The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 12, No 21
Articles in this issue
- Detailed account of the Cleveland Bicycle Club's three-day race tournament (August 11–13, 1887) at Athletic Park, featuring W. A. Rowe's 2:30¾ professional mile, victories by A. M. Cushing, A. B. Rich, Fred Foster, and B. Burroughs, and a collision between Banker and Fitch in the two-mile bicycle race that left Fitch unconscious for an hour.
- Summary of the Worcester, Mass. Bicycle Club race meet held August 13 at the Fair Grounds, where J. F. Midgley won the one-mile amateur championship and a two-mile team race was decided between Worcester Club Incorporated, the Clinton Club, and the rival Worcester Club.
- Preview of the New Jersey Cycling and Athletic Association's race meet at Roseville on Saturday, August 20, listing all amateur and professional entries—including Stenken, Midgley, Neilson, Eck, Knapp, and newly arrived Englishman Thomas H. White—with race officers and full event program.
- Calendar of upcoming race meets from August through October 1887, listing events at Lockport, Worcester, Roseville, Melville, Lynn, Hartford, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Louisiana (New Orleans), and Cooperstown for the New York State Division Meet.
- Results from the Fort Schuyler Wheelmen's annual meet at Richfield Springs, N.Y. (August 11), where C. H. Metz of Utica and Wm. Lamb of Southville dominated the open events; Lamb won the five-mile lap race in 19:11½ and the one-mile open, while Becker of Syracuse crashed at the half-mile post in the novice event.
- Correspondence column by 'Jonah' covering New Jersey cycling, including the Roseville meet outlook, G. J. Martin's resignation as Elizabeth Wheelmen captain, enthusiastic praise for Karl Kron's 'Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle,' and a note that King wheel production at Newark is outpacing orders from Saich's shop.
- Column by 'Stylus' from Massachusetts on a cancelled Capital Club tour to Essex that became a trip to Cottage City, the growth of tandem touring around Boston, Cambridge Bicycle Club's newly elected officers, and a lady's novel proposal for a folding sun-canopy for tricycles.
- C. Herbert Diamond announces the sale of the New York Bicycle Company at 38 Park Place to Charles, Lewis M., and Charles M. Irving, who will continue under the same name; Diamond retains the Harlem Bicycle Company at 172 West 124th Street as a renting and repairing specialist.
- Description of the annual British cycling camp at Harrowgate, where 405 riders paraded Monday in a formation of 160 bicycles, 106 safeties, 80 tricycles, 53 tandems, and 2 sociables; a decorated-tent prize went to 'The Japanese Village,' and Singer's Apollo Band performed mounted on a multi-cycle of seven wheel-pairs.
- Regular department with short news items from across the country, including the Gormully & Jeffery team's (Eck, Knapp, Whittaker) arrival at Roseville for training, Prince Wells' ten-mile unicycle ride in 1:59:45, English amateur championships at Birmingham won by Illston and J. H. Adams, and a report on the L. A. W.'s near-insolvent financial statement showing a $362.47 surplus against doubtful receivables.
- Correspondence column by 'Norb.' on Cincinnati-area cycling, covering the Latonia Agricultural Association's first-ever cycle races (August 23 and 27), congratulations to Bryson Burroughs of the Avondales for his Cleveland victories, and criticism of the Cincinnati Bicycle Club's years of inactivity while the Central Club actively promotes a September tournament.
- Feature article with photograph on the New Jersey Wheelmen, organised October 3, 1883, at Oraton Hall in Newark; the club originated the New York and New Jersey Team Road Racing Association and the New Jersey Cycling and Athletic Association, and is noted for extensive road tours throughout the Oranges and southern New York.
- The Wheel's editorial response to a Philadelphia Record article suggesting cyclists should be restricted or expelled from Fairmount Park, arguing that a bicycle rider's road rights are equal to those of any carriage driver and that wheelmen have been more sinned against than sinning.