The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 8, No 10
Articles in this issue
- Front-page run of short paragraphs: Indiana's coming road book and Eugene M. Aaron named Secretary-Editor; Thomas Stevens's portrait as the frontispiece of Wheel World's June number; the new fifty-cent L.A.W. initiation fee; North Carolina's law barring wheelmen from its pike roads and the "Moses to lead us out of the wilderness" joke aimed at the Bicycling World; and Karl Kron at West Springfield revising his book "X. Miles on a Bi." for the Springfield Printing Company.
- Continuation of the front-of-book notes: the Manhattan Athletic Club's spring games and the four-mile amateur championship of America, Hendee's announced attempt on the mile record at the Yale B.C. meet, the Kings County Wheelmen's races, and an editorial agreeing with the Cyclist and Athlete that professionals cannot be elevated and should not be admitted to the League despite the Bicycling World editor's campaign.
- A delegates' meeting at Sharon, Pa., forms the "Big 5" Association from clubs in Sharon, Youngstown, Warren and New Castle, with Frank Iddings elected President and F. McCoy Secretary; a summer meet is set for Youngstown, Ohio, on June 24th, with medals by Jens F. Pedersen of New York.
- Detailed account of the Cambridge Bicycle Club's 50-mile Decoration Day road race from Harvard Square out through Medford, Lynn, Salem and Beverly and back, won by E. P. Burnham of the Newton Club on a Victor roadster amid numerous headers; William Rowe retired with a hip injury and L. J. Martel of the Springfield club took the tricycle class, with a postscript on the Massachusetts Club's rainy run to South Natick.
- Boston correspondent's notes signed C. S. H.: the Victor's recent world's records, A. E. Pattison of the Pope Mfg Co. on a western trip, the Massachusetts Club's pending election of color bearers and admission of cycle writer Charles Richard Dodge, fancy riders W. D. Wilmot (back from San Francisco) and George Hutchinson, Gaskell's imported Coventry mechanics, a trial of the new Columbia light roadster, and the Boston Bicycle Club's visit to E. J. Smith.
- The Ixion B.C.'s 50-mile road race from the club house at 4 East 60th Street up Fifth Avenue to a point above Tarrytown and back for the Valleau Cup, won by P. M. Harris in 4h 51m 26s, with W. D. Da Camera second and Francis Thayer third; B. G. Sanford succumbed at Break Neck Hill and the untrained E. S. Robinson fainted from exhaustion.
- The Citizens Club and Long Island Wheelmen's joint Decoration Day run of 54 riders, led by Captains Simeon Ford and Arthur W. Guy, from New York over McComb's Dam Bridge through Fordham and Kingsbridge to dine at the Getty House in Yonkers (meeting Chief Consul E. F. Hill), returning via the Croton Aqueduct path to a "Teutonic feed" at the Citizens' Club House.
- The Manchester (N.H.) B.C.'s annual spring races at the driving park on Memorial Day before about 500 people: a half-mile won by F. M. Noyes, the one-mile by N. K. Noyes in 3:43, and a five-mile handicap by Moses Sheriff from scratch in 20:40, followed by a baseball game.
- At Hampden Park on May 30th a muddy track turned Hendee from the mile to the half, which he rode in 1:17 2/5 to beat Sanders Sellers' world's record; F. R. Brown set American "Safety" records (mile in 3:06 2/5) and, with C. H. Miller, tandem records, while C. B. Ripley, A. O. McGarrett and D. E. Hunter took other events.
- The St. Louis Ramblers' spring meet of May 23rd, with fast times from N. H. Van Sicklen of Chicago (2:55 1/2) and Cola E. Stone of St. Louis (2:46 3/4); Stone took the one-mile best-of-three and the half-mile heats, George Webber won the three-mile scratch in 9:29 3/4 and the five-mile, and Van Sicklen the 3:15-class mile.
- The Capital Bicycle Club's spring meet at Athletic Park, Washington, D.C., on May 25th, where the young W. E. Christ won four of his five events including the five-mile club championship in 18:37 and a two-mile scratch; B. W. Hanna, riding with a sprained ankle, took the one-mile D.C. championship in 3:00.
- The fourth annual meet of the League of Essex County Wheelmen at Beverly, Mass., on May 30th—its largest yet, with over 150 wheels from clubs including the Lynn Cycle Club (36), Salem and the Thorndikes, paraded under I. Elmer Wood; Frank A. Winship was elected president at the annual meeting.
- The standing calendar of forthcoming race meets, tours and championships from June to September 1885, including the Yale B.C. meet, the National Association championships at New York, the L.A.W. sixth annual meet at Buffalo (July 2-3), the Big Four Tour, and the Springfield Bi. Club's September tournament.
- Brief club news of officer elections: the Marblehead (Mass.) B.C. under George Chinn, a newly organized Westfield, Mass. club under E. A. Herrick, the East Saginaw (Mich.) B.C. under Theo. Huss, and a new fourteen-wheel club at Portsmouth, O., under F. M. Smith.