The Bicycling World, Vol 5, No 9
Articles in this issue
- A notice inviting American wheelmen to join Frank W. Weston's 1882 English tour: the party sails 22 July, trains from Liverpool to Bradford, and rides via Harrogate (for the Bicycle Touring Club's Sixth Annual North of England Meet), Leeds, Sheffield, Mansfield and Leicester to Coventry, first-cabin round-trip fare not to exceed $160.
- Two leaders: 'Prizes' argues for cheaper trophies at amateur races to curb professionalism and 'pot-hunting', and 'The Monopoly' reports Judge Wallace's ruling in Pope Manufacturing Co. vs. McKee, which defers the Lallemont-patent infringement suit's merits to the October term while new witnesses surface to an 1863 Varrecke velocipede ridden in New York's Central Park.
- Club news including the newly organized Auburn (N.Y.) and Armenia (Canton, Pa.) bicycle clubs and their officers, the Lowell Bicycle Club's run and collation, the Boston Bicycle Club's lively clubhouse, the Newton Bicycle Club's Fourth of July fancy-dress parade, the Lexington, Ky. club's lady secretary, and the Champion City Bicycle Club of Springfield, Ohio's summer bicycle camp at Yellow Springs.
- Race reports from the Princeton College commencement games, the Keystone Bicycle Club's first meet at Pittsburg (George Grundy sweeping several events), a Baltimore professional handicap won by J.S. Prince over F.S. Rollinson, Charles Jenkins's wins at Louisville, Prince against Mlle. Louise Armaindo and later Prince-Rollinson-Mellen races at Norwalk, the Star Bicycle Club's Lynn meet, and Boston's Independence Day races including G.D. Gideon's record mile and five-mile at Belmont Driving Park.
- Letters from Canton, Pa. (Cyclus), the Nashua Wheel Club (a lady-friends' banner presentation), and Cleveland (Fladee, on upcoming club races); D.C. Hasbrouck's 'A Model's Reply' on the L.A.W. election; J. Park Street's 'Signs' proposing official road-condition guideposts; the Marblehead club's 'A Run to Point of Pines'; an account of President Bates at the Chicago League meet (a mock lemonade resolution and a Lake Michigan marine-bicycle trial); and Ixion's 'Some Practical Hints to our Wheel Importers' on shoddy import dealers.
- New League applications from the Hudson, Connecticut, Cincinnati, New Haven, Scranton, Zanesville, Milwaukee, Marietta, Manchester, Rockingham, and Boston clubs plus several unattached riders, and Secretary Kingman N. Putnam's notice that the mail vote for State officers closes at midnight, 15 July.
- Miscellany including Will R. Pitman's medals at the Boston City events, Charles Jenkins and N.G. Crawford's rising Louisville reputations and a planned international tournament there, F.S. Rollinson's racing injury, President Garvey's joke 'prize' quadricycle, and Vice-President Parsons's reminder on the League vote deadline; reprinted items report London's bicycle craze with the Hampton Court parade and London-to-Bath race, tricycles' new hill-climbing gearing and the Prince of Wales's Salvo, and a Philadelphia committee's plans for an October Bicentennial Exhibition meet.
- Cycling books and periodicals offered through the Bicycling World office, including Henry Sturmey's Tricyclists' Indispensable for 1882, the Cyclist and Wheel World Annual, H.T. Round's Wheelman's Year-Book for 1883, Charles E. Pratt's American Bicycler, and H.L. Cortis's forthcoming book on training.