The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 2, No 26
Articles in this issue
- Signed "Chang," this editorial column corrects an earlier report, arguing the Pope Manufacturing Co. sought a reduced duty on imported steel for its Columbias rather than higher duties on English bicycles, and presses for an end to the $60–$70 premium American riders pay.
- A letter from Albert A. Pope (Boston, Aug. 30, 1882) denying any report that his company urged raising duties on foreign bicycles, stating he appeared before the Tariff Commission for the New York Free Trade Club to seek lower duties on steel and on bicycles.
- Plans for a grand bicycle meet during Philadelphia's bicentennial on Oct. 26, with Fairmount Park thrown open to wheelmen and a new half-mile track laid; the organizing committee, chaired by H. R. Lewis, is named.
- Five Boston Bicycle Club members and guests, led by Capt. W. B. Everett, rode a record 102½-mile run from Northboro to Boston in 12h. 34m. of actual riding time; from the Boston Herald.
- Calendar of September–October 1882 races, including the Maryland Bicycle Club annual races at Newington Park, the Boston club's twenty-mile championship at Beacon Park, and tournaments at Albany, Springfield, Newark, Montreal and Philadelphia.
- Editorial closing Volume II and announcing The Wheel will become a weekly at $1.50 a year, with racing reported under former editor Jenkins and promised typographical changes and occasional illustrations.
- Report of the L.O.W.'s second annual meet at Columbus — a rain-postponed parade, a business session electing H. S. Livingston president, a fancy-drill contest won by W. H. Wetmore of Cuyahoga Falls, and a banquet addressed by Col. Albert A. Pope and Mayor Peters.
- Casts doubt on league champion W. J. Smith's claimed 2m. 56¼s. mile at Ridgeway Park, citing a Mount Holly News account in which E. F. Burns of Smithville beat him for the R. P. medal.
- Club notes from the newly incorporated Kentucky Bicycle Club and its eight-race programme, the Dubuque (Iowa) club's officer elections, and the founding of the first bicycle club in Wyoming Territory at Laramie (members including Bill Nye), with M. C. Barrow president.
- At the Manhattan Athletic Club track, V. C. Place won in 3h. 29m. 11¼s. over B. G. Sanford and Lewis Hamilton after W. J. Smith and A. R. Ives dropped out with cramps; all three finishers beat the best American outdoor track record.
- At the New England State Fair on Sept. 4, English champion Frank Moore won every event easily, with Geo. W. Hendee and A. D. Claflin nearest; the writer protests the growing custom of running long races in heats.
- John O. Prince, giving Louise Armaindo a three-mile start, won the 25-mile match at the Polo Grounds (Sept. 2) in 1h. 38m. 15s. on his 54-inch Yale; a concurrent ten-mile amateur race went to Frank Moore over Edwin Oliver and A. R. Ives.
- Race results from the L.O.W. meet at Columbus (Aug. 29) — events won by D. G. Porter, Robert Knight, Lewis Pease and state champion Frank Lamkin — and the Montreal Bicycle Club's thirteen-event meeting (Sept. 2) won by G. M. Smith, W. G. Ross and F. C. Holden; from the Bicycling World.