Official Bulletin and Scrap Book of the League of American Wheelmen, Vol 19, No 2
Articles in this issue
- Editor Abbot Bassett's lead scrap-book column notes the great men born in February and the old bicycle clubs founded that month (Boston, Massachusetts, Capitol, Fitchburg, Buffalo), salutes Vice-President H. W. Bullard's fifty years of married life and fifty years with the Poughkeepsie Iron Foundry, and reports Theodore F. Merseles leaving the L. A. W. vice-presidency for the presidency of Montgomery Ward Co. in Chicago.
- The Monday Dining Club of Boston marked the 34th anniversary of Abbot Bassett's election as Secretary-Editor of the L. A. W. on Jan. 17, 1887, with healths drunk in coffee owing to Prohibition.
- At the Boston Bicycle Club's annual meeting and dinner at the Boston City Club on Jan. 12, John Rush Green was elected president, Augustus Nickerson secretary-treasurer, and Walter G. Hendall captain for the 34th time.
- Veteran swindler Dr. Sidney A. Matthews, who in 1919 falsely claimed L. A. W. founding credentials while promoting a bogus National Touring Club of America, was sentenced by Judge Aldrich to five years in the Atlanta penitentiary and a $1000 fine.
- A new body, the Amateur Bicycle League of America, was formed at a New York meeting Dec. 23 by nine Metropolitan clubs withdrawing from the National Cycling Association, with D. J. McIntyre elected president and over 100 amateur cyclists registered; Geo. C. Dresser describes its plan to control all U.S. amateur racing and affiliate with the A. A. U.
- Notes the Veteran Association's annual reunion and dinner at Ceriani's on Monday evening, Jan. 24, which the monthly Bulletin could not report in time.
- The C. R. C. A. re-elected nearly all its 1920 officers, with Harry B. Hall as president, L. A. Fraysse first vice-president, A. L. Everard second vice-president, Clinton B. Walker treasurer and C. F. Nylander secretary.
- At the Nov. 15 meeting the Brooklyn club elected Theodore V. Hall president, Alfred O. Lake vice-president and chairman, Clarence Seward treasurer, John J. Riley secretary, and Paddy E. Kane captain.
- A historical column on 1884 cycling events: the Cyclists Touring Club's American Branch tour around the Hub in September (Capt. Louis Harrison tourmaster), Hendee beating Sanders Sellers at New Haven, Wm. A. Rowe's emergence at Saugus, and the Boston Bicycle Club's 100-mile road race to Newburyport won by George Webber.
- A reprinted sermon by "Jack Frost" extolling winter cycling as a cure for cold feet and a better nervine than medicine, urging riders to use their legs and ankles and ride with proper form rather than huddle in fetid street cars.
- Sets the 1921 National Assembly representation by state from the Dec. 1, 1920 membership (New York 8, Mass. 7, Penn. 6; 45 in all), with February nominations and a March election ahead of the Assembly meeting Sept. 8.