Capital City Wheelmen Scrapbook (Sacramento)
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- The club meets to ratify the directors' programme: a whist tournament from January 16th, a pool and billiard tournament, a membership contest closing March 15th, open house on Washington's Birthday and the annual banquet.
- The two-month programme of activities is adopted at the clubrooms in the Sacramento Bank Building, Fifth and J Streets; the boxing and wrestling bouts booked to follow were postponed when the unattached boxers failed to appear.
- Buffalo, N. Y.: the Kehir-Goullett and Root-Dawson teams are tied for first at the Arsenal six-day race, nearly two miles ahead of the record after the 27th hour.
- Whist, billiard and pool tournaments and a two-team membership campaign keep the Capital City Wheelmen busy; C. Nehrbass and E. Saschs lead the whist with 140 points to F. Baltz and F. Pearl's 138.
- The Capital City Wheelmen will keep open house at Fifth and J Streets on Washington's Birthday, February 22, with an afternoon entertainment for invited friends.
- More than 200 Sacramentans, including Capital City Wheelmen, Sacramento Athletic Club, Hermitage Club and Dixon Automobile Club members, invade Truckee for snowball fights and baseball in the snow.
- The Capital City Wheelmen's twenty-fifth annual banquet at their rooms over the Sacramento Bank, J. A. Woodson presiding as toastmaster and receiving a gavel made from the decking of the frigate Constitution.
- Seventy-five members eat sauerkraut, hot dogs and Dutch crackers at Fifth and J Streets, the feast paid for by Walter Smith's committee as losers of the membership contest won by Charles Chimson's team.
- The club votes to stage a three-bout boxing exhibition for members and friends, making the fights a regular feature of club evenings after an earlier bout proved a success.
- A three-act "scream" presented by the C. C. W. at the clubrooms on Monday evening, April 17, 1911: two boxing seances, a five-round scrap and a "$5,000 Prize Beauty" under the management of Mike Flynn.
- New York: six riders are hurt at Madison Square Garden, Eddie Root and Menus Bedell forced out, and eight teams are tied for the lead at midnight.
- Entering the last day of the Madison Square Garden six-day, seven teams are tied for first, while Thomas and Stein have dropped out.
- The Bay City Wheelmen take the annual Stockton trophy at the Park Stadium with 18 points to Garden City's 11 and Century's 10, Fred Diver beating Moore of San Jose by a foot in the last heat.
- Garden City Wheelmen beat the New Century team over the San Leandro triangle, ten men riding ten miles each; H. Born of the Bay City Wheelmen won the ten-mile medal.
- Floyd McFarland, De Mara and Jimmy Moran ride paced races abroad ahead of the Paris Grand Prix and the world's paced championships at Rome; Moran beat De Mara by a lap in a tandem-paced match.
- Fred A. Pearl is unanimously elected President of the Capital City Wheelmen at the club's annual high jinks and election of officers.
- Troop B, cavalry, succeeds in organising a Sacramento indoor baseball league, with the troopers to play the clubmen; the page also carries a photograph of the Sacramento Bank's 1915 electrical illumination.
- Sacramento clubs and athletic organisations meet at the Armory to discuss forming an indoor baseball league, the local militiamen among those interested.
- The New Century Wheelmen promote a five-night series of bicycle roller races that will double as Olympiad tryouts for San Francisco riders, with old-time crackerjacks coaxed back into the game.
- Two games at the Old Pavilion: the C. C. W. against the Independents to decide the league's tail-ender, then the Cavalry team against the S. A. C. for first place.
- The Sacramento Athletic Club beats the Capital City Wheelmen 21 to 9 in the first game of a double-header, dropping the Wheelmen to third in the indoor baseball league.
- Joe Williams, a Sacramento boy who played with the Arbuckle team, is revealed as the secretly signed "Mysterious First Baseman."
- The Capital City Wheelmen prepare their annual banquet at the clubrooms for Saturday evening, President Pearl to act as toastmaster.
- Arthur "Muzzy" Williams, a Sacramento infielder lately with the Brooke Realty team, signs to captain the Oroville White Sox and is training with the Portland Northwestern team at Buffalo Park.
- Printed menu and guest list for the Capital City Wheelmen's banquet, naming Judge C. N. Post, Mayor Beard, J. A. Woodson, F. A. Pearl, M. F. Trebilcox and some forty other members.
- Poster and notice for the Agricultural Park meet of Sunday, April 21st, with entries arriving from clubs all over the Coast and two bicycle races added to the motor card.
- The California Associated Cyclists' annual novice race at the Park Stadium, a thirty-mile six-man relay between New Century, Golden City and Bay City, Garden City and Swastika of San Jose and Acme Wheelmen of Oakland.
- Ben Broderick of San Francisco, 25-mile Coast record holder, and "Flying" Frank McGinley of Denver enter the Agricultural Park meet run by the Sacramento Motorcycle Club and Capital City Wheelmen.
- George Schum of Stockton rides two consecutive miles in 59 seconds each in the relay at Agricultural Park, in a high wind, before 1,500 spectators.
- Display banner over a wheelmen's trophy relay report naming New Century and Acme riders including Ohrt and Nelson; the clipping's columns are almost entirely lost in the scan.
- The annual hundred-mile Pierce trophy race on the San Leandro triangle between the New Century Wheelmen of San Francisco, Acme Wheelmen of Oakland and Garden City Wheelmen of San Jose, ten men to a team.
- Wheatland's ball team beats the Capital City Wheelmen for its fourth straight win, Rooney fanning sixteen and three of the visitors' runs coming on errors.
- At the California Associated Cyclists' Golden Gate Park stadium meet Hoffman of the Acme Wheelmen wins both handicaps from scratch and Ernest Ohrt takes the two-mile scratch; a spill injures Spencer, Goddon and Hammitt.
- The clubrooms are repapered and painted, a whist tournament and the monthly socials are revived, and a campaign is begun for twenty-five new members.
- Walter Hammitt and Frank Murray of the New Century Wheelmen ride the century to San Jose and back in 5:42:30, cutting the old 6:06 record; Ernest Ohrt sprained a wrist at Tanforan but finished.
- The Capital City Wheelmen's annual ball at the Tuesday Club house, decorated in the club colours of old gold, garnet and black, with nearly three hundred dancers.
- The Capital City Wheelmen's ball team defeats Courtland; the clipping is pasted beside a second copy of the Hammitt and Murray century record story.
- The New Century Wheelmen win the Claremont, Berg and Lissner trophies, the Pierce cup, the San Jose relay and the Cordes pursuit race; officers are elected and winter arrangements made.
- Joe Fogler of Brooklyn and George Goulet win the Paris six-day, covering 4,467.5 kilometres in 144 hours, ahead of the French pair Duprey and Lapize.
- George Peterson is the unanimous choice for President for 1913 at the annual election at Fifth and J Streets; retiring President Fred Pearl is given a standing vote of thanks.
- The first local meet under Western Federation of Motorcyclists rulings, at Agricultural Park, with entries expected from San Francisco, Oakland, Woodland, Marysville, Chico, Lodi, Stockton and San Jose.
- Over 1,000 motorcyclists are expected for the April 27th State Fair track meet, which will close the two-day Sacramento convention of the Western Federation of Motorcyclists.
- Portraits of H. A. ten Bosch, H. Cameron, C. C. White and C. S. Pixley, the Legislation Committee of the club (newly reorganised as the Capital City Motorcycle Club) working for a state motorcycle bill.
- The first race meet of the newly organised Western Federation of Motorcyclists, ten events, expected to draw upwards of 1,000 out-of-town riders to Agricultural Park.
- Hardy Tompkins wins the championship race and the twenty-mile and makes the day's fastest mile in 54 4-5 seconds on his twin-cylinder Jefferson before 3,500 spectators; George Schumm of Stockton also wins.
- "Frenchie" Quevillon, Pacific Coast sprint marvel, was mascot of the New Century Wheelmen before joining the California Cycling Club at sixteen, racing Percy Lawrence, Art Daggett, Freddie Diver and Tessie Waibel.
- Yreka prepares for the visiting Capital City Wheelmen ball team, for which Manager Duke has arranged a series of two games; the page also lists the events of a club swimming programme.
- Barney Oldfield's bicycle career: Ohio amateur champion in 1895 and 1896, professional from 1897 as team-mate to Fred Titus, winning the two-mile Quill Club Handicap at New York in 1898 before the automobile habit took him.
- Miss Lillian Hauerwas, an educational student, is convinced of the touring value of the motorcycle by Wisconsin scenery and roads.
- Forty-nine cars are entered in the longest road race in California history, finishing at Agricultural Park; drivers include C. P. Soules on a Cadillac and Al Faulkner on a Simplex.
- Sacramento's Fourth of July programme: the morning parade, the Panama-Pacific road race finish at Agricultural Park, auto polo, the "Horribles" and closing fireworks.
- The Capital City Wheelmen's ball team leaves for Yreka, Siskiyou County, for two games; Manager Duke will rely on pitchers Fred Baltz and Frank Boone, with Herb Kuntz catching.
- Motorcycle Policeman Brown and Sheriff Ahern's deputies chase and arrest W. C. Westley and George Feildman on the Upper Stockton road while the big auto race was running.
- The Capital City Motorcycle Club negotiates a September meet after the State Fair closes and hopes to bring Balke, Collins and Armstrong; some 200 machines went on the club's San Jose convention trip.
- The club completes arrangements for a Sacramento to Truckee endurance run on Sunday, August 31, open only to members, with machines of any size admitted.
- The club's printed rules for the endurance run: twenty-five cent entry fee, an efficient muffling device required, riders started in pairs at two-minute intervals from 5 a.m. and free choice of route.
- The Sacramento Motorcycle Club approves a contest between individual riders and club teams on a home-trainer roller device instead of a race track, Captain R. H. Carter to work out the details.
- A north wind blows dust across the home stretch at the Capital City Motorcycle Club's races; the professionals refuse to ride for a $50 purse and their events are struck from the programme.
- Official programme for the Agricultural Park meet of October 5th, with H. A. ten Bosch as referee, W. A. Hubert starter, C. S. Pixley announcer and Judge C. N. Post among the judges.
- The second of three endurance runs for a silver loving cup, two tires and a gold medal, over Sacramento-Jackson-Placerville-Auburn; Will Trapper on an Indian and W. Langley on an Excelsior hold the only perfect scores.
- Paragraph column: motorcycles to replace horses in the Houston police department, an East St. Louis society girl who prefers a motor cycle to an automobile, the Chicago club's two-day Kokomo endurance run, and a fifty-member Tokio club.
- The Capital City Motorcycle club, formerly the Capital City Wheelmen, holds its annual dance at the Tuesday clubhouse on Wednesday evening.
- Kenneth Campbell of The Sacramento Bee's comic verse on the wild ride of Leander Wormwood, broncho-buster, retired, who turned into a ghost on wheels one night in Yolo.
- Dick Wickham takes third in the Oakland Wheelmen's Motorcycle Club 572-mile two-day endurance run, fighting it out to Vallejo with Karslake, Hellemen and Klose.
- Secretary I. R. Cory of the American Power Boat Association's California section writes Commodore Brainard that the Pacific Coast motorboat classic can be held here if enough money is raised for purses.
- Winter sports at Truckee draw big parties from Sacramento, with a magnificent ice palace and new ski and toboggan courses; the half-mile toboggan run is pictured.
- Under an agreement with Chief of Police Johnson, a Capital City Motorcycle Club member arrested for speeding need only show his paid-up dues receipt, the club standing his bail.
- Plans for perhaps the largest motorcycle race meet ever held in the state, on April 19 at the state fair grounds, with prizes for the longest distance ridden to the meet and the largest city delegation.
- The Capital City Motorcycle Club's baseball team opens its season against the Trolley team of Chico, with Mike Pappa captaining the nine and Harry Duke managing from the clubrooms at 531 J Street.
- Over 3,000 watch motorcycle and automobile races at Agricultural Park; the Regal, wrecked on Friday, throws a tire while racing Rube Pattee's Winton Six at about 50 miles an hour.
- Stockton programme for Sunday, March 22, 1914: six races for light, medium and heavy cars, twin and single-cylinder motorcycles and cycle cars, with judges J. M. Keys, La Plata Davis and Peter Dentoni.
- Sacramento Motorcycle Day on the 19th will be a strictly amateur event under the Sacramento Motorcycle Club; the San Francisco club will attend in a body to help make it a success.
- Race Committee chairman Fred Pearl completes the fourteen-event official programme for the club's April 19th meet at the State Agricultural track, where E. Smith will ride in the championship event.
- Sacramento is chosen for the F. A. M. five-mile professional national championship, one of only three awarded in the United States and the only one west of the Rockies this year.
- Charles Balke practises a mile a little under fifty-two seconds at the Fair Grounds, better than 70 miles an hour, as riders tune up for Sunday's Capital City Motorcycle Club meet.
- Bob Perry, winner of the 300-mile Savannah race, is entered for the State Fair course meet; the five-mile professional race will decide the F. A. M. national and Western championship.
- Bob Perry beats Charles Balke for the national championship before upwards of 8,000 at the state fair grounds, the day's only hitch coming from the Federation of American Motorcyclists' rule book.
- Popular prices and a desire for excitement pack over 8,000 into the stands at Agricultural Park for the Capital City Motorcycle Club's meet, where young Fabian is the sensation.
- The club's baseball team is matched with Placerville, and the clubmen plan a run to Placerville; the page also profiles Dutch Fabian, who rode three different machines to a first on a Pope and seconds on an Indian and a Jefferson.
- Baltz shuts out Placerville 9 to 0 for the club's third straight win, only 29 men facing him; catcher De Back leaves in the second inning with his hand laid open by a foul tip.
- The Placerville nine falls 9 to 0 to the Motorcycle Club of Sacramento, which made fourteen hits; costly errors by Myers and Levy account for four of the visitors' runs.
- The club's team wins its fourth straight, 6 to 4 at Dixon, on Danny Wright's pitching and the Rooney brothers' base running, J. Rooney stealing second, third and home in the fifth inning.
- The club team beats Bird's Landing 6 to 2, the home club's first defeat of the season; "Bill" McGee makes three hits in four trips and southpaw Dan Wright allows three scratch hits.
- Seven runs in the seventh break a scoreless tie and the Capital City Motorcyclists beat Yreka 10 to 3; Umpire Sorensen's decisions rouse protest among the local fans and players.
- Fourteen Capital City Motorcycle club riders start the Reno run, eight scoring perfect; the page also pictures the club's baseball team leaving for Roseville and Susanville.
- Printed time schedule and rules for the 325-mile run of July 4th and 5th, 1914: Sacramento to Placerville, Glenbrook, Carson City and Reno on the first day, returning by Truckee and Colfax on the second.
- Leo McCarthy, George McCormick and C. Rust on Indians and Frank Anderson on a Pope score perfect over the 335-mile Sacramento to Reno run; Anderson collided with a six-cylinder automobile between Gold Run and Colfax.
- St. Louis: Ray Creviston of Chicago cuts the world dirt-track mile record twice in two days, to 46 3-5 and then 43 1-5 seconds, a rate of 84 miles an hour, racing against time with no pacemaker.
- The club will decide whether to accept the state fair directors' counter-proposal that it handle a two-day September meet on a percentage rather than a cash basis.
- The club's baseball team travels by automobile to Winters to meet one of Capay Valley's best nines, Danny Wright pitching with Wirts on the receiving end.
- Schedule for California Motorcycle Day at Stockton, September 5-7: F. A. M. convention sessions at Hotel Stockton, banquets, a dealers' and jobbers' convention, an illuminated parade and Sunday swimming races.
- California Motorcycle Day opens at Stockton with the F. A. M. in session and state officers to be elected, a night parade of several thousand machines and a 25-cent dance at Oak Park.
- The Capital City Motorcycle club beats the Winters Giants 12 to 4 for the second time this season, Reese Peck of Broderick pitching and "Ting" Carrigan starring at first base.
- The club's baseball team closes the season with a .304 team batting average; "Billy" McGee leads the regulars, Jim Rooney stole ten bases and southpaw Danny Wright won five straight.
- A new running schedule for the club's annual train excursion to the Truckee snow carnival, leaving Sacramento at 10:30 p.m. on January 23, lets excursionists reach home before the last street cars.
- Printed card for the Turner Hall dance of Wednesday, December 30, music by Roach's Orchestra, with M. J. O'Connell chairman, G. McCormick secretary and Ward H. Smith treasurer.
- The annual Truckee snow carnival trip leaves Sacramento at 9:15 p.m. on Saturday, January 23, arriving at 7 o'clock Sunday morning and putting participants home by midnight Sunday.
- Final arrangements for the annual snow trip: the train leaves at 9:15 p.m., dances two hours at Colfax, reaches Truckee at 7 a.m., and Truckee promises a dog-team race on Sunday morning.
- Sacramento day at the Truckee snow carnival, run by the Capital City Motorcycle club, promises to eclipse any previous California winter-sports event.
- Snow, sun and then a real snowstorm greet the excursionists; Miss Tessie Corson of Sacramento is injured amid the ski jumping, dog races and toboggan trips.
- Jack Hern's Travelers' hotel team scores four in the ninth to beat the Capital City Motorcyclists 7-4 at Fifteenth and G streets; Williams, Pappa and C. Carrigan hit home runs.
- Cameron rides 91.2 miles on half a gallon of gasoline on a twin Indian to win the club's economy contest over the Fruitridge and Perkins road; H. Fical on a Flying Merkel was third.
- Clarence S. Pixley, chief clerk of the state board of education and president of the Capital City Motorcycle club, is arrested by Officer Brown for doing forty-one miles an hour on W street under a speed law he helped frame.
- The club's thousand-dollar race meet of May 2d, its fourth annual spring meet, should attract the fastest men in the motorcycle world, many of whom have wintered on the Pacific Coast.
- Mile time trials feature the club's thousand-dollar meet of May 2d for the first time; the cartoon shows C. S. Pixley starting the boys and "Dutch" Fabian, who rode a factory team at Dodge City.
- Having secured the F. A. M. national convention for July, the club gives the great professional racers a chance to learn the track before the national championship events.
- Local speed-burners practise on the State Fair track for the $1,000 meet and report it in excellent condition; big delegations are expected from San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Fresno and Stockton.
- Bob Perry and Otto Walker head a large field for the Agricultural Park meet, the biggest motorcycle racing card ever planned for Sacramento.
- A mother and daughter plan a transcontinental motorcycle ride; pasted alongside is the report that Freddy Farnell, the 18-year-old Oakland boy who won the Valvoline cup, died of a fractured skull after a spill at the club's Agricultural Park meet.
- State referee F. M. Woodson receives John L. Donovan's letter on the transcontinental dispatch relay; riders will enter Sacramento by the Twelfth street road and run on to Livermore.
- Paul J. C. Smith, "Dare Devil Derkum," arrives with plans for a "Junior Indianapolis Sweepstake" for six miniature automobiles with motorcycle engines capable of over 50 miles an hour.
- Six baby racing cars and their boy drivers will battle over fifty miles at the state fair grounds; Governor Hiram Johnson greets Harry Harts, junior driving champion of the world, at the Capitol.
- Programme for the F. A. M. national convention at Sacramento, July 20-25: an opening smoker and luncheon, two days of session, and an auto and motorcycle trip to Loomis, Newcastle, Penryn and Auburn.
- Albert Hetzel of Los Angeles in a Baby Buick wins Paul Derkum's fifty-mile race in 65 minutes before about 1,500 at the state fair grounds, his fastest mile only 1 minute 6 seconds.
- Otto Link wins the Capital City M. C.'s gold medal for the first member to ride to Lake Tahoe and return, on a 1913 7-horsepower twin Indian, leaving Sacramento at 6 a.m. on May 31 and signing in at the Tallac Hotel.
- Registration and a reception at the Travelers' hotel on July 21, a double business session Thursday, and a basket picnic on an automobile trip into the foothills.
- The government watches the first transcontinental motorcycle relay, leaving the White House on July 19th and ending at the Presidio at 5 a.m. on July 24th; A. Chelini will drive the last lap from Tracy to San Francisco.
- F. A. M. President A. B. Coffman will take charge of the national convention; E. O. Putzman handles the illuminated parade of Saturday, July 24th, open to all riders, with chains, a coaster brake and lamps among the prizes.
- One hundred and seventeen riders will carry President Wilson's message from Washington to the Presidio in relays of three, attempting to beat the train time from New York to San Francisco.
- Nine F. A. M. national championship races plus supporting events at Agricultural Park on July 24th and 25th, following the annual custom of closing the national convention with racing.
- R. Orpinella climbs Sacramento hill out of Placerville through loose crushed rock on a 12 per cent grade; with Frank Murray and Miss Gladys Chance he made the 115-mile round trip in a little over three hours each way.
- The twelfth annual F. A. M. convention opens with registration; Secretary-Treasurer F. G. Gibson of Westboro, Massachusetts, establishes headquarters at the Travelers' Hotel.
- Two business sessions, a swimming party at the Riverside baths and an informal reception for the delegates fill the F. A. M. convention's day, with all riders invited to the meetings.
- The Sacramento chamber of commerce takes the F. A. M. delegates on an all-day automobile trip beginning with a stop at Folsom prison.
- The richest prizes ever hung up at a national meeting draw great riders to the Saturday and Sunday races; entries close Friday at midnight.
- Eight races open the F. A. M. two-day national meet on the mile track, among them the five-mile amateur national championship, the one-mile national amateur and the twenty-five-mile professional national.
- Seven further events complete the F. A. M. national championship meet at Agricultural park, opening with a five-mile novice and a five-mile free-for-all.
- The transcontinental dispatch reaches Sacramento at 12:17 p.m., twenty-three hours and forty-three minutes behind schedule; 200 people watch an eight-second rider change at Thirteenth and M streets in Capitol park.
- Mike Warner fractures his skull when his machine slips and hits a curb on Sixteenth street between G and H, throwing him and his 12-year-old companion Jack.
- William Leuders, national amateur motorcycle champion, breaks his neck at the state fair grounds track when he reaches for his pedalling chain and his machine shoots into the fence; Leggett, riding close by at seventy miles an hour, describes the crash.
- Twenty motorcycles and half a dozen automobiles make the club's annual autumn run to Lime Rock Cave near Clipper Gap, where rope ladders were lowered 60 feet and lunch was served above the American River canyon.
- G. A. Putnam reports the Capital City Motorcycle Club's plans to revive bicycle racing in Sacramento, Fred Pearl arguing that bike races will take the place of motorcycle racing.
- Printed ballot with the votes pencilled in: F. A. Pearl for President, Chris Hansen and J. Sanford for Vice-President, M. F. Trebilcox Secretary, Geo. McCormick Treasurer and A. G. Blair, Emil Fabian and F. A. Anderson for Captain.
- Frank Montgomery of Los Angeles is killed and William Cloudy of San Diego fatally hurt, with Otto Walker of Oakland seriously injured, while trying out machines on the local speedway.
- As part of the cycling revival the club plans an old-fashioned handicap road race for February 27, open to Sacramento county riders only; thirteen members lately rode through snow above Folsom to Placerville.
- The club's first annual handicap bicycle race, postponed from February 27, is set for March 6th at 11 a.m., starting at Twelfth and L Streets and turning at East Lawn Cemetery.
- Bicycle Day at the Golden Gate Park stadium, postponed for rain, revives enthusiasm dead for twenty years; Wilbur Knapp on a high wheel will meet G. C. Hopkins on a safety in a special race.
- Cartoon by Buel on getting ready for the cycling season.
- A large gathering at the clubrooms tries out a number of new roller racers and plans future activities; the adjoining clipping announces a state-wide bicycle meet at the State Fair grounds in early June with a 25-mile relay as its principal event.
- Herman Eggers will ride in Sunday's Bicycle Day parade at Golden Gate Park on the contraption he rode in 1879; Lieutenants Charles Birdsall and Robert Coulter, old California Cycling Club cracks, will race for a gold medal.
- Twenty-four members of the Sacramento Motorcycle Club decide to offer themselves and their machines to Troop B, Cavalry, for dispatch riding and scouting in case of trouble with Mexico.
- After hearing F. B. McKevitt of the Sacramento county highway commission the club passes resolutions endorsing the road bonds and agrees to organise a flying squadron for election day, October 8.
- John Hess of the Capital City Motorcycle Club wins the Federation of American Motorcyclists amateur championships at the mile, two miles, five miles and fifty miles on the Columbus race track.
- The Motorcycle club's whist players beat the Golden Poppy team 1,606 to 1,514 in the Fraternal Whist league, keeping an unbeaten record for the year.
- Sacramento's main party for the Truckee winter sports moves on Sunday, January 21, under the auspices of the Capital City Wheelmen, with reports of plenty of snow in the Sierra.
- The annual New Year's relay race between four-man club teams and a soccer match between the Sacramento All-Stars and a Grass Valley eleven are the day's only sporting events.
- A thousand or more Sacramentans are expected on the club's January 21 excursion to Truckee; the Sciots and the East Side club have already reserved special cars.
- Printed ballot with pencilled tallies: F. M. Woodson, F. Keefe and J. T. Huntoon for President, Otto Link and A. G. Blair for Motorcycle Captain, and H. Henley and E. Hepting for Bicycle Captain.
- The Truckee snow carnival special leaves at 11 p.m. on Saturday, January 20, and may be the largest excursion in the history of the Sacramento Valley, with several hundred berths already reserved.
- The Sacramento pyramid of Sciots joins the Capital City Motorcycle Club's January 21st snow excursion, and more than one train may be required to carry the party.
- The Competition Committee plans a bicycle road race for Washington's Birthday, February 22nd, probably on the lower Sacramento road, and hopes to stage a state bicycle meet under California Associated Cycling Club sanction.
- Officials for the five-mile North Sacramento road race on Washington's birthday: referee F. M. Woodson, starter W. A. Hubert, clerk of the course M. F. Trebilcox, with timers, scorers and flagmen named.
- Twelve teams start the six-day bicycle race at 10:30 tonight; the field includes Reggie McNamara, motor-paced champion Harry Carman and the Ohrt brothers of San Francisco.
- Entries for the club's annual bicycle road race, left with the city's bicycle dealers, close tomorrow night, with twenty or twenty-five riders expected to start on Sunday morning.
- L. Tabor wins the Capital City Motorcycle club's handicap bicycle road race from a handicap of two minutes and thirty seconds.
- Harie B. Nix leaps 53 feet 6 inches from a two-foot platform at better than a mile a minute, beating the former world record for the jump by eleven feet, and rides off unhurt.
- Bicycle racing makes a comeback at Sacramento after nearly fifteen years, nearly 1,000 watching the Capital City M. C.'s card, with the Samson Sieve Grip team of Stockton pictured.
- Entry blank for the race of Sunday, May 13th, 1917, asking each applicant his previous races, distances, handicaps and times.
- Roller races at the Putzman store, where H. Henley rides a half-mile in 30 seconds in the special event; times are also given for Minear, Beath, Orpenilla, Hartman and Roland.
- The dope on the club's endurance and elimination run, starting at the state fair grounds and running by the old Stockton road, the Fruitridge and Upper Stockton roads, at a maintained average of 25 miles an hour.
- Programme for December 15th, 1917: an amateur handicap bicycle road race at 11 a.m. from Broadway and India Street through Old Town, Pacific Beach and Mission Beach, sanctioned by the N. C. A. and C. A. C. C.
- The club's elimination endurance contest is staged over a 21.6-mile course from the Five Mile House to Elk Grove and the Union House by the Stockton boulevard, Elk Grove-Franklin road and Fruit Ridge road.
- The motorcycle and bicycle divisions of the club, led by Eugene Hepting, ride to the pioneer mining ground on the American River between Mormon Island and a hill then named with a racial slur, to try their hand at panning gold.
- Printed ballot with tallies: F. M. Woodson for President, M. F. Trebilcox Secretary, Geo. McCormick Treasurer, A. Rife and O. Link for Captain, and E. Hepting, L. W. Taber, C. Hartman and L. Eaton for Bike Captain.
- Trade-paper account of the December run: the detachment outfits itself with picks, pans, shovels, a coffee pot and a frying pan for the American River diggings between Mormon Island and a hill then named with a racial slur.
- The club opens its 1918 season with a free economy contest at the race track to find the rider covering the greatest mileage on half a gallon of gasoline, in classes of 30 and 50 cubic inches.
- The club's annual rabbit hunt yields about twenty-five old and tough rabbits, so the banquet is cancelled; President "Swede" Murray shot two and his rival Woodson none.
- Printed rules for the May 4 run: one open event for anything on two or three wheels, $2 entry, an efficient muffling device, controls about 25 miles apart and a 25-mile-an-hour schedule with two minutes' leeway.
- Archie Rife and Carl Mankel take a 1917 Harley-Davidson with sidecar the fifty miles from Sacramento to Stockton in 54 minutes, toppling a four-year-old road record.
- Harley-Davidson Enthusiast page bound with the signature sheet by which entrants agreed to the competition committee's rules for the hill climb of Sunday, January 25, 1920.
- The Educational and Competition Committees, meeting at the Hotel Astor in New York on January 5, raise sanction fees for track speed events while leaving road-event fees at $1.
- Official summary of the 1919 race meets, endurance runs and hill climbs, compiled from the records in the office of Competition Chairman W. H. Parsons.
- Ray Eaton takes the professional sprint title, Clarence Carman the paced and Charley Osterritter the amateur; Alfred Goullet and Eddie Madden win the Madison Square Garden six-day, and Anthony Young a roller title.
- Daytona, Florida: L. E. Parkhurst sets certified world records at one, two and five miles and one kilometre, the mile in 34.64 seconds, or 103.1 miles an hour, bringing the record back from Australia.
- A spark near oil or gasoline sets Hiram Cameron's Indian motorcycle agency ablaze in the heart of the Sacramento commercial section, but the motorised fire department saves it.
- Jack Kelly's account of The Bulletin-San Francisco Motorcycle Club's annual run, in which sixteen of the twenty finishers covered the 361 miles in schedule time.
- The Valvoline oil people, through Kimball & Upson, offer a $125 perpetual cup for the fastest time from the Sacramento city limits to Tallac, Lake Tahoe, under rules drawn up by L. S. Upson.
- Humorous column in which Mrs. B'Jinks answers a man doctor's proposal for communal kitchens.
- Stockton: a varied afternoon programme of horse, motorcycle and automobile races, Modesto Maid taking the first event in 2:21 after a dead heat for second between Hanover and Bill Jones.
- The train leaves the Southern Pacific depot at 9:15 p.m., dances two and a half hours at the Hotel Gillen in Colfax and reaches Truckee at 7 a.m. for tobogganing, skating, skiing, sleigh rides, dog-team races, ski jumping and baseball.