The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 6, No 21
Articles in this issue
- Wide-ranging news notes for August 22, 1884, covering the upcoming Philadelphia races, Karl Kron's road-book subscription count reaching 1,709 (including seven from the North Otago Cycling Club of New Zealand), Thomas Stevens's return to New York after crossing the continent, and the Buffalo Bi. Club's Fourth Annual Tournament.
- Boston correspondence dated August 21, 1884, surveying the busy September cycling calendar ahead — the Massachusetts wheelmen reunion, Ramblers Club fall races, and the C. T. C. 'Wheel Around the Hub' — and arguing that social club facilities, not racing alone, will drive long-term growth in American cycling.
- Account of the Rudge Light Roadster, sole-agented in the United States by Stoddard, Lovering & Co. of Boston, praising its ball bearings, Clement Hollow Rim, and tangential spokes and citing championship wins by G. M. Hendee and road records by H. D. Corey and Thomas Midgely; credited to the Springfield Gazette.
- Announcement of the joint Philadelphia, Germantown, and Pennsylvania Bicycle Clubs race meeting at the Gentlemen's Driving Park, Fairmount Park, on September 13, 1884, featuring twelve events including the 20-mile race for the $1,000 Columbia Bicycle Prize Cup; Eugene M. Aaron, chairman.
- Continued humorous travel narrative by Maryland Bicycle Club members touring the mountains of western Maryland, recounting a tall-tale encounter with a bear on the mountainside and diary extracts from June 22–23 describing steep climbs, colorful local characters, and the route from Crabtree's through Cumberland.
- Editorial arguing that League of American Wheelmen representation is distorted because officer elections in March were based on membership figures that have since fallen from roughly 4,300 to about 2,600, and proposing that elections be held in September when membership is at its lowest to put representation on a fair basis.
- Report on the Ohio Division L. A. W. meet at Athletic Park, Cleveland, detailing race results including Asa Dolph's five-mile state championship win in 17m 55½s, C. F. Frazier's victories in the half-mile and three-mile, and an evening entertainment at Euclid Avenue Opera House with drill exhibitions by the Cleveland Bi. Club and the Forest City Club.
- Letter from Karl Kron (Washington Square, N.Y., August 11) reporting 102 new road-book subscribers in one week, bringing total pledges to 1,657, with contributions from the Citizens B. C. of New York, the Brattleboro C. C., Zacharias & Smith of Newark (raising their tally to 71), and a first Swedish pledge from Uddevalla.