The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 11, No 3

Articles in this issue

• Bicycling News.

  Wide-ranging news column covering Furnivall's London racing-season record of 18 first prizes and pending NCU suspensions, W. J. Morgan and Mademoiselle Louise Armaindo's planned 24-hour tandem record attempt at Lynn, the Nassau Wheelmen's Brooklyn ride, the Brooklyn Bicycle Club's visitors' night, and J. Devey's new 'Sir William' open-frame bicycle designed to bridge the gap between ordinary and safety machines.
• Record Breaking Extraordinary.

  Stillman G. Whittaker rode 50 miles in 2h 55m 46.5s and 100 miles in 6h 43m 59s on a surveyed straightaway road at Crawfordsville, Indiana, beating Geo. Weber's American 50-mile record by over nine minutes and McCurdy's 100-mile record by over an hour on a 51-inch American Champion bicycle.
• Twenty-one in the hour.

  Brief editorial celebrating W. A. Rhodes's feat of riding more than twenty-one miles in one hour on a Victor bicycle at Hampden Park, praising Columbia and Victor manufacturers for their record-competition enterprise and its power to attract new recruits to the cycling army.
• The Dorchester Clubs Road Races.

  The Dorchester Bicycle Club's fall road races at Milton produced wins by William S. Doane in the 15-mile open (54m 21.2s), Arthur Benson in the three-mile race (10m 37.2s), and G. R. Bates in the six-mile event (22m 26.5s), with S. R. Bates badly wrenching his wrist in a header near the finish.
• The Essex County Race Meet.

  A poorly attended League of Essex County meet at the Lynn track saw D. E. Hunter of Salem win the one-mile L.E.C.W. championship in 3m 1.2s and share the five-mile open title with Ware (best time 16m 58s), while the Lynn Cycle Club defeated Peabody in a one-mile bicycle tug-of-war in 2m 52.2s.
• The Elizabeth Wheelmen's Road Race.

  George Pennell, given a four-minute handicap, won the Elizabeth Wheelmen's annual road race over the Irvington-Milburn course with an actual time of 44m 49s, finishing ahead of D. B. Bonnett on a single trike (40m 33s corrected) and the Oliver & Oliver tandem.
• Racing at Cincinnati.

  The Avondale Bicycle Club's race meet at Chester Park on October 2nd was dominated by T. R. Belding, who won the one-mile Sun medal race (3:02.2), the two-mile open (7:32), and the one-mile handicap, while Frank Andress won the one-mile open in 3:27.2 and H. S. Rogers of Covington took the half-mile without-hands event.
• Racing at Philadelphia.

  The Association for the Advancement of Cycling drew a large crowd to the West Philadelphia Association grounds, with Harry Schwartz of Reading winning the one-mile open final, W. E. Crist of the Capital Club taking the two-mile scratch and half-mile open, and W. A. Richwine winning the one-mile city championship in 3:02.4.
• Over Twenty-One Miles in the Hour

  W. A. Rhodes of the Victor team rode 21 miles and 530 yards at Hampden Park on October 8th, paced chiefly by Frank Ives with Haradon, Adams and 'Jack' Illston, beating Rowe's hour record by 1,146 yards and setting new marks from 11 to 21 miles; his final mile was covered in 2m 44s.
• Another Twenty-One in the Hour.

  Wm. A. Rowe of the Columbia team answered Rhodes three days later at Hampden Park with an hour ride of 21 miles and 1,149 yards—619 yards further than Rhodes—paced by Hendee, Haradon and Adams, beating every record from six to twenty-one miles inclusive.
• Ives Makes World's Records. In a 100-Mile Ride on Hampden Park.

  Frank F. Ives of the Victor team rode 100 miles at Hampden Park setting world's records from 21 to 68 miles and American records from 69 to 100 miles in approximately 6h 3m 45s, paced by Rhodes, Rowe, Illston and Haradon, though careless timekeeping after his 69th-mile rest stop clouded the final figures.
• [The Owl]

  Gossipy column by 'The Owl' covering Park Commissioner hostility to cyclists, Fred Wood's offer to race Rowe for $1,000 and the ensuing promateur debate, the corrupt state of amateur classification, praise for the new Roseville track offset by criticism of its dangerous ditch, and the Ixion Club's Muller-and-Agresta tandem that no club member can match for a mile on the road.
• A Novelty in Tricycles.

  The Sterling Cycle Company introduced a tricycle built of second-growth hickory wheels with steel-and-leather tires and English seamless drawn tubing, dispensing with spider wheel, rubber rim, ball bearings and differential gear, and featuring a lever-and-clutch drive with a steerer-post crank that shifts gearing from very low to very high with a dial showing current ratio.
• The Long Island Wheelmen Will Not Disband.

  Club captain Charles S. Luscomb writes to deny categorically that the Long Island Wheelmen ever intended to disband, calling the previous issue's report an inexcusable error and requesting The Wheel publish a correction as prominently as the original item from its unreliable Brooklyn correspondent.
• Thomas Stevens and "Outing."

  Poultney Bigelow writes to rebut claims made at the L.A.W. Buffalo meeting that Thomas Stevens—currently crossing India on his round-the-world bicycle tour—was hired to promote a particular bicycle make, affirming that Stevens rides as Outing's special correspondent with all expenses paid exclusively by that magazine and full freedom of machine choice.
• The Colorado Wheel Club Race Meet.

  The Colorado Wheel Club's three-day annual meeting at Denver drew about 2,000 spectators, with Sid Eastwood winning the five-mile State championship and the $200 Porteous medal donated by Denver jeweller H. S. Porteous, while W. A. Marsh of Cheyenne claimed several handicap victories; visitors attended from Salt Lake, Cheyenne and Colorado Springs.
• Caught on the Fly by Dame Rumor.

  Short gossip column by 'Old Inquisitive' lampooning the New York Times reporter whose Roseville tournament account had eight of nine race results wrong—including crediting Hendee with a 15:52 five-mile win when the actual time was 14:41.2—and touching on club personalities Parker, Laughing Jones, Rich and Scorcher Hawkins of Brooklyn.
• The City on the Bluffs.

  Letter from 'Southerner' in Memphis reporting that the local cycling club has a large active membership and a new lap track under construction, that Tennessee's L.A.W. roster has grown from 40 to 70 members, and that news has just arrived of Rhodes securing the one-hour world record at Springfield with 21 miles 534 yards on a Victor bicycle.
• Road Races at Boston.

  The Massachusetts Bicycle Club announces its annual road races for October 16th: a 30-mile open event with a $50 gold-medal first prize (revolver second, rat-trap pedals third), a 13.5-mile club bicycle race with a silver cup donated by Pope Mfg. Co., and a 12.5-mile club tricycle race with an Overman Wheel Company lantern as second prize, refereed by H. W. Williams.
• From Adrian Mich., to New York.

  Tour narrative by 'The Kid' recounting a bicycle journey with I. H. Finch from Adrian, Michigan to New York City in August 1886 via Canada—crossing at Detroit, riding through Ontario to Toronto, then Niagara and the Mohawk Valley to Albany—covering nearly 1,000 miles by cyclometer despite sandy roads, border customs delays, repeated rain and a broken spoke from a horse kick.
• From Boston to Cape Ann and Newburyport.

  Charles Richard Dodge announces a four-day league tricycle tour departing Copley Square on October 14th, routing through Magnolia, Gloucester (visiting Rafe's Chasm, Norman's Woe reef, and 'Round the Cape') and Newburyport, with no scorching promised and the aim of equal numbers of lady and gentleman participants.
• Fixtures.

  Calendar of upcoming events: the Ixion Bicycle Club's Grand One Day's Meet at Roseville on October 16th, and the Inter-Club Road Racing Association's 25-mile road race at Roseville on November 2nd.