The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 4, No 25
Articles in this issue
- Editorial notes on the Springfield tournament's aftermath: the Board of Officers' ruling admitting Star, Facile and Extraordinary machines to League races, the withdrawal of all entrants from the Pope Cup over stringent conditions, and exhibits by Ira Perego and Sam T. Clarke.
- Nine cyclists of Saco and Biddeford, Maine, organized the York County Wheelmen on September 4th, electing Edward Etchells president; reported by secretary J. V. Dennett.
- Official list (No. 38, total 61) of new League of American Wheelmen applicants by division and club across Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York and Ohio.
- Supplementary official list of fifteen League membership renewals across the New York, Massachusetts, Chicago and Pennsylvania clubs.
- First-hand report of the three-day Springfield Bicycle Club meet, including the camp and parade and full results such as Hendee's ten-mile championship over England's A. H. Robinson and the twenty-mile horse-versus-bicycle relay won by the wheelmen.
- H. S. Wood, chairman of the Pennsylvania Division's Committee on Constitution and By-Laws, asks other state divisions to share rule improvements before the committee's October 1st report.
- Peoria Bicycle Club secretary H. G. Rouse publishes an anonymous tip that E. Keller of Logansport, Ind., is a professional racing under false amateur colors, inviting Keller to vindicate himself.
- Account of "Andy" and the "Consul" riding a 100-mile century in one day across Long Island from Hempstead to Greenport, much of it over deep sand, claimed as a record for the route.
- "Ninon Neckar" of Philadelphia condemns the Pennsylvania Division for barring unattached non-League riders from its meet, contrasting it with New York's inclusive national meet that recruited 1,300 members.
- F. M. Gilxey complains that League consuls and railway-tariff information proved meagre and unreliable when planning a tour of central New York; the editor asks him to name the delinquent consuls.
- W. M. Pratt, consul for Brockton, defends separate Star-machine races at Springfield, Brockton and Chicago, arguing they bar the Star from no other event and help popularize it.
- Chief Consul Stephen Terry announces five newly appointed Connecticut L. A. W. consuls for New Haven, Stamford, Bridgeport, Hartford and Meriden.
- H. M. Arnold of Corry, Pa., recounts touring on his American Star from Chautauqua Lake to Erie and back, defending the Star against crank-riders' prejudice.
- A. G. Powell describes a locomotive engineer and fireman helping him carry his Victor tricycle atop the coal tender after no baggage car at Chestnut Hill could fit it.
- Editorial crediting the Springfield Bicycle Club and president Henry E. Ducker for the meet's success, noting one dealer alone took over three hundred machine orders as a result.
- Club notes correcting the spelling of Danbury's Pahquioque club, recording officer elections at the Lehigh University and Rutland clubs, and describing the Whirling Wheelmen of Maryland's new gold badge.
- Room-by-room description of the La Fayette Wheelmen's new club-house on Druid Hill Avenue, from its basement wheel-room to parlor, reading-room and twenty-four lockers, with the club now twenty-two strong.
- Medina (Ohio) Bicycle Club secretary Blake Hendrickson regrets his judges barring an American Star from the club's races, noting a separate Star race then covered a mile in 3:11, faster than any crank machine that day.