The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 3, No 1
Articles in this issue
- Opening notes mark the start of Volume III as a weekly, with comments on the pending Park Case, the success of the Springfield races, racing men quitting the path on doctors' advice, and the patent settlement between McKee & Harrington and the Pope Manufacturing Company.
- Four members of the Middletown Bicycle Club (N.Y.) — R. T. Low, W. B. Smith, W. N. Knapp, and H. C. Ogden — recount their tour from Port Jervis through Milford to the Kittatinny House at the Delaware Water Gap, through mud, rain, and warm hospitality.
- A report on the Rockingham Bicycle Club's two-day Portsmouth meet — a 32-mile ride through Newcastle, Rye and Hampton and a marine race between Captain Hazlett and President Philbrock — after which the League of New Hampshire Wheelmen was founded as the first sub-league composed wholly of L.A.W. members; signed Telzah.
- Club notes on the newly organised Meriden Wheel Club (Capt. T. S. Rust), Brooklyn's postponed moonlight run, the Pennsylvania Bicycle Club's dark-brown corduroy uniform and blue-and-old-gold badge, and the Owl Bicycle Club of Bordentown, N.J., which has fitted up a room in Odd Fellows' Hall.
- A race calendar listing the amateur championship of Canada at Montreal, a three-mile heat race at St. Louis by the Missouri Bicycle Club, games at Stenton, Pa., and the Grand Bicycle Meet in Philadelphia on October 26 tied to the city's bicentennial.
- Membership application particulars for the Bicycle Touring Club (a $2.50 fee including silver badge, to Chief Consul Frank Weston of Boston) and the League of American Wheelmen ($1.00 per annum to Secretary Kingman N. Putnam, 54 Wall Street).
- A satirical column of barbed questions about New York club fragmentation, the rivalry of Col. Pope and Capt. Hodges, the Bicycling World's claim to be the L.A.W. organ, and the Park Case.
- A Cleveland letter signed Sol-a-Man reports the Cleveland Bicycle Club's annual meeting, Captain Sholes and H. W. Forward's wheel trip toward Cincinnati (a broken Premier fork forcing a replacement machine to Erie), and V. C. Place's $2,000 wager race at Greenville stopped by the Humane Society.
- A full-page illustration of bicycling in Chicago, furnished by Fairfield & Taylor of Chicago, with no accompanying text in the scan.
- An editorial welcoming Alderman Slade's motion before the Boston Board of Aldermen to lay out a quarter-mile bicycle track on the parade ground of Boston Common at a cost not exceeding $1,500, contrasting Boston's civic openness with New York's obstructive Park Case.
- An editorial recounting a shambolic L.A.W.-sanctioned race at Spring Valley, N.Y., given by the Hackensack Bicycle Club — informal entries, no timekeeper, a dropped crank, and cash offered as a prize — arguing the racing board must appoint regional representatives to enforce League rules.
- Detailed results (from the Republican) of the Springfield Bicycle Club's huge tournament before some 12,000 spectators, with England's amateur champion F. Moore winning the one- and two-mile races over George M. Hendee, John S. Prince taking the twenty-mile, and Mlle. Louise Armaindo of Montreal beating T. W. Eyck in the women's race.
- Report on the Manhattan Athletic Club's fifth annual Fall meeting, in which W. H. Austin overcame E. A. Thomson at scratch in the two-mile handicap and Louis Stearns won a subsequent scrub mile in 3m. 35s.
- Coverage of the New Jersey State Fair races, postponed by rain to September 26th, where V. C. Place dominated the two-mile, half-mile and five-mile events while E. A. Thomson won the mile handicap after Davidson took a cropper in a track hole.
- An account of the Maryland Bicycle Club's annual races at Newington Park, Baltimore, before 2,000 spectators with the Capital Bicycle Club of Washington parading; V. C. Place won the two- and three-mile open events while Arthur B. Harrison beat J. Day Flack for the five-mile club championship.
- Results of the Kentucky Club's races of September 12th, where Charles H. Jenkins dominated, winning the one-mile heats and the ten-mile dash in 40m. 51s. plus a five-mile exhibition against five riders; Ben Johnson of Bardstown won the non-residents' half-mile; signed L'Allegro.
- Report on the Troy Bicycle Club's first annual tournament at Rensselaer Park, with the Albany club joining the parade, Ross winning the two-mile in 8m. 12¼s. and Strait taking the three- and five-mile open events, the latter in 21m. 37s. for a gold medal.
- Frank Moore of Birmingham, England, set new American amateur records in the ten-mile race at Beacon Park, Boston, on September 13th (33m. 34s., beating the records from the sixth through tenth miles), while John S. Prince won the professional five-mile in 17m. 1s.; with criticism of the Springfield timing.
- A reader's letter signed J. O. Pennell suggesting the American B. T. C.'s fall meeting be combined with the Philadelphia bicentennial wheelmen's meet of October 26, followed by a B. T. C. run and supper at Bryn Mawr.