The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 6, No 10
Articles in this issue
- Witty front-column gossip on the Missouri Division's League withdrawals, Roland G. Rood quitting the Ixion Club for the Western mining camps, and the Hendee-Frazier-Burnham racing rivalry at the Boston Ramblers' Decoration Day meet.
- "Lewee" reports the Boston Ramblers' Decoration Day races (with full event results and alleged Frazier-Burnham jockeying), the Cunningham Company's customs dispute over imported Bayliss-Thomas machines, and the Cyclists' Touring Club's planned autumn meet.
- "Somnus" describes the Princeton College Bicycle Club's spring riding, a forty-wheel run to New Brunswick, Stearns's win in the college two-mile race, and newly elected officers under Captain C. T. McClumplin.
- Report of the Yale Bicycle Club's wind-swept races at Hamilton Park on May 28, with Hendee winning the one-mile open and Hamilton, Norton, Fiske and Frazier featuring in the college and handicap events.
- The Harvard Bicycle Club's fifth annual meeting on the new Holmes Field track, with Hendee, Eliot Norton and "Star" rider Frazier contesting the invitation, tricycle and five-mile events.
- "Club Snail" reports the roughly twenty-member Phillips Academy (Andover) bicycle club under Captain W. B. Segur, noting racing members Wright, Beckwith and Richards.
- "J. G. D." contributes an epigram, "Suggested by a Late Case," protesting a Boston Sunday-law court ruling that went against a wheelman's road rights.
- A Cortlandt Wheelmen letter recounting the club's slow but steady growth, its officers under Captain D. C. Hasbrouck, and members trading their machines for the Star.
- "J. L. C." reports the disbanding of the old Portland Bicycle Club and the formation of the new Portland Wheel Club under President Charles H. Lamson, plus plans for an "Up the Kennebec" tour.
- "Reflex" describes Wilmot and Sewell's rink exhibitions at Belmont & Hanson's and the Colorado Wheel Club's presentation to them of a bicycle made entirely of natural flowers, with club drill and racing notes.
- "Norb" covers the Cincinnati Wanderers' annual road races at Walnut Hills (Galway and Muhlhauser winning) and a bitter internal split in the Cincinnati Bicycle Club over its captain.
- E. H. Corson reports the results of his cyclometer-mileage guessing contest, with 82 guesses from 16 states, won by Chas. W. Odell of Cazenovia, N.Y.
- C. E. Duryea prescribes daily heel-raising and knee-bending exercises to develop shapely calves for cyclists self-conscious about wearing knee breeches.
- Notice of the Kings County Wheelmen's June 21 race meeting on the Williamsburg Athletic Club's new cinder track, with a 25-mile record attempt expected from Pettus, Frazier and Hall.
- Editorial on the amateur-status controversy, defending Star rider Frazier and champion Hendee against "paid amateur" charges and urging a definite League rule rather than singling out individuals.
- "The Quaker" previews the Quaker City Bicycle Club's three-day race meeting and exposition (June 17-19) at Jumbo Park, describing the new quarter-mile track, lavish prizes, and entries including Prince, Woodside and Frazier.
- An editorial puff for the Fidelity & Casualty Co.'s accident insurance, crediting Secretary Mr. Crane for actively writing cycling policies and citing a $275 payout to a local wheelman.
- "Professional Bicycler" defends professional racers against charges of crooked methods, contrasting their meager American earnings with English salaries and urging class/handicap races with cash prizes.
- A humorous letter from a tiny Danville club of eight or nine "Columbia" riders begging for a "puff," boasting of trick riders and an erratic two-year-old cyclometer.
- Club department carrying a Canandaigua letter from A. G. Coleman reporting the local club's reorganization and joining of the League with 23 members.