The Bicycling World, Vol 1, No 17
Articles in this issue
- Short editorial squibs for 26 June 1880: interest in the second English touring party, the Cleveland Bi. C.'s well-attended Saturday runs, and Capt. S. B. Hawley of the Yonkers Bi. C. riding Yonkers to Tarrytown, over 11 miles, in 50 minutes without dismounting.
- A poem by 'Mr. Jinglebosom' celebrating English cycling culture and the spread of the bicycle from Britain to America, with humorous rhyming praise for 'John Bull's pace' on wheels.
- History of the Capital Bicycle Club of Washington DC, founded January 1879, describing asphalt-paved streets ideal for cycling, rides to the Soldiers' Home, and the club's work negotiating riding regulations with the Chief of Police.
- William E. Gilman of Chelsea recounts the 'Boston Bicyclo-Equestrian Association' tour organised by Dr. William C. Cutler — bicyclers, horsemen and wagons travelling from Portland via Sebago Lake to a five-day camp at Gorham, N.H., with excursions to Mount Washington and Crawford Notch — and invites wheelmen to join this year's repeat trip.
- Report of a Germantown paper-chase on bicycles with twenty-five riders from the Philadelphia, Centaur, Pegasus and Germantown clubs; F. W. Corse finished first, Jo. Pennell second and Washington Pastorius third over 15 miles in 1.30.
- A local wheelman reports only eight machines in a city of 35,000 but growing interest, praising the Western Promenade as the riders' rendezvous and favourite runs to Evergreen Cemetery, Gorham and the Portland Head Lighthouse on Cape Elizabeth.
- Race results: C. O. Morris Jr. (Union Bi. C.) wins the two-mile at the Elizabeth Athletic Club games; the Montreal Bi. C.'s three-mile handicap goes to G. M. Smith; New Haven's second tournament on Howard Avenue; and the programme for Boston's 5 July city races.
- Sixteen-year-old Thurber wins the Providence Bicycle Club's annual ten-mile race for the Jesse Howard medal at Park Garden in 40.41, after Lippitt's swerve broke six spokes of Churchill's wheel; judges included Col. A. A. Pope and Capt. E. C. Hodges.
- Club notes: Columbia College Bi. C. runs to Fort Lee and Brighton Beach; new clubs organised at Indianapolis, LaFayette, Malden (Middlesex Bi. C.), Newport and Northboro'; and the Germantown club ships four members to England and plans an eighty-mile Chester Valley run.
- A letter from Stanley J. A. Cotterell of Ryton-on-Tyne, president of the 2,000-strong Bicycle Touring Club, on riding against Tyneside winds and advising American wheelmen to form their own national association at the coming Newport meet.
- Notices of The Modern Archer, Brentano's Monthly, the National Association of Amateur Athletes' new rule book (with its standard amateur definition and two-mile bicycle championship), and 'Kol Kron's' articles on college bicycling in the New York World.
- A Hyde Park, Illinois reader hopes the South Park Commissioners will open Chicago's drives and boulevards to bicyclers, and the editor offers practical advice on choosing and trusting cyclometers over popular notions of distance.
- Leader notes on the paper's premium list, and news that the five American 'Wheelers Londonward' arrived off Queenstown on 31 May and set out from Liverpool on 3 June, conducted by J. R. Thomas of Bayliss, Thomas & Co. via Wolverhampton and Birmingham to a dinner in Coventry.
- Describes a dime-sized peep-sight clamped to the bow-string, devised in Chicago, that lets archers aim for both direction and elevation at long range — its inventor scored 886 at the double York round with a 46-pound bow.
- A correspondent argues against cash prizes at archery tournaments as an invitation to professionalism, urging medals and badges awarded on gross scores only; Will H. Thompson confirms no cash prizes will be offered at the Buffalo meeting.
- Report and full scores of the Brooklyn Archery Club's field day at Prospect Park on Decoration Day, with the New York Archery Club, Ascham Archers and other guests; Mr. Nash took the club badge and first bow, and Mrs. Dr. A. B. DeLuna and Miss E. T. Morton led the ladies' prizes.
- The Eastern Archery Association executive committee's rules for club-championship teams of three ladies and three gentlemen, with recommended short-, long- and general-range formats and challenge procedures for inter-club matches.
- Personal items: L.A.W. secretary Albert S. Parsons' visits to Chicago and Indianapolis; Frank Sivret of the Boston Bi. C. recovered from a fall over a hydrant top; Schuyler & Duane of New York to import English bicycles; and Worcester Bi. C. officers Tolman and Doe's wheel trip to New York.
- A comprehensive index supplement to the earlier American Bicycling Journal, compiled to aid readers in finding subjects across all issues of that predecessor publication.
- A supplementary directory of bicycle clubs and their secretaries, from the Aquilo Bi. C. of Brooklyn to the Wilkesbarre Bi. C., updating the table given in 'The American Bicycler'.
- Full active membership lists of the New York, Massachusetts, New Haven and Lafayette bicycle clubs, published by corresponding secretary Albert S. Parsons as candidates for League of American Wheelmen membership.
- A closing humour column of cycling and archery jokes and verse clipped from the Boston Herald, Brockton Advance and London Punch, including the toxophilite pun 'Sharp Shooting'.