Thanksgiving "roll" to San Leandro and back in 1883

Bicycle meet, Thanksgiving. Nov. 1883 - Oliver family photograph collections

Wed, Nov 28, 1883 – Page 3 · Oakland Tribune (Oakland, Alameda, California, United States of America) · Newspapers.com

Bicycle Run.

Captain Strong, of the Oakland Bicycle Club, has ordered the organization out for a social roll to-morrow toward San Leandro, should the weather be agreeable, returning in time to discuss Thanksgiving dinner.

The Oakland Bicycle Club will enjoy a "roll" this morning to San Leandro and return. Thu, Nov 29, 1883 – 2 · The San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America) · Newspapers.com

The Oakland Bicycle Club will enjoy a "roll" this morning to San Leandro and return.

Bicycling. Mon, Dec 10, 1883 – 2 · The San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America) · Newspapers.com

Bicycling. 

Some fourteen wheelmen of the Oakland Bicycle Club, under the leadership of Captain Strong, left the corner of Market and Tenth streets on Thanksgiving Day for a club run. The club rode through Oakland, Brooklyn, Fruitvale and down the San Leandro road as far as Deaves', [Dieves'] where they stopped to see the turkey-shooting. After a short rest they returned and had a "bicycling group" photographed, after which they went to the Olympic grounds to see the races.

W. F. Sutton of London recently covered 258 3/4 miles on a bicycle within twenty-four hours.

The roads across the bay are in fine condition for wheeling.


Thu, Nov 29, 1883 – Page 2 · San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, California) · Newspapers.com

At the Olympic Athletic Club grounds, on the corner of Fourteenth and Center streets, Oakland, there will be held the usual Thanksgiving Day meeting of that popular club. The events of the day there will be many, varied and exciting, beginning with a baseball game at 10:30 A. M. between the University and Olympic nines. At 1 P. M. the athletic games will commence and comprise running races of 100 and 250 yards and one mile, bicycle racing, running high jump, pole-jumping, walking contests, etc. G. M. Robinson will endeavor to bea the world record of sixty times in elevating the fifty-pound dumb-bell.