The Bicycling World, Vol 11, No 10
Articles in this issue
- Editorial leader reviewing the 1885 L.A.W. Meet: the overwhelming vote against admitting professionals to the League, adoption of the editor's new amateur rule, Charles E. Pratt's applauded call to fight the North Carolina highway case, the new weekly L.A.W. Bulletin, and the absurd one-first-prize rule that spoiled the Boston Common races.
- Full report of the sixth annual League of American Wheelmen meet at Buffalo: Dr. N. Malon Beckwith elected president and Stephen Terry vice-president, the amateur-law and professional-admission debates, the 600-rider parade through Buffalo's park system, the races (Geo. M. Hendee winning the one-mile championship in 2.44 and E. P. Burnham the tricycle title) and the Tifft House banquet.
- Reminiscence of the League's founding meet at Newport in May 1880, recalling the motley uniforms, Charles E. Pratt's election as first president, Karl Kron, 'Ves' Baxter and other pioneers, and the $40 collection that set the League in motion with the Bicycling World as its unpaid organ.
- Correspondence letter signed 'B.' siding with 'Morrill' against 'Daisie' in the tandem debate, arguing that a light hundred-pound tandem tricycle gives a woman speed and comfort no hundred-and-fifty-pound sociable or ordinary tricycle can match.
- The Big Four tourists left the Genesee Hotel, Buffalo, on 6 July and covered fifty miles to Batavia over poor roads; the Boston Division's costume of black jersey tights, rainbow-striped Norfolk blouse and monstrous straw hats was voted the most attractive.
- The third annual Canadian Wheelmen's Association meet at Woodstock on 1 July elected Jas. S. Brierly president, W. G. Eakins vice-president and H. B. Donley secretary-treasurer, ruled that American members must belong to the L.A.W., and paraded three hundred wheels under marshal W. A. Karn.
- Notes from London: Marriott & Cooper's Humbers are built by Rudge & Co. and Hillman, Herbert & Cooper; the new Kangaroo is much improved; Furnival and Gatehouse's tandem ran five miles in 14m. 22s.; and a warning is endorsed against road races like Newburyport's held on the highway.
- Chief Tullar of St. Joseph withdraws his order to arrest wheelmen; George W. 'Cupid' Baker sets off from St. Louis to Boston on a 48-inch Victor; Felix Young, Bob Lee and Jack Rogers win Ramblers' gold medals for climbing 'Son-of-a-Gun' hill near Manchester; and Jack Rogers and Bob Whittemore brawl with a giant blacksmith.
- A list of all known bicycle riders in America, reproduced by request from the American Bicycling Journal of 25 January 1879, naming hundreds of pioneers including Albert A. Pope, Charles E. Pratt, Paul Butler and riders from Boston to San Francisco.
- Department of squibs opening with Henry S. McKay's poem 'The Cambridge Club', delivered at the club's dinner of 28 June; Karl Kron reaches his 3,000th subscriber for 'X.M. Miles'; three-year-old Edna P. Miller dies after being knocked down by a bicycle in Prospect Park; J. Bowman of the Oakland Bicycle Club rides 367 miles in two linked runs; and Charles F. Perkins is appointed trustee of the Cunningham Company.
- English racing news: Fred Wood beats R. Howell for the first time this season in the ten-mile championship at Leicester; F. W. Gibb takes the Edinburgh T.C. thirty-mile road tricycle championship; and H. R. Goodwin rides a Facile from Land's End to John o' Groats and back to London, 2,054 miles in nineteen days.
- 'Daisie' reviews Hillier's touring articles and English advice on ladies' cycling dress from Mrs. Philpot and Dr. Stables, endorsing all-wool undergarments but putting her foot down firmly against the corset, which she calls a steel-ribbed monster blocking women from the tricycle.
- The Boston Club's third annual tricycle road race is set for 3 August from South Natick; Prince challenges Woodside and Brooks; Fourth of July race results from Boston, Lynn, Salem, Chelsea, Waltham, Holyoke and Springfield (W. A. Rowe and fourteen-year-old Willie Haradon prominent), plus the C.W.A. races at Woodstock where H. W. Clark won the Canadian championship, and the Fort Schuyler Club meeting at Utica.
- Official C.T.C. American Division column by Chief Consul Frank W. Weston of Savin Hill, Boston, listing the State consuls from Connecticut to Wyoming Territory and provisional membership applications including Col. Albert A. Pope.
- Calendar of coming events: the Big Four hundred-mile road race from Cobourg to Kingston on 10 July, the New Jersey division meet at Orange, the Ohio division tournament at Springfield, and the autumn tournaments at Pittsfield, Hartford and Springfield with their championship races.