View source for ACME WHEELMEN. - Oakland Tribune, 22 Jul 1891

=== ACME WHEELMEN. ===

==== A Bicycle Club Formed at the Acme Clubrooms. ====

A number of the athletes of the [[Acme Athletic Club]] held a meeting at the clubrooms last night and formed the [[Acme Wheelmen|Acme Bicycle Club]]. The following signed the roll: [[Charles Bowman]], [[Everett S. Dowdle|E. S. Dowdle]], [[S. S. Fogarty]], [[J. J. Hanifin Jr.|J. J. Hanifin]], [[Louis A. Lamory|L. A. Lamory]], [[B. C. Leslie]], [[H. A. Maxwell]], [[G. F. Mier]], [[O. L. Pickard]], [[Steven Rice]], [[T. F. Scanlon]], [[Frank Willis Sharpe|F. W. Sharpe]], [[H. N. Sloper]], [[DeWitt C. Van Court|D. C. Van Court]], [[Myron A. Whidden|M. A. Whidden]], [[B. Ferris]].

T. F. Scanlon of the Acme Club is an expert wheelman and has been teaching many of the boys how to mount a wheel. A few evenings ago [[Ned Campbell]] of the [https://www.google.com/books/edition/San_Francisco_Blue_Book_and_Club_Directo/hLZLAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22dirigo%20club%22&pg=RA1-PA297&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22dirigo%20club%22 Dirigo] was initiated. Ned can now ride a safety wheel in fair style.

[[Myron Whidden]] and [[J. J. Hanifin Jr.]] can be seen riding through the streets almost every evening.

The [[Alameda County Wheelmen]] will hold a run next Sunday to Haywards.

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