The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 9, No 1
Articles in this issue
- Leading editorial marking The Wheel's start of Volume IX with a redesigned paper, urging wheelmen to subscribe rather than share the 'club copy,' with news notes on Howell's record-breaking trials at Springfield and H. D. Corey sailing to study Rudge manufacture in England.
- Report of the Massachusetts Bicycle Club's first series of road races near Boston, where W. A. Rhodes cut twelve minutes off the 50-mile record (3h 32m) over Huntley and Ives, Sabin, Williams and Miller took the shorter events, and A. A. McCurdy raised the 24-hour road record.
- Editorial disputing the twenty-mile-in-the-hour record credited to Burnham at Springfield, arguing Star rider Weber finished well ahead, and reprinting the Bicycling World referee's ruling against Burnham's claim.
- Survey of how the English cycling press received the British wins and fast times at Hartford and Springfield, reprinting jubilant and skeptical extracts from The Cyclist concerning Hendee, Webber, Howell and Wood.
- Rebuttal of the 'Hendee vituperation' in the English press, quoting a hostile Land and Water account of Hendee's and Prince's collapse at the tournaments and defending the conduct of American riders and crowds.
- Two-day meet of the St. Louis Ramblers B.C. on the fair grounds, Sept. 25-26, where W. A. Rowe and S. G. Whittaker dominated and J. S. Prince beat Neilson, while Hendee drew criticism for riding only exhibitions.
- Third annual meet of the Minnesota State Division L.A.W. at Minneapolis, Sept. 22, under the Mercury W.C., with N. H. Van Sicklen of Chicago winning the mile open, the five-mile Northwest championship and the twenty-mile Pope Cup.
- Cold, windy races at Hamilton Park, New Haven, Sept. 23, where A. B. Rich, C. E. Kluge and R. Chambers took the bicycle events and C. M. Ferguson fractured his arm in the club race.
- Inaugural meet of the Pentucket Wheel Club at Kenoza, Mass., with Louis A. Hamman winning the mile open and W. T. Burns the three-mile lap race, though attendance and receipts disappointed.
- Column of short racing items including Cleveland B.C. club championships, Howell's safety-bicycle records at Springfield (mile in 2.43), the Toronto B.C. races, and announcements of coming meets at New Castle, Danbury, Chicago, Omaha and the Pennsylvania State Fair.
- Account of the Citizens B.C.'s thirty-mile road race from 60th Street to Yonkers and back, won in record time (2h 12m 18s) by W. S. Gilson of the Pegasus Wheel Club after favorite Philip Fontaine took a bad header near Brick Church Hill.
- Description of an impromptu concert by the Ixion B.C. Orchestra at their 60th Street club house, where violins, cornets and piano rendered selections from the 'Mikado' and 'Black Hussar' to a packed room after the Citizens road race.
- Obituary of Cola E. Stone, the popular 22-year-old St. Louis Ramblers rider and Kingston-to-Cobourg 100-mile champion, who poisoned himself with arsenic over an unrequited love for model Miss Laura Browning.
- Short paragraphs noting the Massachusetts B.C.'s planned October visit to New York under the Citizens B.C., and mocking the rival paper Wheeling over its editor's puffery of D. J. Canary's fancy-riding exhibition at Hartford.
- Club department listing upcoming race fixtures and entry-closing dates, including the Boston B.C. 100-mile road race, the Olympic A.C. games, and meets at Omaha, Norristown and Chicago.