The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 3, No 18
Articles in this issue
- Paragraph notes on the failed races at the American Institute—a cold barn-like venue, indifferent advertising, and a 26-hour race that snapped eight under-trained starters down to two finishers—plus remarks on the Prince-Woodside contest, the clubs that turned out, and advice to order new machines before the Spring rush.
- Illustrated profile of W. H. Miller of Columbus, Ohio, President of the League of American Wheelmen and the Buckeye Bicycle Club, covering his cycling career since 1879, his founding of the League of Ohio Wheelmen, his home seven-lap track and rifle range, and his claim to the League's youngest member, his six-year-old.
- Brief notice praising the new illustrated weekly Life! for its excellent drawings and spicy reading matter, and predicting long life for the enterprise.
- A letter signed 'Anti-Star' argues on mechanical grounds that the American Star Bicycle is inferior to the regular high-wheeler—prone to dangerous backward and forward falls on curves and in ruts—and calls its 'safe from headers' advertising misleading, drawing on the Philadelphia meet and the writer's own 600-mile season.
- Report of two events at the Third Avenue building on 26 January 1883: Prince beat Woodside in a 25-mile race for a $400 purse and the championship of America, and W. C. Young of Boston won the 26-hour go-as-you-please with 254 miles over Morgan of Canada's 246, with Harrison, Wilson, Hart, Oliver and Gaizel also starting; Young's mile splits are tabulated.
- Editorial setting out the L.A.W. rules for the March 1st state elections—New York has one Chief Consul and two Representatives to fill—endorsing Capt. N. M. Beckwith for Consul and Dr. A. G. Coleman and C. K. Alley as Representatives, and urging members to return their voting blanks promptly.
- Account of the Kings County Wheelmen's second reception on 26 January at the Brooklyn Bicycle Co. rooms (about 125 couples), with fancy riding by Bloodgood and Hall, a club drill, a League-sanctioned slow race won by Wm. D. Bloodgood, and a galop dedicated to the club by Miss Tennie Hibson; Col. A. A. Pope was among the visitors.
- Official B.T.C. notices: members must renew before the end of March or forfeit membership, a new edition of the Handbook is in preparation (send 1s 6d to Secretary S. A. Anty, Bradford, Yorkshire), and new members H. S. Livingston, W. A. Whiting and Henry W. Williams are forwarded.
- L.A.W. department listing the Board of Officers and standing committees, Treasurer W. V. Gilman's weekly renewal roll (week ending 27 January 1883), and his fraternal Notice to Chief Consuls urging them to recruit live men in their districts.
- A teasing gossip column of rhetorical questions about New York and Boston wheelmen—Col. Pope's entertaining, Capt. Pitman's new Worcester bronzes, J. F. McClure's Washington Square lodgings, the stalled New York League-meet bid, and a surgeon fined $10 for 'furiously riding a tricycle' after outrunning a mounted constable.