The Bearings, Vol 9, No 12

Articles in this issue

  • After a six-hour executive committee session in New York, President Luscomb telegraphs that the LAW Bulletin office will be established in Chicago, subscriptions will be voluntary, League renewals set at $1 and new applications at $2, with all postal rules now fully complied with.

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  • Zimmerman departs New York on the steamer New York, accompanied by manager Willis B. Troy and George Banker, watched by hundreds of enthusiastic friends from New Jersey and New York clubs who waved from the quay until the vessel was well out to sea.

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  • The New York Athletic Club refuses John S. Johnson's membership application, announcing it will accept only Class A amateur cyclists on its rolls and considers Class B men and professionals ineligible to wear the club's red winged-heel emblem.

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  • Walter Sanger departs Milwaukee for Denver with new trainer Dumbleton, who found him in elegant physical condition; plans for Sanger to train in the south have been dropped, and he may also ride at the Midwinter Fair races in San Francisco.

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  • Boston cyclists plan an elaborate Patriot's Day celebration on April 19 following the route of the British march from Boston to Concord, with a patriotic evening entertainment, illustrated lecture, drum corps, and placards at every historic site along the way.

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  • The Forest Park Road Race Association in St. Louis introduces an innovation: the best time prize winner chooses first from the prize assortment (including up to six high-grade bicycles) before the finishers select in order, with the prize list nearly double last year's.

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