The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 8, No 25
Articles in this issue
- Opening editorial paragraphs noting that Fred Jenkins of The Wheel supplied the New York Herald's Hartford/Springfield dispatches, the Citizens' Breakfast Run, the Wheeling (W. Va.) Wheelmen winning the right to ride city streets, the New Castle and Buffalo Ramblers race meets, Hendee's Springfield header, and a call to build a Springfield-style track in New York.
- Club department giving the fixtures calendar (L.E.C.W. at Danvers, Providence B.C. and Buffalo Ramblers tournaments, St. Louis Ramblers and Massachusetts B.C. meets) and closing dates for entries to the St. Louis Ramblers, Buffalo Ramblers and Pentucket Wheel Club races.
- Announces a road race under the Citizens Bicycle Club of New York on September 26 from 59th Street and the Boulevard to Yonkers and back, with gold medals to first and second and entries closing with Simeon Ford or Geo. R. Bidwell.
- Reports the W. W. C.'s initial race meet at Old Oaks Park, Williamsport, Pa., on Sept. 12 before 3000 people, with wins by Ed. Gobi, Geo. E. Weber, N. R. Hubbard and W. O. Mankey.
- Boston correspondence signed C. S. H. defending the League officers' choice of Boston for the 1886 meet, noting the Massachusetts Division reunion at Worcester on Sept. 24, correcting Burnham's Springfield hour run (he did cover 20 miles 135 yards), and giving the Massachusetts club's 50-mile road-race route.
- Detailed report of the second and third days (Sept. 9-10) of the Springfield tournament, including M. J. V. Webber's world-record hour run of 20 miles 635 yards, Fred Wood's record mile, and races among Furnivall, Howell, Rowe, Rich, Kluge and the two Webers.
- Account of the New York State Division meet hosted by the Kings County Wheelmen in Brooklyn, covering the 316-machine parade to Coney Island, the races (A. B. Rich taking several state championships), and the business meeting electing G. R. Bidwell Vice-Consul and E. K. Austin Secretary-Treasurer amid a dispute over the Division's $65 debt to the League.
- Follow-up notes on the Springfield meet, with a points table led by Furnivall, Howell and Rowe, a sympathetic profile of 'American' George E. Weber's hard luck, and praise for newcomer C. E. Kluge of Jersey City and Star rider Joe Powell.
- House notice announcing a new weekly Exchange and Mart column in which advertisements for cycling and sportsmen's goods will be printed at the low rate of one cent per word.
- Report of the Keystone Bicycle Club's third annual tournament at Exposition Park, Pittsburgh, on Sept. 12, with K. A. Pardee of Akron winning the mile dash, two-mile and five-mile events, H. E. Bidwell the half-mile tricycle, and O. T. Atter the fancy-riding exhibition over Frank McGill.
- Prints Supt. Culyer's proposed regulations for bicycle and tricycle riders in Prospect Park, the Parkways and Coney Island Concourse, including registration, numbered badges, lamp and gong requirements, and bans on bugles, fast riding and coasting.