The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 8, No 24
Articles in this issue
- Standing notice with instructions to subscribers and contributors, an answer to correspondent T. G. S. that Karl Kron's book is not yet published, and an offer to lend the paper's race-track poster cut to any club.
- Front-page miscellany covering the Brighton B.C. fall run, the new Long Eaton track, an Orange Wanderers Chinese-lantern parade, the N.Y. State Division meet entries, H. M. Walker's Irish 24-hour record, the organizing of the Union County Wheelmen, an English club's comic "Menagerie Race," the postponed Weedsport Bicycle Club race results, and tricycle maintenance and hill-riding tips.
- Report of the first day of the 1885 Springfield, Mass. tournament at Hampden Park, where English visitors Wood, Howell, Cripps, English and Webber smashed records; covers Fred Wood's 2:35 3-5 mile, Hendee's bad fall in the collision with Cola Stone during the ten-mile L.A.W. championship, and the record-breaking English-and-Cripps tandem tricycle.
- Brief results summary of the Springfield tournament's second and third days, including M. J. V. Webber's record ten-mile, twenty-mile and one-hour rides and further wins by Furnivall, Howell and Cripps.
- Trade and club notes distinguishing L. H. Johnson's "Genuine Humber" from Marriott & Cooper's Rudge-built machines, noting Canary's and the English party's sailing for England, and announcing the Montgomery (Ala.) B.C. meet, the "Royal Rollicking Road Races" from Uniontown to Wheeling, the Chicago October track tournament, and a Newark race meet.
- Report of the final day of the Hartford tournament, where English riders Wood, Howell, English and Furnival again beat the Americans; discusses Hendee's absence and the excuses for his earlier defeat, Rowe's and Ives's disqualification for beating 3.00, and Burnham's popular five-mile win.
- Report of the Troy Bicycle Club's tournament at Island Park on Sept. 3 before about 1,200 spectators, with J. R. Rheubottom of Weedsport winning the one-mile open and three-mile record race and A. P. Dunn taking the five-mile club championship, plus a list of the officers of the day.
- Report, compiled from the L.A.W. Bulletin, of the New Jersey division's quietly-held meet at Millville on Aug. 29, dominated by local rider C. S. Stevens with T. R. Finley of Smithville second.
- Humorous editorial mocking a Southern newspaper's recruiting doggerel (the "Melon-patch Observer") that urges Tennesseans to join the League and form a state division.
- Editorial reprinting part of a Wheel Life leader arguing that indiscriminate praise has ruined cycling journalism and calling for a press independent of advertisers offering fair, fearless criticism, a position The Wheel endorses as its own.
- House editorial explaining and defending the paper's 16-page April 3 "special edition" carrying the Big Four Tour map and description, in reply to a contemporary's jibe.
- Department listing race-meet "Fixtures" from Sept. 12 to Oct. 17 (Brooklyn through the Chicago October meet) and the corresponding "Closing of Entries" dates, addresses and fees.