The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 4, No 8
Articles in this issue
- News-and-comment column (signed "Percy") on the approaching Third Annual L.A.W. Meet in New York: over 1,000 wheelmen expected in line, 450 dinner tickets sold, the Cincinnati Club's elaborately embroidered parade flag, King Leopold of Belgium unhorsed by a bicyclist, and the spread of tricycling in London among society figures.
- Illustrated feature on the Pope Manufacturing Company's new Columbia tricycle, praising its automatic compensating differential gear (an American invention credited to Edward Whitehead over Starley), ball bearings at every joint, friction disc brake and finish as the leading American machine for ladies and elderly gentlemen.
- Boston correspondent on clubs heading to the New York Meet (Massachusetts men via the Fall River Line), Woodside lowering Prince's ten-mile record to 31:49, and G. M. Hendee beating Norton in the Harvard mile with Prince barred from the trackside.
- Springfield correspondent "Liggins" on the city's proposed ordinance regulating bicycles, champion G. M. Hendee's training for the June 2nd L.A.W. championship, and the club's first run of the season — 48 men riding nine miles to Holyoke.
- Report of the Columbia College A.A. annual University Games at Mott Haven on May 11th, where R. G. Rood won the two-mile bicycle race in 6:47.5 — a new college record — while C. A. Reed crashed on the last-lap curve.
- Dispatch from Chicago reporting the opening day of a twelve-hours-a-day, six-day championship-of-America race at Battery D armory between Mlle. Louise Armaindo, W. M. Woodside and W. J. Morgan, with Woodside leading on 144 miles after day one.
- Two-mile bicycle race at West New Brighton on May 19th: E. W. Gould Jr. of Elliottsville narrowly beat B. J. Carroll by six inches on a poor, dug-up track, with scratch man C. A. Reed falling again.
- Two-mile bicycle race at the Manhattan A.C. grounds on May 18th: E. A. Thompson of Wilson won in 7:30 after rival Louis Stearns of Everson slowed with a loosening spoke, ending a hoped-for close struggle.
- A second account of the Staten Island A.C. games, dwelling on the badly-mixed scoring (the riders went an extra lap) and C. A. Reed's heavy header on the tenth lap that sent his machine somersaulting over him.
- Harvard races at Beacon Park on May 16th: H. M. Sabin (Newton B.C.) won the five-mile open, G. M. Hendee took the one-mile dash over Elliott Norton, Norton won the three-mile college race, and A. Bigelow won both the half-mile and the college mile.
- Club-and-fixtures department: the race and meet calendar and entry closings, the Binghamton Bi. Club's fifty-mile run down the Susquehanna to Waverly, Chief Consul Pratt's notice on League stencils, the organisation of the Rensselaer County Wheelmen of Troy, and the Decoration Day run to Coney Island.
- Editorial urging the League business meeting to adopt Chief Consul Beckwith's stricter amateur rule (barring only paid teachers) and the eighteen-inch track-measurement standard in place of the League's three-foot rule, noting Springfield's $5,000 quarter-mile track.
- Editorial accusing the Bicycling World of bad faith for promising and then withholding support for the Boston/Massachusetts L.A.W. ticket (E. K. Hill, A. S. Parsons) its own editor had helped nominate, while puffing the opposition slate; the first-nominated ticket won anyway.
- Editorial charging Frank P. Miller of the South Boston Inquirer with plagiarising "A Riverside Incident" (by "Seiah," The Wheel, March 28th) as "A Romance," reprinting the two texts in parallel columns as proof and warning against personal attacks on the editor.
- Chief Consul Llewellyn H. Johnson calls a Decoration Day meeting at Orange to form a New Jersey Division of the L.A.W., with a morning run through Orange and Montclair and dinner at the Mansion House.
- Letter from Chas. G. Wright (and C. Gould) of Philadelphia seeking the best road route between Trenton and Jersey City via Bound Brook for Germantown and Pennsylvania riders wheeling to the New York Meet.
- Standing notice on the C.T.C. (founded 1878 as the B.T.C.) and its ten-thousand-strong international membership and dues, with the Harrogate Meet set for August 6th and the League's hotel appointments at Ann Arbor and Detroit.