The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 3, No 6
Articles in this issue
- Editorial notes crediting Charles E. Pratt as the paper's anonymous contributor, criticising Kingman N. Putnam's hasty double resignation from the L.A.W. corresponding secretary and membership posts, suggesting Burley B. Ayers of Chicago as successor, and advocating the formation of state leagues.
- Club notes from the Rochester Bicycle Club, which has opened a fully equipped gymnasium and rink, and the Champion City Bicycle Club of Springfield, Ohio, which claims the state's first 100-mile run in 24 hours and reports a header suffered by its secretary.
- A signed appeal from John W. Thompson and F. T. Wilson inviting wheelmen to Wheelmen's Day, November 29th, at the National Bazaar for the Garfield Monument Fund in Washington, with a parade, a Presidential review and races on White House grounds managed by the Capital Bicycle Club.
- Report on what is called the first club road race near New York, run on election day by Ixion Club members from 59th Street to Yonkers; Frank Howard won the fifteen-mile course in 1h 13m, with W. R. Pitman second and B. G. Sanford third over rough roads and a headwind.
- The Boston judges' ruling, signed by Samuel A. Green, Luther F. Townsend and Charles E. Pratt, awarding the Pope Manufacturing Co. prizes for clergy essays on 'The Bicycle for Ministers' to Revs. S. L. Gracey, M. D. Buell, H. F. Titus and N. P. Gilman.
- An account, signed 'Lady Tricyclist,' of a thirteen-machine New Haven tricycle turnout on October 23rd — including an American Roadster, a Ladies Sociable and a Single Victoria — with a race among three roadsters and growing interest among local ladies.
- Reprinted from The 'Cyclist, a report of the Fifty Miles Amateur Road Championship of Ireland in Phoenix Park, won in mud and gales by W. M. Woodside of Coleraine in 4h 14m 20s after a broken machine forced a remount, ahead of R. Berry.
- Editor Fred Jenkins's rebuttal to Bicycling World editor Wm. E. Gilman, denying that the Pope Manufacturing Co. owns or controls The Wheel and explaining the disputed stenographic report of the L.A.W. officers' meeting and A. S. Parsons's role in it.
- Wheelmen's letters including a Haverhill, Mass. report of a record 169-mile club run by Webb, Smith and Cogswell of the Lawrence Bicycle Club, a Cleveland Bicycle Club annual meeting and race programme, a Farmdale, Kentucky rider's account of returning to an Expert from English machines, and a Springfield note on measuring tracks three feet from the pole.
- A letter signed 'A Massachusetts Man' rejecting the Bicycling World's claims of bitterness between the Massachusetts and Boston bicycle clubs and denying that the Pope Manufacturing Company or Colonel Pope exerts any influence over the Massachusetts club.
- A humorous account, with a funeral ode and dirge supplied by the Ixion Bicycle Club, of wheelmen gathering to bid farewell to the old cycling landmark at 791 Fifth Avenue before it gives way to a grocery store.
- Report of the joint Manhattan Athletic Club and Moseley Harriers meeting at the Polo Grounds, where L. E. Myers beat W. G. George in the half-mile (1m 56 3-5s) and E. A. Thompson won the three-mile handicap, with W. R. Pitman second.
- A column of pointed rhetorical questions aimed at the Bicycling World and Captain Hodges over the Lallement patent's 'money and bluff,' the Ixion road race, and other League and trade matters.
- Standing B.T.C. notice giving membership terms through Chief Consul Frank Weston of Savin Hill, Boston, and listing new applicants including E. C. Hodges, Frank Egan, B. G. Sanford and others from Boston, Camden and Washington.
- The L.A.W. directory of the Board of Officers (President W. H. Miller, Vice-President A. S. Parsons, and others) and standing committees, with a notice that candidate lists and league matters will now be furnished to The Wheel as well as the official organ.