The Cycle, Vol 1, No 10
Articles in this issue
- The Cycle's main editorial surveys the just-concluded L.A.W. Boston Meet, praising the city's hospitality and the wheelmen's enthusiasm for road runs while noting thin attendance at the business meeting, parade, and races.
- Full report on the Corey Hill bicycle and tricycle hill-climbing contest, listing all starters, their machines, and finishing times, with George E. Weber winning the bicycle event and Horace Crocker the tricycle.
- Account of the two ladies' tricycle runs organised during the Meet — a first-day ride to Chestnut Hill reservoir and a second-day trip to Harvard — attended by roughly twenty-seven and twenty ladies respectively.
- Report on the promenade concert at Music Hall, where the National Guard Band under William Hill performed to a large crowd of wheelmen and spectators, with singing, story-telling, and light refreshments.
- Minutes of the informal Board of Officers caucus at the Massachusetts Club House on Thursday evening, at which Abbot Bassett presided, the question of whether the office of League secretary was vacant was debated, and the meeting adjourned unanimously.
- Overview of the second day's programme, framed as a business day, leading into the tricycle road race and the officers' meeting at the Massachusetts Club House gymnasium.
- Third annual Boston Bicycle Club tricycle road race from Bailey's Hotel at South Natick to Boston: E. P. Burnham won in 1h 4m, beating all previous course records, while C. O. Danforth finished ahead of J. T. Williams.
- Report of the annual board of officers meeting at which Dr. N. M. Beckwith was re-elected president for a fourth term, T. J. Kirkpatrick chosen vice-president, Sanford Lawton treasurer, and John C. Gulick third member of the executive board.
- Full account of the general membership meeting at Mechanics' Building: the Racing Board's action against makers' amateurs was unanimously endorsed, the motion to admit professionals was lost, and a vote passed instructing the board to allow popular election of president and vice-president.
- Afternoon adjourned session of the board, confirming division representatives and chief consuls, ruling proposed constitutional amendments out of order for want of proper notice, and referring the question of popular officer elections to the Committee on Rules.
- Brief note on the Friday afternoon runs: 150 bicyclists rode to Echo Bridge under Capt. Peck, and the Citizens' Club of New York visited the reservoir and Newton Centre.
- Review of the amateur minstrel show at Music Hall under the Massachusetts Division L.A.W., performed by the Jeffries Club of East Boston with fifty men in the circle and music by the Boston Cadet Band Orchestra.
- Account of the Friday-evening exhibition at Mechanics' Building, where the Salem Cadet Band played, trick rider George Hutchinson performed, and two trainer races were run — Dresser winning the gold medal and Spencer the silver.
- Report on the Saturday-morning 'scorchers' run over a twelve-mile circuit from the Vendome Hotel, won by W. A. Rhodes in 44½ minutes; F. N. Perry suffered a dislocated arm after colliding with a dog in Brighton.
- Detailed account of the Saturday parade of 711 machines (fifty tricycles) through Boston's streets, with a complete list of participating clubs and riders by division — New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and others.
- Results of the L.A.W. championship races: A. B. Rich won both the one-mile bicycle and tricycle championships; C. E. Kluge and G. E. Weber's entries were rejected; H. C. Getchell won the one-mile handicap and the Massachusetts championship.
- Account of the Saturday-evening banquet at the Hotel Vendome, where 150 wheelmen dined with Charles E. Pratt as toastmaster, and speakers including President Beckwith, Col. Pope, and Abbot Bassett addressed the amateur question and the League's progress.
- Extended review of the cycle exhibition at Mechanics' Building, describing exhibits from Pope Manufacturing, Gormully & Jeffery, Coventry Machinists' Co., Overman, Wm. B. Everett, Wm. Read & Sons, Stoddard Lovering, H. B. Smith (Star), S. T. Clark (New Rapid), and others, as well as a collection of historical velocipedes.
- First-person account signed 'Daisie' of the ladies' rides during the Meet — quoting a companion's report of the Thursday tricycle run and adding her own reflections on the pleasure of riding with friends rather than racing, and the new acquaintances made from New Jersey, Philadelphia, Portland, and Connecticut.
- Report on the formation of the American Cyclists' Union at the Hotel Vendome on Saturday morning by nineteen members of Springfield, Lynn, and Nonantum clubs, with Chief Consul Ducker presiding and an extended statement from Ducker explaining the new body's purpose and amateur definition.
- Short paragraph commentary summing up the Boston Meet: the L.A.W. amateur rule stands, the professionals remain suspended, the opposition offered no fight, and not a single vote was cast against the Racing Board.
- List of cycle patents granted during the week: A. W. McClure (Chicago) and C. T. Ryland Jr. (San José) for velocipedes, and H. G. Sellman (South Lyons, Mich.) for a wrench.
- Report of the annual meeting of the L.E.C.W. at Lynn on 31 May: officers elected by acclamation (E. G. Gordon president), quorum reduced from 50 to 30, followed by a dinner and a county parade through the principal streets.
- Account of the inaugural race meeting at the new Lynn track on 31 May, run under American Cyclists' Union rules (not L.A.W. rules), with full results; Kluge and Weber lost their amateur status by competing, and Charles H. Potter attached the gate receipts for $500 after the association disregarded the L.A.W. decision.
- Calendar of forthcoming cycling events for June and July 1886, including Yale College Club races, the N.Y. and N.J. Road Race, the second Prince-Neilson race at Lynn, the Michigan Division L.A.W. meet, and the C.W.A. annual meeting in Montreal.