The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 8, No 7
Articles in this issue
- A column of short news squibs: the Surrey B.C. meet drew 9,000, North Carolina bars cyclists from its turnpikes, W. B. Everett & Co.'s Singer catalogue appears, and the St. Louis Ramblers and Memphis tournament programmes are given.
- A Boston correspondent ("C. S. H.") reports the Massachusetts Club voting unanimously to stay in the L.A.W., the Coventry Machinists Co. opening a Boston agency under H. W. Gaskell, and training news for the Cambridge B.C.'s Memorial Day fifty-mile road race.
- Reprints the National Cyclists' Union's newly adopted definition of an amateur and its explanatory clauses spelling out how a rider forfeits amateur status by racing, pacemaking, selling prizes or taking trade money.
- A humorous essay on the road dog as the wheelman's natural enemy, recounting cyclists' experiments with ammonia, dynamite-laced meatballs and meat scraps as "dog exterminators."
- Preview of the Yale Bicycle Club's two-day tournament at the Hamilton Park half-mile track, New Haven, June 5-6, listing events including the 25-mile L.A.W. championship and the 20-mile Pope Cup, with prizes such as Damascus shotguns and silver timers.
- Report on the South's first grand tournament, held by the Memphis Bicycle Club at Cycle Club Park on May 1, 2 and 4, where S. G. Whittaker and P. W. Stone dominated and W. M. Woodside walked over the five-mile professional; a financial failure despite good racing.
- A satirical poem clipped from Wheel Life mocking publisher Harry Etherington of Wheeling and his persistent claim to "the lead" among the English cycling papers.
- F. A. Elwell of Portland announces a Maine touring trip to Moosehead Lake, Bangor and Mt. Desert, running July 17-28 from Boston at a cost of $35, with a Pine Tree Wheel Club tournament and ball at Bangor.
- "The Tramp" reports the Brattleboro 'Cycle Club's annual meeting and new officers (president J. W. Drown), captain Reid's home-made home trainer, and the cycling boom at Bellows Falls.
- A department combining a fixtures calendar of upcoming race meets and closing-of-entries notices with officer-election reports from the Waltham, Rochester, Bloomingdale (Ill.), Toronto and Berkshire County Wheelmen clubs.