The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 3, No 3
Articles in this issue
- Short editorial paragraphs on the Philadelphia bi-centennial meet of 26 October—recommended hotels, the parade route through Fairmount Park, New York club delegations, the Ixion Club's election-day road race to Yonkers, and the pending Central Park case.
- Letters to the editor including Buffalo club news (signed "Que."), Philadelphia meet travel arrangements from Jo. Pennell, L. E. Welle disputing the foul call against him at the Kentucky tournament, and Pittsfield, Mass. race results.
- Correspondent "Cole Day" reports that bicycling is booming in Washington, with the 52-member Capital Club making twice-weekly runs, Dr. H. W. Schooley's standstill championship challenge, and complaints about poor nickel plating on Expert Columbias.
- Correspondent "Chang" argues that nearly every essential of the perfected bicycle—cranks, bearings, suspension wheel, hollow tubes, direct spokes—derives from French and English invention, the rubber-tire suggestion being the lone American contribution.
- A brief editorial appeal asking wheelmen to send the names and addresses of those interested in bicycling so the paper can spread the "Wheel Gospel."
- Editorial rebutting the Bicycling World's charge that The Wheel has become a partisan of the Pope Manufacturing Company, defending Pope's role in the Park case and accusing the World's editor of serving its Beacon Park publishers through anonymous letters such as the "Rhode Island" attack on Charles E. Pratt.
- The Milwaukee Bicycle Club's first race meeting, held at Janesville, Wis. on 4 October, where Parker Sercombe won the one-mile (3:50) and five-mile (22m) dashes and Dickens took the quarter-mile in 55 seconds.
- First annual tournament of the Toronto Bicycle Club at the Exhibition grounds, with J. Dudgeon winning the one-mile dash, Campbell the two-mile club championship, and P. Doolittle of Aylmer the open mile and fancy riding.
- The Boston Ramblers' Bicycle Club—Forbush, Smith, Haskell and Benson—rode 120 miles in 19 hours on Saturday, the longest all-day club run then on record.
- Buckeye Bicycle Club members Krag, Wray, Flowers and Tress rode from Columbus to Chillicothe and back, Wray and Flowers covering some 100 miles to make what the Columbus Times calls the third best run on record.
- The Æolus Wheel Club of Worcester broke the long-distance club record on 5 October, Holland and Midgley riding 136 miles from South Framingham to Ipswich and on to Worcester in 21h 3m.
- Report of England's twenty-five-mile professional championship before 2,000 spectators at the Aylestone Road grounds, Leicester, where F. Wood won on a new 56-inch Humber in 1h 24m 26s, edging Garrard with Howell close up.
- Chief Consul Frank W. Weston calls a meet of the Bicycle Touring Club in America immediately after the Philadelphia races, with a run to Bryn Mawr for supper.
- Notice of the first annual run of Massachusetts L.A.W. members on 21 October from Trinity Square, Boston, with a state branch to be formed at Sharon; signed Fred. S. Pratt, Chief Consul Massachusetts.
- Club notes covering Harvard's new officers, the newly organized Decatur (Ill.) and Valley (Newark, Ohio) clubs, the Scranton Club's entertainment hop with Prof. Kaufman, the Manhattan Club, and ten Citizens' Club men touring Boston and dining with President Arthur.
- A satirical column of pointed questions aimed at the Bicycling World's nom-de-plume editorials, the Citizens' Club's Boston trip, and whether President Pratt enjoyed entertaining President Arthur.
- Announcements of the League of American Wheelmen's annual fall championship races at Beacon Park, Boston on 20 October and the grand Philadelphia bicentennial meet at Fairmount Park on 26 October.
- Standing notices giving membership particulars and fees for the Bicycle Touring Club (apply to Frank Weston, Boston) and the League of American Wheelmen (apply to Kingman N. Putnam, 54 Wall Street).