The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 8, No 12
Articles in this issue
- Front-page run of editorial paragraphs: the C.T.C.'s 17,700 members, Thomas Stevens passing through Munich, John S. Prince and W. J. Morgan at Louisville, West Shore Railroad rates and free Niagara Falls trips for wheelmen bound for the L.A.W. Buffalo meet, and the Kings County Wheelmen's moonlight parade and annual spring races at Williamsburgh.
- Report of the four-mile amateur championship decided at the Manhattan A.C. grounds on June 13th, won by A. B. Rich in 14:02 ahead of Louis Kolb (14:13) and E. A. Hoffman, with E. P. Baird stopping after struggling on the turns.
- Boston letter from 'C.S.H.' on a roasting Sunday run to North Scituate Beach, Dr. W. G. Kendall's series of short Sunday tours, New Englanders' pride in their road riders, and an anecdote of a local professional training all night on the Boston Common bicycle track.
- Manager Burley B. Ayers' arrangements for the Big Four Tour and the full rosters of its Chicago, Buffalo, New York and Boston divisions (twenty-five riders each), including a special trip of the steamer Norseman across Lake Ontario to Coburg.
- English results: Howell beats Wood for the one-mile professional championship at Wolverhampton, the racing Illston brothers, the Brixton B.C. one-mile and five-mile handicaps at Crystal Palace, and Sanders Sellers' five-mile scratch win at the Barrow Cycling Club sports.
- Editorial notice of the 'Church' cyclometer, sole agents Chas. F. Terhune & Co. of 194 Broadway, which registers distance through eight cog wheels with no balls or springs and shows miles, fifties and thousands on a watch-like dial.
- B. W. Doughty and C. A. Ludlow's 101-mile tour from Jamaica to Greenport, Long Island, on June 13th, with fine roads through Babylon and Patchogue but eight miles of sand to walk before reaching Riverhead and Greenport in fourteen hours.
- Letter from Frank H. Clark of Cheyenne, Wyoming, arguing the L.A.W. should abandon the four-A's sweeping amateur definition (which makes a paid ball player a 'professional bicycler') and adopt a rule based on motive specific to cycling.
- Correspondent 'L.B.G.' praises the level Western roads, names local riders Nicholson, Grant Bell and L.A.W. state counsel S. H. Heath, and credits transportation chairman B. B. Ayres with routing his Yale wheel safely over a 1,300-mile journey.
- Results of a two-day meet at which N. H. Van Sicklen swept the five-, three- and one-mile scratch events, William Woodside beat John Brooks in the professional races, S. P. Hollingsworth took the one-mile state championship, and Prince Wells of Louisville gave fancy-riding exhibitions.
- Organization and election notes for the Union County Wheelmen, the Wheeling (W. Va.) Wheelmen, the Toledo B.C., the St. Louis Ramblers and the Masillon (Ohio) B.C., several voting to join the L.A.W. in a body.
- Calendar of forthcoming fixtures and closing-of-entries dates, from the Kings County Wheelmen's June 20 meet and the L.A.W. Buffalo meet (July 2-3) through the Big Four Tour to the Springfield B.C. tournament in September.
- Report of the Indianapolis B.C.'s annual meet at the Fair Grounds on June 8th, with N. H. Van Sicklen winning several scratch events, John Brooks taking the professional mile over Woodside, and E. A. Battison the half-mile tricycle.
- A two-'chapter' humorous editorial item revealing that Charles R. Zacharias of the Newark firm Zacharias & Smith had married Miss Adelaide Marsh at Newark, N.J., on June 10th, 1885.