The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 6, No 26
Articles in this issue
- Day-by-day report of the four-day Springfield Bicycle Club tournament at Hampden Park, with professional and amateur races from one to ten miles featuring Richard Howell of Manchester, S. Sellers of Manchester, George M. Hendee of Springfield, John S. Prince of Washington, and W. M. Woodside of Chicago. Numerous American records fell, including Prince's mile in 2m. 39s. and Howell's ten-mile professional mark of 30m. 9 2-5s.
- Editorial arguing that 3.20-class races for riders who have never bettered three minutes twenty seconds are being undermined by games committees admitting known faster men, citing winning times well under the limit at Hartford, Albany, and Springfield (2m. 43 2-5s.). It proposes district handicappers and a stopwatch gated at 3.20 to bar offenders from future class races.
- Boston correspondence signed Georgius, listing C.T.C. members including Chief Consul Frank W. Weston and Louis R. Harrison who started the tour around Boston, with notes on the Hamilton, Ontario club's $50 drill competition and S. H. Townsend of Toronto touring through England, Ireland, Scotland, and Germany.
- Toronto club news on 17-year-old H. W. Clark of Woodstock, who beat Davies in a one-mile race in 2.59, and on R. A. Neilson's failed Canadian mile-record attempt (3.10), plus the forfeited five-mile championship match between Neilson and Westbrook and the Wanderers' annual exhibition set for October 10.
- Account of the New Haven Club's wind-blown tournament at Hamilton Park, where Hendee beat Sellers in the open mile race (3m. 1¼s.) before only six hundred spectators; R. Chambers won both the five-mile tricycle handicap (15m. 50s.) and the two-mile handicap, while Sellers took the ten-mile scratch race in 33m. 22½s.
- Humorous essay by Thos. Stevens on transcontinental bicycle touring aboard his Standard Columbia, covering the need for a strong constitution, travelling in light marching order, diet across the Nevada desert and western territories, and why long-distance touring and 'mashing' do not mix.
- Letter from H. F. Fuller of Chicago describing tricycle tours to Geneva Lake, Wisconsin: a 92-mile run with his invalid sister, who gained twelve pounds in five days, and a second outing to Waukesha and Oconomowoc with B. B. Ayers, Secretary of the Illinois Division L.A.W., and other Dearborn Cycling Club members.