The Bicycling World, Vol 1, No 24
Articles in this issue
- October 1880 editorial notes including a rumour about an autopsy on the Boston Bicycle Club and observations on the busy quarterly meeting of the L.A.W.
- Notes on new bicycle models including the striking new Yale bicycle from Cunningham, with elliptic perch and ball bearings, and experiments at the Pope Manufacturing Company.
- Leader notes urging the League's State directors to appoint their Consuls at once, and a 'Business is Business' review of the first officers' meeting, which despatched much work for a membership already past 550 — regretting only the omission of a social dinner.
- A full report on the League of American Wheelmen's first quarterly officers' meeting in New York on 18 September, covering six and a half hours of decisions on rules, committees, and the amateur definition.
- The full text of the League rules as adopted by the Board of Officers, defining the duties of the President, Commander, Secretaries, Treasurer, Directors and Consuls, the annual May meeting and autumn race meeting, and the amateur qualification in Rules 24 and 25.
- Corresponding Secretary Albert S. Parsons publishes the names proposed for League membership, with lists from the Brooklyn, Harlem, Keystone (Pittsburg), Montreal, Rockingham, Portland, Hartford and Providence bicycle clubs, followed by notices to members and officers.
- Race results from Eminence (Ky.), where Henry Schimpelee of Louisville won the gold medal, Mott Haven, Plainfield, New York and Elizabeth, continued later in the number with Sandusky, Detroit, Potsdam — where Rollinson beat a trotting horse for $150 a side — and Saugatuck.
- The archery department opens with editorial notes explaining that the wheelmen have extra pages this week, and promising foreign archery summaries and new features in the Volume II prospectus.
- A correspondent's light-hearted account of the Wellesley archery tournament, describing the champion's quiet manners, the hundred-yard shooting, the twenty Spanish yew bows by Aldred, Buchanan and Gordon, and the ridiculed 'taffy back' bows.
- The Rangeley Archery Club (ladies) beat the Mystic archers (gentlemen) 488 to 305 on the Skillings grounds at Winchester on 15 September, Miss Grace Carter making the ladies' top score and Mr. C. O. Billings winning the gentlemen's silver badge.
- A letter signed 'Dark Blue' suggesting the Association arrange its three days' shooting programme at the annual meeting, and proposing Springfield, Mass. — with five or six flourishing clubs — for the next field meeting.
- Highest scores from the club's two September meets, with Mr. A. S. Brownell taking the club medal at both, and the open handicap prizes won outright by Miss E. L. Magee (silver arrow) and Mr. S. P. Abbott (half-moon scarf-pin).
- Results from the archery meeting at the N.J. State Fair, where J. E. Hill of the Newark Toxophilites took the gold-medal championship and teams from the Oritani, Spuyten Duyvil, Cedarwood, Nottingham and Brooklyn clubs competed.
- Short archery paragraphs: the boys' Young Pacifics club formed in San Francisco, the Pacific Archery Club's practice after its defeat by the Oakland Bow Club, and the gale that wrecked a planned electric-light archery meet at Nantasket in Boston Harbor.
- Reviews and acknowledgments, praising Brentano's Monthly for September and noting that only thirty-six complete copies of The American Bicycling Journal survive, twenty-six of them still unsold at the Bicycling World Co.
- Club news including a 'grand bicycle conclave' at Oakland, Cal., a new Secretary for the Brooklyn Bi. C., Cincinnati's first club, the Hartford Wheel Club's fifty-mile first fall run to Meriden, and the formation of the Haverhill Bi. C.
- Six members of the Boston Bi. C. rode with flowers through Brighton, Newton and Watertown to Calvary Cemetery in Waltham to decorate the grave of their late comrade Edward Hogan, guided by two members of the Waltham Bi. C.
- The Rochester Bi. C.'s tournament at the Rochester trotting park on 15 September, with thirteen uniformed riders, slow races won by R. A. Punnett, mile heats taken by C. A. Smith and J. A. Niven, and satin banners presented by ladies of Trinity Church before some 2,000 spectators.
- The Detroit Bi. C.'s circular calling a State meet, and the association's formation at the Russell House, Detroit, on 14 September, with L. J. Bates elected president and J. G. Parker of the Grand Rapids Bi. C. vice-president.
- Personal paragraphs: the Boston & Providence R.R.'s fifty-cent bicycle charge, Charles R. Percival's return from England, F. T. Merrill's move to Columbia Hall in San Francisco, Charles E. Campbell's 1,000-mile ride from Lima, Ohio, to Boston, and James Gordon Bennett's new 54-inch Special Columbia.
- President Bates's flowery speeches presenting the Michigan championship prizes at a Detroit reception — a gold badge to two-mile champion A. J. Eddy of the Genesee Club and a sewing machine to Norman B. Conger, awarded 'the championship of pluck'.
- Fall games in New York on 26 September, where L. H. Johnson of the Manhattan Ath. C. won the two-mile bicycle race ahead of J. W. Gavett, and L. E. Myers of the Manhattan Ath. C. took the 100-yards and 440-yards runs.
- Notice of all-day amateur sports at Beacon Park on 12 October — bicycle races, an archery contest, base ball, cricket and lawn tennis — a complimentary benefit to Mr. George Wright from the Boston Driving and Athletic Association.
- A correspondent's account of a two-day run from Boston to Gloucester and Ipswich on 15 September by eleven riders, including members of the Mass. Bi. C., who were escorted into Salem by twelve members of the Hawthorne Bi. C. under Captain Philbrick.