The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 9, No 4
Articles in this issue
- A cabled report that the hundred-mile road race for "Kangaroo" safety bicycles, held Saturday Oct. 17th, was won in 6h 39m 5s, a world's record displacing George Smith's mark in the Rover Safety Race.
- Special correspondence covering the two-day Chicago tournament where W. F. Knapp, N. H. Van Sicklen, S. G. Whittaker and R. A. Neilson took the chief events, with notes on Geo. E. Weber's fall and Neilson breaking the American professional ten-mile record.
- Brief reports of bicycle races at Pottstown, Pa. (won by Wilhelm of Reading), the Delaware championship at Wilmington (H. H. Curtis), a Terre Haute, Ind. handicap, and a ten-mile road race at Wakefield, Mass. won by Fred Patch.
- Springfield record-breaking by A. O. McGarrett (two miles no-hands), Fred Brown (quarter-mile), and Wm. A. Rowe of Lynn, who set world amateur marks at the mile and half-mile on a Columbia.
- Wm. A. Rowe, paced by Adams, McGarrett, Brown and Illston, covered twenty miles in 58m 20s and 20 1/4 miles in the hour at Springfield on Oct. 19th, with a table comparing his times to the previous best records.
- A humorous signed letter ("Citizen") describing the Citizens Club's rainy New York reception of twelve visiting Massachusetts wheelmen, with runs through Orange and Tarrytown and praise for President Williams.
- An indignant editorial attacking the English Cyclist for doubting and disparaging the Springfield meet records, defending Kluge, Furnivall and the timing against charges of fraud, with support quoted from the Bulletin.
- A column of short news items on clubs and riders, including the Nashville B. C., Fred Russ Cook's San Francisco welcome, the Leipsic international meet won by G. Lacy Hillier, and a fatal Malden bicycle accident.
- Press notices of The Wheel's enlargement to twelve pages, reprinting barbed comment from the Springfield Wheelmen's Gazette and praise from the Sportsman.
- A participant's account of the first "amalgamated" four-day tricycle tour along the Massachusetts North Shore, organized by Miss Minnie Smith of Outing, with the Stalls, Haynes and Bassetts among the party.
- Club news and officer elections for the Bloomsburg, Cincinnati, Detroit, Elizabeth, Harvard College, Pilot, Puritan, Toledo, Waterbury and Wayside Wheelmen.
- Boston-area notes on the Boston Club's Corey Hill climbing contest (Hendee, Munger, Williams entered), Rowe's record work at Springfield, and the dispute over the Boston Herald's claims about the 1886 League meet.
- Preview of the Massachusetts Club's Japanese lantern parade and of attempts by Munger, Ives, Rhodes and McCurdy on the 24-hour road record.
- Results of the second day of the Omaha Wheel Club's meet, with Blackmore, Hitchcock and Gordon winning chief events, plus notes on a Worcester road race and Herbert Clarke's Canadian mile record at Woodstock.
- Short personal items on riders and clubs, including W. M. Rogers of Omaha, Col. Albert A. Pope's recovery, the Massachusetts B. C. sparring class, a Lynn Cycle Club entertainment, and entries for Boston's hill-climbing contest.