Official Bulletin and Scrap Book of the League of American Wheelmen, Vol 18, No 11
Articles in this issue
- Editor Abbot Bassett's lead column for November 1920, opening with Thanksgiving verse and Henry Ward Beecher on Berkshire autumn foliage, then a run of scrap-book items: no American has yet ridden 100 road miles inside five hours (Australia 4h36m, vs. Harry Green's 1902 mark), the proposed Lee Highway memorial from New York to San Francisco, Vito Cestone (L.A.W. no. 918) failing his Boston-to-New York record attempt at Hartford, and Zetta Hills' attempt to cross the English Channel on a float-mounted safety bicycle.
- Account (reprinted from Motorcycle and Bicycle Illustrated of Hartford) of the Old Guard of the Hartford Wheel Club's two-day September run to Camp Greylock at Becket, Mass., stopping at George M. Hendee's Hilltop Manor estate at Suffield; about 50 members attended, with reminiscences from Capt. Charles Wood, Hendee and Charles D. Rice, and athletic events won by Harry Starkie, Fred T. Reid and T. W. Laiman.
- A chronology of 1884 cycling events, including the American Division C.T.C. meet at Poughkeepsie, the U.S. Government's seizure of Cunningham Co. bicycles over unpaid duty on Harvard machines (which wrecked the firm), the Quaker City Club tournament at Philadelphia with wins by Geo. D. Gideon and John S. Prince, and Pope Mfg. Co.'s suit against Overman over the Brown ball-bearing patent.