The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 9, No 3
Articles in this issue
- Opening news paragraphs covering the Kings County Wheelmen's team road race from Prospect Park to Coney Island on election day, Victor M. Haldeman's Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society races at Philadelphia, the L. E. Myers benefit athletic meeting at Madison Square Garden, and Thomas R. Finley of Smithville being declared a professional and expelled from the League.
- Report of the Omaha Wheel Club's second annual race meet (Oct. 9th), with wins by W. D. Townsend in the novice mile, J. G. Hitchcock in the three-mile open and five-mile lap (for a Gormully & Jeffery American Challenge bicycle), and T. F. Blackman in the half-mile.
- F. F. Ives of Meriden rides 100 miles against time at Hampden Park, Springfield, on October 10th in 6h. 25m. 30s., paced early by W. A. Rhodes of Dorchester, giving America a creditable century record (full mile-by-mile table printed).
- C. S. H.'s Boston letter: the Boston Bicycle Club votes to rejoin the L.A.W. on Jan. 1, 1886; Weber's Boston 100-mile road course is found short at 97 1/2 miles, voiding his record; plus the Massachusetts Club meeting and a four-mile club tricycle road race won by Lambert.
- Second annual race meet of the Norristown, Pa. Bicycle Club at Globe Park, with Joe Powell of Smithville taking the half-mile and three-mile opens, J. E. Gould of Philadelphia the four-minute and two-minute classes, and C. E. Kluge several places.
- Department of short notes and humor: R. H. English's homecoming dinner, the proposed Holborn restaurant banquet toasts for the returning English visitors, the Wheel Life / Tricyclist / Bicycling News merger, Karl Kron's 'X. M. Miles' progress, and a tribute to the late Cola Stone.
- Preview of the Illinois Division's second annual fall meeting under Chief Consul J. O. Blake, with seven state championships at the Chicago Bicycle Track Association grounds and a business meeting at the Briggs House on October 17th.
- Bicycle races on a new park track at Newcastle, Pa. on October 6th, with wins by Brown of Greenville (half-mile open), W. H. Hubbard of Beaver Falls (novice mile), Hedges of Buffalo (mile open) and W. A. Crawford (club championship).
- A secret-route 100-mile road race in England (Sept. 26th) promoted by Starley and Sutton for their 'Rover' safety; George Smith of the Merry Rovers won in 7h. 5m. 10s. and S. Colder set a 50-mile mark of 3h. 5m. 34s., both still behind Weber's American figures.
- T. R. Marriott of Marriott & Cooper rides Land's End to John o'Groats on an M. & C. tricycle in 6 days 15h. 25m., supplanting Lennox's bicycle record and Fletcher's tricycle record.
- Races at the Danbury, Conn. fair (postponed to Oct. 7th by rain) over a heavy track, with O. B. Jackson, George Coburn of Hartford, Ridge Larkin and Ed. DeBlois winning the principal events amid several crashes.
- Ives lowers the 25-mile amateur bicycle record to 1h. 19m. 6 3-5s. at Hampden Park, Springfield, beating V. H. Van Sicklen's American mark; W. A. Rhodes also rode, in 1h. 24m. 30 1/2s.
- Short racing items: R. James's open challenge for a mile race, A. A. McCurdy's 24-hour record, Richard Howell's two-mile world professional tricycle record (6m. 12 2-5s.), the Capital Bicycle Club fall races won by Crist, and H. W. Clarke's 50-mile championship of Canada at Toronto.
- Extracts from Thomas Stevens's October Outing paper describing his bicycle tour through rural England and the Normandy and Brittany countryside, including peasant life, horses shying at his wheel near Dieppe, and an Elbeuf hotel where no one speaks English.
- Editorial contending that the English riders who beat Americans at Hartford and Springfield were makers' amateurs kept on the track at manufacturers' expense, that proamateurism has since spread alarmingly among U.S. cracks, and urging the Racing Board to call a meeting to legislate.
- Humorous sketch signed 'Norb.' contrasting hostile Kentucky reactions (a colonel, a farmer, a lady in a buggy) to wheelmen on the road with the friendly, accommodating Ohio responses in the same situations.
- Miscellaneous notes: Buffalo's many century road-riders, Columbia racers' successes at the St. Louis Ramblers meet, Fred Westbrook of Toronto turning professional, the new Waterbury Wheel Club officers, Joseph Powell's spill, and George Hendee's near-conquest of a St. Louis hill.