Official Bulletin and Scrap Book of the League of American Wheelmen, Vol 15, No 5
Articles in this issue
- The lead editorial scrap-book column marks the L.A.W.'s May 31, 1880 founding at Newport, with notes that Dr. Charles W. Eliot of Harvard is giving up bicycling owing to auto traffic, the C.T.C.'s annual Manchester meeting under James Lennox, and a French member's mock-indignant 'Heated Reply' on the price of coal.
- Report of the Milwaukee Wheelmen's 32nd annual dinner at the Calumet Club on March 17th, with remarks by Walter Sanger on his English racing championship, Terry Andrae on the Milwaukee-Waukesha road course, and Harry Rogers of Racine, plus telegrams of regret from Cressy L. Morrison and Norton van Sicklen.
- Obituary of Thomas W. Davis, died April 9, 1917 at Peoria, Ill., aged 90, an L.A.W. life member (No. 390) and Chester, England native who began riding at 61 and logged some 142,000 miles, with a bicycle carved on his gravestone.
- A table of American amateur bicycle records (unpaced competition and against-time), listing marks by D. McDougall, J. P. Jacobson, W. Torrence and Parley Giles at Vailsburg, Salt Lake City and Ogden, with an editorial lament for the vanished old-time stars Hendee, Rowe, Windle, Zimmerman and Sanger.
- A letter from L.A.W. president Milo M. Belding, Jr., recounting his Florida winter motorcycling at Palm Beach and a ride to Miami, dismissing reports placing him in Indiana, and looking forward to the September banquet.
- President Belding's official notice appointing Fred D. Irish (Somerville), Alvah G. Fisher (New Haven) and Robert T. Kingsbury (Keene) as the committee to nominate national officers for the next annual election.