The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 6, No 25
Articles in this issue
- A wandering front-page gossip column on racing personalities and the N.Y. State Division meet at Albany, quoting R. Howell's boastful letter to the Leicester Athlete, ribbing "Pit" (Huss) over his State Tricycle Championship, championing Fred Jenkins as the only man fit to do L.A.W. handicapping, and joking about Belva Lockwood as a tricycle-riding presidential candidate.
- Profile of New York athletic furnisher Ira Perego, who about two years earlier began stocking high-grade wheelmen's shirts, hose and jerseys, became official outfitter to many clubs, and takes an annual European trip in search of novelties.
- Brief club item reporting the fifth annual election of the Nashville (Tenn.) Bicycle Club on September 9, with A. E. Howell elected President, A. J. Dyas Jr. Vice-President, J. R. Dortch Secretary and Treasurer, and J. B. Burdett Captain.
- Full results of the joint Philadelphia, Germantown and Pennsylvania Bicycle Clubs meeting at the Gentlemen's Driving Park, where Kohler won the twenty-mile Pope Challenge Cup over Ebert and Schaeffer, Dolph took the open three-mile and one-mile races, and Dampman narrowly won the five-mile Pennsylvania State Championship in 18.5½.
- Account of the first day's racing at Island Park on the Hudson on September 10, where S. Sellers of England (fresh from his 2.39 mile record at Hartford) won the half-mile, A. B. Rich of Staten Island took the five-mile L.A.W. N.Y. State Championship in 17m. 44⅗s., and W. R. Pitman beat Clarence Howland of Akron in the two-mile tricycle.
- The rain-ruined second day of the Albany meet on a muddy track: C. E. Titchener won the One Mile L.A.W. State Championship in 3m. 30½s., Will R. Pitman the One Mile Tricycle L.A.W. State Championship in 4m. 55s., and C. H. Ross took the Albany Club one-mile and the Ten Mile Handicap.
- Report (signed "The Tramp") of the B.C.C.'s first annual races at the Windham County Trotting Park on August 16, with C. L. Sherman winning the three-mile club championship and the Childs medal (given by A. W. Childs, local Pope Mfg. Co. agent) and Alexander of Leyden, Mass. taking the two-mile open in 7.34.
- A letter from Karl Kron (Washington Square, N.Y., Sept. 8) noting the coincidence of a Finnish student named Kaarlo Krohn collecting folk songs in Esthonia, and reporting that his subscription list for "Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle" now totals 1,855 after only 25 new subscribers that week.
- A first-person riding log (signed H. S. W.) of a 96-mile July 4th run from Frankford, Philadelphia to the Jersey City Ferry via Trenton, Somerville and Newark, averaging 8.8 miles per hour despite fog, headwind and heavy rain near Bound Brook.
- Lead editorial rebutting the Spirit of the Times' insistence that bicycle races be timed from the flash of the starting pistol rather than its report, arguing that the rider faces away from the starter and relies on the report, and that with the pistol within ten feet of the timers the difference (about 1/120th of a second) makes the objection absurd.
- Minutes of the New York State Division, L.A.W. meeting at the Albany Bi. Club on September 10, where Chief Consul Beckwith resigned and J. R. Torrance of Troy was elected 48–21 over E. K. Hill of Peekskill, Dr. A. G. Coleman was chosen Vice-Consul, B. G. Sanford re-elected Secretary, and Hill's Constitution and By-Laws adopted without debate.
- Report of an L.A.W. officers' meeting at the Colonnade Hotel after the Philadelphia races, where Corresponding Secretary Alley reported 1,301 applications since the League year began (led by New York with 223), Treasurer Terry announced a balance of $2,086.40, and Col. Sanderson proposed organising the League parade by Division.
- Correspondent "Jonah" reports the Elizabeth (N.J.) Wheelmen's growth from ten to thirty-one members since April, A. S. Roorbach's 2,000-plus miles since opening day, and an 86.6-mile Mt. Holly-to-Elizabeth ride by Chief Consul Brown and Roorbach.
- News notes covering Dolph's 2.41 mile at Hartford as proof he can match his New London record, praise for the Hartford races as the best-managed event of the year, complaints about League hotel rates at Albany, Karl Kron's planned ride from Newark to Springfield, and Dolph's endorsement of the Rudge racer as the fastest machine in the market.