The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 8, No 26
Articles in this issue
- Front-page paragraphs reporting the C.T.C. of England's 20,015 members, Webber's commemorative medal, George R. Bidwell's notice of Frank G. DuBois leaving Bidwell & Co., and entries for the Massachusetts Club's 50-mile road race. Also notes G. Lacy Hiller's Berlin win, Richard Howell's challenge to American riders, T. J. Kirkpatrick's sale of his 'Perfect Hygienic' saddle to the Pope Mfg. Co., the new 'Cyclone' bicycle by Yost & McClure, and the Rowe-Ives handicap protest at Hartford.
- Bicycle events at the Grand Army gala at the State Fair grounds on Sept. 12, where Joe Powell of Smithville won the one-mile open in 3.14 and the three-mile in 10.03, and Howell took the half-mile novices' race.
- English road-rider E. Oxborrow's attempt on his 'Facile' to beat the 24-hour record of 266 1/2 miles, failing by 3 1/2 miles after starting at midnight on Aug. 26.
- R. P. Scott of the Scott Manufacturing Co., Baltimore, exhibits a new vertical-tread 'safety' at Coventry, listing twenty claimed advantages including no dead centres, a very narrow tread, and the rider positioned directly over the work.
- Boston correspondent 'C. S. H.' weighs Rowe against Burnham ahead of the Providence races, disputes whether Burnham covered 20 miles within the hour at Springfield, and previews the Massachusetts Division reunion at Lake Quinsigamond and the Boston Club's 100-mile road race, with reminiscences of old Worcester fair-ground meets and riders Johnson, Moore and Hendee.
- The second annual race meet of the Montgomery, Alabama B. C. on Sept. 16, hailed as the most successful Southern meet yet, with a street parade and wins by C. H. Fryer, T. L. Ingram, and J. M. Horton (one-mile professional championship of the South).
- The Providence B. C.'s tournament at the Rhode Island State Fair on Sept. 22, where Rowe beat Burnham in the one-mile open (2.39 3-4, on a track found 9 ft. short), Buffum won the Rhode Island championship, R. A. Neilson the two-mile professional, and Frank L. Dean of Harvard the college championship.
- J. H. Stevenson's 68-mile road race from Uniontown to Wheeling over the National road on Sept. 15, won by G. W. Beck of Greensburg, followed by a Wheeling parade of 53 wheelmen.
- George M. Hendee's one-mile exhibition at St. Louis, riding the half in 1.15 (a world's record beating English) and the mile in 2.38 3-4, while practicing for the Ramblers' races.
- The third annual meet of the Binghamton B. C. at Riverside Park on Sept. 15, with W. A. Rowe winning the two-mile scratch and five-mile handicap and H. C. Hersey taking the N. Y. State L. A. W. championship.
- The Genesee Bicycle Club's tournament at Rochester on Sept. 17, featuring English cracks Illston, Cripps, Allard and Engleheart; W. F. Knapp surprised in the one-mile open, and N. E. Kaufman set world's records in the professional unicycle race.
- Signed 'Jonah,' an account of five Elizabeth Wheelmen riding to Orange to join the Orange Wanderers' Chinese-lantern parade of nearly two hundred machines, led by white-bearded patriarch Mr. Johnson on a trike.
- Bicycle races at the New Jersey State Fair at Waverly on Sept. 16-18, including J. C. Willever's New Jersey Wheelmen championship and Joe Powell's wins in the three-mile scratch and two-mile open.
- A letter from umpire Joshua Reynolds correcting The Wheel's account of the Harris-Kluge collision at the N. Y. State Division races, insisting the accident was 'unavoidable' and Kluge entirely innocent; the editor appends his disagreement.
- Richard Howell's mile record attempt at Springfield, riding 2.35 2-5 to eclipse Wood's mark by a fifth of a second, coached on the last half by John Brooks.
- Twenty-five 'Down East' tourists reunited at Barr's Hotel, Springfield, on Sept. 11 with supper and toasts from F. A. Elwell, H. E. Ducker, the McAuslans and others.
- Annual races of the League of Essex County wheelmen at Danvers, Mass. on Sept. 19, with Rhodes of Dorchester winning the opening mile and the five-mile, D. E. Hunter the three-mile and championship, and the Lynn club taking the tug of war.
- A revised route for the Citizens Road Race from 60th St. along the Boulevard to Yonkers and back, and word that Colonel A. A. Pope fractured his collar bone when his team ran away while he was driving on Sunday.
- Under 'From the Clubs,' the Berkshire County Wheelmen's benefit at the North Street Rink, Pittsfield on the 15th, drawing over a thousand people and netting $120 profit, with a five-mile skating race and George Nash's fancy bicycle riding; signed 'E. H. K.'
- A fixtures list of forthcoming race meets, including the Massachusetts B. C. and Pentucket Wheel Club meets (Sept. 26), the Boston B. C. 100-mile road race (Oct. 3), and the Chicago October meet.
- Closing dates and conditions for entries to the Pentucket Wheel Club races at Haverhill, the Newcastle B. C. races, and the Chicago October race meet.