The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 3, No 9
Articles in this issue
- Brief editorial notes on the season's first snow and dismal Thanksgiving-run prospects, the Citizens' Club's new rooms at 2 East Sixtieth Street fitted out for winter, and the Brooklyn Bicycle Club's Thanksgiving-day run from Clinton and Montague streets under Captain W. F. Gullen.
- Portrait and first-person racing autobiography of Geo. D. Gideon of the Germantown Bicycle Club, amateur champion of America at two and five miles, tracing his wins from his first race at the 1880 Delaware State Fair through the 1882 N.A.A.A./L.A.W. championships, on his 58-inch Light Harvard Roadster 'Patience'.
- A long polemical editorial documenting with dated quotations how the rival Bicycling World's coverage of the Pope Manufacturing Company, the Massachusetts Bicycle Club, President Parsons, League president W. H. Miller and The Wheel itself reversed sharply after the Pope firm withdrew its advertising in May 1882.
- Report on the Seventh Regiment's Second Annual Games before four thousand spectators at their armory, where F. E. Davidson fell and broke his pedal in the two-mile bicycle race, leaving John L. Stearns to win in 6:41 2-5 and lap F. C. Thomas, second in 7:07 1-5.
- An editorial rebutting the Bicycling World's campaign urging wheelmen to disregard the Pope Manufacturing Company's patents, noting the same paper advertises dozens of patented English machines on which royalties are paid without protest, and that the patent survived five court contests including the McKee and Harrington suits.
- Charles E. Pratt's concluding essay, reprinted from The Wheelman, on the League of American Wheelmen's legal advocacy in 'test cases' such as the Haddonfield Turnpike and Chicago South Park fights and the pending Central Park appeal, noting Col. Albert A. Pope personally paid $6,711.01 in costs, with a plea for broader membership.
- Rev. S. L. Gracey's plea for clergymen to take up the bicycle as wholesome pastoral exercise that works every muscle and arrives clean at sick-rooms, citing a university professor and a church-paper editor restored to health by regular riding (reprinted from The Christian at Work).