The Bicycling World, Vol 1, No 19
Articles in this issue
- Short news notes: L. H. Johnson recreating at Sunapee, N.H.; a new Genesee Bicycle Club forming at Flint, Mich.; W. M. Wright of New York ordering a sixty-inch Special Columbia from the Pope Manufacturing Co.; Manhattan Bicycle Club members disputing Mr. Pitman's claimed membership; and a three-days' run from Milwaukee to Waukesha and Oconomowoc joined by the Milwaukee, Chicago, Grand Rapids, Indianapolis and Oshkosh clubs.
- A playful poem addressed to the bicyclist by an admiring but puzzled observer, marvelling at how the machine balances, moves without sound, and puts the horse to shame.
- An editorial attacking the N.A.A.A.A. executive committee's practice of 'reinstating' professionals as amateurs on their own statement, prompted by the Pitman case at the Boston races, and calling on the League of American Wheelmen to take up the amateur question.
- A seller recounts advertising a never-ridden bicycle in the World of 6 March and receiving forty-five answers from fifteen states plus Canada, most from correspondents who ignored the advertisement's plain terms and insisted the machine must be second-hand.
- A letter from Geo. D. Coleman of Philadelphia arguing from experience of passing thousands of horses that a kindly spoken word reassures almost any animal, and that careless drivers are more to be dreaded than the horses themselves.
- A touring sketch by 'H. B. H.' of a spin from Philadelphia over the Haddonfield Pike, in which his companion Bob races a phaeton of young ladies, spills in a sand-hole, and is passed by the ladies calling back his own tantalizing 'Good-by'.
- Five bicyclers from Malden and Cambridge ride to Canton, Mass. for breakfast with Mr. Draper, then on to Lake Massapoag, finding Sharon's sandy, gravelly roads so bad that every rider took a header and one machine was smashed, forcing a retreat by train.
- A correspondent vindicates the reputation of the Detroit Bicycle Club against a mocking report, insisting no member has taken a real fall or header in six months and praising one rider's presence of mind in an emergency.
- A visiting Kankakee wheelman describes the Chicago Bicycling Club's season opener under Captain Brown, at which twenty-one riders — including eleven uniformed Elgin Club men under Captain Bowen — rode eighteen miles through pouring rain over the Grand Boulevard and South Park drives, specially opened by the Park Commissioners.
- A legal opinion on cyclists' rights to use Chicago's public highways and parks, prepared in response to efforts to restrict bicycle riding.
- Club letters: Captain W. F. Gullen reports Prospect Park's drives closed to Brooklyn Bicycle Club riders after a single complaint; officer elections at the Cleveland, Detroit and Waltham clubs; the new Grand Rapids Bi. C. organized crossing the lake from the Milwaukee meet; and the Philadelphia Bi. C. voting to join the L.A.W. in a body.
- Race notes: W. C. Wright and W. T. Wilcox ride over alone at the Young America Cricket Club games at Stenton; J. G. Blow of St. Louis wins the Harlem Athletic Club five-mile handicap after R. Underhill breaks his wrist; John W. Wilson challenges Will R. Pitman to a race at Chestnut Hill reservoir; and Malone, N.Y. offers a purse for a fair race.
- Corresponding Secretary Albert S. Parsons publishes the latest names proposed for League of American Wheelmen membership, from the Essex and Germantown clubs among others, including Henry Sturmey of Coventry, England.
- League notes with directions for sending in membership applications to Secretary Parsons and Treasurer Hugh L. Willoughby, followed by comment on the so-called American Team touring England — its farewell dinners in London and Bath and Mr. Weston's inaccurate speeches about American bicycling affairs.
- An enthusiastic review of the bicycling song 'Mister Tobias Isaias Elias', written by S. Conant Foster with music by Harry N. Sawyer and dedicated to the Mercury Bicycle Club of New York, praising its melodramatic plot and irresistible whistling chorus.
- A report on a major archery tournament held in Buffalo, New York, including scores and a description of the event's atmosphere.
- A. N. Drew's first-hand account of the National Archery Association meeting at Buffalo — the peep-sight controversy around Mr. Burnham, and L. L. Peddinghaus snatching the championship from Will H. Thompson by four points with the very last arrow.
- A special report of the business meeting at the Palace Hotel, Buffalo, on 12 July 1880: club delegates' credentials, debate on Mr. Carver's scoring amendments, the vote to hold the 1881 tournament in Brooklyn, and the election of Major A. G. Constable as president.
- The Private Practice Club's business meeting at the Palace Hotel, Buffalo, on 15 July 1880 amends its prize rules, assesses each member a dollar for a club badge, and re-elects E. T. Church of Charlotte, Mich. president and W. H. Thompson secretary-treasurer.
- A letter signed 'Dark Blue' urging the Eastern Archery Association to shoot its championship at the American Round rather than the Double York Round, citing the feeble York Round scores made at the Michigan State Tournament and by eastern clubs.
- A Chicago correspondent reports the North Side Archery Club's postal match victories — beating the Highland Park Archers at the single York Round behind record peep-sight scores by Walter Burnham and J. R. Adams, and defeating the Toledo Club at the single American Round 1762 to 1341.
- Scores from the Pequossette Archers' regular meet of 17 July 1880, at which Mr. S. P. Abbott won the club badge and the gentlemen's free-to-all prize and Miss Emma Magee took the silver arrow in the ladies' competition.