View source for CYCLING NEWS TO DATE. - Club Runs and Private Excursions to Different Points Outside the City. - The San Francisco Examiner, 27 Jul 1895

=== CYCLING NEWS TO DATE. ===
==== Club Runs and Private Excursions to Different Points Outside the City. ====
The [[Liberty Cycling Club]] has a run out through the Oakland foothills to-morrow, the following week they will ride to [[Bolinas]] and in the middle of August will escort the members of the [[Liberty Cycling Club Ladies' Annex|Ladies' Annex]] through the [[Park]]. The club is steadily gaining in numbers and gives promise of becoming a power in cycling.

The [[Royal Cycling Club]] is to conduct a series of five-mile road races, one each month, for a valuable prize, which must be won three times before becoming the property of any rider.

When [[R. C. Lennie]] and his friends adopted the emblems of a skull and crossbones little did they think that down in [[Mayfield]] was a club flying the black flag under the title of the [[Mayfield Pirate Wheelmen]]. [[E. Dornberger]], Secretary of the club, claims for it the sole right to use the emblem.

The [[Imperial Cycling Club]] entertained a large party of members and friends on Thursday evening with a smoking concert.
[[A. L. von Bendelaben]] of the [[Garden City Cyclers]] will ride to [[San Jose]] via Oakland this afternoon, in company with [[J. S. Burns]] of the [[Olympic Club Wheelmen]], and others.

Captain [[A. C. Thornton|Thornton]], Secretary [[Lewis C. Hunter|Hunter]] and [[F. W. Fuller]] are to return to-morrow from their two weeks' hunting trip to Mendocino county.

The [[Olympic Club Wheelmen]], under Lieutenant [[Heydenfeldt]], have a run to Haywards to-morrow to act as escort to [[Merton Duxbury|Duxbury]].

Miss [[Gussie Raymond]], Miss [[Kate Devine]] and Miss [[Nora Monahan]] rode up from San Jose recently. After a short visit in this city they made the return journey in safety.

[[H. L. Barrett]] and [[O. Higgins]] of the [[Imperial Cycling Club]] have arranged a hundred-mile jaunt for to-morrow, and will endeavor to ride the distance in six hours.

The [[Bay City Wheelmen]] and [[Imperial Cycling Club]] have a [[joint club run]] to Petaluma to-morrow.

The [[San Francisco Road Club]], for a new organization, has made rapid advancement, having sixty active members, a comfortable clubhouse, and many new members in prospect. The officers are [[Ed Sand]], President; [[T. O'Brien]], Vice-President; [[M. Lewis]], Treasurer: [[W. B. Meckfessel]], Secretary: [[L. L. Korn]], Captain; [[T. J. Smith]], First Lieutenant, and [[W. Puhrenhagan]], Second Lieutenant. The club emblem is a red diamond with a black and white wheel in the center. The clubhouse is 722 Golden Gate avenue.

[[Grant Bell]], who has ridden bicycles these many years, did a [[century]] last Sunday without any apparent effort.

It is estimated that not more than 600 [[tandems]] were made in America this season, while next year's output will surely reach 5,000.

There has been some talk recently of [[W. F. Foster]] fearing to meet [[C. S. Wells]] on the track in competition, and a friend of Foster calls attention to the fact that he has defeated Wells every time they met this year, eight races in all.

Captain [[A. G. Maass]] of the [[Golden Gate Cycling Club]] has called a [[run]] for to-morrow, the destination being a secret from the members. Preparations have been made for an enjoyable outing, and the Captain looks mysterious and tells of a surprise for the members. The club is one of those which has steadily gained in membership since the opening of the season.

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