The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 9, No 5
Articles in this issue
- Alfred A. McCurdy of Dorchester, Mass. raises the American 24-hour bicycle road record to 255½ miles over the Faneuil House course at Brighton, despite an early header collision near Newton that loosened his teeth and forced him onto beef tea; the trial was judged by Freelon Morris of the Boston Club and C. S. Howard of The Globe.
- L. D. Munger of Detroit, riding a 57-inch Apollo, leaves the Faneuil House on Tuesday afternoon to beat McCurdy's mark but strains his ankle slipping a pedal near Newton and, after covering about 185 miles, is persuaded by friends to abandon the attempt at Newton Centre.
- Robt. A. Neilson writes to dispute the Wheel correspondent's report of the Chicago Cycle Tournament, denying he rode in a "disgraceful manner" or "wobbled all over the track" and demanding a retraction or he will seek other redress.
- John Williams sets a new American 50-mile tricycle road record of 5h. 27m. on an impromptu Boston course measured by Butcher cyclometers, beating L. J. Martell's previous mark of 6h. 26½m.; Munger and Gideon Haynes, Jr. checked his distance.
- Brooklyn's Park Commissioners, petitioned by wheelmen annoyed at reckless unattached riders, introduce a numbered-badge system and new seasonal rules for Prospect Park restricting cycling to certain pathways and hours and requiring lighted lamps after sundown.
- Gossip column noting M. V. J. Webber's American prizes on show at Ryde, H. O. Duncan's English-style track at Montpellier, the Missouri Wheel Club's planned $10,000 St. Louis clubhouse, and Wm. A. Rowe's intention to settle at Springfield and train under Dr. Sargent.
- Club news department: the Leominster B. C.'s whist and billiard tournaments and the new slates of officers elected by the New Orleans and Nashville bicycle clubs.
- Boston correspondent C.S.H. describes the Massachusetts Bicycle Club's Japanese-and-Chinese lantern parade of some 400 machines, wrecked by hoodlums hurling sticks and stones, climaxing in W. W. Stall's running fight with the mob at Newton street and Columbus avenue.
- C.S.H. on the near-daily breaking of Boston road records and the impending 24-hour attempts by McCurdy and Munger over the Boston Bicycle Club's superb 50-mile circuit, with America's mark then within 25 miles of England's.
- F. F. Ives of Meriden, Ct. and W. A. Rhodes of Dorchester, evenly matched on 58-inch Victors, ride together over the Boston Bicycle Club's 50-mile circuit to cover 241 9/32 miles and finish abreast, both being awarded the new American 24-hour record.
- At the Worcester Bicycle Club's annual road race to Chestnut Hill reservoir, G. D. Putnam leads from start to finish to win the 41-mile event in 3h. 20m. 20s., beating Thos. Midgely's record by seven minutes; Peel was second.
- Eleven riders surmount Brookline's Corey Hill in the Boston Bicycle Club's hill-climbing contest; W. W. Stall on a 54-inch Star takes first bicycle prize in 3m. 24¼s. and J. W. Williams the first tricycle prize, with Abbot Bassett as referee.
- Boston notes from C.S.H.: a ladies' tricycle tour by boat to Gloucester and around Cape Ann, the Waltham Cycle Club voting to join the L. A. W., and Bob Neilson heading to Springfield for more record attempts.
- The Brattleboro Cycle Club's second annual fall race meet at the old Windham County Park, run in cold and raw wind; C. Wm. Schuster and F. T. Reid feature prominently among the winners across the novice, championship and handicap events marked by frequent headers.
- Brattleboro club notes signed "The Tramp" on members' new Star machines and the club's oyster supper at Batchelder's, the "Klub Katerer."
- A second race meet in aid of the John Keen fund at the Lillie Bridge grounds, England, on September 26th, run in a raw cross-wind; G. Lacy Hillier, H. Keen, Fred Cooper and an out-of-condition M. V. J. Webber are among the riders summarized event by event.
- Roundup of race results and gossip from Philadelphia, the Columbia College and University of Pennsylvania games, the Bloomsburg and Cleveland B. C. meets, L. E. Myers's Madison Square Garden benefit and the Camden Club, closing with the Clipper's plea for a "let up" on record-breaking.
- The town of Ryde, Isle of Wight, gives M. V. J. Webber a complimentary banquet at the Royal Pier Hotel honoring his American racing victories, presenting him a locket and toasting the Springfield and Connecticut Bicycle Clubs.
- Wm. A. Rowe, the Lynn shoemaker, lowers the world two- and three-mile records at Springfield (three miles in 8:07 2-5) with Chas. P. Adams and John Illston pacing, while Woodside watched from the judges' stand.
- Springfield Republican account of Woodside lowering all records from 6 to 10 miles (ten miles in 29.12 2-5 on a Columbia, without a pacemaker) and Rowe taking Hendee's three-quarter-mile record in 1m. 55 1-5s.
- William Woodside's 50-mile run at Springfield lowers American records from 5 to 46 miles and establishes an American one-hour professional record of 20 miles 285 yards, though he fails to break the 50-mile mark; Rowe equals Brown's quarter-mile record the same day.
- Short news paragraphs: W. D. Banker reinstated by the L. A. W., George B. Thayer's 500-mile tour through the Connecticut valley, G. E. Bartlett's arrest after running a child down on upper Tenth avenue, and the Eufaula, Ala. B. C.'s first annual race-meet.