The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 3, No 5
Articles in this issue
- Brief notes record that New York men brought back five medals from the Philadelphia meet, announce upcoming Polo Grounds races including a Myers vs. George half-mile and a mile handicap on November 11th, and detail the Capital club's grand meet of November 29th for the Garfield Monument Fund.
- The B.T.C. announces its annual American meet on Election Day, November 7th, starting from Fifth Avenue and 59th Street under command of Fred G. Bourne for a run to the Peabody House in Yonkers, where dinner and the selection of State consuls will follow.
- Club notes cover Harvard's nineteen-mile hare-and-hound chase through Brighton and Newton, the 154-mile single-day run by Tremont members C. J. Holland and W. L. Jackson, Germantown's record 43 uniformed riders at Philadelphia, the Challenge club's change of secretary, and Utica's 82-mile run to Cooperstown.
- Short editorial replies to readers, including a ruling that the L.A.W. board of officers has fixed three feet as the official measurement of racing tracks.
- A lively first-person account of the Bi-Centennial meet at Fairmount Park, where 482 wheelmen from clubs such as Capital, Germantown, Maryland and Manhattan paraded to dinner at Belmont Mansion (with ex-president Charles E. Pratt and Frank Weston present), followed by a moonlight run to Bryn Mawr for supper.
- Report of the Columbia College Athletic Association's twenty-first field meeting of October 21st, where new rider Kemp beat Gray in 6m. 33 1-5s. after the generous handicapping left scratch man Howard overmatched and out by the first mile.
- Full account of the race programme at the Philadelphia meet before some 3,000 spectators: the Capital club's drill, W. R. Pitman's and E. A. Thomson's mile wins, V. C. Place's five-mile handicap and half-mile League victories, and fancy-riding exhibitions by Rex Smith and Fred Cope.
- Reports the Cleveland Bicycle Club's first fall race meeting at Perkins track, with Collister winning the five-mile club championship, Wetmore and Root taking the mile dash heats, Pugh the half-mile, and Beckwith the consolation race, followed by Wetmore's fancy riding.
- An editorial arguing that six-day go-as-you-please bicycle races cannot draw crowds like the pedestrian contests at Madison Square Garden, since cycling cannot inflict the same visible suffering that excites spectators, and concluding their time has not yet arrived.
- Continuation of the stenographer's report of the L.A.W. fall meeting, with Pratt, Clark, Parsons and others debating the amateur-teacher rule and amendments, state-league funding, Lamson's signboard stencil design, the election of W. R. Pitman, and a committee on bicycle transportation rates on railroads.