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Northern California Division, League of American Wheelmen

See also California Division, League of American Wheelmen, Southern California Division, League of American Wheelmen, Annual race meet of the North California Division, League of American Wheelmen
THE COAST DIVIDED.
Southern California Wheelmen Cut Loose from the Northerners.
For some time past the Southern California members of the League of American wheelmen have been agitating the project of getting a Southern California division of the L. A. W. formed. The reasons assigned for this creation were numerous. The strongest one, however, was that the region in and around San Francisco, having a large majority of the members, all of the events were held north of the Tehachepi, and the money paid here went for the benefit of the northern members. The railroad fare was too high to permit the Southern California members to attend any of the events, so the local people were in this manner frozen out all around. The two sections were separated by nature by mountain ranges, and the territory governed by the California state division was many times larger than those in the east, and the railroad fare alone to San Francisco was higher than that from New York to Chicago.
A committee consisting of H. C. F. Smith, T. Q. Hall and E. W. Stuart, all of Los Angeles, were selected and interested themselves in favor of the Southern California division. The various arguments in favor of the creation were grouped and a formidable array of excellent reasons were presented. The California state division board unanimously approved the matter. Mr. John S. Thayer was selected as a delegate to the national convention of the L. A. W. held at Philadelphia during this month. He presented the claims of this section before that body with the gratifying result that a telegram was received at Los Angeles from him yesterday stating that the new division had been created.
All of the local wheelmen were highly elated over the affair yesterday, and universally predicted an early increase of interest and membership in the league.
A convention for the purpose of electing officers for the new division will be called to meet in Los Angeles during this month.
THE COAST DIVIDED. - Los Angeles Herald, 23 Feb 1893
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Norval Alonzo Robinson

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Norval Alonzo Robinson 1868–1937 BIRTH MAR 1868 • California, United States DEATH 29 APR 1937 • San Francisco, California, United States
Married to Rose Elizabeth Welby, AKA "Mrs. N. A. Robinson."
=== Clubs ===
* Liberty Cycling Club
* Olympic Club Wheelmen
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OAKLANDS VS. GARDEN CITYS IN RELAY RACE ON SUNDAY - San Jose Mercury-news, 2 September 1904

== OAKLANDS VS. GARDEN CITYS IN RELAY RACE ON SUNDAY ==
=== Tessie Waibel, Merle Gray, John Berryessa, Bob Diefenbacher and P. Maggini Will Endeavor to Win Centerville Race - Trophy by Oakland Club. ===
A JOINT club run of the Garden City wheelmen, Oakland wheelmen and the California Cycling club is to be held this coming Sunday. The itinerary will consist of the eighteen-mile run to Centerville and return.
The members of the combined clubs will leave San Jose at 9:30 o'clock Sunday morning and will start back in bunches at about 4:30.
Among those of the home boys who have signified their intention to make the trip are C. Marty, George H. Kelley, W. H. Sontheimer, N. C. Mahon, J. W. Dermody, V. Humburg, B. H. Franklin, Cleon H. Lord, P. M. Edwards, E. L. Peterson, G. Reidy, R. G. Stich, H. Semmon, George Gorman, Will Moore, Will Maggini, Burdette Sanders, Gus Belloli, Emile J. Belloli, Sherwood Rogers, F. Ontiveros, Mark Lord, P. Maggini, Ben Murphy, F. P. Schemmel, Homer Lowe, E. H. Edwards, L. Nomandin, C. E. Miller, W. R. Suelly, Carl Showalter, Willie Diefenbacher, S. Hill, Merle Gray, L. Maggini and H. Hardon.
A letter has just been received by Jack Dermody from Mel Moffitt, captain of the Oakland wheelmen, in which he says that the refusal of the Garden City boys to race their team on Labor day came as a great disappointment. The letter also contains a request that a twenty-five-mile relay race be held at Centerville to pass away the time. The Oakland wheelmen have set up the trophy.
The home boys look forward to easily adding the new cup to their already large collection. The ones who will ride as the home team are "Tessie" Waibel, Merle Gray, John Berryessa, Robert Diefenbacher and P. Maggini. These riders were members of last year's relay teams, and it is expected that they will win in the coming handicap. A ball game will also be one of the day's features at Centerville, after which the entire company will partake of a feast of pie and watermelon at the hotel.
The regular semi-annual meeting of the Garden City wheelmen will be held Tuesday, September 6. Besides other important business be taken up, the election of officers will be held. The present officers are: President, E. J. Belloli; vice president, W. A. Hope; recording secretary, W. H. Sontheimer; financial secretary, C. D. Cavallaro. The board of directors consist of the following: J. C. Trevis, E. C. Coyle, L. Normandin, H. L. Garnot and W. R. Lipsett. The board meets this evening to complete arrangements for the local end of the big meet which is to be held at San Francisco on the 9th, 10th and 11th of September.
The old members of the Garden City Wheelmen Mandolin club and all others who wish to join the same will meet this evening in the G. C. W. hall to reorganize and arrange for future programs.
OAKLANDS VS. GARDEN CITYS IN RELAY RACE ON SUNDAY - San Jose Mercury-news, 2 September 1904
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OLYMPIC CLUB SPORTS. - Oakland Tribune, 31 May 1887

=== OLYMPIC CLUB SPORTS. ===
The Olympic Athletic Club and the San Francisco Bicycle Club held a joint meeting at the Bay district race track in San Francisco yesterday. Oakland was represented by T. F. Scanlan of the Acme Athletic Club and Charles J. Krytser of the Oakland Ramblers, who were among the judges. The Acme Athletic Club and the Oakland Ramblers were also represented in the meeting, but their members failed to carry off any of the prizes.
The first event-100 yards' handicap run-was won by J. N. Flynn, scratch, in 10. 2-5s.
The mile bicycle race was won by C. Adcock in 3m. 7 1-5s.
The third event, a mile handicap walk, was won by C. E. Cron, having 100 yards handicap, in 8m. 11 1/2s.
The 410 yards' run was won by J. W. Flynn in 55 4-5 s.
The maiden bicycle race was won by N. A. Robinson in 3m. 24s.
The one quarter mile bicycle race was won by H. C. Finkler in 48 2-5s.
The half mile handicap run was won by R. McArthur, fifty yards in 2m. 4s.
The mile tricycle race was easily won by W. G. Davis in 4m. 3 2-5s.
Throwing a sixteen pound shot resulted in a victory for A. H. Lean, making a record of 35ft-10 1/2 in., beating the coast record, which was 34ft. 4in.
Alexander Ireland won the two mile bicycle handicap in 6m. 36 1-5s.
Frank C. Kane won the 200 yard race for juveniles in 24 4-5s.
The mile handicap run was won by R. McArthur, 100 yards in 4m. 50s.
Alexander Ireland won the quarter mile bicycle race in 49 1-5s.
The final event was the five mile Bicycle League Championship race, which was won by Adcock in 17m. 41 1/2s.
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OLYMPIC CYCLERS. Officers and Directors Elected at the Meeting Held last Evening. - The San Francisco Call, 11 Jan 1896

=== OLYMPIC CYCLERS. ===
==== Officers and Directors Elected at the Meeting Held Last Evening. ====
The Olympic cyclers held an enthusiastic meeting last evening and the large attendance of members indicated that the club is in perfect harmony and a thriving condition.
The principal object of the meeting was to elect directors and officers for the ensuing term. With but two exceptions the old board was re-elected, and there is no change in the officers. The directors for the ensuing term are: J. F. Coffey, J. H. Sheehan, S. I. Blake, T. B. McGinniss, F. R. Butz, Lloyd Conkling, Dr. O. B. Burns, Charles F. Morel, W. D. Shea.
The officers are: J. F. Coffey, president; J. H. Sheehan, vice-president; T. B. McGinniss, secretary; S. I. Blake, treasurer: F. R. Butz, captain; J. F. Cooney, first lieutenant; George W. Conroy, second lieutenant.
It was decided to invite the Olympic Club wheelmen to a joint run with the cyclers at some near future date.
A special meeting will be held Friday evening, January 24, to receive a committee from the League of American Wheelmen, which will address the club upon the desirability of its joining the league.
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ON THE WHEEL. Interesting Races at Haight-Street Park. - San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Jul 1891

=== ON THE WHEEL. ===
==== Interesting Bicycle Races at Haight Street Park. ====
Only a small number of wheel enthusiasts witnessed the bicycle races at the Haight-street baseball grounds last evening. The events, though only two in number, were very interesting. In the first run of one mile for safeties only there were nine entries. G. Alcayaga and P. Brown of the Razzle Dazzle Club started fifteen feet behind the scratch and allowed handicaps as follows: A. Deitle, Razzle Dazzle Club, 45 feet; L. Vidy, Razzle Dazzle Club, 50 feet; P. Breon, unattached, 55 feet; Goodell, unattached, 70 feet; Becket, unattached, 80 feet; T. Hall, unattached, 90 feet. They finished in the following order: Alcayaga. Deitle, Vidy and Brown, with the others straggling. The first prize, a pair of trousers, was awarded to Alcayaga, and Deitle was given the second prize, a pair of new shoes. Time, 3m. 8s.
The second race was a half-mile dash for an ordinary and two safeties. J. Liebert, D. Marshall and T. C. Dodge entered. Liebert, who rode the ordinary, allowed his opponents twenty yards. They finished in the following order: Marshall, Dodge, Liebert. Time, 1m. 35 1/2s.
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OTTO ZEIGLER CLAIMS BRIDE - Petaluma Argus-Courier - July 18, 1932

=== OTTO ZEIGLER CLAIMS BRIDE ===
In the presence of a few friends Dr. Otto Zeigler, 50, Oakland, chiropractor, famed as a former world's champion bicycle racer, and Mrs. Martha Penniman, 47, his nurse for five years and the "sweetheart of his bicycling days" were married in Oakland Saturday. The ceremony was performed by Police Judge Edward J. Tyrrell.
Zeigler was blinded 20 years ago as the result of an accident while racing. He met his bride during a racing contest in San Jose.
Zeigler is known here where he often took part in the Bay City Wheelmen Club runs from San Francisco when bicycle racing was the main attraction.
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Oak Grove

El Sobrante was called "Oak Grove" by industrial concerns in 1887 when the California and Nevada Railroad put a spur into the area for the purpose of carrying lumber cut from the hills. Then the name Sobrante was applied, with the addition of the Spanish definite article "El" coinciding with the opening of the first post office in 1941.
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Oakland

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Observatory Cycling Club

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=== Place ===
San Jose, CA
=== Emblem ===
Star
=== Members ===
* W. L. Curtis
* O. D. Dewey
* H. A. Greeninger 
* S. H. Rich
* A. A. Tisdale
* George K. Wolfrome
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Native Sons of the Golden West Bicycle Meet
A New Cycling Club. 
San Jose, August 21. - The Observatory Cycling Club, composed entirely of members of Observatory Parlor, N. S. G. W., was organized to-night and officers elected as follows: 
President. O. D. Dewey; Vice President, George K. Wolfrome; Secretary ----- ; Treasurer, W. L. Curtis; Recording Secretary, S. H. Rich ; Captain, A. A. Tisdale; Color Bearer, H. A. Greeninger. 
The first club run will be to Santa Clara next Thursday night A uniform and club emblem will be adopted at the next meeting, one week from to-night. The new club starts out with a membership of twenty, which they hope to increase materially in a short time.
A New Cycling Club Observatory Cycling Club 22 Aug 1894, Wed The San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, California) Newspapers.com
A new cycling club has just been started in San Jose composed of twenty members of a Native Sons parlor, having for its name the Observatory Cycling Club. A. A. Tisdale has been elected captain and he will endeavor to have the members uniformed alike so as to enter for competition in the parade on September 10th. They will probably adopt the star as their emblem.
Observatory Cycling Club 25 Aug 1894, Sat San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, California) Newspapers.com
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Ocean Beach

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Olympic Club

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The Olympic Club is an athletic club and private social club in San Francisco, California.
First named the "San Francisco Olympic Club", it is the oldest athletic club in the United States. Established on May 6, 1860, its first officers were President, G.W. Bell, Secretary, E. Bonnell, Treasurer, H.G. Hanks, and Leader, Arthur Nahl.
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Olympic Club athletic grounds

The Olympic Club had property in Oakland on the southeast corner of 14th and Center streets, in Oakland. In this 1899 Map of Oakland and vicinity, Showing Real Estate & Electric Railways, it's labeled as BASEBALL GROUNDS TRACT. That map, georeferenced, showing the grounds:
This is what it looks like today.
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To Mr. Strong belongs the credit of laying out the first properly constructed bicycle and athletic track in California. This track was built by the Olympic A. C. and was one-fifth of a mile in extent, with banked corners, and when in condition was tolerably fast. It was used by the O. A. C. and the cycling clubs jointly, and was the scene of many interesting races among the old timers.
GEORGE H. STRONG, The Bearings, Chicago, December 16, 1892
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Olympic Wheelmen Name Officers. - The San Francisco Examiner, 28 Jul 1897

==== Olympic Wheelmen Name Officers. ====
The members of the Olympic Club Wheelmen are devising means to revive interest in cycling club runs, and to that end have appointed a special committee to confer with Captain Hadenfeldt.
The committee consists of T. G. Spillane, J. H. Nash, Frank W. Fuller and W. C. Corbett, and the first move will be to schedule the proposed runs at least thirty days in advance, this keeping the members informed of desirable outing trips. Captain H. D. Hadenfeldt was re-elected Captain for the ensuing term, in accordance with the custom by which the road officers are chosen every six months. He will reappoint Lieutenants Spillane and Nash.
The four days' tour through Lake county, taken by members of the Cycle Board of Trade, under the leadership of President J. S. Conwell, proved one of the most interesting cycling trips of the season. The party took the train to Ukiah and worked their way to the Southward by easy stages. The principal point through which their journey led them after leaving Ukiah were: Laurel Dell on Blue Lakes, Lakeport, Lower Lake, Middletown; thence over Mount St. Helena to Calistoga, the wheel trip finally ending at St. Helena. Incidents of the trip were a twentyfive-mile ride in a launch on one of the lakes and several side trips in four-in-hand coaches. The wits of the party - R. C. Lennie and W. J. Kenney - kept everyone in high spirits. It was determined to make the outing an annual one for men in the trade, that for next year being already planned on a larger scale. The party included J. S. Conwell, Edwin Mohrig, R. C. Lennie, Joseph Ostendorf, W. J. Kenney and C. Christianson. The route taken was pronounced an ideal one for a short tour.
Frank W. Fuller, George H. Stratton and George Fuller of the Olympic Club Wheelmen have returned from a fortnights' camping trip to Mendocino county. They brought back many souvenirs of their trip and have stirring tales of adventure to relate.
Captain H. D. Hadenfeldt of the Olympic Club Wheelmen and Captain J. S. Shedd, Acme Club Wheelmen, are making active preparations for the joint run of their clubs to Lake Chabot, near San Leandro, next Sunday. Dinner will be served on a barge anchored out in the lake.
The whist tournament of the Imperial Cycling Club will be inaugurated to-night under the direction of President T. J. Winslow and Secretary G. M. Ward.
A local dealer received an order for a dozen wheels, to be shipped to the Society Islands in the South Seas.
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On Wheels. - Daily Alta California, Volume 40, Number 13412, 17 May 1886

=== On Wheels. ===
The Bay City boys are booming their part of the field day events that are to come off at Oakland on the 31st, and by dint of much exertion have made Elwell and Davis promise to start in the mile event. The entries are to close at the time the handicaps are announced, one week previous to the events.
Ed. Mohrig has been appointed L. A. W. Consul for San Francisco and Vice-Consul to Chief Welch for the division. Robert J. Cope has been appointed Consul at Los Angeles. The Highland Park Wheelmen have settled on a Yosemite trip early in June. Fred Blinn, one of the members who could not get away then, started for the same place on the 6th, and will give the club points on his return. The H. P.s gladly welcome the return of their member, Harry P. Stow, who has just returned from Harvard College. Harry is the only wheelman that has ever ridden the Alvarado bridge and carried a watermelon under one arm, without loss of life or melon. — [Ingleside. 
The Bay City reception and biquet (corrupted into bike-eat) to the Division officers of the League on Wednesday evening was a huge success. The proceedings after the cloth was removed are reported as follows: The first regular toast of the evening, the "League of American Wheelmen," was responded to by Chief Consul Welch; "The San Francisco Bicycle Club, the Parent of Club Cycling on the Pacific Coast," was responded to by Mr. J. W. Gibson; "The Highland Park Wheelmen, Who Get There All the Same," by Mr. A. J. Rosborough; "The Oakland Ramblers," by Mr. J. D. Arkison; "The Park Commissioners," by Harry A. Greene, who proposed in turn "The Bay City Wheelmen." A number of impromptu toast follows. Interspersed were songs by the Clipper Quartette and Messrs. Hammond and Rosborough, and a recitation by Dr. Thomas A. Hill. The event of the evening was a song composed for the occasion by Mr. S. F. Booth, Jr., who was immediately proclaimed the poet laureate of the Division. At midnight the party adjourned after joining hands around the table and singing "Auld Lang Syne."
On Wheels. - Daily Alta California, Volume 40, Number 13412, 17 May 1886
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Opening of the Alameda Bicycle and Athletic Club track at Schuetzen park - San Francisco Chronicle, 31 May 1892

=== THE BICYCLISTS. ===
==== Opening of the Alameda Athletic Club Grounds. ====
The largest procession of cyclists ever held on the Pacific slope formed on the corner of Park street and Encinal avenue, in Alameda, at noon yesterday, and proceeded from thence to the new grounds of the Alameda Bicycle and Athletic Club in Schuetzen Park. It was the opening of the club's new quarters, and clubmen of all kinds and from all points assembled to witness a fine bicycling programme. It was announced that on the new track it would be possible to break all previous coast records, as its finishing surface, or skin, as the experts call it, is a new departure, which was discovered purely through an accident. It is composed of a paste or cement made from "shale," a kind at pulverized lime, which was secured at the Oakland gashouse. This gives a good hard, smooth surface, and stood well the test which it underwent yesterday. The grounds were in excellent condition, and an almost perfect view of the track can be had from any portion of the park.
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Ordinary

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Ordinary Bicycle from Evolution of a Bicycle
But the difficulties these pioneer wheelmen encountered seemed almost insurmountable. The machines were large and unwieldy, the mounting required the agility of an acrobat, the riding was fraught with danger. A fall from such altitude easily resulted in severe injury. A rut in the road, a stone or fragment in fact, the least impediment would hurl the luckless rider from his perch some distance ahead of his tall steed, and the fall was usually attended with much more danger and often pain than a fall from a modern safety.
FIRST BIKE ON THE COAST. - The San Francisco Examiner, 04 Aug 1895
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Oroville Citrus Cycling Club

=== Place ===
Oroville, CA
=== Members ===
* T. M. Cooke
* George Westwood
* Frank Grey
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Early in August the Oroville Citrus Cycling Club was organized with T. M. Cooke, Captain, George Westwood, President, and Frank Grey, Secretary-Treasurer.
CYCLING NEWS UP TO DATE - The San Francisco Examiner. October 07, 1894
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Osborn & Alexander

Frank Folger Osborn and George Webb Alexander had a hardware store, Osborn & Alexander, in San Francisco. It was one of the first places to sell bicycles in California. 
=== Location ===
628 Market Street, San Francisco
Star lots includes this historic circa 1883-86 Columbia built three-track tricycle, one of the first tricycles ever made in the United States.
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This example was sold and distributed by Osborn & Alexander of San Francisco, California, as borne by its identifying original name tag.
Early US tricycle pushes to $31,600
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