The Bearings, Vol 11, No 13
Articles in this issue
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Minneapolis wheelmen successfully lobby the state legislature to indefinitely postpone the Downs Bill, which would have banned cycle racing and athletics on Decoration Day, preserving plans for a major race meet on that date.
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Minneapolis rider A.A. Hansen sets a new state century record of 6:25:00, then rides 148 miles to St. Cloud and back, and extends to 200 miles in 17:48:00 all within a week, covering over 1,000 miles in ten days.
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Minneapolis wheelmen plan a 148-mile relay race to St. Cloud and back in five-mile relays, aiming to complete the round trip in under 6 hours, while also eyeing a Sanger vs. Johnson match race at the Minnehaha track.
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Eddie Bald of the Columbia team wins the two-mile scratch race at the opening of the Garden City Cyclers' new track in San Jose in a world-record time of 4:15 1/5, beating Coulter and Edwards while Otto Ziegler is upset by Foster, Coulter, and Wells.
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The following day Bald lowers his own competition mile record to 2:04 on a road wheel, while Allan Jones sets a one-third-mile Class A record of :40 flat and Ziegler's poor performances draw hisses from the San Jose crowd of 5,000.
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At the formal opening of Franklin Field at the University of Pennsylvania, Osgood wins a two-mile bicycle race in 5:54 4/5, beating Wiborn and Douglas in a close finish over a soft track.