The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 13, No 3
Articles in this issue
- The editor urges the LAW Board of Officers to put road improvement at the centre of a new progressive policy and to reject the Racing Board's proposal to expel highway road-racers, warning that such a fight would alienate members and repeat the damage of the amateur-question years; a brief rejoinder also disputes the Bicycling World's claim to have first broken the Boston-Chicago road-race story.
- The third annual Ladies' North Shore tricycle tour left Malden, Mass. on October 6th with about 25 riders including W.W. Stall, Abbot Bassett, the Misses Kirkwood, and New York's Eliott Mason and his wife, covering 16½ miles to Beverly and continuing around Cape Ann to Gloucester over a four-day itinerary.
- Seventy-five members of the Wisconsin Division LAW, sixty from the Milwaukee Club plus visitors from Chicago, Wausau, Oshkosh, Sheboygan, and Racine, banqueted at the Hotel Windsor on October 7th under president Frank Bloodgood, then paraded to the Exposition and rode to Whitefish Bay before a next-day run to Waukesha and Delafield.
- The Dorchester Bicycle Club opened its new four-room clubhouse on Adams Street, Harrison Square on October 4th, announcing races for October 15th including a 15-mile championship, and naming Doane, Benson, and Longstreet as its Eastern Road Racing Association team.
- The Maryland Bicycle Club won the ten-mile Citizens Cup team road race at Druid Hill Park on October 7th with 49 points to Baltimore's 38 and Rambler's 30; Kingsland of the Rambler Club crossed the line first in 30:44 — claimed to be a new amateur record — while Whittingham and Griscom of Maryland rode bunched for second.
- The Elizabeth Wheelmen ran a ten-mile handicap over the Irvington course on October 8th; Chandler retired after breaking a spring on his Star machine, and W.H. Caldwell won on actual time in 37 minutes 17½ seconds, with Bowman second and Berry third.
- Frank Carmen of the Cambridgeport Bicycle Club, riding a full-roadster Expert Columbia, won the Eastern Road Club Racing Association's 25-mile race around Newton on October 8th; Beasley of Chelsea was second after his pedal slipped near the finish, and Chelsea led the season standings with 18 points to Dorchester's and Cambridgeport's 17 each.
- A party of Brooklyn wheelmen who rode to Hempstead, L.I. in September organised the Universal Cycling Club, electing Oscar Knapp president and Walter Stanton lieutenant; their first formal run reached Yonkers on October 6th.
- The Poughkeepsie Bicycle Club's meet at the Driving Park on October 6th, after postponement from October 1st, drew 2,000 spectators; C.E. Kluge of Jersey City won the one-mile scratch (2:51) and five-mile lap race, T.W. Roberts took the two-mile handicap and Dutchess County Championship, and the Yonkers Bicycle Club walked over in the team race.
- Bicycle races at Pittsburgh's Interstate Fair on October 3rd saw W.I. Wilhelm of Reading win the half-mile open and five-mile L.A.W. State Championship, P.J. Berlo of Boston take the two-mile lap race, and G.A. Scott win the Pittsburgh Wheelmen's Championship.
- C. Potter of the Surrey B.C. won the club's fifty-mile road race on September 24th, breaking English amateur records at every distance from 28 to 50 miles; complete cumulative and per-mile times are tabulated alongside the previous best marks.
- S.P. Hollingsworth of Russiaville, Ind. and Asa Windle of Lynn (both Columbia team) started a hundred-mile attempt at the Lynn track on October 5th for a $75 Pope Mfg. Co. purse; Windle dropped at three miles, but Hollingsworth — paced by Rowe, Crocker, and McCurdy — set new professional world's records from 51 to 65 miles before retiring at 66, surpassing Dingley's marks.
- The Dennisville Wheelmen's race meet on October 8th: Howard Ludlow of South Dennisville won the one-mile novice in 3:13 2-5, L.A. Howell of Millville took the half-mile dash and one-mile open, and F.W. James won the one-mile Cape May County Championship in 3:06 2-5.
- At the Beretta Club's fifth annual championship at Surbiton on September 22nd, Furnivall won the 20-mile race and continued to break every English amateur bicycle record from 11 to 25 miles (except the 18th, taken by M.V. Cassal), riding 20 miles 675 yards in the hour to beat the previous record by 15 yards.
- A.L. Bower cut English amateur tricycle records from 26 to 50 miles at Crystal Palace on September 26th, riding 18 miles 55 yards in one hour and 35 miles 527 yards in two hours; new and previous records by H.J. Webb are tabulated mile by mile.
- Brooklyn Bicycle Club and Queens A.A.A. open races at the Queens A.A.A. grounds on October 8th: Wm. S.M. Mead won the B.B.C. novice, G.E.D. Todd took the one-mile club championship in 3:25½, and Newton F. Waters of the Brooklyn B.C. won the Queens two-mile handicap in 7:14.
- Touring wheelman C.H.K. writes from the Palmer House in Chicago on October 10th describing the public attention his cycling uniform draws in Dayton, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, and Chicago, contrasting rural stares with the courteous self-restraint of city crowds and the warm welcome of local wheelmen.
- Wide-ranging weekly department: Kluge's amateur comeback at Poughkeepsie, the Victor team at Clarksville Mo. targeting road records, the Columbia team at Atlanta, the Cunard Cycle Co. going into receivership, the Hudson County road race won by C.A. Stenken in a course-record 34:03, W.A. Rowe's aborted hundred-mile attempt, and the Pope Mfg. Co. patent suit demurrer against S.T. Clark & Co. sustained by the Maryland Circuit Court.
- Brooklyn correspondent 'Bon' defends his support for a cycling road to Coney Island but doubts the Park Commission can fund it without outside aid; he also argues the Racing Board's proposed expulsion of highway road-racers from the LAW is too severe and would prove counterproductive, preferring moral persuasion over punitive measures.
- The Baltimore correspondent gives a first-hand account of the Citizens Cup ten-mile team race at Druid Hill Park, describing Kingsland's commanding win in 30:44 and falls by Warrington, Shriver, and Hoover; he also reports on Pope's Baltimore club championship win and previews the Associated Cycle Clubs' fall meet at Arlington Driving Park on October 15th.
- The New Orleans Bicycle Club moved to 178 Baronne Street and elected Edw. A. Shields president; the Louisiana Cycling Club discussed club quarters and launched a scheme to prepare papers on cycling topics at each monthly meeting; the correspondent reveals the first American train-grandstand road race ran from Fairburn to Atlanta in September, won by Harry Durant.
- Minneapolis dispatch on races at Mitchell, Dakota Territory: Percy Stone of St. Louis lost a five-mile challenge to Grant Bell of Minneapolis in 18 minutes, and Prince Wells beat Stone in a quarter-mile dash in 40½ seconds.
- Reprinted from the New York Tribune, this feature describes the growing adoption of tandem tricycling by women in Central Park, drawing on a park officer's observations; it notes the sport is already popular in Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, and Brooklyn, with the Tribune predicting it will soon dominate.
- Connecticut cycling notes from the Stamford–Norwalk district: sewer and water-pipe work has left Stamford's streets impassable for ordinaries while Faciles manage; correspondent 'Art' describes a 25-mile autumn ramble to New Canaan and back via Norwalk on Faciles, and notes a novel crank-driven Star machine built by a local wheelman named Gaylor.
- Drawing on Kühlow's German Trade Review, this survey reports that Germany now has 64 cycle factories employing 1,332 workers and producing roughly 7,000 machines annually — up from half-a-dozen firms three years earlier — while noting that Coventry alone employs more than 15,000, and warning English makers that German and American competition is rising.