The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 4, No 13
Articles in this issue
- The Racing Board lists upcoming sanctioned meetings, including the Boston and Newton Club races at Beacon Park (June 30) and July 4th races at Williamsport, Cazenovia, Springfield, Lawrence, Cobleskill, Louisville and Montrose.
- Lists the many railroads — Baltimore & Ohio, Grand Trunk, Michigan Central and dozens more — that carry bicycles free in baggage cars for ticketed owners, with transportation charges and B. B. Ayers's warning that baggagemen who force wheelmen to pay are committing a 'steal.'
- The Racing Board's adopted code (effective June 1) defining amateur eligibility, foul riding, false starts, championship and handicap conditions, and naming Fred Jenkins official Handicapper at $1 per race.
- Companion regulations specifying the duties of race-meeting officers — Clerk of the Course, Starter, Scorer, three Time-keepers, three Judges and Referee — and the rules for starting signals, the finish thread, and inner-ground access.
- Correspondent 'Oliver' reports the Capital Club's two-day meeting in Washington (June 11-12) on a rain-soaked track, with J. M. Borden taking the five-mile club championship, Frank Howard of New York shining from scratch, J. S. Prince winning the professional heats over H. W. Higham, and a banquet at the Riggs House.
- Department on the racing season and the Racing Board's sanctioning policy, with result summaries from meets at Blossburg, Moorestown, Ann Arbor, Lancaster, Detroit (Perry Doolittle winning) and Baltimore, plus the Kings County Wheelmen's first annual meeting at the Williamsburgh Athletic Club, Brooklyn.
- Reprinted from The Day, an account of the ten-mile Maryland championship around Druid Hill Lake won by J. Day Flack in 38:31½ on an Expert Columbia after R. F. Foster's 55-inch Rudge strained his foot; Flack received a $35 Maltese-cross medal from president Edward A. Griffith, and the piece notes New York opening Central Park to bicyclists.
- Untitled gossip column on New York riders — Pitman, 'Ye President' Egan awaiting English machines, Esterbrook's first medal at the Sons of St. George games, Schuyler's new 64-inch American Club, Ducker stirring excitement over the Springfield September meet, and a joke about the Seventh Regiment forming a bicycle cavalry under Campanini or Karl Kron.
- Leading editorial urging the League's twenty-four elected Chief Consuls to work rather than criticise the organisation in the press — appointing local consuls, stencilling roads and naming League hotels — now that every League office, from President down, means real work.
- Chief Consul C. H. Wilkins calls a meeting for July 3 at the Hotel Windsor, Manchester, to adopt by-laws, elect a secretary and treasurer, and fix the Second Annual Meet of the New Hampshire Division, L. A. W.
- President N. Malon Beckwith announces that the Park Commissioners have granted League members permission to ride the West Drive of Central Park before 9 a.m. and Riverside Drive at set hours, with passes issued only to League men bearing the President's signature.
- Club-news department reporting newly organized clubs: the Emporia (Kansas) wheelmen under W. R. Irwin, the Trojan Wheelmen of Troy, the Columbia Wheelmen of Stockport meeting in Joshua Reynolds's music-room, the Williamsport Wheel Club, and the Union Bi. Club of Brockton, Mass.
- Sixteen members of the Citizens Club take a yacht excursion aboard the schooner 'Triton' down New York Bay to Bay Ridge at S. C. Griggs Jr.'s invitation, with playful nicknames for all aboard ('Official Organ' Jenkins, 'Central Park' Bourne), lunch below, shore sports, and an evening of song.
- A correspondence letter from Geo. Sanderson, Jr. of Scranton recommending the scenic thirty-four-mile shale-road run from Port Jervis down the Delaware to Bushkill, past Milford and Dingman's Ferry, with an option to push on to the Delaware Water Gap.
- Philadelphia correspondent 'Ninon Neckar' reports the founding of the Pennsylvania State Division at the Columbia Riding School, Horticultural Hall, with the American Star Club out in force, Victor Haldeman of Marietta and Fred McOwen of Philadelphia elected secretary and treasurer, and reflections on how division dues will affect national League finances.
- News-squib department noting 102 new applications, the circulation of Mail Vote 2, the Michigan Division's committee appointments, C. H. Smith's 52-mile return run from Howell, the Canadian Wheelmen's Association first Meet at London, Ont. (July 2), and club log books and July 4 race meetings at Rochester, Fostoria and elsewhere.
- A Washington Chronicle editorial, reprinted, praising the races at Moxley's grounds under Moxley and Smith as inspiring and refined, ranking bicycle racing above horse-racing and the prize-ring, and urging the clergy and public to attend such wholesome amusements.