Official Bulletin and Scrap Book of the League of American Wheelmen, Vol 17, No 7
Articles in this issue
- Account of the annual three-day tour (June 6-8) of the Nylaw of New York, by then an automobile rather than cycling event, running from Brooklyn through New Jersey to Easton, Penn. and on to the Delaware Water Gap; participants included H. W. Bullard, Wm. M. Frisbie, Dr. L. C. Le Roy and guests Henry Crowther and Abbot Bassett, with the remainder of the story held over to the next issue.
- The Boston Bicycle Club's second annual automobile tour, July 10-13 through the New Hampshire White Mountains (Crawford and Dixville Notches, Bretton Woods, Poland Springs), with Andrew O. McGarrett of Allston receiving communications.
- The Rovers' Cycle Club of Charlestown, Mass. held its thirty-third annual dinner at the Boston City Club on May 17, electing George W. Crampton president and making guest Abbot Bassett an honorary member.
- Reports the exposure of impostors Dr. A. Sydney Matthews of the National Touring Club of America and secretary A. Clarence Dawson, who falsely claimed Matthews helped organize the L. A. W.; the Bulletin warns members that he was never a member.
- Obituary of J. Leo Sauer, late editor and part owner of 'Motorcycle Illustrated,' who was killed by lightning with two companions while sheltering during a storm at Augusta, Ga. on June 8.
- A chronology of early cycling milestones, 1866-1870, before the bicycle: Lallement and Carroll's 1866 velocipede patent later bought by Col. Pope, the Hanlon Brothers' 1868 improved velocipede patent, the 1868 Bangor velocipede races, and Chas. E. Bassett winning the 1869 New England championship at Horticultural Hall.
- Describes the new seven-laps-to-the-mile Providence track at Cranston, dedicated May 30, with a 4,400 seating capacity and detailed dimensions of its stretches, radius and bank angles.
- The Century Road Club Association's annual Spring Ten Mile Handicap Road Race, held May 18 on Pelham Parkway in the Bronx, won by veteran Robert Henderson of the Bay View Wheelmen of Newark; a Dictaphone recording device was used to score the 44 finishers and the CRCA team took the team prize.