The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 9, No 9
Articles in this issue
- Wide-ranging department of short news notes covering L.A.W. hotel and division news, Thanksgiving Day runs across the country, international racing results including a North of France championship at Longchamps, commentary on the Bulletin's financial claims about The Wheel, and club doings from New York to Texas.
- The U.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illinois decided in favor of Pope Manufacturing Company against T. B. Jefferey, awarding damages, costs, and a permanent injunction in a long-pending bicycle patent case.
- W. H. Huntley of the Nonantum Club of Newton covered 257 1/16 miles in 24 hours on a 54-inch Rudge light roadster, bettering McCurdy's record under cold, dark, and rutted-road conditions with pacemakers including L. H. Frost and Jack Vivian.
- L. D. Munger, captain of the Detroit Bicycle Club, completed 259 13/16 miles in 24 hours on a 57-inch Apollo — his fourth attempt within three weeks — despite a bandaged knee and near-freezing temperatures, with pacemakers including A. A. McCurdy and Charles A. Martin.
- A correspondent (L.A.W. 6778, Columbus, Ga.) reports on the Eufaula, Alabama B.C. races held under the East Alabama Fair Association on November 5–6, criticising the judging and the clubs' preference for novelty events over open racing, and describing the poor state of Southern roads.
- Geo. M. Hendee attempted the 100-mile bicycle record at Springfield on November 11, setting American records at multiple intermediate distances before stopping at 93 miles from weakness, with times certified by referee C. S. Fiske and timers from the Bicycling World.
- Thomas Stevens, on his around-the-world bicycle journey under the auspices of Outing Magazine, describes riding before the Shah of Persia in Teheran — demonstrating his Columbia to a crowd of 200 horsemen — and narrowly avoiding a header into a ditch the Shah had just assured him was clear.
- The Kings County Wheelmen held an evening entertainment at their clubrooms at 159 Clymer Street, Brooklyn, featuring vocal duets by the Misses Seibert, banjo solos by James L. Hewlett and Charles H. Simonson, the one-act comedy 'The Two Buzzards,' and dancing until late.
- R. P. Ruck won the first obstacle race ever held in Cleveland at the Olympian Rink, beating J. McTigue, A. E. Douhet, and Walter Collins in eight challenges including carrying bicycles over obstacles, riding down steps, and eating a suspended apple — all four contestants riding Star machines.
- Wheelmen from Newark-area clubs — including the New Jersey Wheelmen, Essex Bicycle Club, Orange Wanderers, and others — met at the Roseville Rink and formed a $10,000 stock company to build a quarter-mile cycling and athletic track on Park Avenue near Roseville, with $7,150 subscribed at the meeting.
- Grant Bell defeated William M. Woodside in their second five-mile race at the Washington Roller Rink on November 17 before nearly 3,000 spectators, finishing in 16m. 45s. total and opening a half-lap gap; Bell rode a Star machine while Woodside rode a conventional crank machine.
- Grant Bell declines Woodside's offer of a head start, citing his two straight victories, and proposes instead to race him even for five miles on a track with raised corners to demonstrate his speed without handicap.
- A comic tale reprinted from Wheeling in which a bicyclist attacked by a coachman on the Great North Road fights back and flees to Naval Volunteer companions on a river, who then recover his impounded bicycle through the disguise of a comrade posing as a minstrel performer in the hostile village.