The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 8, No 11
Articles in this issue
- Front-page editorial paragraphs ribbing the Western Cyclist for pirating The Wheel and 'Arry Hetherington's Wheeling for lifting its matter, with brief items on Fred Wood's twenty-five-mile English professional championship win, Hendee's record half-mile at Springfield, a Brooklyn "gold band" cycling fiend, and Richard Garvey's new bicycle shop at the Central Park entrance.
- Boston correspondent "C. S. H." reports on plans for a second Lynn-to-Rowley fifty-mile road race for Rowe's benefit, the Big Four tour under Captain Whitney, and a projected English tandem-tricycle tour by Boston Bicycle Club members Hodges, Harrison, Overman and Toombs.
- Report of the Kentucky L.A.W. division meet at Louisville and the Louisville B.C.'s spring race meet (May 30-June 1), with results for Chas. Monsch, J. D. Macauley and Van Overbeke, and Prince Wells's fancy riding exhibition.
- A sentimental tricycling poem by Francis P. Prial in which a wheelman courts a young woman met on the road.
- Report of the Yale College Bicycle Club's race meet at Hamilton Park, New Haven, where George M. Hendee rode a phenomenal 2.39 4-5 mile and Webber, Illston and Ives swept the twenty-five-mile L.A.W. championship setting new amateur records.
- Humorous essay responding to a mother-in-law jest in the Cyclist and Athlete, urging that paper's funny man to leave the worn-out subject alone.
- Letter signed "Cap." defending the accuracy of Denver's fourteen-laps-to-the-mile track times (M. N. Donaldson's first mile in 2.53) and announcing a new surveyed six-lap gravel track and a September race meet.
- Announcement and programme for the third annual C.W.A. meet and races at Woodstock, Ontario, on July 1st, with events open to the world and an invitation to American wheelmen, entries closing June 29th with D. A. White.
- Trade write-up praising Ira Perego's new annual catalogue of cycling outfits and noting his recent appointment as official outfitter to the League of American Wheelmen, at 128 Fulton Street, New York.
- Announcement and full programme for the Fort Schuyler Wheelmen's two-day race meet at the Gentlemen's Riding Park, Utica, N.Y., June 30 and July 1, entries closing June 20th with W. T. Damon.
- Report of the rain-spoiled Illinois L.A.W. division business meeting at Chicago's Le Grand rink on May 30th, where secretary-treasurer Burley B. Ayers reported 265 members and a $78.79 balance and the races had to be postponed.
- Editorial notes and correspondence from W. J. Morgan and timer T. T. Gilmer explaining why Prince will not claim his 2.35 1/4 mile and 1.17 half-mile as records, with a note that the New York Sunday Tribune printed a full Big Four tour prospectus.
- Club department listing forthcoming fixtures and closing dates for entries, including the Kings County Wheelmen meet and the L.A.W. Buffalo meet, with a note on officers elected by the Uhrichsville, Ohio, Wheel Club.