Official Bulletin and Scrap Book of the League of American Wheelmen, Vol 18, No 8
Articles in this issue
- Detailed account of the New York L. A. W.'s annual June 1920 motor-and-wheel tour of 385 miles through Adirondack Park, led by tourmaster Chas. J. Obermayer with Abbot Bassett among the party, taking in Saratoga, Lake George, the Lake Placid Club founded by Melvil Dewey, John Brown's grave at North Elba, and Lake Harris.
- Bicycle missionary Charles Fuller Gates of the Cycle Trades of America arranged monthly road races and track meets for Los Angeles, breaking in Hugh K. Hartung of South Pasadena to manage them for the Los Angeles Cycle Jobbers.
- A float in the Indianapolis centennial parade exhibited the development of the bicycle from 1870 to 1920, displaying an 1870 wood velocipede, an 1885 high wheel, an 1886 "Star" high wheel, and two 1920 special models ridden by a girl and a boy.
- The Inter-Club Amateur Cycle Road Racing League of New York City, through president A. R. Jacobson, presented a Westfield-built bicycle to President Wilson at the White House, acknowledged by secretary J. P. Tumulty.
- Presidential candidates Senator Warren G. Harding and Governor James M. Cox give statements endorsing good roads and a national highway system.
- James B. Freeman of St. Louis set a record of 5 hours 24 minutes 50 seconds for the 108.74-mile Olympic distance in the American Olympic team elimination trial at Floral Park, N. J., on July 11, beating A. Neimensky's mark, with John Otto, Ernest Kockler and Carl Stockholm following.
- Fred Taylor of the New York A. C. won the Amateur Bicycle Championship of America by defeating Anthony Young, Willie Beck and Edward Bendi in the five-mile final at the Newark, N. J., velodrome on July 11.
- Geo. C. Dresser describes a 265-mile three-day July 4th tour by C. R. C. A. and Long Island Division members from New York through Bridgeport, Waterbury and Danbury and back to Brooklyn, noting steep hills near Southbury.
- The Century Road Club Association's New York and Long Island Divisions planned a roughly 1000-mile run from New York City to Montreal and back, with competing teams from the Acme Wheelmen, C. R. C. A., Empire City, Long Island and "Little Old New York" clubs, organized by Joe Cauldwell and R. C. Geist.
- Cannonball Baker, formerly a motorcycle record-maker, drove from New York to Chicago in 26 hours 50 minutes, beating the previous 33-hour mark; the column also recounts the 1896 Barnum's Circus car and the first 1900 Madison Square Garden auto show.
- Notice from Secretary-Treasurer Abbot Bassett of the L. A. W. National Assembly's annual meeting and election at the Boston City Club on Thursday evening, September 9, 1920, preceded by a 6 o'clock dinner.