The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 6, No 24
Articles in this issue
- English amateur S. Sellers rode a mile in 2m. 39s. at the Connecticut Bicycle Club's tournament at Charter Oak Park, Hartford, on September 9, breaking the world record before 5,000 spectators; E. P. Burnham took the two-mile tricycle, Lewis Hamilton the ten-mile scratch, and J. D. Canary gave a fancy-riding exhibition.
- Results of the Buffalo Bicycle Club's fourth annual tournament at Buffalo Driving Park on August 27, including a two-mile open marred by a crash in which Toronto's C. F. Lavender broke his forearm, and D. N. Milley's three-mile State championship in 10m. 16s.
- Asa Dolph rode a world-record mile of 2m. 40¼s. on a 54-inch Rudge racer at the New London (Ohio) Bicycle Club tournament of September 3–4, also lowering the half-mile record to 1m. 17 1-5s.; other winners included W. F. Knapp and George Collister, and John S. Prince beat the pacing horse Useless.
- A humorous New York correspondent weighs in on the cycling controversies of the day, joking about Egan's "fish story" from the Canadian Wheelman, the Robinson League-medal squabble, and the thankless lot of the race handicapper.
- Report of Chief Consul M. D. Currier's Massachusetts Wheelmen parade of September 5, with about 325 riders to Longwood, Brookline, and the Boston Ramblers' second annual fall race meeting, where D. Edgar Hunter won the 3.25-class mile in 3m. 19 1-8s.
- "A Harlem Wheelman" describes eleven club members parading Harlem streets by night with Chinese lanterns on their handlebars under Captain Powers, following a presentation of club colors by a lady friend.
- Correspondent "Norb" of Covington, Kentucky reports the Hamilton County Agricultural Society's L. A. W.-sanctioned races near Carthage, Ohio on August 22 (winners Rodgers, Myers, Nepper and Pierson) and gossips about Kentucky and Cincinnati wheelmen and H. G. Ellard's fancy riding.
- Concluding installment of a comic Maryland Bicycle Club tour narrative, recounting a mule's antics on the C&O Canal towpath and the final ride through Hagerstown and Frederick to Baltimore, about 240 miles in all, closing with practical touring advice.
- Leading editorial hailing Dolph's New London record and Sellers' faster Hartford mile as proof that American trotting tracks and riders rival England's, crediting the Connecticut Club for the careful conditions and anticipating further records at Albany, Springfield, and New Haven.
- At the Toronto Club races of September 6 the Canadian one- and five-mile records fell; H. Clarke of Woodstock won the open mile in 2m. 59½s. after a re-run granted on H. P. Davies' protest, and W. M. Hunt of the Toronto Wanderers gave a fancy-riding exhibition.
- Karl Kron forwards H. S. Wood's route notes for day-rides between New York and Philadelphia (via Frankford or through Springfield, N. J.) and cites Wood's 215-mile, three-day straightaway record from Staunton, Va. to Columbia, Pa.
- Fred A. Coleman writes to acknowledge a kindly correction from Brattleboro, Vermont, where heavy rain on his arrival kept wheelmen away though residents made the stranger welcome.