The Bicycling World, Vol 2, No 25
Articles in this issue
- The editor relays a story of French cyclists stranded overnight after a header injury and no funds for a hotel, and discusses the continuing debate over who should provide the League dinner in Boston.
- The official notice for the first annual meeting of the L.A.W. on 30 May in Boston is published, specifying admission requirements, delegate credentials, and voting rules.
- Founding editor Charles E. Pratt retires from the paper, recounting its launch in November 1879, the absorption of the American Bicycling Journal, and its service as the L.A.W.'s official organ, while commending his successor and the paper's future.
- A critical analysis of the League's first months of operation assesses what it has achieved and what remains undone, calling for stronger road advocacy and better consul appointments.
- In the conclusion of Madeline's serial, Georgie's abduction by her scheming uncle is foiled when Falconer pursues the carriage by bicycle at night and a Boston police sergeant makes the arrest, clearing the way for her engagement.
- A new cycling and athletic track at Beacon Park is described, noting that its cinder surface is superior to anything yet available in Boston for bicycle racing.
- Extracts from M. de Guilhermanson's diary in Le Sport Velocipedique follow his and M. Laumaille's bicycle tour from Menton through Chiavari, Spezia, Pisa and Leghorn to Follonica, including a visit to the warship Duilio.
- Foreign notes reprint the London Athletic Club's spring one-mile bicycle handicap at Stamford Bridge won by J. D. Butler, a Cyclist report on Mr. Garrood's grip pedals, and a table of English amateur records headed by H. L. Cortis.
- H. J. Bell, writing in the Cyclist, narrates the founding of the West Kensington Tricycle Club and urges tricyclists to form clubs for companionship, instruction, and union under the Tricycle Association.
- A German correspondent describes a windy nineteen-mile Sunday tour by two riders on a 52-inch Royal Challenge and a 50-inch Express through thirteen villages to Ottersberg, with dinner at the principal hotel.
- The editor reviews the new official edition of the National Archery Association's constitution and rules sent by Secretary G. F. E. Pearsall, noting the third grand national tournament at Prospect Park, Brooklyn, beginning 11 July 1881.
- Andrew S. Brownell and A. W. Havens of San Francisco submit a passage from Horace A. Ford's Archery, Its Theory and Practice against blind adherence to old ideas, aimed at Will H. Thompson in the target-scoring controversy.
- A Pacific Coast archer defends the American System of target valuation and Mr. Brownell against Will H. Thompson's ridicule, citing California archers who drew the long-bow from 1830 to 1836.
- The Society of Highland Park Archers challenges any organized archery society in the United States to three matches in May, with terms for ladies and gentlemen and arrangements through secretary Homer S. Taylor of Lake County, Illinois.
- A. N. Drew of San Francisco copies two comic poems from Mr. Havens's scrap-book, 'Song of the Archer Man' about an Oakland archer's futile shots at a woodchuck, and its riposte 'The Champion Archer'.
- The National Archery Association's executive committee, in session at Secretary G. F. E. Pearsall's Brooklyn office, invites club applications ahead of the grand annual meeting at Prospect Park in July.
- Club news includes the Seaside Club's first race at Norfolk won by Horace Hardy, the Rockingham Club's new uniform, an Oakland Bicycle Club run to San Jose, Philadelphia and Hartford members sailing for England, the Boston Bi. Club's life membership, the Crescent Club's ball, and Milwaukee notes.
- The League's standing notice on membership fees and badges is followed by applications from the Pequot, Poughkeepsie, Harvard, Capital, Seaside, Brooklyn, Providence and Philadelphia clubs, published by Corresponding Secretary Albert S. Parsons.