The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 8, No 23
Articles in this issue
- The editor previews the upcoming Hartford and Springfield race tournaments, anticipating fierce competition between American champion George Hendee and the visiting English riders, and predicts records will fall regardless of which side wins.
- Notice of Henry Sturmey's 'Indispensable Handbook to the Safety Bicycle,' an eighty-page Iliffe & Son volume tracing the history and construction of the new safety machines, illustrated and judged well worth the ninepence asked.
- Reviews the Rudge machine's phenomenal season, listing its Bank Holiday wins of the one-, ten-, fifteen- and fifty-mile professional world championships and H. O. Duncan's new quarter- and half-mile records made at Leicester.
- Reviews the September Outing, highlighting Charles Richards Dodge's illustrated paper on the L.A.W. Buffalo meet, Arlo Bates's 'Isle au Haut,' Jay Howe Adams's 'Through the Neck on a Bicycle,' and Violet Lorne's advice to tricycliennes.
- Detailed account of the Connecticut Bicycle Club's tournament at Charter Oak Park, Hartford, covering the one-mile amateur open (won by Percy Furnival of the Beretta C.C. over Hendee), tricycle races, the five-mile professional (R. Howell and Fred Wood of Leicester first and second), and the ten-mile amateur record race (won by R. H. English, North Shields).
- Brief observations from the Hartford meet including praise for fancy rider Canary's tricks, handicapper Dr. N. P. Tyler's work weeding record men from class races, and comments on Fred Russ Cook and Lewis Hamilton.
- Club news including a preview of the Springfield tournament (September 8–10), record attempts by G. D. Gideon and A. G. Powell at the University of Pennsylvania track, and a schedule of upcoming race meets from Troy to Omaha.
- Boston correspondent reports on wet weather ruining planned rides, a visit to Stoddard & Lovering's where Sabin was kept from Hartford by business, and the complimentary supper given to returned Boston club tourists Hodges, Harrison, Overman and Toombs at Hotel Pemberton.
- The editor meets the English racing party arriving on the 'City of Richmond' at Jersey City and profiles each member: Harry Etherington (proprietor of Wheeling), M. V. J. Webber (Isle of Wight, two-mile record holder in 5:30 2-5), R. H. English ('Big Bob', North Shields, one-mile record 2:42), Robert Cripps (Nottingham), A. P. Englehart (Croydon, Kangaroo specialist), R. Sinclair (Vectis), and professional Fred Wood (Leicester).
- Lists the gold and silver medals awarded at the International Inventions' Exhibition to cycle manufacturers, including gold medals to Coventry Machinists Co., Humber & Co., Hillman Herbert & Cooper, and St. George's Engineering Co., with noted dissatisfaction about jury impartiality.
- Full lap-by-lap table of the twenty-mile professional race at Athletic Park, Washington on August 24th, showing records broken from eleven to twenty miles with Brooks and Woodside as the principal competitors.
- Results of the Cleveland Bicycle Club's two-day fall meeting (August 27–28) at which E. F. Landy won the five-mile record race, Cola Stone and W. F. Knapp dead-heated in the two miles, and Clarence Howland set new tricycle records; Collister and Wetmore broke the tandem tricycle record.
- Results of the Worcester Bicycle Club's meeting on August 29th attended by about 6,000 spectators, with F. H. Martin winning the one-mile club race, W. D. Rolston the one-mile open in 3:09, and F. H. Knight the five miles open in 18:23.
- At Leicester on August 17th Fred Wood lowered the quarter-mile record to 40 3-5s and H. O. Duncan (of Montpellier, France) set a new half-mile record of 1:17 3-5 riding on a Rudge; R. H. English also won the three-mile invitation amateur race in 8:39 3-5.
- Miscellany column rebutting Land and Water's jibes about American boasting, noting Francis Murphy's reported adoption of cycling, and reporting Stoddard Lovering & Co.'s new agency for Humber bicycles and tandems alongside Rudge machines, plus results of John S. Prince's post-Cleveland five-mile record attempt (15:20).