The Bicycling World, Vol 2, No 26
Articles in this issue
- The editor closes Volume II, notes a race between Richmond and Burton for the Howard Challenge Medal scheduled for 7 May in Providence, and responds sharply to a dissatisfied League critic.
- The publishers announce that the Bicycling World will be separated from the Archery Field: the World will continue weekly at twelve pages under editor Louis Harrison, with yearly subscriptions reduced to $2.00 after Volume Two closes.
- A private letter describes Washington's Capital Club drilling near Stewart Castle and then giving an exhibition for the Baltimore Club, with standstills, double riding and a mile race won by a late rush from Schooley; the club plans a delegation to the Boston Meet.
- The League department publishes membership applications from corresponding secretary Albert S. Parsons, including the Pequonnock Wheel Club of Bridgeport, Conn., and gives notice of the first annual meeting of the League of American Wheelmen in Boston on 30 May 1881.
- A legal opinion by Charles E. Pratt, obtained by the Pope Manufacturing Company, examines wheelmen's right to use Central Park and the public streets, reviewing New York statutes, a Brooklyn common council report and court decisions holding the bicycle a vehicle with equal rights.
- The Archery Field editorial announces that the archery paper is being separated from the Bicycling World and will be issued fortnightly at $1.00 a year, with the publishers appealing to archers for support to keep the venture alive.
- A report of the Eastern Archery Association's meeting at the Revere House on 27 April, dominated by a contentious debate between Reynolds, Dalrymple, Phillips and Allen over target-scoring values, with officers elected and a September shoot voted.
- A Crawfordsville, Ind. correspondent directs Andrew S. Brownell and A. W. Havens to a passage from the late Horace A. Ford arguing that the incorrectness of ring values is unimportant since all archers use the same target and mode of counting.
- Dean V. R. Manley of Toledo, Ohio rebuts "Schooner" on target valuation, arguing his critic contradicts himself by invoking both the area and distance theories, and defends the reversed 1-to-9 scale of ring values with worked scoring examples.
- The Executive Committee of the National Archery Association, in session at corresponding secretary G. F. E. Pearsall's Brooklyn office, invites club applications ahead of the Grand Annual Meeting at Prospect Park, Brooklyn in the second week of July.
- Club news reports eight Montreal Bi. Club members expected at the May Meet, new uniforms adopted by the Yonkers Bicycle Club, officers and growth at the Wilkesbarre Club in the Wyoming Valley, and the formation of the Adventure Bi. Club at St. John's School, Sing Sing.
- The Milwaukee Bi. Club's first run of the 1881 season put eighteen wheels in line from the Broadway headquarters, followed by a fifteen-mile Sunday run to the Soldiers' Home over roads still blocked by snowbanks and deep mud.
- The League consuls for Worcester, Mass., E. F. Tolman of Hill & Tolman and A. W. Darling of Cherry Valley, report progress in arranging entertainment for wheelmen passing through to the Boston Meet and offer road information in all directions.
- Philip T. Timpson of the Manhattan Bicycle Club challenges all amateur League members to a 100-mile race at the American Institute building, New York, the day after the League race meeting, for the 100-mile Amateur Championship of America and a cup or medal.
- "Kol Kron" of Washington Square recounts baggage-masters' quarter-dollar fees and ferry charges for carrying his wheel on the New York Central, Erie and other lines, urging the League's railroad committee to secure definite arrangements before the Boston Meet.