The Bicycling World, Vol 1, No 21
Articles in this issue
- August 1880 editorial notes mentioning an Emerson aphorism, the forthcoming volume of cycling poems by J. G. Dalton, and a design for a new bicycle by Frank W. Weston with tangent spokes.
- An editorial examining the high price of quality bicycles in America, comparing manufacturing costs, materials, and import duties to explain why machines sell for $75–$125.
- A cordial address from the English Bicycle Touring Club, signed by Secretary Walter D. Welford of Newcastle-on-Tyne, congratulating the League of American Wheelmen on its formation and offering the right hand of fellowship.
- A clarification and response to a controversy surrounding the racing cyclist Will R. Pitman and questions about his club membership and amateur status.
- Announcement of a grand excursion of bicyclers from Boston along the seacoast on 15–17 September, with arrangements by a committee of E. C. Hodges, E. W. Pope, and H. H. Duker of the Boston, Massachusetts, and Crescent clubs.
- A correspondent's letter describing the stony turnpikes and rutted clay roads of Harford County, Maryland, on a ride from Baltimore through Belair and Darlington to Havre de Grace, recommending the canal tow-path along the Susquehanna.
- Club news including the Crescent Bi. C. meet at Lynn, the Detroit Bi. C.'s amateur resolutions, the new Genesee Wheelmen of Flint, the Hawthorne club's sandy run to Haverhill, and notes from the Manhattan, Montclair, Montreal, Waltham, and Worcester clubs.
- Race reports from Cottage City, Martha's Vineyard, where Fiske and Oakes Ames traded wins in the five-mile series at Ocean Park, and from Milwaukee, where Hicks of Philadelphia led a seventy-two-hour race with 656 miles.
- A letter from 'Warren' of the Capital Bicycle Club on riding in Washington, D.C., recounting the Chief of Police's friendly regulations, the antics of small boys, and the city's eighty miles of concrete streets.
- An interview with the Boston pioneer and cycling poet J. G. Dalton, who recounts riding since September 1877, the first machines of Chandler and B. P. Browne, and his 'Bi-lyrical' process of converting famous poems into bicycling songs.
- A Latin song dedicated to the Capital Bicycle Club, set to the air 'Lauriger Horatius' and signed 'Legs', celebrating riders as centaurs outracing the winds on silent steeds.
- A comic poem, dated Detroit, in which pretty Miss Icicle, her beau Fitzdawdle, and pompous Professor Idrykle debate how to pronounce 'bicycle' at the Providence show.
- Announcements of coming races: the Fairfield County Agricultural Society's meeting at Norwalk, Connecticut, the Elmira Driving Park Association's $100 gold badge race, and fixtures at Plainfield, Elizabeth, Mott Haven, Montreal, and the N.Y. Athletic Club grounds.
- A long letter from Will R. Pitman defending his entry in the Boston races as a member of the Manhattan Bicycle Club, citing his reinstatement as an amateur by the N.A.A.A.A. and the assurances of Captain Timpson.
- Personal items noting the return of Mr. J. S. Dean of the Boston Bi. C. from the English tour, Joseph McKee's plans for a new bicycle from McKee & Harrington, and Phil Timpson's resignation as captain of the Manhattan Bi. C.
- An editorial on the complex aims of lawn archery, quoting Mr. Walworth on the fascination of attaining accuracy with only a bow, a string, and an arrow, and weighing recreation, sociability, and contest.
- Preview of the second grand annual meeting at Cincinnati on 25–27 August, with fifteen member clubs, forty-two prizes, championship medals at the Columbia and American rounds, and prize distribution at the Zoological Garden.
- Report of an organizing meeting at Springfield, Massachusetts, on 10 August, attended by delegates of the Massasoit Bowmen, Manhattan Bowmen, and Parthian Club, with plans for an October tournament at the Bridge-street rink.
- Scores sent by Edward B. Weston of two postal matches between the Highland Park Archers of Illinois and the Buffalo Toxophilites, shot at 96 arrows at 60 yards, both won by Highland Park.
- Report of the Pequossette Archers' meet of 14 August, where Miss Ingraham took the ladies' silver arrow, Major Lethridge of the Jamaica Club the gentlemen's pin, and Mr. Brownell beat Mr. Dwight in a shoot-off for the club medal.
- Scores from the great archery meeting at Leamington reported in the London Field, including Mr. Hemington's 185 from 37 hits and leading ladies' scores by Miss Leigh, Mrs. Lister, and Mrs. Butt.
- Programme details for the Eastern Archery Association tournament at Wellesley, covering the National, Columbia, York, and American rounds, handicap and team matches, and the disputed question of a club championship for mixed lady-and-gentleman teams.
- The Androscoggin county championship match at Auburn, Maine, on 10 August, won by the Lewiston Toxophilites over the Lewiston and East Auburn team, the Pejepscots, and the Locksley Archers, with the Auburn ladies taking the ladies' honors.
- W. Holberton sends single York round scores of the Oritani Archers of Hackensack, N.J., for a match with the Hawthorne Archers of Boston, whose secretary explains his club could not shoot because members were away on vacation.
- Notes on Dr. Dwight's challenge to Mr. Brownell for a team shoot at Nahant, prize donations for the E.A.A. meeting, a new Western Pennsylvania association organized at Pittsburg, and the College Hill v. Waverly matches in Cincinnati.
- Corresponding Secretary Albert S. Parsons publishes names proposed for League of American Wheelmen membership, including large lists from the Louisville Bicycle Club and the Buffalo Bi. C.
- A humorous letter from Bates of Detroit, editor and president of the Detroit Bicycle Club, declining his election as L.A.W. Director for Michigan while enclosing his dollar entrance fee to 'occupy a back seat in the League'.