The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 8, No 15
Articles in this issue
- Standing front-page notice asking subscribers to report address changes promptly and correspondents to sign contributions confidentially, write on one side of the sheet, and have copy in by Monday morning.
- Column of short editorial paragraphs: Thomas Stevens reported reaching Constantinople, Van Sicklen's win at the League races, the Reading B.C. three-day tournament, the road-improvement agitation around Plainfield, and a plea that Brooklyn's Charles Schwalbach be named to the new League racing board.
- Report of the L.A.W. annual meeting at Buffalo on July 2nd: re-election of Dr. N. Malon Beckwith as President with Stephen Terry as Vice-President and Eugene M. Aaron as Secretary, the treasury and membership figures, the fight over North Carolina's anti-wheelmen law, and adoption of a new definition of an amateur.
- Account of the July 3rd parade of 612 wheelmen over a six-mile Buffalo route led by President Beckwith and the Citizens' B.C., with a full division-by-division roster of the clubs and captains in line.
- Results of the L.A.W./Buffalo B.C. races at the Driving Park before some 3,000 spectators: J.S. Hedge winning the B.B.C. mile championship, E.P. Burnham the mile tricycle, Geo. M. Hendee the mile bicycle championship, and N.H. Van Sicklen the three-mile.
- The Lynn B.C.'s Independence Day race meet on the Common over a course staked at a mile but really five-sixths, with G. Porter winning the one-lap heats and W.A. Rowe the two-lap race over C.E. Whitten.
- Letter from Karl Kron (Washington Square, July 4, 1885) announcing his subscription list for "Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle" has reached 3,000, disproving a Boston editor's prediction that no dollar cycling book could sell 300 copies in America.
- The Fort Schuyler Wheelmen's two-day meet (June 30-July 1) at the Utica Driving Park, with A.B. Rich of Kings County and H.S. Kavanaugh of Cohoes prominent among the winners and C.H. Metz taking the mile championship of Oneida County, though chilly weather kept the crowd small.
- The City of Boston's July 4th races on the Common before thousands on a soft sandy quarter-mile track, where W.A. Rowe won the mile bicycle, R.A. Neilson the three-mile professional over C. Young, and H.A. Rhodes of Dorchester the mile tricycle.
- Correspondent C.S.H.'s lively account of the first two days of the "Big Four" tour from Buffalo through Lancaster and Alden to Batavia, with the tour's gaudy division uniforms, the full tourist roster, the Century Road Race entries, and a day-by-day time table running to New York on July 17.
- A five-mile handicap on the Hampden Park track at Springfield, Mass., on Independence Day, won from scratch on the last lap by Lewis B. Hamilton of Yale College in 15.10.
- Club department carrying the Fixtures calendar of meets and tours through September 1885 (New Jersey Division meet at Orange, Ohio State meet at Springfield, the Springfield B.C. tournament, and others) and the closing dates for entries to the Pine-Tree, Chicago, and Scranton B.C. races.