The Bicycling World, Vol 1, No 23
Articles in this issue
- September 1880 editorial notes including a comment from the Worcester Gazette that bicycle races were more exciting than horse trotting at the agricultural fair.
- A humorous scene in verse and prose describing a cyclist at a crossroads near Hingham who discovers his bicycle is leaning against a post occupied by a swarm of bumble-bees, with repeated fruitless attempts to retrieve it using improvised tools.
- Obituary of Edward Hogan, the young journalist who wrote for the Boston Herald over the signature 'Carey' and an early member of the Boston Bicycle Club, dead at twenty-five — the first loss on the membership list of the oldest bicycle club in the country.
- Editorial note on the League of American Wheelmen officers' business meeting in New York on 18 September, correcting an impulsive newspaper report of an immense three-day club meet and noting the Manhattan Bicycle Club has wisely deferred its entertainment plans.
- A. S. Parsons argues that the bicycle is the excursion conveyance par excellence compared with railroad, steamboat and horse-drawn outings, citing the hundred-mile two-day 'wheel around the Hub' run of forty riders.
- Full report of the 7 September meet at Worcester, Mass., held with the New England Fair: fourteen clubs and 126 bicycles paraded at Agricultural Park after a grove picnic hosted by the Worcester Bi. C., with two-mile, one-mile and half-mile races judged by Charles E. Pratt and A. G. Carpenter.
- Correspondent 'Cyclus' reports the five-mile race at the Elmira Driving Park on 3 September, won by Frank Nearing over William Browne in 20m 42s for a $100 gold and diamond medal.
- At the Bardstown, Ky., Fair, half-mile heats were won by O. W. Thomas, Jr., over W. B. Sale and John F. Adams, all of Louisville; Sale is credited with a record quarter-mile of 37 1/4 seconds against time at Louisville on 8 September.
- At the Williamsburg Athletic Club's annual handicap meeting on Wythe Avenue, scratch man Rawson Underhill of the Manhattan Bi. Club caught George Bond on the last lap to win the two-mile handicap bicycle race in 7:54.
- 'Handle Bar' reports the half-mile-heat races at the Shelbyville, Ky., Fair on 27 August: O. W. Thomas, Jr., of Louisville won the first gold medal and Allen of Frankfort the second, before seven or eight thousand spectators.
- Results of 11 September at the American Bicycling Company's grounds: F. Keller took the three-mile race, Ed. Fisk the two-mile, and W. Smith of the Williamsburg Athletic Club beat Geo. Ohlsen of the Williamsburg Bi. Club in a handicapped one-mile match.
- Corresponding Secretary Albert S. Parsons publishes League of American Wheelmen membership candidates from the San Francisco, Hartford Wheel, Brattleboro' and Buffalo clubs, with the official notice to officers of the board meeting at the Metropolitan Hotel, New York, on 18 September.
- Club news: the Framingham Bi. C. organizes under President J. J. Valentine; the Hartford Wheel Club elects Clark Lawrence president; Col. A. A. Pope is made an honorary member of the Mercury Bi. C.; and the Rochester and Star (formerly Lynn) clubs report growing memberships.
- Letters including W. R. Pitman's withdrawal from the 15 September championship bicycle race at Mott Haven and Wm. M. Wright's offer of free bicycle storage at his Fifth Avenue establishment during the L.A.W. officers' meet.
- Notes on individual wheelmen: Capt. E. C. Hodges disabled by an abscess, T. K. Longstreth recovering from typhoid fever, a three-mile race on Gen. B. F. Butler's private track at Lowell, and C. K. Billings's purchase of John Keen's gold-plated Eclipse racer.
- The official report of the Eastern Archery Association's grand meeting, including scores, winners, and organisational resolutions.
- 'Arrowsmith' reports the initial field meeting of the Western Pennsylvania Archery Association at Edgewood on 1 September, with eight clubs competing; Robinson of Chief Jacob led the gentlemen and Miss Sara Burgwin of Sherwood the ladies.
- Special report from Cincinnati on the Ohio state archery meet at the Zoological Gardens on 25-27 August, where 75 of 84 entrants representing thirteen clubs shot through intense heat for the State championship medals.