial revisiting the Racing Board's maker's amateurism debate, noting that the Bulletin editor has reversed his earlier position and now shares the sentiments he previously attributed to "cock, horse, dog, and rat-fighting" papers.
- The Springfield Bicycle Club, through President Henry E. Ducker, proposes an international amateur championship mile race with entries from the N.C.U., L.A.W., Irish Cyclists' Association, Dutch Cyclists' Union, and Australian Cyclists' Union, offering $1,000 in prize and travel expenses.
- The Committee on Rights and Privileges—Stephen Terry, John C. Gulick, and Chas. E. Pratt—completed counting the L.A.W. vote at the Grand Union Hotel after working through Tuesday at 4 a.m., with official results pending announcement by President Beckwith.
- Report on the Wheelman Harriers' hare-and-hounds hunt at London on March 13th, in which A. J. Wilson on a Rover safety won the ten-and-a-half-mile course in 49 minutes, ahead of Percy Furnivall on an ordinary and O. G. Duncon among fifty-four hounds.
- Regular department covering cycling shorts: Harrisburg's May tournament, the Troy B. C.'s new $13,462 club house, Bown's Birmingham ball-bearing factory gutted by fire, N.C.U. rider suspensions, the Washtub Bicycle Association's new officers, Burley B. Ayers' withdrawal as Illinois consul candidate, the Elizabeth Wheelmen's 2,536-mile March riding record, and the Northside Wheelmen's formation in Cincinnati.
- Boston correspondent's column on slow L.A.W. meet preparations—four finance committee chairmen having already resigned—the Racing Board's second list of amateur suspects including C. F. Haven of the Newton Club, and the Lynn Cycle Club's active plans for a May 31 inaugural tournament with the $1,500 Columbia Prize Cup.
- Correspondence from Brooklyn wheelman "Jonah" urging peace with the provocative "Tattler" over the proposed inter-club road race between the Kings County Wheelmen and the Elizabeth Wheelmen, calling for sportsmanlike rivalry rather than pre-race newspaper warfare.
- Calendar listing upcoming cycling events: the American Wheelman's 50-mile road race on April 26, the International Tournament at Alexandra Park, London (May 21–23), the L.A.W. Annual Meet at Boston (May 26–28), and the Lynn Bicycle Club inaugural race meet on May 31.
- Results from the First Regiment N.G. of Pennsylvania's annual spring games in Philadelphia (S. H. Crawford won the two-mile bicycle race in 6:48¼) and a detailed report of the Prince versus Woodside ten-mile professional match at the Washington Rink, Minneapolis, won by Prince in 31m. 28½s.
- Brooklyn cycling correspondence covering K.C.W. drill at the 22nd Regiment games, the Ilderan Bicycle Club's new headquarters, the Brooklyn Bicycle Club's officer election (President A. Barkman), $50,000 Bedford Avenue road improvements, and A. B. Rich's suspension by the Racing Board.
- Official roster of committee chairmen for the L.A.W. annual meet at Boston, May 26–28, including Henry E. Ducker for race meeting, Abbot Bassett for press, and an executive committee of Ducker, Charles E. Pratt, F. C. Kendall, and Bassett; Springfield B.C. has pledged $100 toward expenses.
- Official notice from Racing Board Chairman Abbot Bassett suspending L. J. Martel, C. P. Adams, H. E. Bidwell, F. R. Brown, L. A. Miller, and W. F. Knapp for 30 days to address amateur status doubts, and C. F. Haven and A. B. Rich for 38 days for violating Rule H.
- Industry items: Jens. F. Pedersen awarded the League medal contract; Gormully & Jeffery's American Champion praised after Albert Schock's Minneapolis record; Pope Manufacturing Co. releasing a new chain-drive safety bicycle with Columbia ball bearings; and dissolution of the Zacharias & Smith partnership, succeeded by Howard A. Smith & Co.
- Description of the Coventry Machinists' Company's new tandem tricycle, featuring automatic steering, 44–46 inch driving wheels, a Salvo-pattern safety rear wheel, spiral springs, and a patent front-mount handle, complementing their single Marlboro Club tricycle.
- Account of a farewell dinner at Sieghortners' for Fred G. Bourne of the Citizens' Bicycle Club—attended by Col. A. A. Pope, President N. M. Beckwith, cycling pioneer J. Harrington of Coventry, and about thirty members—as Bourne sailed to Europe to recover from typhoid fever contracted after the Big Four Tour of 1885.
- Lyrical essay reprinted from Wheeling celebrating the spring return to cycling, evoking both the meditative pleasures of English bye-lanes and the exhilaration of road racing, addressed to wheelmen of every temperament.
- Report on the National Cyclists' Union suspending nearly all prominent English riders—Furnivall, Webber, and Lee among the known exceptions—and the proposal at the April 1st N.C.U. meeting to send inquiry letters to every prominent racing man; notes that a new Racing Cyclists' Association on more liberal lines is being planned.