The Bicycling World, Vol 9, No 3
Articles in this issue
- Editorial welcoming the new L.A.W. board of officers and calling for an honest, sensible, and business-like administration; notes that the Jenkins matter was left unaddressed at the meeting but expresses confidence that the League will be well on its feet by the following year.
- Detailed financial statement of the League of American Wheelmen showing total receipts of $3,800.20, dominated by $1,559 in admission fees and $379 in donations, against expenses led by $336.42 in secretary's travel costs, $250 in secretary's salary, and $250 in treasurer's salary.
- Report from the organs committee presenting two publisher proposals for a League-affiliated gazette and recommending appointment of a League-member editor to receive and transmit all official matter, with the department to be headed 'The League Gazette'; the committee expresses full confidence in the integrity of both publishers named.
- Report on the L.A.W. racing board's decision to withdraw George Hendee from certain races because his dominance was discouraging other riders from entering; also reports passage of a rule amendment requiring the League to hold an annual championship meeting with official prizes.
- Detailed results of the one-mile tricycle championship between Hendee and L. H. Johnson, in which both riders set record quarter-mile times (Hendee 68s., Johnson 68.5s.) before Hendee won the full mile in 3m. 57.75s.; the quarter-mile splits are noted as records.
- Preview of the Boston Ramblers' Bicycle Club's second annual race meeting at the Union Athletic Company's grounds on May 30, describing the nearly circular cinder track, the steady flow of entries, and the expectation of record-breaking times with good weather.
- Report that C. A. Reed won the two-mile bicycle race at the Columbia College spring meeting in 7m. 59s., along with notes on C. F. Haven training on a two-track Royal Mail and praise for the Harvard Bicycle Club's new cinder track as the finest in the country.
- Information on the eighth annual C.T.C. Harrogate Meet on August 4, 1884, with the American chief consul having arranged reduced-rate return tickets to Liverpool or London with four leading steamship lines at $100 to $150 depending on stateroom location, with early application advised.