The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 2, No 21
Articles in this issue
- A wide-ranging editorial miscellany: the united club run to Long Branch by the Essex, Germantown, New York, and Manhattan clubs; Gideon's fast five-mile time at Philadelphia and a 3m. 8s. mile from the West; a plea for accurate race timekeeping; LAW consul and representative elections; and Woodside's wins at the West of England Meet.
- Race reports from England and America: John Keene defeats George W. Waller in a ten-mile match at Newcastle-upon-Tyne (won by a foot in 37m. 53.5s.); the Keystone Bicycle Club annual races at Allegheny, Pa., where George Grundy wins the mile championship in 3.32; H. L. Cortis sets a new one-mile record of 2m. 41.6s. at the Wanderers' Surbiton meet; and R. F. Foster wins a ten-mile race at Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, in 26m. 36s.
- G. Lacy Hillier (reprinted from Midland Athletic) gives a detailed training guide for competitive cyclists, emphasising short sharp pace-work over endurance, twice-daily track sessions of spurts and paddling, proper rub-downs with Elliman's Embrocation, and equipment tips such as riding a machine one to two inches inside full stretch with long cranks.
- The full text of the League of American Wheelmen racing rules as amended at the annual meeting of May 30, 1882: nineteen rules covering amateur eligibility, false entries, machine choice, standstill starts, passing, foul riding, championship heats, and handicaps, signed by the Racing Committee of E. C. Hodges, A. A. Hathaway, and Clymer White.
- Further race reports: Louisville's meeting where C. H. Jenkins sets a 3.08 outdoor cinder-track mile record; Gideon defeating Wm. Smith and lowering American records at Belmont Driving Park, Philadelphia; the American Athletic Club games in New York (Pitman and Thompson); a rain-soaked Williamsburg three-mile handicap; and the Staten Island Athletic Club's fourth annual championship games.
- A report from Syracuse, N.Y., on the case of the Pope Manufacturing Company of Boston vs. McKee & Harrington of New York: Judge Wallace upheld the injunction restraining the defendants from making bicycles in infringement of the Lallement patent, and imposed a fine for their violation of it.
- A wry letter from John W. Ehringer, enrolled as a bicycle club member against his wishes despite never having ridden, asking the paper to stop sending him cycling literature.
- Standing notice from Chief Consul Frank W. Weston describing the B.T.C. as the international organization of amateur wheelmen and inviting American riders to join its four-thousand-strong membership roll; annual fee is 62.5 cents plus a silver badge, with applications sent to Weston at Savin Hill, Dorchester, Boston.
- A note from the Staten Island Bicycle Club: no formal run this week, an Essex Bicycle Club invitation to the annual Long Branch run, and St. Mark's Hotel at New Brighton adopted as the club's headquarters for meets and runs.
- A brief schedule of club activities: weekly Wednesday runs of the Lenox Bicycle Club, Saturday 4 p.m. runs of the Manhattan Bicycle Club, and notice that a fifty-mile bicycle race is planned for September.
- Frank W. Weston, B.T.C. Chief Consul, announces the American cyclists' tour of England departing July 22: the party rides from Bradford to Coventry via Harrogate, Leeds, Sheffield, Mansfield, and Leicester, attending the Sixth Annual North of England Meet at Harrogate, with round-trip first-cabin passage and rail included for under 160 dollars.